Excerpt from The Temperance Tales, Vol. 2

I was first called to the ministry as the colleague of a very aged man, the Rev. Adrian More. He was H y father, - not after the ¿esh, - my own natural father I never lebeld he perished at sea, a few months only before I was born. - This aged minister was my father in the Lord. I was placed under his care, to be prepared for the university and the good old man prepared me, I trust, for the faithful service of the best of masters. When I quitted the univer sity, I was instructed for the ministry under his direction and, sub sequently, at his own request, I became associated with him in his holy office. This venerable man, at the age of eighty years, gave me the charge upon my ordination, and my first public discourse, on the ensuing Sabbath, was a sermon over his lifeless remains. He was ripe for the sickle, and longed to be gathered in. The energies of a good constitution and the grace of God had sustained him for six and fifty years, in the performance of his sacred trust, and when, in God's good time, his spiritual guard was relieved, by the institution of another at his side, this faithful old soldier of the cross laid down his armor of the present world, and went to that rest, appointed for the dead, who die in the Lord.

During the period of my pupilage, we had many pleasant rambles together, and I never failed to gather some useful instruction by the way, for his conscientious impressions of duty, as my instructor, forbade him to be satisfied with affording me the mere technicalities of education, and our conversation, at such times, was eminently useful, in the improvement of my reasoning and colloquial powers.

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