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 MEMOIR WITH DISCOURSES 
 
 DANIEL JOHNSON GLAZIER. 
 
 BY 
 
 ROBERT TURNBULL. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 i. 
 
 MEMOIR OF ME. GLAZIER. 
 
 II. 
 
 DISCOURSE ON THE POWER OF THE CROSS. 
 
 "But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto 
 the world." — Gal. vi. 14. 
 
 HI. 
 
 DISCOURSE ON THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 
 "For great is your reward in heaven." — Matt. v. 12. 
 
 IV. 
 
 DISCOURSE ON THE NEW CREATURE. 
 " If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." — 2 Cor. v. 17. 
 
 V. 
 
 DISCOURSE ON REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 
 " For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. — Eph. ii. 10. 
 
THE 
 
 STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 It will be difficult for -the writer of the 
 following brief memoir to convey, to strangers, 
 an adequate idea of the charm of appearance, 
 character and manner of his young friend and 
 brother, whose sudden decease has awakened 
 so deep a sympathy among all who knew him. 
 He was tenderly loved by his intimate friends. 
 Perhaps they were too blind to his faults, 
 and dwelt too exclusively upon his virtues. 
 But the more they knew him, the more they 
 loved him. Even his imperfections gave a 
 deeper interest to his high qualities. They 
 were just of that character to awaken the 
 profoundest sympathy. In fact, they were the 
 ebullitions and exaggerations of a quick and 
 generous nature. His death, too, has thrown 
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 his faults into shadow, and brought into prom- 
 inent view all his noble and beautiful traits. 
 Of generous disposition, and lofty aims ; pure 
 in life, and dignified in deportment; with a 
 fine form, and gleaming eye ; a voice of music, 
 whose tones thrilled the heart; a vigorous in- 
 tellect highly cultivated, a sensibility strong 
 and delicate, and a heart all aglow with the 
 love of nature and of God, he was preparing 
 for the holy work of the Christian ministry. 
 And just as he was ready for the noble ser- 
 vice, — -just as he had accepted a call to the 
 pastoral care of a church, which had conceived 
 for him the highest esteem and affection, he 
 was cut down; like some noble tree, with 
 its fresh, green leaves and golden fruit in the 
 very heart of the garden. But the spot where 
 he fell is hallowed. The very air is fragrant 
 with his memory. It seems a duty to per- 
 petuate his influence. Brief as was his life, 
 it was not in vain. Unspeakable good has 
 already come of it. His friends have gained 
 a deeper sense of the value of religion, a 
 nearer view of " the better land." Some of 
 them have found it the means of a new spirit- 
 ual life. The few sermons he preached pro- 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 7 
 
 duced a deep impression. They are full of 
 the spirit of Christ, and may yet be the means 
 of greater and more permanent usefulness. 
 In this hope some of them are given to the 
 public, accompanied by the following sketches 
 and memorials. 
 
 Daniel Johnson. Glazier was born on the 
 11th of April, 1828, in "Wellington, a quiet 
 village, hidden among the rocky hills of Con- 
 necticut. His parents were greatly esteemed 
 among their neighbors and friends, for their 
 good sense, piety, and integrity of character. 
 They were members of the Baptist church 
 in "Wellington, and adorned their profession 
 by " a well-ordered life." Both of them died 
 in early life. His mother was a woman of 
 fine sensibilities, and impressed something of 
 her own beautiful image upon her children. 
 She was intelligent and amiable, and tenderly 
 attached to her family and friends, and to the 
 church of Christ. His father must have pos- 
 sessed more than ordinary force of character. 
 His death, which occurred suddenly, after a 
 very brief illness, when he was only thirty- two 
 years of age, was yet peculiarly triumphant. 
 
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 " Of his relatives," says a brief obituary no- 
 tice of him, which appeared at the time, in 
 the Christian Secretary, "he took a most 
 tender farewell. His weeping wife and little 
 children seemed to lay near his heart. To 
 them he gave the counsels of a dying husband 
 and father, and cheerfully committed them to 
 the care and protection of that God in whom 
 he had trusted. He frequently spoke of the 
 glorious views which he had of the heavenly 
 world. To the inquiries of his friends in re- 
 gard to the state of his mind from time to 
 time, he would reply, ' My prospects are bright 
 and clear. My hope is in the Saviour, and my 
 trust is in God. I have nothing to fear, and 
 nothing to lament, only that I have not lived 
 more devotedly to the service of my Re- 
 deemer.' Just before his death, and after a 
 season of great bodily distress, on being asked 
 how it was with him, he replied, in a low 
 voice, ' I have got all over it now. I am 
 in the happy land ! '" 
 
 The death of his mother, who survived her 
 husband about fifteen years, was equally calm 
 and holy. Thus, our young friend, amid all 
 the bereavements and trials of life, from which, 
 
MEMOIR OP DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 9 
 
 at times, lie suffered so keenly, like Cowper, 
 in similar circumstances, could "boast" him- 
 self 
 
 " The son of parents passed into the skies." 
 
 His grandfather, Daniel Glazier, Esq., assumed 
 the care of the orphan children. They could 
 have found no better guardian, no better home. 
 Daniel, who was warmly attached to this ex- 
 cellent and venerable man, ever spoke of him 
 in terms of affectionate endearment. His at- 
 tachment was fully reciprocated ; and as his 
 grandfather perceived in him indications of 
 energy and talent, he resolved to spare no 
 expense in his education. He was a sensitive, 
 warm hearted boy, with some obvious faults, 
 like most other -boys of his age, and especially 
 a quick and somewhat violent temper. Com- 
 pletely superior to everything like unkindness, 
 his sensitive organization exposed him to sud- 
 den and lively emotions. But he was always 
 honest and open hearted; and, in fact, prided 
 himself, even when a boy, in doing everything 
 frankly and fairly. On one occasion he had 
 felt himself aggrieved by one of his young 
 friends ; but would not inflict the deserved 
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 chastisement till a relative of the boy ap- 
 peared, in whose presence he administered 
 one or two hearty kicks. In subsequent life 
 he had a habit of " speaking his mind " a 
 little too freely, sometimes, for the comfort of 
 those " given to shams." He deeply regretted 
 his too great sensitiveness of temper, and 
 never failed, when he found he had wounded 
 the feelings of a friend, to take the earliest 
 opportunity of making some ample explana- 
 tion or generous apology. Mellowed and sub- 
 dued by religion, this quickness of temper 
 had nearly disappeared, or rather, had as- 
 sumed its proper place, as a repellant of every 
 thing sordid and wrong. We mention it now, 
 because it reveals his natural bent. His con- 
 stitutional temperament was what is some- 
 times styled " nervous," as it possessed great 
 delicacy and vigor, not unmixed with irrita- 
 bility. He belonged, in fact, to the race of 
 the poets, having something of the refinement, 
 sensibility, aspiration, and inspiration of that 
 irratabile genus. Hence, also, his occasional 
 melancholy, his profound dissatisfaction with 
 himself, his passion for the ideal, his longing 
 for perfection. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 11 
 
 Still, as a boy, he was vivacious and fond 
 of fun, generally sportive, and at times, hila- 
 rious. A vein of quiet humor ran through his 
 conversation, giving it, at times, an inexpres- 
 sible charm. A little shy with strangers, and 
 apparently grave beyond his years, he was 
 marvellously free and agreeable with his in- 
 timate friends. His lively talk and hearty 
 laugh indicated the natural vigor and freshness 
 of his 'feelings. As a boy, he was remarkably 
 fine looking, with the lively aspect and ruddy 
 glow- of health. In after years he complained 
 of frequent indisposition. His nervous sys- 
 tem, at times, seemed to act with too great 
 violence. Always handsome, he looked a lit- 
 tle languid and careworn, and complained of 
 depression of spirits. His friends hoped this 
 would pass off in due time, and, indeed, it was 
 yielding rapidly to the mild influence of re- 
 ligion. Yet some who know him felt that he 
 was scarcely fit for earth. Manly as he was 
 in all his feelings, and anxious to battle with 
 the stern realities of life, they feel now, that 
 his true home lay far away in some higher 
 sphere. 
 
 But a finer, manlier little fellow never went 
 
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 to school. He made good progress in his 
 studies, and after gaining all the instruction 
 he could in his native village, he was sent to 
 Hartford, to gain experience in his uncle's 
 store. It was a question whether he should 
 devote himself to business, or to some pro- 
 fessional employment. At any rate, it was 
 thought best he should gain some knowledge 
 of practical affairs, and fit himself for future 
 usefulness. This, indeed, was not his true 
 sphere ; still it was a benefit to him in many 
 respects. In due time, however, his grand- 
 father, who hoped that some day Daniel might 
 be truly converted, and devote himself to the 
 work of the Christian ministry, gave him per- 
 mission to enter the Connecticut Literary In- 
 stitution, at Suffield, where he secured, in a 
 high degree, the esteem of his teachers, by 
 the excellence of his deportment, and the 
 vigorous prosecution of his studies. His fel- 
 low students were warmly attached to him. 
 They loved his frank and generous manner, 
 his high spirit, and noble aims. Well does the 
 writer remember that bright summer anniver- 
 sary, when Daniel, with a group of as inter- 
 esting young men as ever graduated from such 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 13 
 
 an institution; spoke his oration, with a dig- 
 nity, energy, and enthusiasm, which took his 
 friends by surprise. His fine bearing, bright 
 countenance and beaming eye, lent a peculiar 
 fascination to his address, which he spoke with 
 a precision, freedom and power quite unusual 
 in one so young. The impression which he 
 made upon his intimate associates may be 
 learned from the following letter, written by 
 a congenial friend and fellow student, now 
 engaged in the active business of life. 
 
 "Hartford, April 20, 1855. 
 
 • "My Dear Pastor: — For such I love to 
 regard you, although it is my lot to listen less 
 frequently to you, than to teachings from 
 strangers' lips. 
 
 " I did not count the cost when I gave you 
 my promise to furnish you with some remin- 
 iscences of our dear friend Glazier. My feel- 
 ings control my thoughts, and associations of 
 sorrow shroud every memory. It is not for 
 him that I am sad. For him, whose spirit, 
 touched by divine love, panting beneath the 
 load of earthly infirmity, ' ached for its heaven- 
 ly home ) ' for him, ransomed from the cap- 
 
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 tivity to evil, whose chains we still bear; for 
 him ; who knows now what we can only dimly 
 imagine, how fathomless the joy of sinless and 
 immortal life ; I am glad for him. 
 
 "But for myself, without him, I am sad. 
 Men go veiled through life. We know the 
 names of those we meet in daily traffic; but 
 the men we know not. He was one of whom 
 I could say, he knows me ; and when I think, 
 that while I may press my way any whither 
 duty calls in life, my eyes shall seek him in 
 vain; when I reflect, that his delicate sympa- 
 thy must be remembered among my lost trea- 
 sures, I feel as a stranger, and poor. It is a 
 blessed thing, that whatever of pure friend- 
 ship we are permitted to enjoy on earth, is 
 never lost; it becomes immortal when the ob- 
 jects of it become clothed with immortality. 
 It is subject to no earthly vicissitude : neither 
 change nor diminution. Herein is the mem- 
 ory's most sweet ministry. 
 
 "I first became acquainted with Daniel at 
 Suffield. Then the 'mantle of his destiny' 
 did not seem to have settled upon him. He 
 spoke of trade as the occupation of his future. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 15 
 
 But suddenly, to the apprehension of his asso- 
 ciates, his mind was aroused to a new activity ; 
 a loftier ambition inspired him. He com- 
 menced a course of assiduous practice, which 
 rapidly developed the graces of a rare elo- 
 cutionary power. I seem to hear now the 
 tones of his manly voice, as, alone in his room, 
 he yielded himself, with ever increasing ardor, 
 to his favorite study. He possessed rare 
 power of imitation; and it was frequently 
 brought into requisition for the amusement 
 of his fellows. He would personify what is 
 termed ' Yankee character' in a manner rarely 
 surpassed. It was said of him, that he would 
 attain eminence as an actor, were he to seek 
 it. His fellow-students commonly regarded his 
 future as that of a lawyer ; but there were, I 
 think, secret whisperings within his own breast 
 of a higher calling; and there were those of 
 his friends who even then considered the pul- 
 pit his destined sphere of labor. 
 
 " One occasion is particularly mentioned, 
 when, assuming the character of the Preacher, 
 he pronounced a sermon, (by whom written it 
 is not now recollected,) and so successfully 
 was the part sustained, that a friend said of 
 
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 him, 'He will do that in earnest some day, 
 which he now has done thoughtlessly.' 
 
 " As it is true, that the orator, like the 
 poet, ' nascitur, non fit J it is not strange that 
 he came, very soon, to be regarded as 'the 
 best speaker at the Institution,' — a reputa- 
 tion which he sustained at college. For pe- 
 culiar reasons I watched his progress in this 
 respect with great satisfaction, and a feeling 
 akin to fraternal pride. How great my hopes 
 were for him, it is needless to say; — they 
 are withered now, for they were earthly ! 
 His tongue has learned a loftier service ! 
 
 " With the facts incident to his conversion, 
 and his subsequent determination to enter the 
 ministry, you are, doubtless, better acquainted 
 than myself. My recollections of this period 
 of his history are full of interest to me, al- 
 though they are of a nature which would, per- 
 haps, render them uninteresting to those less 
 intimately acquainted with Daniel than it was 
 my happiness to be. 
 
