He was supposed to be a person of undetermined leisure--what was writing two sermons a week to earn your living by ?--and he was probably the more reverend, or the more revered, from the fact that he was in the house all day.

A particular importance attached to everything he said and did; he was a person whose life answered different springs, and was sustained on quite another principle than that of supply and demand.

The province of public criticism was his; but his people made up for the meekness with which they sat under it by a generous use of the corresponding privilege in private.

Comments upon the minister partook of hardiness; it was as if the members were determined to live up to the fact that the office-bearers could reduce his salary if they liked.

Needless to say, they never did like.