fess the religion of the dear Lord Jesus, are under an obligation to fill up our place with a regard to his glory: but we shall meet with many impediments, and they are not to be surmounted but by watchfulness and prayer. May we continue in these sacred exercises; and be sure to connect thanksgiving with them for all the mercies of our lives. Many of these lie concealed under trials and disappointments; yea many of them consist of these very things: they may be grievous to be borne, but they will prove profitable in the end."

The pupil whom the letter concerns, in transmitting it to me, referring to "The happy period" of his being placed under his care, writes "I say happy because though at the tender age of only eight years, my memory still records many instances of his more than parental kindness; and I trust his affectionate solicitude for the promotion of my best interests, has had a salutary influence upon my subsequent conduct and character." I cannot refusé inserting Return the letters I have sent as soon as possible. They will often afford me a melancholy pleasure in the review; and enable me to enjoy a sort of mental converse with the ever to be lamented writer, though he has passed the confines of mortality." This is only

one instance of the obligation and attachment felt and acknowledged by numbers more.

In teaching the young, that which is so requisite, is not a vastness of talent, but a peculiarity of disposition. It is a temper compounded of affection and patience; it is a tem→per that blends mildness with firmness, and inspires rather than commands; it is a temper that like the geneal rays of spring, warms, revives, opens-not like the stern severity of the winter-day that chills, freezes, and binds; it is a temper that will not produce timidity by eagerness of importunity, or confusion by hastiness of censure; a temper that will prevent discouragement in reaching a remote distance by not discovering too much at once; and that teaches the receiver as he is able to bear it.

Some have supposed that it was the design of our Lord to furnish a motive rather than a model, when he said, " Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart." As if he had said, "Be not afraid to place yourselves under my tuition; my condescension equals my ability; I will bear with your weaknesses; and my gentleness shall make you great." Never had a human being so much of this qualification as Mr. Winter. And this appeared in another and an higher department of education.

In training up young men for the work of the ministry, he did not precisely conform to the common method of education in the seminaries of Protestant Dissenters. It could hardly be deemed necessary. He seldom had more than three or four at the same time. The formalities of an academy would of course be much dispensed with, and conversation and reading, supply a series of lectures. He was a father with his sons, rather than a tutor with his students. They were almost constantly with him; he was always familiarly instructing them; and the love he inspired was such as to endear every thing he said. Whether they were walking in the field, or sitting in the house; at the fire-side in the evening, or at the table at meals, improvement was blended with pleasure. Reading always attended the hours of breakfast and tea, intermingled with remarks derived from the subject. It was no unusual thing for one of his students to accompany him in his visits to the chamber of sickness, and the house of mourning; he knew that young men should be sober-minded; and that by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. To prepare them for social and edifying intercourse, they also frequently attended him in his friendly visits. They occasionally joined

him in his preaching excussions. There are few things in my life that I can remember with so much melting pleasure, as my going with him-walking by the side of his little horse, and now and then riding on a fine summer's evening, into a neighbouring village, and returning again the same night, or very early in the morning, In these instances I was required to take sometimes a part, and sometimes the whole of the service; but it was a privilege rather than a task, to do any thing before him. He heard our discourses and prayers with the greatest tenderness, and beamed with pleasure at every presage of improvement. A backwardness to notice imperfections was his extreme; he loved to commend; it was hardly in his power to find fault. Yet though his approbation seemed easily gained, it was not rendered the less desirable. It was delicious to enjoy it, and therefore it always supplied a stimulus.

He engaged his students to preach very early after they were with him. This arose partly from the state of the neighborhood, which wanted help, Souls were perishing for lack of knowledge, and they who could not as yet hope for acceptance in large and polite audiences were able to shew the way of salvation to those who were generally more deficient than themselves.

But I believe it also resulted from his conviction of the propriety of the measure, independent of this necessity. He imagined the sooner the young men began, the more facility and confidence they would acquire; and that it would be less embarrassing and discouraging to commence before all their deficiences were known, than to start with the full disclosure: that it was better for them to encounter difficulties one by one as they became sensible of them, than to begin trembling under their united impression. It is to be remembered also, that they officiated at first only in private places, and rustic congregations. It unquestionably gave them advantages as preachers; but it broke in upon their studies as pupils. Some of the villages they served were at a considerable distance: their travelling occupied their time, and its engagements diverted their attention. Upon the whole, and after mature reflection; I should prefer the method he adopted to any other. It tended to keep the heart in the things of God, and to preserve the savor of religion on the mind which it is well known is easily worn off, where all the studies are purely intellectual, and several young men of vivacity and emulation are blended together.