sagacity of his counsels, has earned in every memory a place of love and honour, alongside of his openhanded, open-hearted colleague.

'To them, and their gallant coadjutors, who, when the éclat and excitement of the new undertaking had yielded to days of difficulty and depression, still were stedfast, and refused to despair,who, amidst shouts of "Lo here!" and "Lo there!" refused to quit the old paths, and who, when the crowded aisles were well nigh depopulated by protracted vacancies, nowise daunted, put forth that rarest form of Christian heroism, which refuses to weary in well-doing,-to them, the founders and conservators of this house of prayer, our thanks are this day due, not only for the service they have rendered to the cause of the gospel, but for the lesson they have bequeathed and the good they have done us by their high-souled, spirit-stirring example.'

'Death has not slain them; they are freed, not slain
It is the gate of life, and not of death,
That they have entered; and the grave in vain

Has tried to stifle the immortal breath.

All that was death in them is now dissolved;
For death can only what is death's destroy;
And when this earth's short ages have revolved,

The disimprisoned life comes forth with joy.

;

Their life-long battle with disease and pain,
And mortal weariness, is over now;
Youth, health, and comeliness return again,

The tear has left the cheek, the sweat the brow.

They are not tasting death, but taking rest,
On the same holy couch where Jesus lay,
Soon to awake all glorified and bless'd,.

When day has broke, and shadows fled away.'

"A brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord.'PHILEMON, ver. 16.

R. BONAR has kindly furnished me with the notes of the address which he delivered when announcing to his congregation the tidings of Mr. Nisbet's sudden and unexpected death. They are as follows :

Nov. 12, 1854.-I cannot close this day's services without making special mention of one whose name is intimately connected with this town, and still more intimately connected with this church in which we worship. On Wednesday last, and in the presence of his family, he was suddenly called away from earth, and ushered into the presence of the Lord.

'It was in July 1837 that I first became acquainted with Mr. Nisbet, when he entered into a correspondence with me as to my becoming minister of this church, then in the process of erection, in a great measure through his liberality and zeal. Since then our acquaintanceship was continued, and our friendship remained unbroken to the last. For myself I can say, that though there might be differences of opinion between us, as between all friends, there never was any shadow of alteration in the steady warmth of his attachment, or in the expressions of his deep interest in all things connected with this congregation.

'He was a man, and had of course his imperfections. But there were so many things truly loveable about him, that in your intercourse with him you felt the bonds of Christian sympathy and brotherhood drawn more and more closely between him and you. You felt the value of his friendship; you enjoyed the easy flow of his conversation; you gave your confidence to his openheartedness and frank simplicity; you were profited by the suggestions of his shrewd and manifold experience; you were refreshed by the heartiness of his Christian cheerfulness; you were softened, as well as won, by the tenderness of his spirit—a tenderness of spirit which never failed to fill his eyes with tears at the simplest narrative of a conversion, or at the mere mention of

good news concerning any revival of the work of God either at home or abroad.

'1. He loved his Bible and his Saviour. A verse from that book, and the mere mention of the name of his Lord, would touch and soften him at any time, and in the midst of any business, however uncongenial.

2. He loved the Sabbath day. He prized it as a day of rest; he enjoyed it as a day of fellowship with God, and isolation from the world. Carrying with him to London the good old Scottish ideas of our fathers as to the sacredness of that day, he gave his testimony on every hand, both by word and deed, to the blessedness of observing it, as once, at least, it was observed in Scotland.

3. He was a lover of hospitality. He gave himself to the ministry of the saints. He was the Gaius of the church in our southern metropolis, and his house was ever at the service of any of Christ's servants, or indeed of any one who stood in need of it. He threw his door open to all.

4. He was a lover of good men. Much he could tell you of the past, and of the worthies of other days with whom he had held intercourse. There were few of the eminent Christians, for the last forty years at least, of whom he could not speak from personal knowledge. He delighted to give the hand of brotherhood to every Christian, and many