 "What appeared to others to be his char- 
 acteristics, I cannot tell ; to me he was a sin- 
 cere and truthful friend; an agreeable com- 
 panion, of keen wit and inexhaustible humor; 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 17 
 
 intelligent and refined. He abhorred shams 
 and those miserable ' expediences/ which so 
 dwarf manly development. He cherished lofty 
 ideals. He never permitted that devil l public 
 conscience/ so called, to guide his action. As 
 a Christian, he acknowledged no formula, seek- 
 ing to compel unquestioning assent ; but most 
 earnestly did he seek instruction from the 
 1 Great Teacher/ in the truths which his word 
 was designed to convey. 
 
 " I loved him, chiefly, for his quick and deli- 
 cate sympathy with that l inner life/ which is 
 our best and truest life; and for this, his 
 rare gift, now lost, it is a privilege to be 
 sad. 
 
 u I am conscious that I have very imper- 
 fectly fulfilled my promise to you ; but I offer 
 what is written, simply as a manifestation of 
 my desire to accede to your request. 
 "Yours, sincerely, 
 
 "H. E. ROBINS. 
 "Rev. Robt. Turnbull, D.D." 
 
 After leaving Suffield, our young friend be- 
 came a student in Brown University, and 
 passed honorably through the usual course of 
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18 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 studies in that Institution. His attainments 
 in classical and mathematical studies were 
 respectable, though not particularly distin- 
 guished. His mind was powerfully attracted 
 to English literature, rhetoric, mental and 
 moral philosophy. By his assiduity, good con- 
 duct, and success in his studies, he gained the 
 respect and affection of the professors and 
 president, who have, in various ways, testified 
 their approbation of his character and worth. 
 He attracted, especially, the attention of Pro- 
 fessor Gammell, at that, time the teacher of 
 rhetoric, and now that of history and political 
 economy. This amiable and accomplished 
 gentleman saw in him the germs of eminent 
 success as a public speaker, and took a lively 
 interest in his success. Our readers, therefore, 
 will peruse with interest the following admira- 
 ble letter from his pen. 
 
 " Providence, April 27, 1855. 
 " My Dear Sir : — I take great pleasure in 
 communicating to you such recollections and 
 impressions as I still retain of our young 
 friend, Mr. Daniel Johnson Glazier, whose re- 
 cent death has brought sorrow to so large a 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 19 
 
 circle of friends. My acquaintance with him, 
 I ought, however, to state, was limited to the 
 last three years of his residence in college, 
 and was withal restricted very nearly to the 
 relations of instructor and pupil, which we 
 then sustained to each other. Since his grad- 
 uation — the period most interesting, perhaps, 
 in his whole personal history — I have met 
 him but seldom, and only for very brief in- 
 tervals. 
 
 "Mr. Glazier graduated at Brown Univer- 
 sity, with the class of 1851; while in college, 
 was under my instruction in rhetoric, general 
 history, and other kindred studies. From 
 some circumstances connected with his per- 
 sonal history at the time, "I contracted and 
 continued with him an acquaintance, somewhat 
 more familiar and intimate than usually arises 
 between undergraduates and officers of in- 
 struction. There were at this time qualities 
 in his character and mind that awakened in 
 me an unusual interest. His person was of 
 medium stature, of good proportions, and his 
 manners, though among strangers he may have 
 appeared retiring and shy, among his familiar 
 acquaintances, were open, frank, and engaging. 
 
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 They were the natural and unequivocal ex- 
 pression of an independent and manly spirit, 
 which was free from meanness and distrust, 
 and delighted in what is noble and generous. 
 During a large part of his college residence, 
 he was afflicted with a chronic determination 
 of blood to the brain, which often became so 
 violent and depressing, as to require the en- 
 tire suspension of his studies, and almost to 
 destroy his hope of being able to prosecute 
 his education. But the manner in which he 
 struggled with this most dispiriting and en- 
 ervating malady, evinced the fortitude and en- 
 ergy which belonged to his nature. It was his 
 persevering aspiration to secure for himself a 
 liberal intellectual culture, that alone con- 
 ducted him to the end of his collegiate course, 
 in circumstances which would have dismayed 
 most other young men of his age. He, how- 
 ever, steadily pursued the end he had in view, 
 and graduated with honorable rank, and with 
 an intellectual training which promised to se- 
 cure for him wide usefulness, and early rep- 
 utation. 
 
 " Of the native power of his mind, I had no 
 means of forming an estimate, save such as 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 21 
 
 were presented in the college exercises, which 
 he performed under my direction. These al- 
 ways gave evidence of a mind liberally, and, 
 as it seemed to me, harmoniously endowed, 
 and, withal, filled with high and worthy aspi- 
 rations. He had no exclusive bias in any one 
 direction, and was wholly free from contempt 
 for particular departments of knowledge, for 
 which he had no special aptitude himself. He 
 appreciated the various branches of learning 
 which he was required to pursue, as means of 
 a complete intellectual culture, though for cer- 
 tain studies he had a much stronger relish 
 than for others. The malady with which he 
 was afflicted often rendered him wholly unable 
 to read a book, or even to fix his attention 
 upon any subject of thought; yet the manner 
 in which he acquitted himself when free from 
 such visitations, indicated that he was fully 
 equal to the successful prosecution of any — 
 even the most difficult — of the studies em- 
 braced in the collegiate course. For some of 
 them his aptitude was quite unusual; his suc- 
 cess in their prosecution was of a high order. 
 Among the subjects of study to which he gave 
 his attention while in college, his preferences 
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22 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 were, unquestionably, for literature rather than 
 for exact science, and his strongest tastes 
 were for moral rather than for physical truth. 
 " As a student, the highest success which he 
 achieved, was undoubtedly to be found in his 
 public exercises of speaking and writing. A 
 natural taste, cultivated by select and careful 
 English reading; an ear attuned to harmony 
 and propriety of expression; a voice of rich 
 and varied tones, and a manner, dignified, sim- 
 ple, and attractive ; all combined to qualify 
 him for eminent success in wielding that no- 
 blest form of human power, — the power of 
 the public speaker. It was in this class of 
 efforts, — so intimately connected with the use- 
 fulness of a Christian minister, — that I an- 
 ticipated for him a degree of excellence, far 
 above what is now usually attained, or even 
 aspired to in the pulpit. While in the prose- 
 cution of other studies, he was always earnest 
 and diligent ; in this he appeared to be more 
 than usually ambitious. His thoughts thus pre- 
 sented were just and correct, as well as gen- 
 erous and inspiring; and his exercises in col- 
 lege declamation never failed to awaken the 
 interest of his academic auditory. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 23 
 
 " Of his religious principles and spirit at 
 this period of his life, I know little or noth- 
 ing. I think he had not then become con- 
 nected with any church, and did not class him- 
 self with religious men. He was, however, 
 as I recollect observing, a regular attendant 
 at public worship, as well as at the morning 
 and evening exercises of the college chapel; 
 and in his daily life, was always careful and 
 exemplary. A high sense of honor character- 
 ized all his intercourse with others, and shone 
 forth, as the occasion required, in every ex- 
 hibition of his character which I had an op- 
 portunity to witness. His life, thus passing 
 amid the seclusion and quiet of college studies, 
 indicated a moral nature composed of fine 
 elements, harmoniously combined, and gave to 
 those who knew him well, high promise of a 
 progressive culture and growth, and of a ca- 
 reer of usefulness and honor. This promise, 
 I think, had grown stronger and stronger with 
 each year of his subsequent course, and was 
 made especially sure by the decided religious 
 faith, in which his mind became established 
 soon after his departure from college. But 
 of these later years of his life, I must leave 
 
24 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 those to write who were associated with him 
 in his daily pursuits, and shared with him the 
 hopes and plans which he had formed for the 
 future. It is only as he appeared to me in 
 the restricted and private relations of an 
 undergraduate scholar, that I recall his amiable 
 character, and the force of his interesting 
 mind; it is only the impressions I then re- 
 ceived, that I have attempted to communicate 
 to you, who knew him at a later period, and 
 in quite different relations. I regret that these 
 impressions are not more adequate to his en- 
 tire character; yet, such as they are, they 
 link his name in my own mind, with the hopes 
 and sentiments which an instructor most de- 
 lights to associate with the memory of a pupil. 
 In his early and sudden death, many of these 
 hopes, lately so widely indulged in by all who 
 knew and loved him, have been sadly blighted. 
 His life ended with the period of promise : 
 it had only reached, but had not entered, 
 the period of actual performance. Its bud- 
 ding and blossoming were beautiful; but ere 
 the season of fruit had come, it has been cut 
 off forever, by the early frosts of death. 
 
 " With sincere sympathy for all those whose 
 
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 OIK OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 25 
 
 hopes have been blighted, by the premature 
 departure of this estimable young man, 
 " I remain, my dear sir, 
 
 " Yery respectfully and truly yours, 
 
 "W. GAMMELL. 
 "Kev. Dr. Turnbull." 
 
 A few of Mr. Glazier's letters, written in all 
 the confidence of friendship, and intended for 
 no eyes but those to whom they were ad- 
 dressed, have come into our hands. He had 
 great aversion to this species of composition; 
 and imagined that his letters were " miserably " 
 written. Nevertheless, unstudied as they are, 
 they possess some excellent qualities, and 
 give a pleasing insight into his character and 
 ways. His estimate of college life, his dili- 
 gence in the prosecution of his studies, and 
 his high aspirations, appear in the following, 
 written while at Brown University. They 
 gave some discovery, also, of his moral feel- 
 ings, and his occasional, perhaps frequent, con- 
 victions upon the great subject of the soul's 
 immortal destiny. 
 
26 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 " Brown University, Nov. 26, 1848. 
 
 "My Dear Grandparents: — Judging from 
 the number of letters I have received from 
 home this term that you are anxious to hear 
 from me, I have seated myself for the pur- 
 pose of gratifying that desire. I suppose 
 that allowance should be made for you on 
 the score of age and the infirmities thereof. 
 I can conceive that it makes a great differ- 
 ence in respect to one's inclination to write. 
 Time, which changes all things, in its noiseless 
 flight, has covered your heads with the 
 whitened locks of age, and decrepitude is 
 fastening itself upon you. Hence it is that 
 you write no oftener. I confess that my 
 letters have not been too frequent, but you 
 must make some allowance for me also. My 
 health has been as good as usual thus far 
 this term. I have had no sickness of any 
 account; although I do not feel so strong and 
 active as I could wish. Time passes off 
 very rapidly — a pretty good sign that my 
 time is occupied. My studies are not as 
 hard as at the beginning of the term. But 
 still they demand much time. I sometimes 
 get tired out, and wish I was through with 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 27 
 
 them. But my better genius cheers me 
 on, tells me that nothing is worth having 
 that is not worth working for, and that there 
 is no excellence without great labor. Yet 
 there is much pleasure in literary labor. We 
 learn something daily; some new truth is 
 discovered, some new field of thought is 
 opened; and more than all, the angel Hope 
 points us to the future where we shall reap 
 our reward. If we never reach the temple 
 of fame, education will smooth our pathway 
 through manhood, cheer and comfort us in 
 old age, and if rightly directed, help us to 
 lay hold on eternal life. In comparison 
 with the blessings and pleasures derived 
 from education, untold wealth is utterly pal- 
 try. 
 
 " I like college life. It is a miniature 
 world. Students are a peculiar set of 
 beings. Some people think that they are 
 lazy, roughish fellows. Doubtless some of 
 them are lazy, and some of them are rough- 
 ish; but this is by no means the case with 
 all. We are separated from the world, and 
 live by ourselves. We have common inter- 
 ests, are bound together by a common brother- 
 
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 hood. We are all striving for the same great 
 end; we have our pleasures in common, and 
 envy not those who pass their time in the 
 gay society of the world. 
 
 " I have had an opportunity lately of hear- 
 ing several distinguished men speak this 
 term. Mr. Gough lectured here a few weeks 
 since in his usual interesting manner. I 
 also listened for over two hours, a fortnight 
 ago, to a speech from Daniel Webster. His 
 subject was the Constitution of the United 
 States. More than 1700 persons were pres- 
 ent. He is rightly called " the godlike." 
 He is the most noble appearing man I ever 
 saw, and when he speaks, there are no sleepy 
 hearers. 
 
 " The term will close in about three 
 weeks, but as I have decided to take that 
 school, I shall not be at home till next 
 spring. I should like to be at home Thanks- 
 giving, but cannot. Please give my love to 
 all friends, and write when it is convenient. 
 "Your affectionate grandson, 
 
 " D. J. GLAZIER" 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 29 
 
 " Willixgton, Sunday Eye, April 15, 1849. 
 " Esteemed Cousin and Friend : — For 
 some hour or more I baYe been holding com- 
 munion with myself. Scenes in my past life, 
 and those with whom I haYe been connected, 
 haYe been passing before me. I am some- 
 what inclined to reflection. As I take but 
 little interest in the common topics of 
 conYersation here, I rely almost entirely 
 upon good books, and thought for profit and 
 pleasure. Besides, Sabbath eYening is a time 
 eminently adapted for contemplation and rev- 
 ery. Its peaceful quiet creates a corres- 
 ponding feeling in the breast of eYery one. 
 who is not entirely absorbed in business, in 
 the pleasures or the Yanities of the world. 
 All selfish and sordid thoughts are banished,, 
 all low and trifling objects are forgotten. 
 The spiritual and immortal part of our na- 
 ture is awakened. The mind dwells upon 
 the glories of the celestial world, and the 
 boundless goodness of the great author of 
 our existence. It o'erleaps the narrow 
 boundaries of time, and loses itself in the 
 limitless expanse of eternity. Then, too, 
 memory and affection throw around us their 
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30 the student-preacher: 
 
 potent charm, call up the cherished forms of 
 friends now living, and of those who after 
 l . life's fitful fever ' sleep in the peaceful grave. 
 How strong is memory ! How lasting is 
 affection ! 
 
