180 MEMOIRS OF 



Many of his places remained unfilled, as if those, whi 

 would otherwise be candidates, were afraid of the contesl 

 This one man held them all ; rigidly performed all thei 

 duties ; carried his benevolent and enlightened principle 

 with him into all his employments; scorned no detai 

 which could bear upon their improvement ; saw, in on 

 glance, the influence which their progress would have ove 

 society at large; and yet, while his mind was filled will 

 these great and general views, never, for one instant forgo! 

 that which belonged to his character as a father, a husband 

 a brother, and a friend ; or that he had fellow-creatures wh> 

 needed his assistance. His public employments are nov 

 separated ; and the occupiers may think themselves happy 

 if they can, in their solitary succession, in some degree at 

 tain the perfection which stamped his combined careei 

 The death of such a man, at such a period of his labours 

 and at such a moment, scarcely seems to come within tb< 

 common routine of mortality, but to have been the result o 

 a special and chastening mandate from Heaven. 



