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self to be detained with a wedding-party after the 

 dancing had been introduced. The young brother 

 pleaded in excuse that he had not been notified before- 

 hand that there was to be dancing, and that he was 

 imprisoned in a room from which there was no way 

 of exit without going through the hall in which the 

 dancing was going on, and withal the door was kept 

 fast closed. The defense was not at all satisfactory to 

 Mr. Jenkins, who insisted on an honest application 

 of discipline, on the ground that it was a mil on the 

 part of the young brother, and not a way of egress, 

 that was wanting. " If I had been there," said he, 

 " I would have gotten out of the house if Satan himself 

 had been the door-keeper." 



The main endowment of Mr. Jenkins was a large 

 measure of the "spirit of power;" and in the fullness 

 of this spirit, he braved the scorn and allurements of 

 the world alike, while he denounced popular vices, or 

 challenged the formalist, or pushed his searching 

 probe into the heart of the hypocrite, or tore off the 

 outward decorations of the "whited sepulcher." In 

 doing this, he may not at all times have been discrim- 

 inating in his analysis of character; he may some- 

 times have wounded unnecessarily some tender con- 

 science. But who ever doubted that it was the love 

 of Christ, who purchased the Church with his own 

 blood, which informed and animated all his ministry 

 of rebuke, however terrible ? Indeed, the theme he 

 loved more than all others to dwell upon in his clos- 

 ing years was the theme of perfect love. The rest- 

 less, passionate, toilsome love which fired the energies 

 of his youth, and flashed up in the latest gleams of 

 thought and consciousness on 'his dying-couch, was a 

 direct endowment from heaven; a principle engen- 