 " But I digress. While I was musing on 
 the past, my thoughts very naturally recur- 
 red to you. I say naturally, because I can 
 ever cherish you as a friend. Though when 
 I lived in your family I was wild and way- 
 ward, I had a heart susceptible to such kind- 
 ness as I always received from you. Though 
 by nature passionate and 'high-strung,' I can 
 never forget a friend. Nor is it generally 
 the case that the warmest heart beats under 
 a cool and placid exterior. I have known 
 men who never showed anger and always 
 wore a smiling countenance. People praised 
 them for the evenness of their temper, loved 
 them for their gentleness, while in the end 
 they proved the veriest hypocrites and black- 
 est villains. There are of course honorable 
 exceptions ; but when I see a man who is 
 excessively pleasant and agreeable, and as- 
 sents to every opinion I advance, I suspect 
 that man. No ; give me the man who is 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. ol 
 
 quick to feel an injury and who dares resent 
 it. Such a person will feel a kindness just 
 as quickly. The kind interest which you and 
 your husband have manifested in my welfare 
 has not escaped my attention, and has not 
 failed to deepen my friendship for you. 
 
 "Perhaps you will inquire ' why have you 
 not written before ? ' A very natural ques- 
 tion certainly. Last Thanksgiving day I sat 
 clown and wrote you a long letter, spent all 
 the forenoon on it, and laid it in my desk 
 intending to send it the next day. But I 
 received a letter from home from which I 
 learned that you were very sick, therefore I 
 did not send it. The week after, I went out 
 to teach school for a few weeks, and when 
 I returned to college I was somewhat be- 
 hind my class, and consequently my time was 
 employed in my studies. I had a very 
 pleasant school, indeed, and I was proud of 
 my scholars. I taught the highest English 
 branches and Latin; and it was called the 
 model school. You, perhaps, smile at the 
 thought of my appearance in the school room, 
 and wonder if I kept cool! But I can 
 assure you my manner was very dignified, 
 
32 THE student-preacher: 
 
 and that one glance of my old squint eye 
 was enough to make the boldest rogue trem- 
 ble I* Moreover, I lived on the fat of the 
 land, &c. In fine, I passed a very pleasant 
 time, but the most pleasant part of it after 
 all (not an unnatural feeling for a poor stu- 
 dent) was the 'tin' that rattled in my pocket. 
 But I had not more than fairly got into 
 town before it was all gone. If any young 
 man has got a surplus of money, let him 
 go to Brown University and he will not be 
 troubled with it long. But though it takes 
 away our cash, I trust it gives us that which 
 will be of more importance to us. I am 
 not one of that class who bow down to a 
 god of gold, nor do I believe that man's 
 whole energies should be employed in heap- 
 ing up wealth. It has no intrinsic value in 
 itself, and is valuable only for the good that 
 can be obtained by it. Besides, a mind well 
 disciplined and stored with information drawn 
 
 * Mr. Glazier here facetiously refers to a characteristic expres- 
 sion of his eye. Though remarkably fine looking he had a pe- 
 culiar, half squinting, side glance of the eyes, expressive some- 
 times of one feeling, and sometimes of another. It -was roguish, 
 indignant, and affectionate by turns. All his friends will remem- 
 ber it. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. oo 
 
 from the history of the past, has a greater 
 source of happiness, and one, too, of which 
 neither the fraud nor treachery of the world 
 can deprive him. It is his own so long as 
 life and reason shall last. Such a man, too, 
 takes a wider range of thought, and better 
 comprehends the true end of man's exist- 
 ence. 
 
 u The present all absorbing subject appears 
 to be ' the gold mines of California f nothing 
 is heard of in the streets but the 'placers,' 
 the ' El-Dorado,' and the 'golden sand-dust.' 
 The brains of old and young seem to be 
 turned with the idea, and thousands eagerly 
 leave home and friends and all the endear- 
 ments of domestic life, crowd into a filthy 
 ship, dare the dangers of a perilous sea, 
 starvation, the murderous knife of the prowl- 
 ing robber, and death itself, in the doubtful 
 expectation of collecting a heap of yellow 
 dust. I have had no interest in this excite- 
 ment. History informs me that the gold 
 fever is no new disease. Thousands of the 
 youth and nobility of Spain lost their lives 
 in searching for this precious metal in the 
 3* 
 
34 the student-preacher: 
 
 very same region where so many of our 
 countrymen have gone. 
 
 " My studies the present year are much 
 harder than those of the last. Students at 
 Brown have very little time for disturbing 
 
 the peace of society as they do at . 
 
 No young man can continue here whose con- 
 duct is not gentlemanly, and who is not of 
 industrious and scholarlike habits. Provi- 
 dence, too, is a fine place to live in, with 
 good society and good local advantages. 
 Perhaps students are a somewhat favored 
 class, but certainly they are respected more 
 in Providence than in any other place I know 
 of. I enjoy college life much; time flies 
 swiftly and pleasantly by. Though somewhat 
 secluded from the world, we have pleasures 
 of a superior kind. Mind comes in contact 
 with mind, the treasures of Literature and 
 Science are within our reach, and the con- 
 sciousness of preparing ourselves to act well 
 our part in the great drama of life, lightens 
 our labor and cheers us on. 
 
 " I have been at home about a fortnight. 
 I eat much, sleep long, and work a little. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 85 
 
 The friends in "W. are all well. Eather a 
 dull place for business or amusement, but 
 excellent to rusticate in. I don't know what 
 may happen, but it is my opinion that I 
 shan't spend six years in study, in order to 
 dig these stones, or sell six cents worth of 
 tea, and take pay in paper rags. 
 
 * . *; 4k * * * * 
 
 " I was twenty-one years old last Thurs- 
 day — am a man, and for the rest of my 
 life mean to act like a man. I shall soon 
 be cast upon the great ocean of life to 
 guide my own course over its conflicting el- 
 ements. Whether my bark will glide safely 
 over its waters into the haven of success, 
 or be wrecked on the rocks of temptation, 
 or shattered by the blasts of adversity, is 
 for the future to determine. 
 
 " I intend to return by the way of Hart- 
 ford and to make you a visit. You must 
 pardon the mechanical execution of this let- 
 ter, and believe me 
 
 Your friend and cousin, 
 
 D. J. GLAZIER. 
 
36 THE student-preacher: 
 
 "Brown University, Oct. 3, 1850. 
 
 " My Dear Friend and Coz. : — I have a 
 few leisure moments this evening, and know 
 not how to employ them better than in writing 
 a few lines to one of my earliest and best 
 friends. I am aware, that in the changes con- 
 tinually going on in the world of matter and 
 of mind, individuals may also change. But 
 there are incidents in the life of almost 
 every one which have given a cast to their char- 
 acter; and there are memories, too, that clus- 
 ter around us, amid all the changes through 
 which we pass. In many things I trust I am 
 changed since the days of my boyhood. But 
 in one thing I am not. I still look back to 
 the many little acts of kindness from those I 
 lived with, and often are thoughts of you pre- 
 sent to my mind. It was so to-night, and, act- 
 ing upon their suggestion, I took pen and pa- 
 per, and began this epistle. 
 
 " Of course I must first speak of Ego, that 
 is, myself. Well, I am as well in health as 
 usual ; (a little tautology ; but never mind,) and 
 though I have some trouble with the head- 
 ache, manage to do justice to my studies. I 
 have enough to do, I assure you; and, for the 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 37 
 
 last four weeks, I never worked harder in my 
 life. You may be disposed to question whether 
 study is hard work. If you don't believe it, 
 just try it. Just take up intellectual philoso- 
 phy, lectures on history and German, and get 
 a long lesson in each every day; and mind 
 you get it thoroughly. Write an essay once 
 a week, on some subject connected with men- 
 tal philosophy, and be sure to have it logical; 
 and once in two weeks on an historical sub- 
 ject, and adorn it with the flowers of rhetoric ; 
 and a speech once in four weeks, (one that 
 will 'take'). I say, do all this, and if you 
 don't call it work, I will say, you are made 
 of sterner stuff than I am. All that I have 
 enumerated I am required to do. Hard though 
 it is, mind you, I do not complain. 'What 
 thy head finds to do, do it with thy might,' 
 is my motto. (< Hands ' it is, I believe, in the 
 Bible ; but head is more applicable to my 
 case just now.) I look beyond, and take 
 courage. But enough of this. 
 
 " I am now, you know, on my last year at 
 college ; and, as I look back, I can hardly be- 
 lieve that I have spent three years here. But 
 so it is. There is something solemn in the 
 
38 THE student-preacher: 
 
 thought. How have I improved them? Am 
 I better prepared to act my part in the 
 world's theatre ? In short, am I better pre- 
 pared to live as an intelligent being; and, 
 more than all, as a being responsible to an 
 Almighty Creator? I could hope I am j and 
 yet I am too sensible of a disregard, or, ra- 
 ther, not a sufficient regard, for my most im- 
 portant interests. Surrounded, as I am, by 
 the glittering enticements of a worldly am- 
 bition, I too much neglect the still, small voice 
 of the monitor within. There are times, 
 though, when I think, how insignificant are all 
 worldly honors, in comparison with the hon- 
 ors that await the pious soul hereafter. I 
 think much upon religious . topics ; but the 
 great trouble is, I cannot act ! If I could sud- 
 denly be changed into a Christian, I would 
 give worlds were they mine. But that I be- 
 lieve to be impossible. Each one of us has 
 his own part of the work to do, which none 
 else can do. 
 
 "But I did not intend to wander into such 
 reflections, and I will change the subject." 
 
 ****** 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 89 
 
 Mr, G-lazicr graduated; as stated by Pro- 
 fessor Gammell, with the class of 1851, a class 
 of unusual distinction and promise. We hap- 
 pened to be present on the occasion, and, as 
 at Suffield a few years before, had the pleas- 
 ure of listening to his interesting address. 
 Though not the first scholar, or perhaps at 
 that time, the most finished writer of his class, 
 he was considered the best speaker. He 
 spoke on that occasion with a noble dignity 
 and enthusiasm ; and when he closed, the house 
 rang with prolonged applause. Grave and 
 learned men, where we were sitting, clapped 
 their hands with delight, and, in whispered 
 conversation, predicted his future eminence. 
 Ah, little did we think, that those flashing 
 eyes were so soon to be quenched in death, 
 and that attractive form to be laid in the 
 grave ! 
 
 A year or two after, Daniel came to the 
 city of Hartford, and entered the office of the 
 Honorable Thomas H. Perkins, for the pur- 
 pose of studying law. He was resolved to 
 profit by his opportunities, and, if possible, 
 attain distinction in this noble profession ; yet 
 the study was not in all respects congenial; 
 
40 the student-preacher: 
 
 for his eager, poetical spirit was perpetually 
 wandering beyond the dominion of forms and 
 precedents. The great principles of law? 
 founded, as it is, on the idea of right, attracted 
 his admiration; but the details of the office, 
 and the dry study of cases, oppressed his 
 mind. Still he was resolved to do his best 
 in the sphere he had chosen, and fit himself 
 for a course of honor and usefulness. High 
 tempered and ambitious, and not yet subdued 
 by the Spirit of God, he indulged in the lofti- 
 est expectations, and was determined, if pos- 
 sible, to realize them. But God was pre- 
 paring him for another sphere. He became 
 dissatisfied and restless. The high cravings 
 of his immortal nature were not met. He 
 had not found his place, or his work. Nay, 
 more, he had not found his God. Though 
 piously educated, and of good moral charac- 
 ter, he had not made "heart work" of re- 
 ligion. Christianity, as a deeper life of the 
 soul, was yet unknown to him. He acknowl- 
 edged its high claims ; but did not feel its 
 transforming power. To penitence and prayer, 
 divine fellowship and worship, he was an ut- 
 ter stranger. But of all this he was only 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 41 
 
 partially conscious. It had not greatly occu- 
 pied his attention. He had been busy with 
 his studies, and now he was fully occupied 
 with his new plans for life. He would work 
 hard, acquire distinction, win the applause of 
 men, and occupy some post of honor and influ- 
 ence in society. This engrossed his mind, this 
 filled his vision. 
 
 But he gradually came to the knowledge 
 of the fact, that in all this he was supremely 
 selfish. By glimpses and flashes, so to speak, 
 the startling truth broke in upon his mind. 
 The impression, however, at first was feeble 
 and imperfect. It was only sufficient to pro- 
 duce a sense of want, an uneasiness and hun- 
 ger of the spirit. 
 
 On the Sabbath his attention was turned to 
 the "one thing needful," — the claims of God 
 and the soul. For a time, however^ he tried 
 to persuade himself, that he was not only 
 moral, but religious — in his way. At any 
 rate, he did not feel the need of pardoning 
 mercy, and regenerating grace. He had grad- 
 ually acquired the notion, that Christ was lit- 
 tle more than a sacred teacher, and that all 
 the soul needed for immortality was, to follow 
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42 the student-preacher: 
 
 the dictates of natural integrity and honor, 
 somewhat elevated by the genius and teach- 
 ings of Christianity. The Gospel, as a re- 
 medial or redemptive system, was pressed up- 
 on his attention ; but he would not receive it, 
 he could not receive it; and, although edu- 
 cated among Christians and Baptists, the idea 
 of being " converted " and " baptized " was 
 peculiarly obnoxious to him. This, at least, 
 was the state of his mind at times. Perhaps, 
 in his deeper thoughts, he believed differently 
 from what he imagined, or expressed. "No," 
 said he, with severity, on one occasion, " you 
 will never see me join a Baptist church ; " 
 though, a few days after, he repented of the 
 spirit in which he said this, because he thought 
 it might have wounded the feelings of a dear 
 friend and relative, to whom it was spoken, 
 and to whom he made a handsome apology. 
 He never, indeed, attached undue importance 
 to mere forms, either of belief or of action; 
 but his heart seemed to revolt at the very idea 
 of a divine and supernatural regeneration, or 
 of acting upon the supposition that such a 
 thing was possible, at least to him. He al- 
 lowed, that if one could be changed thus, it 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 43 
 
 would certainly be desirable ; but as to its 
 realization, he deemed it altogether improbable. 
 
