Sins I have committed--too many of them; your patient love has never cast a stone.

The faults of my ministry have been my own.

The successes of my ministry have been largely due under God, to your co-operation, and, above all, to the amazing goodness of our Heavenly Father.

Looking my long pastorate squarely in the face, I think I can honestly say that I have been no man's man; I have never courted the rich, nor wilfully neglected the poor; I have never blunted the sword of the Spirit lest it should cut your consciences, or concealed a truth that might save a soul.

In no large church is there a perfect unanimity of tastes as to preaching.