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They know not, and I presume that none of you know, 

 an instance, since his childish days, in which he attempt- 

 ed to deceive them. Not only their commands, hut their 

 wishes, were sacred in his regard ; and this, not only 

 when he was under their eye, hut in their ahsence. Far 

 off, in a foreign land, and in years of maturity, it was 

 enough to withdraw him from any fashionable amuse- 

 ment or youthful gratification, to know or believe that 

 his father, if present, would wish him to abstain. My 

 young friends, I can not too earnestly commend his ex- 

 ample, in this respect, to your regard. Such reverence, 

 in a son of his father, is a fore-shadowing of the Christ- 

 ian's reverence of his God. 



2. His accustomed cheerfulness. Cheerfulness beamed 

 in his face, thrilled in his voice, and diffused itself from 

 his buoyant mind over the circle of susceptible minds 

 around him. It was not levity ; it was not frivolity ; 

 and much less was it jovial sensuality. It was good 

 humour, and often, on fitting occasions, it was playful- 

 ness. He had a quick sense of pleasure from those 

 things which God made to give pleasure, and he loved 

 to interchange with others the pleasure that he felt. 

 This, no doubt, was founded partly in constitution ; but 

 thousands are of the same constitutional temperament, 

 who yet are too selfish or too anxious, to be cheerful. 

 He was also a favored child of Providence ; but thou- 