 He had a singular aversion, moreover, to 
 theological dogmas. He could never quite 
 master the distinctions of the schools. These, 
 however, were not pressed upon his atten- 
 tion. He was urged to think for himself, to 
 sound the depths of his own consciousness, 
 to acknowledge the mystery of being, and 
 above all, of life, whether natural or spirit- 
 ual; to realize, if possible, the holiness of God, 
 the sinfulness of man, and especially his own 
 sinfulness ; to study the Bible, particularly 
 the teachings of Christ and his apostles, to 
 pray for light, and, in dependence upon Divine 
 aid, to endeavor to " draw nigh to God." 
 
 At this time, a most interesting work of 
 grace was enjoyed in this city. Many young 
 persons were "born into the kingdom of God," 
 who, in groups of three, four, or half a dozen, 
 solemnly and joyfully, "went down" with their 
 Savior into the baptismal waters. On one 
 occasion of this kind, he was moved to tears. 
 He said a he had never seen so heavenly a 
 sight." He began with greater thoroughness 
 to examine the Scriptures, and held frequent 
 
44 the student-preacher: 
 
 conversations with his pastor upon the great 
 question of the soul's eternal destiny; or 
 rather, perceiving his deepening thoughtful- 
 ness, his pastor sought opportunities of en- 
 gaging his attention with reference to this 
 great interest. He endeavored to address 
 his reason and his conscience, and soon found 
 that the Spirit of God was moving powerfully 
 upon his heart. Mr. G. imagined that he did 
 not feel much upon the subject, because 
 there was no agitation, no fear, no great 
 excitement of any kind. But it was obvi- 
 ous, that his whole nature was penetrated with 
 an invisible power, and that his intellect and 
 feelings were becoming absorbed in the mighty 
 inquiry. Other friends sought opportunities 
 of conversing with him, and some that loved 
 him tenderly offered prayer night and day on 
 his behalf. A severe and protracted struggle 
 ensued. He could not understand the sacrifice 
 and atonement of Christ ; he could not feel or 
 acknowledge its necessity. He began, how- 
 ever, to see that his soul, alien from the divine 
 life, must be " regenerated unto God ; " for 
 he was made aware, from the depths of his 
 consciousness, that he was living for self, and 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 45 
 
 not for God ; for time, and not for eternity. 
 At last, while acknowledging the profound 
 mystery of our Saviour's nature and work, he 
 saw enough both of himself and of Christ to 
 rely, with the sweetest confidence, upon the 
 grace of God. He was reconciled; he loved. 
 He had found the centre of his being, the end 
 of his life. The mystery of the incarnation, 
 " God manifest in the flesh," revealed itself 
 to his believing, adoring spirit; and there 
 he rested with a calm and holy love. 
 
 We ought to state here, that he was much 
 aided in his inquiries, by " Erskine on the In- 
 ternal Evidence of Christianity," which his 
 pastor had put into his hands. His principal 
 study, indeed, was the New Testament. But 
 this interesting disquisition, the work of a 
 Scottish Advocate, who brought to the . study 
 of the christian system, great simplicity and 
 force of mind, assisted him to appreciate the 
 teachings of the Scriptures. It showed him, 
 what his own consciousness confirmed, that the 
 atonement of Christ, while exalting our con- 
 ceptions of the divine character, is admirably 
 adapted to the human soul, meeting all its 
 wants, and bringing to bear upon it the most 
 4* 
 
46 the student-preacher: 
 
 powerful agency for its transformation. Mr. 
 Glazier was hence strongly attracted to the 
 Pauline Epistles, and began, like all other 
 truly regenerated persons, to renounce his own 
 righteousness, and glory only in the cross of 
 Christ. This element in his conversion ran 
 through the whole of his subsequent experi- 
 ence, colored, in fact, all his thinking, con- 
 trolled all his actions in the domain of re- 
 ligion. 
 
 He was now ready, therefore, to sacrifice 
 the world, to follow Christ, to be " baptized 
 into his death," to commemorate his dying 
 love, in the sacramental supper, to cast in his 
 lot with the disciples of our Lord, and follow 
 the teachings of the Divine Spirit. Joyfully 
 he was buried with Christ in baptism, and, 
 though humbly and modestly, he went on his 
 way rejoicing. He was not unwilling to bear a 
 humble testimony on the subject before others, 
 especially if by this means any good could be 
 accomplished; but his deepest pleasure was in 
 secret to read the Scriptures, to meditate upon 
 the love of Christ, and invoke the influences 
 of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 Soon, however, another struggle commenced. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 47 
 
 He must preach the G-ospel. Of this he felt 
 a strange, secret conviction, which he tried, 
 without success, to overcome. But in order 
 to preach the Gospel, he must abandon some 
 of his cherished schemes ; and, as he supposed, 
 become poor, perhaps despised; break off 
 some dear connections, and lead an obscure, 
 laborious life. At last he yielded to the sa- 
 cred call, and meekly bowed to the yoke of 
 Christ, in the matter of the Christian ministry. 
 His soul was at peace ; his career as a ser- 
 vant of God opened clear and pleasant before 
 him. Faithful and generous brethren were 
 ready to aid him; the church approved his 
 choice, and sent him to " the School of the 
 Prophets," at Newton Centre, where, for nearly 
 three years, he prepared himself for the sa- 
 cred work. He obtained from the First Bap- 
 tist Church, in Hartford, a license to preach, 
 of which he availed himself occasionally, under 
 the direction of the Professors at Newton, 
 greatly to the edification of those who heard 
 him. 
 
 Mr. Glazier was delighted with Newton, and 
 the course of studies prosecuted there. He 
 never once regretted having gone thither. 
 
48 THE student-preacher: 
 
 The place, the society, the studies — all were 
 congenial. His health, indeed, as at college, 
 suffered somewhat, and, in certain moods, he 
 longed to be out in the world, engaged in the 
 great battle of life. But he attached great 
 importance to an adequate preparation for 
 the work of the ministry, and took great 
 pleasure in the study of the Scriptures. He 
 was especially delighted with the exegetical 
 exercises, under the care of Dr. Hackett. He 
 bowed, with the profoundest reverence, to the 
 authority of God's word, and always felt at 
 home in its free investigation. Here every 
 thing seemed to be just what it ought to be, 
 just what the soul of man needed. In the 
 study of dogmatic theology, somehow he was 
 less at home. He greatly revered his pre- 
 ceptors, first the excellent and able Dr. Pat- 
 tison, and on his removal to Waterville col- 
 lege, the learned and amiable Dr. Ripley ; 
 but systematic theology, which he was eager 
 to master, gave rise to frequent questionings, 
 which he could not always solve. But, sweetly 
 confiding in Christ, and thoroughly believing 
 the Bible, he was wont to confess his ignor- 
 ance, and leave profounder mysteries where 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 49 
 
 they belong, among " the deep things of God." 
 Entirely independent in his investigations, and 
 naturally orderly in his modes of thinking, he 
 would not suffer an opinion to be forced upon 
 him ; and hence was in the habit of leaving 
 many points for more thorough and extended 
 examination. What Go* taught, he implicitly 
 received; what man taught, he sometimes 
 doubted, and occasionally rejected. It is not 
 to be inferred, however, from these remarks, 
 that he was inclined to reject any of the great 
 truths, which, in the estimation of regenerated 
 men every where, make up the body of evan- 
 gelical doctrine. He thoroughly believed in 
 the regeneration and the redemption of the 
 soul, through the atoning sacrifice of the 
 Son of God; but he held all theological be- 
 liefs in a free and generous manner, such as 
 was connatural to his vigorous, independent 
 mind. He loved to dwell upon the perfection 
 of Jesus Christ, as human and yet divine. 
 He could say with Bowring, 
 
 " In the cross of Christ I glory, 
 
 Towering o'er the wrecks of time. 
 All the light of sacred story 
 
 Gathers round its head sublime." 
 

 50 the student-preacher: 
 
 He felt, in his deepest consciousness, the need 
 of pardon and renovation, and exulted in the 
 contemplation of that amazing plan of divine 
 wisdom, by which " mercy and truth meet to- 
 gether, righteousness and peace kiss each 
 other." 
 
 But some extracts^from his letters, written 
 while at Newton, will confirm and illustrate 
 these statements. They will also serve to 
 throw light upon other features of his char- 
 acter. 
 
 The following addressed to his cousin, 
 and written in one of his playful moods, so 
 pleasant to his old friends, but alas ! how 
 evanescent, gives some insight into his feel- 
 ings on first entering the Institution. 
 
 " Theo. Inst., Newton Centre, Sept 28, 1852. 
 
 My Dear Friend: — It is now just three 
 weeks since I bade you good bye, and no 
 doubt you think it is high time you heard 
 from me, and perhaps you have begun to 
 censure me in your thoughts, at least, for 
 my delay. * * * * * * 
 • I may, however, say in palliation of my 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 51 
 
 delay, that I have begun no less than three 
 letters to you before to-day, but something 
 each time happened to prevent the consum- 
 mation of my plans. So that you see " the 
 spirit has been willing but the flesh weak." 
 To-day I have a leisure time, and part of 
 it I will give to you. The reason of my hav- 
 ing a leisure day is this. Last Friday night, 
 Tutor H., our Instructor in Hebrew, took 
 unto himself a wife, like a sensible man as 
 he is. Now, in such a case, it is but fair 
 to suppose that he will have but little in- 
 clination, for a few days, to hear any other 
 sounds than those of connubial endearment. 
 The harsh sounds of Hebrew consonants 
 would grate upon his ears. So he is ab- 
 senting himself from us for a few days, hav- 
 ing sent to our class that famous " excuse " 
 said to have been made several years ago, 
 though under somewhat different circumstan- 
 ces, viz : that " he had married a wife, and 
 therefore could'nt come " — to recitation. 
 And as anxious as we may be to progress in 
 knowledge, not one of* our class can so far 
 forget that he is a man u subject to like 
 passions " as Tutor H. is, as to be at all 
 
52 THE student-preacher: 
 
 unwilling to receive the excuse. It is not 
 at all improbable that some of us may, at a 
 future period, need a similar indulgence. But 
 enough of this. 
 
 "I arrived here safely on the evening of 
 the day I left Hartford, with feelings sad- 
 dened by the thoughts of friends whom I had 
 left behind me. I did not know that I was 
 so much attached to Hartford, till I had left 
 it. I found a good room had been reserved 
 for me, through the kindness of a friend of 
 mine here, who knew I was coming, and the 
 next day I was settled and quite at home. 
 The Institution furnishes a bed and bedding, 
 so I had no trouble on that score. The rest 
 of the furniture I bought from the person 
 who occupied the room before me, consist- 
 ing of all things necessary to make a stu- 
 dent's room his home. If you could look in 
 upon me, I think you would say I was quite 
 "cozy." For the first week or ten days, 
 though, I was rather "blue" and verily be- 
 lieve I had a touch of a disease very like 
 to " homesickness." *But this has all worn 
 off, and I was never happier in my life than 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 53 
 
 now, or at least was never more pleasantly 
 situated. 
 
 " I have a first rate room on the front 
 side of the building, commanding as beautiful 
 a prospect as I ever saw. I have a first 
 rate chum, the best one I ever had, and a 
 fellow I like better than any one else of 
 the male kind in the world, that is to say, I 
 room with myself! It is very pleasant to 
 me to room alone. There are here several 
 of my college friends and class-mates, with 
 whom I pass some pleasant hours, and whose 
 company is a source of great pleasure to me. 
 The Institution is most delightfully situated,* 
 on the summit of a high hill, and the scene- 
 ry around it is certainly, in the highest 
 sense of the term, grand. I wish you could 
 witness one of our sunsets behind those blue 
 old hills. The air up here is very pure and 
 exhilirating, so much so as to give a very 
 strong appetite to all the students. My 
 health has rapidly improved since I have 
 been here, and I feel that I grow strong 
 every day. We are only twenty minutes 
 ride from Boston, a portion of which can 
 be seen from my windows. The students,. 
 5 
 
54 THE student-preacher: 
 
 many of them walk in Saturdays and spend 
 the day there. 
 
 " So far as I have been able to judge, I 
 like the Professors very well. My principal 
 study at present is the Hebrew language. 
 It is very difficult at first, but it is said all 
 difficulties will vanish after a study of five 
 or six weeks. I, of course, shall try to 
 master them as soon as possible. 
 
 "I feel conscious that I am in the path of 
 duty, and act from such motives as the Bible 
 approves, and this consciousness is a source 
 of much happiness to me. I duly seek the 
 illumination of the good Spirit, that it may 
 lead me into truth and keep me in the right 
 way: and here in this quiet retreat, though 
 worldly thoughts will sometimes intrude, I 
 find my religious feelings and convictions be- 
 coming stronger and more settled. I do not 
 allow myself to think much of the future ; 
 but I pray that I may rightly improve the 
 present, and the future will take care of it- 
 self. #.**.##'** 
 
 "My kind regards to all my friends, and 
 keep just as much of my poor love to your- 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 55 
 
 self as is consistent, and bestow the rest on 
 the one you think most worthy of it. 
 "Yours, most affectionately, 
 
 « D. J. GLAZIER." 
 
