Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physi- cian there? Why then is not the health of the MEMOIR OF ANDREW THOMSON, D. D. THE time has not perhaps arrived when justice can be done to an extended Memoir of the late Dr. THOMSON, a task which it is to be hoped some of his early friends will be induced to undertake. In the mean time, the following brief notice may not be unacceptable, as an introduction to a volume of his posthumous discourses. Dr. Andrew Thomson was born at Sanquhar, in Dumfries-shire, on the 11th of July, 1779. His father was the late Dr. John Thomson, one of the ministers of Edinburgh; at the time of his son's birth, minister of Sanquhar, and, subsequently, of Markinch in Fife. The subject of this Memoir, without affording any striking proof of premature scholarship, from which an augury of his future fame might have been drawn, was remarkable from his earliest years for intelli gence and vivacity, and especially for that free, manly, openhearted character, which, in after life, gave him so strong a hold on the affections of all who intimately knew him. It is difficult to say at what precise period his thoughts first turned seriously to the ministry: but he had not been many years at college before he exhibited decided symptoms of the power of that vital religion, which forms the first and best qualification for the sacred office. Early in 1802 he was licensed to preach the gospel, by the presbytery of Kelso; and on the 11th of March of the same year, he was ordained minister of the parish of Sprouston, within the bounds of the presbytery from which he had received licence. Shortly after his settlement at Sprouston, he married Miss Carmichael, by whom he had ten children, seven of whom are still alive. The result of this union was all the happiness which the marriage relation can afford; interrupted only to the afflicted survivor, by the melancholy event which has deprived her and her family of the society of one, who, if possible, was still more attractive and delightful in the family circle than he was commanding and distinguished in the public walks of professional and active life. During his ministry at Sprouston, Dr. Thomson displayed the same vigor, earnestness, and fidelity, by which his labors, in more extensive spheres, were subsequently characterized. His interest in the external affairs of the church, was manifested by the share he began to take in the business of the ecclesiastical courts of which he was a member; while of his anxiety to promote the higher interests of religion, a satisfactory |