80 IN MEMORiAM. [March, 



We have the greatest pleasure in bearing this testimony, im- 

 perfect though it be, to the character of the deceased, because 

 there are in this age, which calls itself an enlightened one, per- 

 sons of some influence in the world who both think and say that 

 science is hostile to religion. This notion has its foundation in 

 the freedom which some writers have indulged in their disqui- 

 sitions on certain astronomic and geological facts which appear 

 to contradict sacred history. It is quite a mistake. The deeper 

 the knowledge of physical truth, the more profound will be tbe 

 apprehension of divine realities. That there have been scientific 

 unbelievers in revelation is not denied. The subject of this 

 sketch was not one of them. 



Again, if it be said that a panegyrical propensity has been in- 

 dulged, the soft impeachment may be admitted without mantling 

 the cheek with the faintest tinge of crimson. We never heard 

 anything but good of him who is now no more and whose loss 

 we all lament, and we deferentially ask our readers to study the 

 prominent points of his character and to imitate his example. 

 The writer will not deny that it was his purpose to compose this 

 memorial in a laudatory strain. If he had done it otherwise, he 

 would have been unfaithful to his own convictions and feelings, 

 and could have expected no sympathetic echo from the hearts of 

 his readers. 



"The evil which men do lives after them, while the good 

 which they do too often perishes with their lives. ^^ We have 

 done our best that the reputaton of our friend's good deeds shall 

 not perish. Though but a feeble effort to perpetuate the memory 

 of departed worth, it is sincere. It is not as a mere memorial 

 tribute, however willingly offered, that it is composed, but with 

 the further view, the charitable intention, of stimulating our con- 

 temporaries and posterity to imitate so good an example. 



Our departed friend Avorked wel] and wisely in the cause of 

 science, humanity, charity, and religion ; and those who survive 

 are encouraged to imitate him and to labour that they may leave 

 the world better than it was when their career commenced, by 

 enlightening the ignorant, stimulating the conscience by diligence 

 "in season and out of season,^' by reproof, encouragement, and 

 consolation in imitation of HIM who will reward every one ac- 

 cording to his works. 



Heroic, strange, and striking events are rarely to be met 