 Writing to his grandmother he says : — 
 
 " My studies are of the most interesting char- 
 acter, but occupy my time and thoughts very 
 fully and severely. I suppose I have never 
 at any time done so much work as I do here, 
 especially this year. But in all my attempts 
 to find out the how and the why of Christian 
 doctrines I am continually baffled, and often- 
 times am made to feel that man can know 
 but little of the infinite God, and that proud 
 reason must bend to the simple facts. Doubt- 
 less one of the best results of the study of 
 theology is to teach one how little he can 
 know ; and when I hear a man attempt to 
 explain and unfold ' the deep things of God,' 
 in a confident and dogmatic manner, I pity 
 him. I do not know whether I am ' ortho- 
 dox' on all points or not, but one thing is 
 certain, I do not feel under obligation to 
 
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 take any man's statement of religious doc- 
 trine unless he founds it on the Bible. In 
 my humble judgment a great many things are 
 believed to be true which the Bible does not 
 teach. 
 
 " Doctor Pattison has left us to take the 
 Presidency of Waterville College. He is an 
 excellent man, and in some respects, a good 
 teacher of theology. His place is supplied 
 for the present by Dr. Ripley, who has been 
 connected with the Institution many years." 
 
 To another friend he writes thus : — 
 
 "By mere force of will I have labored all 
 day, and it has amounted, I hope, to something, 
 laving written a good part of a sermon. 
 Most of my sermons, I mean, shall have Christ 
 for their subject. He is the sum and sub- 
 stance of my theology, and whoever loves 
 Him and trusts in Him, ' the same is my 
 brother and my sister,' be our other differ- 
 ences what they may. His all-comprehend- 
 ing compassion cannot be compressed into 
 any church creed, nor is it bestowed on any 
 exclusive party. They who ' seek Him,' 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 57 
 
 ' find ' Him, and to them He is l precious.' 
 He has been the theme of my meditations 
 to-day. * * * * 
 
 " I am almost overwhelmed when I think 
 how much of labor and trial there is before 
 me. And yet how weak must be my faith 
 in God if I yield to such feelings. I will 
 not yield to them; He being my helper, 
 through whose strength I can do all things." 
 
 " My studies this term are in the highest 
 degree interesting, although they are much 
 exacting of strength. They demand much 
 earnest and patient thought. I have been 
 going over ' the Evidences of Christianity/ 
 and am now on the * Attributes of the 
 Deity.' I have often had occasion to feel 
 the force of that expression 'We see through 
 a glass darkly,' and to feel the need of the 
 Spirit's illuminiation and assistance in un- 
 folding 'the deep things of God.' 
 
 " I have some serious work to do in this 
 
 world, and I pray that I may be furnished 
 
 with all needed strength for the service of 
 
 the great Master. It is a constant warfare 
 
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 this life of ours, and we must be ever vigi- 
 lant and active. 
 
 " I think I can say that I grow in love for 
 the service of Christ, and am more and more 
 weaned from the world. I desire, above all 
 other things, to be a good minister of Je- 
 sus Christ, and to labor for enduring riches. 
 
 " There are many churches in this neigh- 
 borhood and elsewhere destitute of pastors, 
 and the number of such is daily increasing. 
 Where is the supply to be found? Where 
 are the young men that are willing to give 
 their lives to the service of Him who so 
 loved them as to die for them ? " 
 
 "My health has been unusually good, and 
 I have been able to do a good amount of 
 study. My studies are of the most absorb- 
 ing interest. Before the term began I felt 
 somewhat of an aversion to begin them. 
 But the great doctrines of our holy religion, 
 though demanding severe thought and the 
 closest application, have been themes of pro- 
 found interest to me, and with each suc- 
 ceeding day my interest in them increases. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 59 
 
 Many things there are ' hard to be under- 
 stood/ and I have often to bow in humble 
 adoration before Him, in respect to many of 
 whose truths, it may be truly said, < clouds 
 and darkness are round about him;' but in 
 all such cases I would ever remember that 
 it is sufficient to know that ' righteousness 
 and judgment are the habitation of his 
 throne.' The study of God's truth is a 
 work of the heart no less than of the 
 head, and the ' theology of the intellect' 
 is worth but little without ' the theology of 
 the affections.' 
 
 " I find the study of the term tends to ex- 
 alt my views and to wean me from the 
 world." 
 
 Of the estimate formed of Mr. Glazier's 
 character as a student and candidate for 
 the christian ministry, by those most immedi- 
 ately connected with him, some idea may be 
 formed from the following judicious letter 
 from the Rev. Dr. Ripley, " Professor of Sacred 
 Rhetoric and Pastoral Duties," and at the 
 time of Mr. Glazier's decease, acting Professor 
 
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 of Systematic Theology in Newton Theolog- 
 ical Institution : 
 
 "Newton, Theo. Inst., April 7, 1855. 
 "Rev. Dr. Turnbull: 
 
 " My Dear Brother : — In compliance with 
 your request, I address you a few lines re- 
 specting our late endeared friend, Mr. D. J. 
 Glazier, whose recent death has occasioned so 
 much sadness to his instructors and fellow- 
 students. I have not much to say; for a 
 student's life cannot contain many incidents, 
 and his points of character are rather to be 
 regarded as germs which are to produce 
 fruit in after life. When a student of prom- 
 ising character is cut down, we are afflicted 
 not so much by the present actual loss as by 
 the destruction of hope and the lack of his 
 earnest and well-directed efforts in coming 
 years. 
 
 " In this respect, the death of Mr. Glazier is 
 indeed to be lamented. He bade fair to 
 become an earnest and eminently useful 
 minister. 
 
 " To aid in the intellectual and religious 
 qualification of such a one for ministerial 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 61 
 
 activity is an enviable employment. But 
 though early death may seem to have de- 
 feated the purpose of such labor, it is a 
 gratifying thought that the spirit which we 
 hoped would be so useful on earth has been 
 really preparing for the service of Christ in 
 another sphere, besides swelling the current 
 of good influences and producing some inci- 
 dental and perhaps unknown good results 
 during its brief sojourn on earth. 
 
 "When Mr. Glazier entered the Theologi- 
 cal Institution, the class which he joined had 
 been prosecuting its studies several weeks. 
 He therefore entered under disadvantages ; 
 and his rather precarious state of health in- 
 creased the fear that he might not be able 
 to derive so much benefit from the early part 
 of the course as in other circumstances it 
 would have given him. He had scarcely be- 
 come fairly occupied in study so as to be 
 making sensible and gratifying progress, when 
 the alarming illness of an aged relative made 
 it necessary for him to return home. After 
 a very considerable interruption he resumed 
 his studies and completed the first year. 
 During the second year and the portion of 
 
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 the third while he was permitted to be with 
 us, he was repeatedly compelled by ill health 
 to intermit his studies and be absent from 
 the Institution. The nature of his complaints 
 induced great dejection of spirits, though he 
 was naturally hopeful and ardent. 
 
 " In the studies which he pursued under 
 my direction, he manifested clearness and 
 vigor of thought and a strong infusion of the 
 religious element. He was strikingly candid, 
 ingenuous, earnest and persevering. His aim 
 was to ascertain the truth, to see it for him- 
 self, and to know exactly the kind and 
 measure of evidence for it; so that he might 
 honestly and fearlessly preach it. From his 
 very nature and from his having a practical 
 aim, if he spoke at all, he must speak clearly, 
 directly and decidedly; he therefore sought 
 to regulate his convictions by requisite evi- 
 dence, though, as a consequence, he did not 
 feel warranted on some points of religious 
 doctrine to make up his mind, but kept him- 
 self in the attitude of an honest and willing 
 inquirer. 
 
 " He remembered, to good purpose, the ef- 
 fect which had been wrought on himself, and 
 
MEMOIR OE DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 63 
 
 which he had observed in others, by the di- 
 verse modes of presenting the gospel; and, 
 as the result of his own experience in listen- 
 ing to various preachers, he preferred to lay 
 a subject before men in an intelligent, candid 
 address to their judgment and sense of obli- 
 gation. He had himself been most swayed 
 by the goodness of God ; and considerations 
 drawn from that source he was particularly 
 desirous to urge. 
 
 "He is taken from us; gone, I doubt not, 
 to the clear light of heaven and its perfect 
 bliss. 
 
 " I am happy to subscribe myself, 
 
 "Yours, with Christian affection, 
 
 " H. J. RIPLEY." 
 
 Mr. Glazier had an intense love of nature 
 and sympathized with it in all its varying 
 moods. Pensive and spiritual, he was alive 
 to its more hidden as well as its more ob- 
 vious influences. This disposition, blending 
 with his faith in God, gave a peculiar charm 
 to earth, air, and sky, and yet tended to 
 lift his mind beyond all material forms. In 
 Newton this mood of mind was gratified in 
 
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 a high degree. The solitude as well as 
 the beautiful scenery of that interesting lo- 
 cality had a powerful effect upon him. 
 There, too, the memory of the past, of the 
 loved and the lost, who had gone before 
 him into the world of spirits, and the 
 thought of his immortal home beyond the 
 grave, often mingled in his reveries and 
 dreams. 
 
 To these things, many of his letters con- 
 tain beautiful and affecting references. 
 
 "Friday Night, Oct. 6, 1854. 
 " I have just come in from a long walk, 
 somewhat tired in body, but most truly re- 
 freshed in soul. The serene beauty of the 
 evening tempted me several miles from the 
 Institution, and many and precious were 
 the thoughts that came to me. An appreci- 
 ative friend was with me, and our discourse 
 was of things which are not of earth. 
 These evening glories how beautiful they are, 
 and how rich in heavenly suggestions. How 
 far we might have strayed it is impossible 
 to conjecture, had I not been drawn to you 
 by invisible bonds. And now, rather than 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 65 
 
 talk to you on this sheet, I would much 
 prefer to sit with you at that west window, 
 that together we might drink into our souls 
 the holy and chastening influences of yonder 
 glorious moon." 
 
 On another occasion he thus writes: — 
 
 " The elements seem mustering their forces 
 for a storm, and as I sit here speaking with 
 you, the wind shrieks mournfully and drearily 
 through the casement. It ever makes me 
 sad; I know not why. I seem to have an 
 intimate connection with nature in all her 
 moods. When she is glad, I am glad; when 
 she is sorrowful, I sorrow too. 
 
 "Many are the fancies I have when the 
 wind sighs and moans. Sometimes I seem 
 to hear unearthly voices and the rustling of 
 angel wings. The spirits of l those, whom 
 God hath taken,' are very nigh me, and with 
 them I converse. Past scenes rise up before 
 me, scenes hallowed in my memory, when one 
 and another, and yet another 'folded their 
 pale hands so meekly, and so spake with us 
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 on earth no more.' Ah me, how earthly 
 am I when there is so much to draw me 
 heavenward ! Nearer and still nearer do we 
 hourly come to the 'many mansions/ but 
 the dust of the world clings heavily to our 
 garments. But I must check this strain, for 
 it would lead me far away." 
 
 " Theological Inst., Newton Centre, 
 Thursday Night, (12 o'clk.) 
 
 "Your slumbers would be disturbed, no 
 doubt, were you aware that at this 
 midnight hour, I was still up, with all my 
 faculties awake, and exulting in the nightly 
 rage of the elements without. A most fu- 
 rious storm of driving snow is beating down 
 upon us, and the winds howl like demons 
 from the pit. And yet there is a sublimity 
 in it which stirs my soul. I feel the force 
 of Byron's oft quoted lines: 
 
 'Ye elements in whose ennobling strife 
 I feel myself exalted.' 
 
 I hope you are sleeping soundly, for you do 
 
 not like the howling winds," &c. 
 
 ***** 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 67 
 
 " There are moments when the dear de- 
 parted ones seem to fold their white wings 
 over me, and I feel a gentle drawing of my 
 spirit above the ' noise and stir of this dim 
 spot which men call earth.' Would that all 
 these ' ministering angels ' might more truly 
 elevate my soul. I know well, cold reason 
 cannot see the proofs of this. But l there are 
 more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
 than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' " 
 
 While at Newton Mr. Glazier suffered a 
 great and painful bereavement in the death 
 of his venerable grandfather and guardian. 
 The moment he heard of his dangerous ill- 
 ness he hastened to Willington, to watch by his 
 bedside, and should it be the will of God to 
 take the venerable man to himself, to re- 
 ceive his last blessing. This mournful satis- 
 faction was granted him. But the trial was 
 severe, as it seemed to deprive our young 
 friend of an earthly home, and made him 
 doubly an orphan. It led him, however, to 
 cling more closely to his Saviour, and deep- 
 ened his resolution to consecrate himself 
 wholly to the great work for which he was 
 
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 making preparation. His grandfather was a 
 Baptist of the old school, honest, enthusias- 
 tic and generous, and somewhat quaint and 
 fervid in his modes of thought and expres- 
 sion. He was distinguished by a certain 
 simple heartiness of spirit and frankness of 
 manner which had a peculiar charm. He 
 was tenderly attached to Daniel, and felt, 
 when the latter was converted, and above all 
 when he gave himself to the Christian min- 
 istry, much as the aged Simeon did when he 
 said, " And now Lord lettest thou thy ser- 
 vant depart in peace for mine eyes have 
 seen thy salvation." 
 
 As " the memory of the just is blessed," 
 we feel it our duty to do what we can to 
 perpetuate the remembrance of this good 
 man, and copy therefore the following char- 
 acteristic sketch of " Father Glazier," from 
 the pen of the Eev. W. C. Walker, pastor 
 of the church in Willington : — 
 
 "Died, in Willington, Dec. 28, 1853, Dan- 
 iel Glazier, Esq., aged 76. 
 
