addressed to the Poor," could never purchase one for themselves. It would be endless to particularize instances of a similar kind.

He devised liberal things. If ever a scene of misery occurred within his reach, it instantly set his thoughts, his feet, his tongue, his pen, in motion. When we can do very little little personally, we may often do much by means of others. He was always stimulating his connexions. In private companies, and at public meetings, he had commonly some case of affliction to propose. Numberless were the letters he wrote, though he was so driven for time and pressed by business, containing applications in behalf of orphanism, widowhood, or age. The distresses which rendered such petitions necessary, were patiently stated at large, and feelingly recommended, while by additional reflections, he endeavored to render his address a letter of friendship as well as of charity.—And no one could refuse him. It would be curious to conjecture how much money he obtained in the course of his life by such importunity.

His disposition being known, and his character established, he was honored by several, who statedly made him their almoner. Were the names of these generous individuals published, the late Mr. John Thornton, and the

present Mr. Henry Thornton, would stand peculiarly distinguished. In the distribution of such money he acted with the greatest impartiality, prudence, promptitude, and fidelity, and fully met the wishes of the donors. "That day will declare" how far he was by such indulgences, from diminishing personal liberality, or applying to his own use what was intended for others. He refused the liberty to divide it with them, even when he was allowed to take it. Hence in a letter to Mr. L-e, in 1801, he says, "I was truly concerned to hear of dear Mr. Henshaw's removal. Blessed be God he lived to purpose. Oh that his mantle, or what is the same, his spirit may drop on his relatives, who inherit his temporal blessings. I long wished to inform you that he kindly honored my application of the 24th of November, on the 17th of January, with £15, and liberty to appropriate any part of it to myself. But no-I petitioned on the behalf of the poor, whose indigence is extreme, and the whole sum shall be faithfully applied to them."

It is well known that if any thing uncom mon or delicate was sent to him in the way of a present, little, if any of it fell to his share ; he would divide it among his friends, and these were often "The poor and the maimed, the

hale and the blind." Ah! "They could not recompense thee; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."

He was given to hospitality, and used it without grudging. His house was always open; and a welcome to enter or remain, was too easily discerned not to be abused. There were those who took advantage of his kindness to spunge upon him, and incommode him; and even some who had it in their power to remunerate him, the expences and inconveniences they occasioned.

It was his fate to meet with peculiar ingratitude in many instances from those he befriended: yet this neither checked nor chilled him in his benevolent exertions. It only afforded an opportunity to illustrate the purity of his motives, and to shew that he did good for the sake of doing it. I never heard him mention one of these instances even in the way of complaint; and when others have been indignant at them, he has without exception, tried to apologize for them. The following fact may serve to explain and verify my meaning.While I was under his care at Marlborough, among other beneficiaries was an aged female, whom he almost entirely supported for a good while before her death. So far from being

duly sensible of her obligations to him, she betrayed much infirmity in several very opposite tempers, so as to induce many to speak very severely of her. When she was buried, he preached her funeral sermon from the words of our Lord, "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again; and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?!!"

Nor was he free from enemies. It might have been supposed that such a character could never have provoked any kind of hostility. But how then would he have been conformed to his Lord and Savior who was all excellency, all amiableness; or how would he have escaped the denunciation, "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you." Things like these, without justifying the subjects, are permitted and over-ruled for good. They try and they discover distinguishing excellency. They are like the field of battle to the hero. "He that is slow to anger is greater than the mighty, and he that ruleth his own spirit, than he that taketh a city." "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." "It is

the glory of a man to pass by a transgression." Laden with this as well as every other kind of honor, he descended to the grave. A man who for years had treated him very unkindly, and given him much trouble and uneasiness, stood in need of his assistance in a particular case some months before his death. He went and applied to him without any acknowledgments of repentance. Mr. Winter overlooked his injurious treatment, and without dropping a reflection, or discovering one emotion of resentment, politely received him, and attended to his request. The consequence was natural. I saw him at the interment among the mourning crowd weeping bitterly. Another person who was under great obligations to him, and whose family he had served in various ways, conceived a prejudice against him, and persecuted him with remorseless malignity. The deceased, after doing every thing that gentleness could devise to soften him in vain, mentions him in his will, and " Bequeaths to him his dying forgiveness."

His will indeed was all like himself. It is full of regard to the temporal and spiritual welfare of others. Nearly all his substance is appropriated to civil and sacred benefaction.