Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3won never lost, the hearts of all his people. Probably, few if any cases can be named, in which an unassirnilated mass of human elements was ever more thoroughly penetrated and fused into one, by the silent power of a sweet and transparently holy living of the gospel, and by the speaking power of a simple and lovingly faithful preaching of the gospel, than that which was found in the parish of St. Stephen's under the ministryso untiring and so abounding, so willing and so unselfishof this young pastor. Into that molten mass his own pure character seemed to sink lovingly down, until he became a part of his people, and his people but a part of him: a union which explains the fact, that, though repeatedly called to other and more prominent positions, yet he as repeatedly resisted separation; and that, when at last the stern voice of Duty bade him tear himself away, it proved so almost literally the cutting of life-strings from around his heart. His labors in Wilkesbarre, reaching through a period of about ten years were not confined either to his own parish or to the Lord's Day. They were spread among the dwellings and school houses of the neighboring mountain districts, and to adjacent and sometimes distant parishes; and they were repeated, not only twice, but generally thrice, often four, nay even five times on Sundays, besides three or four services of different kinds during the week; in Lectures, Bible Classes, and meetings with young parishoners. He was truly a young apostle, " not counting his life dear unto himself, so that he might finish his course with joy, and the ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." His multiplied Sunday labors among the mountains laid the foundations of a complaint, from whichhe suffered long, and which led to some of...