 " Truly a father in Israel has fallen. For 
 more than 40 years he ' held fast his pro- 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 69 
 
 fession without wavering, contending earnest- 
 ly for the faith once delivered to the saints.' 
 Formerly he was a member of the Baptist 
 Church, which held their meetings in the 
 northern part of this town, and under the 
 pastoral care of the Rev. David Lillibridge. 
 But in due time the indications of provi- 
 dence seemed to say, ' ye have compassed 
 this mountain long enough, turn you ' south- 
 ward. And after the conversion of the 
 Rev. Mr. Loomis and a part of his church 
 to Baptist views, it was evident that the 
 time had l fully come ' to plant the Baptist 
 standard on Willington Hill, in the centre 
 of the town. 
 
 "For several years, father Glazier was 
 the only Baptist in this locality. Like 
 Daniel of old, he dared to be singular in 
 matters respecting ' the law of his God.' 
 He prayed and hoped, and even prophesied 
 of such an event as the erection of a Bap- 
 tist church near his own dwelling, but this 
 idea was pronounced wild and chimerical by 
 not a few. They were ready to say, ' if 
 the Lord would make windows in heaven 
 might this thing be.' At one time, in con- 
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70 the student-preacher: 
 
 versation with a neighbor, he was asked 
 what he intended to do with such a spot of 
 ground, (pointing in the direction in which 
 it lay,) he replied, 'I am saving it for a 
 Baptist meeting-house.' 
 
 " ' I never want to live any longer than that,' 
 was the rejoinder. Nevertheless, father Gla- 
 zier was strong in the faith. He was confi- 
 dent that if his neighbor lived no longer 
 than to witness the completion of such an 
 event, his days were indeed few. To his 
 great joy the thing was soon realized, and 
 his own efforts and donations contributed not 
 a little to its accomplishment. He, with some 
 fifty others who had been recognized as a 
 Baptist church, about a year previous, entered 
 this new edifice with encouraging prospects 
 — the Lord being with them and adding unto 
 them almost daily such as should be saved. 
 He lived to see the little band of tens aug- 
 mented to hundreds. In the prosperity of 
 the church he ever manifested a lively in- 
 terest — was ardently attached to his breth- 
 ren and sisters, and very anxious they should 
 1 hold on to Christ.' He united in prayer 
 and effort for the conversion of sinners. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 71 
 
 " The removal of so many of late, by death, 
 deeply affected him. He would frequently 
 say, ' we have met with a great loss, but I 
 rejoice to witness the steadfastness of those 
 who remain.' His greatest trials generally 
 were with himself. Being a man of thorough 
 and active business habits, and of an ardent 
 temperament, his besetting sins were world- 
 ly-mindedness and hastiness. Of these he 
 appeared to be aware and often expressed 
 his doubts as to the reality of his hope, on 
 account of their predominating influence. He 
 would frequently remark, 1 1 don't know but 
 I have been deceived, I'm so worldly-minded 
 and so unlike Christ.' But though he was 
 a man of like passions with other men, and 
 sanctified only in part, yet it was evident he 
 had the ' root of the matter ' in him. He 
 loved prayer, and the social meeting. His 
 exhortations, prayers and tears, indicated a 
 strong mind, a warm heart, and an intimacy 
 with Jesus. 
 
 " His originality, quaintness, and general 
 intelligence, especially his knowledge of human 
 nature and the Bible, rendered him agreeable 
 and instructive in conversation. 
 
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 "He kept an excellent Baptist tavern, as 
 many a minister both old and young can 
 testify. He loved especially to entertain 
 the fathers in the ministry. Their knowledge 
 of the times in which he became a Baptist, 
 and their rich experience in divine things af- 
 forded him a feast, and always made them 
 doubly welcome to his hospitality. 
 
 "He enjoyed an extensive acquaintance, 
 and his death will be felt in a large circle. 
 He has not lived in vain. The church of 
 his earnest efforts, and many prayers, will 
 ever cherish a grateful remembrance of him. 
 
 " There is a great vacancy here. His fam- 
 ily sustain an irreparable loss which is deeply 
 felt by his much loved widow, and the en- 
 tire domestic circle. He bore his last pro- 
 tracted illness with Christian fortitude, and 
 died strong in faith, giving glory to God. 
 During the whole period of his confinement, 
 his noble bearing, his kind and pious expres- 
 sions forcibly reminded bystanders of the 
 venerable patriarch, who, when he was a dy- 
 ing, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and 
 worshipped, leaning upon the top of his 
 staff. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 73 
 
 "He died worshiping God — confessing Ms 
 sins — praying in the Holy Ghost — trusting 
 wholly for divine acceptance in the merits of 
 Christ, and blessing God with his whole 
 heart. Said he, ' I have had a settlement with 
 God, but I came out wonderfully in debt. 
 I've had heaps of sins — I've done nothing 
 for God; but I do believe that God, for 
 Christ's sake, has forgiven me, and I thank 
 him for it.' 
 
 'To God I'm reconciled; 
 His pardoning voice I hear;' 
 
 u 0, bless the Lord ; I know that my Ee- 
 deemer liveth. His blood will cleanse me 
 from all sin. I shall soon see my Saviour ! 
 Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. He blessed 
 his weeping companion, telling her never to 
 fear. She had a good hope that God would 
 take care of her, and that they should soon 
 meet again. 
 
 " He blessed his only son, exhorting him 
 to examine his hope, raise the family altar, 
 and live for God. He blessed his grand- 
 children. Four of these had been thrown 
 upon his care at an early age, by the death 
 
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 of a beloved son, and were treated with as 
 much tenderness as if they had been his 
 own children. They feel a loss which lan- 
 guage cannot express. He gave one of them 
 a collegiate education, and he has already 
 entered upon a theological course at Newton, 
 and great hopes are entertained of his use- 
 fulness. This was a source of great grati- 
 fication to his grandfather in his last mo- 
 ments. It was an affecting scene when he 
 laid his hand upon his head, saying ' Daniel, 
 the Lord bless you! Serve the Lord, and 
 serve him only? His brother and two sisters 
 were the the subjects of his earnest prayer, 
 that God would convert them likewise, and 
 make them blessings to the world. For the 
 dear Church of his love, he had a thousand 
 blessings — exhorting one another, and send- 
 ing messengers to others to be faithful, and 
 serve God better than he had done. He re- 
 tained his faculties almost to the last, with 
 increasing light aud joy in his soul. 
 
 " He expressed great gratitude that God 
 had made him so happy in his last moments 
 — much happier than he ever anticipated 
 when in health. He found dying grace, and 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 75 
 
 closed his eyes on earthly scenes, with the 
 joyful hope of a better country, l even an 
 heavenly.' « The fathers, where are they ? ' 
 <fec. ' My father ! my father ! the chariots of 
 Israel, and the horsemen, thereof.' " 
 
 Most tenderly did Daniel cherish the mem- 
 ory of his grandfather. It was with some 
 reluctance he returned to his studies at 
 New*on. In comparison with the solemn 
 and touching scenes through which he had 
 recently passed, his daily recitations, for the 
 moment, appeared hard and repulsive. But 
 this gradually wore off, and though never 
 forgetting the past, he began to anticipate 
 and prepare for the future. 
 
 "Theo. Inst., Newton Centre, March 19, 1853. 
 "Dear Grandmother: — I really feel to 
 ask pardon for my long delay in writing. Be- 
 sure, however, it has not been owing to any 
 forgetfulness of you on my part, but to the 
 circumstances in which I am placed. For not 
 a day passes but I think of you all, many 
 times, and not a night brings me to my pil- 
 low without my commending you all to the 
 
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 care of Him, ' whose tender mercies are over 
 all his works.' The remembrance of the sol- 
 emn scenes through which we have recently 
 passed does but serve to render me more 
 thoughtful of my friends in Willington. 
 While the departed one who was so long the 
 light and the stay of our pleasant home, 
 comes in dreams of the day or visions of 
 the night to my grateful remembrance, I feel 
 my heart drawn still closer to the persons 
 of his love, who are left to mourn his loss. 
 He sleeps in Jesus, and in no other way 
 can I show my gratitude, or my honor of his 
 memory, than by living in obedience to his 
 last wishes, and cherishing those whom he 
 loved on earth. 
 
 " Most tenderly do I sympathize with you 
 in what I know must be so painful to your 
 feelings — the breaking up of an earthly 
 home around which clustered so many attrac- 
 tions, and which was the quiet abode of so 
 much happiness. 
 
 " Yet it is a great source of comfort to 
 think that we are in the hands of a gracious 
 Father, l who knoweth what is best for us ' 
 
 
MEiMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 77 
 
 and who will not withhold 'any good thing 
 from those that love him.' " 
 
 #'♦''''■#•'■•**■' : - ■#' "> 
 
 " Believe me, in much love, 
 " Yours truly, 
 
 "D. J. GLAZIEK.'* 
 
 In consequence of imperfect health, the 
 loss of relatives, an aversion to be depen- 
 dent on others, an acutely sensitive spirit,, 
 and, it may be, some slight pecuniary em- 
 barrassment, which his friends were entirely 
 willing to relieve, if they could do so with 
 delicacy and propriety, we find him about 
 this time, giving way occasionally to some 
 depression of spirits. Still, it is evident he 
 was making progress in the divine life, and 
 acquiring deeper views of his future destiny* 
 The letter that follows is highly character- 
 istic. 
 
 " Tiieo. Ixst., Newton Centre, May 20, 185?. 
 " Dear Brother H. : — I hopje you have 
 not excluded me from your affectionate re- 
 gards in consequence of my long silence. 
 That would be ' a punishment greater than I 
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 could bear.' I can hardly realize that so 
 long a time has elapsed since I was in Hart- 
 ford; and cannot really excuse myself for my 
 seeming forgetfulness of the kind friends who 
 dwell there. In strict justice therefore, I 
 can hardly ask you to excuse me. And 
 yet I must beg of you to do so. In small 
 matters as well as in great, in our relations 
 to man as well as to God, we often have 
 to rely on some other quality than justice. 
 If we could not, how deplorable our condition. 
 " I said above, l seeming forgetfulness.' It 
 is only seeming, i. e. the inference which may 
 be drawn from so long a silence. I have 
 not forgotten you for a day, and often, very 
 often, when sadness broods over my spirit, 
 does the remembrance of my friends in Hart- 
 ford, their kind words, their deeds of love, 
 bring consolation to me ; for there is con- 
 solation in the consciousness of earthly friend- 
 ships, especially in those who are of < the 
 household of faith.' And so again I blame 
 myself for my negligence. The truth is br. 
 H., I have a natural dislike for letter writ- 
 ing. I remember in a biographical notice I 
 once read of your honored father, that is 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 79 
 
 mentioned as one trait of his character. 
 Surely I may claim likeness to him in one 
 point at least, and may therefore expect some 
 indulgence from his son. Much the more 
 shame to me, but I have written only two 
 letters this term, one to my sister, the other 
 to my brother. 
 
 " I do not think I love my friends less 
 than other people, but somehow or other it 
 is not an easy thing for me to write letters. 
 I am so constituted that I become altogether 
 interested in what occupies my immediate at- 
 tention. I was somewhat behind in the reg- 
 ular studies at the commencement of the 
 term, and the consequence has been I have 
 had much extra work on hand. Besides I 
 feel so ignorant of many things with which 
 the humblest Christian is conversant, having 
 had my thoughts so long directed to other 
 things, that my time has been wholly occu- 
 pied with books. I think I have been en- 
 abled to attain a good degree of proficiency 
 this term. 
 
 " The mere matter of daily recitations, 
 however, does not seem to me the most im- 
 portant object. I have to beg leave to use 
 
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 my own discretion sometimes, to deviate 
 from the beaten track. 
 
 # x * *• #■ # # 
 " I have no longer any earthly home save 
 in the church of Christ, and for the pres- 
 ent, it seems, I must be a pensioner on its 
 bounty. It is a matter of profound grati- 
 tude, however, that I am counted worthy of 
 a place in Christ's Family. Still, brother 
 H., there is much of sadness in the thought, 
 that there is no l green spot ' on earth I 
 can call t my Home.' I have always had a 
 good one — a quiet retreat to which I might 
 always flee, and it has cost me much of 
 anguish to be made to feel that I have 
 one no longer. Though long since past the 
 age when young men ' launch out into the 
 world,' the nature of my pursuits and the 
 manner of my life have not led me to rely 
 much upon myself in worldly matters. I 
 have always had a supporter, and his means 
 have held me up. And I trust you will 
 not judge me harshly, if I tell you in the 
 freedom of a brother, that I suffered much 
 in the fore part of this term, from the fact 
 of my being left so dependent. It was all 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 81 
 
 weakness, all wrong; but man is very weak, 
 muck inclined to wrong. I have had many 
 severe mental conflicts with myself, and 
 much of my peace has been broken. Strong 
 temptations to forsake the path of duty 
 (preparing for the Christian ministry) have 
 assailed me, but by the grace of -God, have 
 not got the victory over me. (It is one 
 thing to be tempted, another to fall.) And 
 in the light of this confession you may per- 
 haps see another reason for my long si- 
 lence. 
 
 " These feelings, however, have sometime 
 since, been conquered by Divine assistance, 
 and if I do not greatly mistake myself, I 
 feel to submit humbly to all God's will con- 
 cerning me. I have not the slightest doubt 
 that the experience of the past few months 
 has been wisely ordered by God. It has, I 
 think, resulted in a more filial confidence in 
 Hin^, and a renewed consecration to his ser- 
 vice. If there is one thing I desire 
 more than another, it is that he will make 
 me a true minister of Christ. And yet I 
 have so much trouble with my own heart, 
 that I often think, how can I work for oth- 
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 ers. Of my ' own self I can do nothing ; ' 
 but that is not all; 'through Christ strength- 
 ening me I can do all things.' Besides, it 
 affords me some consolation to believe that 
 one of the ways in which we can best im- 
 prove and regulate our own hearts is in 
 working for others. I am but a novice in 
 the Christian life, but that seems an eminently 
 rational view. Is it not confirmed by expe- 
 rience ? Is it not in accordance with Christ's 
 own declaration : ' He that doeth the will 
 of God shall know of the doctrine ? ' 
 
 " As I observe from all quarters of our 
 land the complaint of a scarcity of accepta- 
 ble preachers of Christ, I pray God to count 
 me worthy of so high a calling. 
 
 " My lot in life may be a humble one, 
 my energies may be feeble and exercised 
 obscurely, but it matters not, so long as 
 they are given to Christ, my only Lord and 
 Master. a 
 
 " One of my studies this term has been 
 Paul's Epistle to the Galatians ; and I trust I 
 have gained not only a clearer intellectual per- 
 ception of the great truths it unfolds, but also 
 a more heartfelt appreciation of them. 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 83 
 
 Christ is the one all absorbing object of the 
 Apostle's thoughts and love. I have been 
 much struck with the single view in which he 
 contemplates Him; not as a Teacher, or an 
 Example, but as an Atoning Sacrifice. Paul 
 understood, he felt ' the power of the Cross.' 
 Would that we all felt it more ! I cannot 
 understand how an honest, intelligent stu- 
 dent of Paul's epistles can reject the doc- 
 trine of ' an atoning sacrifice,' or fail to 
 catch some of that spirit of lofty devotion 
 to Christ which burns in every line. 
 
 " Our studies this year are purely exeget- 
 ical. Next term we come to systematic 
 theology, and what that will do for us re- 
 mains to be seen. I cannot anticipate. 
 
 " Truly yours, 
 
 «D. J. GLAZIER." 
 
 During Mr. Glazier's last year at Newton, 
 it is quite evident, from the general tone 
 of his letters, that while ' growing in knowl- 
 edge and grace,' and acquiring greater pu- 
 rity and elevation of character, his humility 
 was all the while deepening. Indeed one 
 
84 the student-preacher: 
 
 of his most characteristic traits was his 
 modesty and self distrust. While high spir- 
 ited and ambitious in the natural bent of 
 his mind, he had, subsequent to his conver- 
 sion, a marvellously low estimate of his own 
 attainments and worth. It was only at 
 times that he hoped to be at all acceptable 
 or useful as a preacher of Christ. He 
 was often overwhelmed with a sense of the 
 vast responsibility of the work, and of his 
 personal unfitness for it. His self-distrust 
 happily led him to the great Source of 
 strength, and he was becoming more and 
 more hopeful of his eventual success. His 
 modesty and courage, humility and earnest 
 aspiration after perfection are seen in the 
 following extracts from his letters, written 
 during this period. 
 
 "I have passed through much mental an- 
 guish the last week. I have been led to 
 think much of myself, and the object to 
 which I have professedly devoted myself. 
 And in the profound conviction of my present 
 unfitness for it, in the sense of my unlike- 
 ness to the Master, I have had an abundant 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 85 
 
 source of grief. I have been led by all this 
 to seek more earnestly than ever the guid- 
 ance and blessing of Him from whom cometh 
 all our strength, yea more who is our 
 strength and our Redeemer. May He have 
 mercy on me, and make me more wholly his. 
 And for the future I would be more earnest 
 in the religious life. I must be more truly 
 consecrated in heart and life. In the ful- 
 ness of my affection, do I pray that we may 
 both dwell under the liorht of his counte- 
 
 " Life is no mere holiday, but a discipline 
 — a discipline of our immortal natures. "We 
 shall never attain to true happiness on earth, 
 and we should not expect it. We must bring 
 ourselves to look at things as they are, and 
 in meek reliance on Divine aid, walk serenely 
 forward. We shall have trials, but God is 
 good, and his mercy endure th forever. He, 
 ' who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb/ 
 will take care of us. 0, my soul, trust thou 
 in God ! 0, thou compassionate Saviour, abide 
 with us ever. Thou who art so full of ten- 
 derness, breath thy spirit into us." 
 
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 THE student-preacher: 
 
 " In very truth I do not deserve all the 
 respect and love you so generously bestow 
 on me. I have often told you so ; I feel 
 that it is so. It is no mock humility that 
 makes me speak thus, it is the simple ut- 
 terance of my honest conviction. 
 
 " If it be true as you say, that ' all who 
 see me love me/ the more is the pity. 
 Not that I am insensible to the good opinion 
 of others, or ever wish to be ; but merely 
 because I know I do not deserve it. If it 
 be merely admiration, I despise it. The man 
 or woman who is dependent for his or her 
 happiness on so mean a thing, or who seeks 
 to gain it, is a very weak being. If it be 
 really good will or affection, I feel I do not 
 deserve it. They do not see me as I see 
 myself. There is many a man who walks the 
 streets of Providence, having no attractions 
 of face or manner, who is more worthy of 
 it than I am. They cannot have before their 
 minds that all glorious, all spotless, all per- 
 fect example, ' the man Christ Jesus.' Ob, 
 how empty are the praises of his fellow men 
 to him who has that image in his mind. I 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 87 
 
 do not sympathize with ' the orthodox de- 
 nunciation of human nature, as many exhibit 
 it. I care not for their arguments ; they 
 have somewhat of truth, and somewhat of 
 error. Man has a nature susceptible of in- 
 definite good or evil. But I have a much 
 shorter way of proving to myself what I 
 conceive to be the truth in the case. I have 
 only to dwell on the beauty and harmony of 
 Christ's character, to see the deformity and 
 disharmony of my own. And I think by the 
 same process others would reach the same 
 result. And having about with me this con- 
 sciousness, the praises of men are to me no 
 cause of self-glorying. They pass by me — 
 I would have them pass by me as the idle 
 wind, which I regard not. 
 
 " But perhaps this is unpleasant to you, 
 and it may be there is egotism even in these 
 things; and so let me stop." 
 
 Speaking of a fault of temper to which he 
 had given some unpleasant manifestation, he 
 says : — 
 
 " I know you have forgiven me, but it is 
 
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 more difficult to forgive myself. My way- 
 wardness of temper causes me much sorrow. 
 
 1 strive to conquer it, but it sometimes 
 seems I have made but little progress. I 
 do long to be more like the all perfect Ex- 
 ample, to have more of his child-like and 
 gentle spirit. I do pray for strength and 
 wisdom from on high that I may attain 
 more and more of such a likeness. My 
 mind finds rest and comfort only at the 
 Mercy-seat, when I think of my many de- 
 partures from God, my worldliness of spirit, 
 my want of consecration to the Saviour. I 
 am too thoughtless, too much attracted by 
 the glitter of the world, and too often forget 
 what manner of person I ought to be. But 
 God knoweth my desires, and- He will judge 
 not as man judgeth, but in mercy and in 
 love." 
 
 The following is more hopeful : — 
 
 "For the week before examination I had 
 made a diligent use of the time, and though 
 absent during a week of the term, I passed 
 the ordeal quite satisfactorily to myself and 
 
MEMOIR OP DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 89 
 
 all concerned. I find that when I say I 
 will, and mean it, something generally comes 
 to pass, and I have thought sometimes that I 
 accomplish more when I work under pres- 
 sure, somewhat like a steam engine. I often 
 feel, M., a consciousness of strength which 
 has not yet fully revealed itself in action, 
 and that there are in me energies undevel- 
 oped. I would be more in earnest for the 
 future. 
 
 " Though I have been thus busy the past 
 week, I am not wearied in the least. Indeed 
 I seem to grow stronger and stronger. My 
 health is good, and I can accomplish some- 
 thing. I began a sermon this forenoon, and 
 have had great freedom of utterance, and 
 have written several pages. The text is, 
 1 Whom having not seen, ye love,' and my ob- 
 ject is to show how worthy Christ, though 
 unseen, is of our love. The text is a part 
 of that glorious first chapter of First Peter. 
 
 " I have broken away from that sermon 
 to write this letter; and that sermon and 
 this letter have kept me at home to-night 
 when I might have been at the lecture in 
 Boston. A sort of inspiration is on me, 
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90 the student-preacher: 
 
 though it is quite likely this letter does not 
 exhibit any marks of it." 
 
 He then calls upon his soul to awake to 
 the great business of life. He encourages 
 himself, like David, in the Lord his -God. He 
 longs for the perfect, the invisible, the im- 
 mortal; and on fire for glory, seems almost 
 to take wing towards heaven. But more of 
 this hereafter. 
 
 Preaching was Mr. Glazier's natural sphere. 
 All his tendencies, alb his studies adapted 
 him to this work. The moment he began 
 to speak, though before oppressed with a 
 sense of unworthiness and unfitness, he felt 
 great freedom and " enlargement " of soul. 
 His discourses were of the solid character, 
 not ambitious, or showy in any respect, but 
 sensible, solemn and earnest. Delivered in 
 his peculiarly manly and impressive way, 
 they were exceedingly acceptable to all the 
 churches that enjoyed his services. During 
 his last year at Newton, he had more invi- 
 tations to preach than it was judicious to 
 accept. Some of the most intelligent con- 
 gregations in the neighborhood of the Insti- 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 91 
 
 tution and elsewhere heard him with delight. 
 He preached in Newton, Boston, Brookline, 
 Worcester; Hartford, Conn.; Brooklyn, L. I., 
 and other places, to the entire satisfaction 
 of his hearers. His themes were chiefly 
 Christ crucified, the renovation of the soul, 
 and Heaven. Old and experienced Christians 
 were much taken with his preaching. He 
 was surprised on one occasion, *to find that 
 he had reached the heart of a wanderer, 
 who privately sought his spiritual counsel. 
 This greatly encouraged him to hope that his 
 future labors in the ministry might be useful. 
 It appears that several overtures were made 
 to him to preach, as a candidate for the pas- 
 toral office, in some of our most respectable 
 and intelligent churches. He was grateful 
 for such kindness and appreciation; still it 
 was a matter of wonder to him ; for he was 
 as diffident and humble as he was gifted and 
 eloquent. "With reference to one of these 
 applications he wrote thus to a friend: — 
 
 " Theo. Inst., Newton Centre, May 25, 1854. 
 "Dear H.:— Yours of the 23d hist., en- 
 closing letters from br. H. and the Commit- 
 
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 tee of the P. St. church reached me this 
 evening and I hasten to reply. 
 
 " It would be impossible for me to relate 
 the variety of feelings which the perusal 
 of those letters has occasioned. I cannot but 
 appreciate the kindness of bro. H. and the 
 generosity of his intentions. Nor can I be 
 altogether unaffected by the expression of the 
 favorable regard of the B. people for so un- 
 deserving a person as myself. I feel grateful 
 to God that he has given me favor with his 
 people thus far in all my attempts to declare 
 his truth, but, (I say it in no feigned hu- 
 mility,) I am oppressed with the reflection 
 that I clo not deserve it. And one effect 
 of the reading of those letters has been to 
 lead me to utter the prayer, ' Lord make 
 me more entirely thine.' 
 
 " In regard to the expression of your 
 opinion in reference to the course I ought 
 to pursue in this matter, allow me to say, 
 that, though it was ' unsolicited,' it is none 
 the less prized. It was your duty to ex- 
 press it. It was the act of a friend, and 
 no apology for doing it is needed. It is 
 quite true, I suppose, that I am by nature 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 93 
 
 a little inclined to l independence ;' but I 
 should be very sorry to discover that I was 
 altogether unmindful of the opinion of my 
 friends. 
 
 " It so happened, however, that in this 
 case, the advice of others is in exact accor- 
 dance with my own views and settled pur- 
 pose. I should regard it as a most un- 
 wise thing to leave the Institution before 
 the expiration of the full course. 
 
 " I have too feeling a sense of my de- 
 ficiencies, to purpose that; and with all the 
 aids I may here acquire in three years, I 
 shall go forth in ' much fear and trembling.' 
 
 " I am therefore unwilling to visit B., if 
 there be any, even the remotest probability 
 that they would do a thing so unwise for 
 them, as to regard me as a candidate for 
 the pastoral office lately made vacant by 
 Dr. W.'s resignation. And though no such 
 idea is openly expressed in the letter of the 
 Committee, yet from that of H. to you I 
 infer something of the kind. And as it is 
 not my intention to leave my course of 
 study unfinished here, I would do nothing 
 which would look the least like 'candidat- 
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94 THE student-preacher: 
 
 ing.' The practice among students, and even 
 among settled pastors, of encouraging < calls ' 
 which they do not intend to answer, just 
 for the sound of it, is altogether a too 
 common and very contemptible one. 
 
 # *■ # # # # * 
 "Yours, sincerely, 
 
 «D. J. GLAZIER." 
 
 The sermons which Mr. Glazier preached 
 at Fall River, Mass., were perhaps the most 
 powerful in impression of any he had de- 
 livered. There was a solemnity and dignity 
 in his manner, a power and pathos in his 
 voice, altogether peculiar. Jefferson Borden, 
 Esq., informed me that he never saw a 
 young man appear or preach as he did. 
 He seemed to be standing, like David Brain- 
 erd, l on the sides of eternity.' The shad- 
 ow of the cross rested upon his spirit. 
 All Heaven appeared open to his vision. 
 
 Most unexpectedly to himself, he received 
 from this church an unanimous invitation to 
 become their pastor, so soon as he should 
 finish his studies. At first he had no idea 
 but to decline this call, flattering and pressing 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 95 
 
 as it -was. But on maturer reflection and 
 prayer, as also consultation with his friends, 
 lie came to the conclusion that he must ac- 
 cept it. It seemed to be from God, and 
 the more he thought of the matter, the bet- 
 ter satisfied was he with his decision. His 
 heart was greatly drawn out to this people. 
 He felt that he should be at home with them. 
 His labors among them had not only been 
 acceptable, but useful. It was a season of 
 revival with them, and many, especially of 
 the young, had given themselves to Christ. 
 He cherished the hope, therefore, that here his 
 labors might be crowned with success. Still 
 he had much anxiety as to the result ; and in 
 reply to the congratulations of a friend, with 
 whose destiny his own was intimately linked, 
 he wrote thus : " My prospects look bright, you 
 
 say; do not think of that, M ; build no 
 
 glittering castles, for they will vanish like 
 a dream. Our life will be no path of roses ; 
 but must be one of self-denial." 
 
 By these and other means, God was pre- 
 paring him for active service, not on earth 
 but in heaven. 
 
 His work was nearly done. Taken sud- 
 
96 the student-preacher: 
 
 denly unwell, yet strange to say, as was af- 
 terwards discovered from Ms papers, not 
 without a premonition of its fatal issue, 
 he went to the house of one who had 
 proved a mother to him, in the city of 
 Providence, and who had exacted a prom- 
 ise, if ever he was seriously indisposed, to 
 come thither as to a home. It was with 
 extreme difficulty he performed the journey. 
 Next day he was somewhat relieved, but 
 soon after became worse. Fever and delir- 
 ium supervened. Every thing that kindness 
 and skill could accomplish was done ; but 
 in vain. The disease completely mastered 
 his poor sensitive frame, which quivered, 
 struggled, and finally yielded to the myste- 
 rious power. Spasm followed spasm till 
 nature was exhausted, and then he lay qui- 
 etly, like a babe falling asleep on its moth- 
 er's bosom, softly breathing out his life. It 
 was a gracious arrangement to convey his 
 acutely sensitive spirit, without conscious suf- 
 fering, to the realms of the blessed. In his 
 wildest wanderings, however, his mind was 
 occupied about his great work. He was 
 preaching or composing sermons, some on one 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 97 
 
 topic some on another. "I have eight sermons/' 
 said he, " to write ; and then," he added with 
 satisfaction, " I am going to write one for my- 
 self, one to please myself, and the text will 
 "be 'Submit yourselves unto God.'" These 
 were among his last words. Occasionally 
 he had lucid intervals; and on one occasion 
 he was heard repeating a part of the beau- 
 tiful hvmn, 
 
 " O when shall I see Jesus, 
 And dwell with him above?" 
 
 He smiled sweetly once or twice, the day 
 he died, looking steadfastly into the face of 
 those he loved. But he had lost the power 
 of speech, and at half past four o'clock, on 
 the 19th of March, 1855, while a deep still- 
 ness reigned throughout the house, he softly 
 breathed his last. He passed away so gen- 
 tly, that his departure was known only by 
 the cessation of his breathing, and the pro- 
 found repose which settled upon his face. 
 It was like the calm setting of a sweet au- 
 tumnal sun, going down behind the western 
 hills. 
 
98 THE student-preacher: 
 
 " Behold the western evening light, 
 It melts in deepening gloom; 
 So calmly Christians sink away, 
 Descending to the tomb. 
 
 " The winds breathe low ; the yellow leaf 
 Scarce whispers from the tree ; 
 So gently flows the parting breath 
 When good men cease to be. 
 
 The crimson light is shed. 
 'T is like the peace the Christian gives 
 To mourners round their bed." 
 
 We need not say that multitudes of dear 
 friends gathered around that dying bed ; that 
 good men came on the day of his funeral, 
 to pay their last homage to his remains. 
 All was peace. A deep, unwonted calm rest- 
 ed upon all hearts. Tears flowed freely j but 
 they were holy tears. After a most solemn 
 and affecting prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Wayland, 
 his body was conveyed from Providence to 
 Willington, no less than twenty-five of the 
 members of the church in Fall River bcinsc 
 present, to testify their regard to his memory. 
 Some of them accompanied his remains to 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 99 
 
 his native place. There, after an excellent 
 discourse by Rev. Mr. Walker, the pastor 
 of the church at TV., and some remarks by 
 his pastor, he was laid away, with many tears 
 and prayers, in that quiet graveyard among* 
 the hills, to await the resurrection of the 
 just. 'Twas a placid afternoon in early 
 spring. All was still around us. The soft 
 sun shone sweetly on the newly made grave 
 on the hill side. Words of hope were ut- 
 tered by one who loved him ; and we came 
 away reluctantly from the hallowed spot, for it 
 seemed upon the very verge of heaven. Indeed 
 ever since, we have felt that we were walk- 
 ing in the land of Beulah, in sight of the 
 heavenly city, or as one expresses it, in the 
 border lands which separate the life that 
 now is from the life that is to come. We 
 feel that each of us might join our beloved 
 brother, he from experience, and we from 
 expectation, in saying, 
 
 And solemn are their silent shades ; 
 And my heart welcomes them until 
 The licrht of life's long evening fades. 
 
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 " I heard them spoken of with dread, 
 As fearful and unquiet places ; 
 Shades where the living and the dead 
 Look sadly in each other's faces. 
 
 "But since thy hand hath led me here, 
 And I have seen the Border Land, 
 Seen the dark river flowing near, 
 Stood on its brink, as now I stand, — 
 
 " There has been nothing to alarm 
 
 My trembling soul ; how could I fear 
 While thus encircled in His arm ? 
 I never felt thee half so near." 
 
 Before closing this sketch, we answer one 
 question which naturally suggests itself to 
 every mind, respecting such a death. It 
 seems a mysterious providence ; and we ask, 
 Why was this young brother, so gifted and 
 so devout, removed from his work on 
 earth at the very time he was best pre- 
 pared to enter it, and when he seemed to 
 be especially needed? It were sufficient to 
 say, that our Heavenly Father knows best; 
 but perhaps we derive a greater satisfaction 
 from the suggestion that spheres of activity 
 are not confined to this world. This is 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 101 
 
 but the beginning — the prelude of our des- 
 tiny. God does not permit us to rest here. 
 He does not ever permit his ministers to 
 do so. He needs them in heaven. Possibly 
 too they may accomplish as much by their 
 dying as by their living. Our dear brother 
 is not the only minister that has died 
 young. Spenser and Summerfield were younger 
 than he ; but what a radiant track they 
 have left behind them. Our divine Lord, 
 the greatest preacher the world ever saw, 
 was cut off when only three years older than 
 his young servant, and after a three years' 
 public ministry, much of which was spent in 
 prayer and meditation in solitary scenes. 
 Brainerd, the most successful of mission- 
 aries among the Indians, died at thirty; the 
 devoted Mills at thirty-one ; Henry Martyn, 
 one of the most amiable and accomplished 
 ministers of Christ, at thirty-two ; and Jane- 
 way, who had the spirit of a seraph, at 
 twenty-one, and when he had preached ^nly 
 two sermons to his people. But all these 
 being dead, yet speak. The good they have 
 done, and are yet doing, chiefly, too, by means 
 of their early and triumphant death, is im- 
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102 THE student-pkeachek: 
 
 mense. Eternity alone will disclose it 
 Moreover they longed, they panted to be 
 gone. Janeway seemed to lie at the very 
 portals of glory; and his exultant words 
 yet thrill us with holy delight. " Oh, he is 
 come ! He is come — the blessed Jesus ! * * 
 Oh my friends stand and wonder! How 
 shall I speak the thousandth part of his 
 praises ! Oh, my friends look upon a dying 
 man, and wonder ! — Surely this is akin to 
 heaven ! If this be dying it is sweet ! Oh ! 
 that you did but see and feel what I do ! 
 Behold a dying man more cheerful than you 
 ever saw a man in health, and in the midst 
 of his sweetest worldly enjoyments ! — This 
 is the hour I have waited for! Praise is 
 now my work, and I shall be engaged in 
 that sweet employment forever! 0, help me 
 to praise him. I have nothing else to do ! 
 I have done with prayer — I have almost 
 done conversing with mortals. I shall soon 
 behold Christ himself, who died for me, and 
 loved me and washed me in his blood. I 
 shall shortly be in eternity singing the song 
 of Moses and the Lamb. I shall presently 
 stand upon Mount Zion, with an innumerable 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 103 
 
 company of angels and the spirits of just 
 men made perfect. I shall hear the voice of 
 multitudes, and be one amongst them who 
 say, Hallelujah! glory, and honor, and power 
 unto the Lord our God!" 
 
 Our Daniel had the same unutterable long- 
 ing for his "immortal home;" and who, 
 among all his friends, would now call him 
 back? Among the last letters he wrote 
 from Newton before his death, was one, in 
 which, speaking of the flight of time, he says, 
 in all the confidence of friendship, "How 
 
 rapidly my are we bound onward to the 
 
 invisible, and tow eagerly we clutch at shad- 
 ows and neglect the substance. Whither are 
 we tending ? Why do we live ? What wor- 
 thy thing have we done ? Shall we never 
 truly live ? 0, my soul, lift thyself above 
 these earthborn cares. Feel, aye feel thine 
 immortality ! Develope thy resources. Use 
 the means of culture thy God has given thee. 
 Envy not the worldly great, the worldly 
 prosperous. Strive not for baubles, but 
 live, oh! live the only true life — live for 
 humanity, for God, for that ineffable glory 
 which is to be revealed! 
 
104 the student-preacher: 
 
 " But what am I saying ? And yet I know 
 not how to stop. Such thoughts as these 
 have been in my mind for these two days 
 past, and many more, and it is a relief to 
 write them down, to speak them to one who 
 will sympathize with me. 
 
 " I have seemed to get new views of the 
 sacred duties of life, of late. Too long have 
 I dwelt in the valley of gloom and despon- 
 dency. I need more hope, more enthusiasm. 
 I need more courage; no, more faith. I 
 would not live this halting life. I would 
 cast myself with confiding trust on the ev- 
 erlasting arm, and taking Chuist for my ex- 
 ampler, press with unfaltering step the 
 straight and rugged pathway of Christian en- 
 durance and endeavor, which leadeth to eter- 
 nal life. Oh ! there are times when I seem 
 to feel the utter worthlessness of the world, 
 in comparison with the heavenly blessedness, 
 and my spirit pants, aye aches for its immor- 
 tal home. I seem to hear the celestial har- 
 monies, and I long to soar above earth's 
 jarring discords. 
 
 "'But not till God's good time,' a some- 
 thing whispers, and till then, work while 
 
MEMOIR OF DANIEL J. GLAZIER. 105 
 
 the day lasts, 'what thy hand findeth to do, 
 do it with all thy might.' 
 
 " And yet, alas ! how prone I am to forget 
 the message, and sink again to the dull level 
 of the world. But by the grace of God, and 
 strong in his great strength, I am resolved 
 to live more like a creature of immortality, 
 more like Him whose disciple I profess to 
 be, and who has left us an example that we 
 should follow his steps. 0, thou all-perfect 
 and all glorious Saviour, keep me near thy 
 side through all the devious way." 
 
 Go then, beloved brother, " in all thy glori- 
 ous prime ; " for if earth be poorer, heaven is 
 richer by the change. 
 
 " Go, spirit of the sainted dead, 
 Go to thy longed for, happy home : 
 The tears of man are o'er thee shed, 
 The voice of angels bids thee come. 
 
 " If life be not in length of days, 
 In silver locks and furrowed brow, 
 But living to the Saviour's praise, 
 How few have lived so long as thou ! 
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106 the student-preacher: 
 
 " Though earth may boast one gem the less, 
 May not e'en Heaven the richer be? 
 And myriads on thy footsteps press, 
 To share thy blest eternity." * 
 
DISCOURSES. 
 


 POWER OF THE CRO 
 
 BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY SAVE IN THE 
 CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THE 
 WORLD IS CRUCIFIED UNTO ME, AND I UNTO THE 
 WORLD. — GAL. VI : 14. 
 
 The Galatians, who had embraced Chris- 
 tianity through the labors of the apostle Paul, 
 were, it would seem, soon led astray by the 
 arts of Judaizing teachers. These teachers, 
 while in some respects they held to the truth, 
 did nevertheless, by insisting on circumcis- 
 ion as an essential duty, as a means of jus- 
 tification with God, pervert the Gospel, and 
 virtually make the death of Christ of no ef- 
 fect. To oppose the progress of so fatal an 
 error, and to bring back the Galatians to a 
 simple faith in Christ crucified, was the aim 
 
110 THE student-preacher: 
 
 of the apostle in the epistle from which the 
 text is taken. And no one who reads it with 
 close attention can fail to perceive with what 
 force of argument, power of illustration and 
 warmth of feeling, he unfolds to the under- 
 standing of his readers the cardinal doctrine % 
 of justification by faith, through a crucified Re- 
 deemer. 
 
 But, as is the case in all the writings of the 
 apostle, this doctriue is not presented merely 
 as a matter of speculation and formal belief. 
 It is not sufficient for his purpose that the 
 great truths he so clearly presents should be 
 correctly apprehended by the intellect. He 
 would have them received into the heart, to 
 work there a moral transformation, and thus to 
 control the life. And so in the chapter from 
 which the text is taken, and the one preceding, 
 he draws some practical inferences from the 
 argument he has set forth with so much ear- 
 nestness and power; or rather he makes a 
 practical application of it to those to whom it 
 is addressed. They who had recieved Christ 
 must be Christ-like, must illustrate in their 
 life the spirit of the gospel of Jesus, be cru- 
 cified ( with Christ ) to sin, exercise charity and 
 

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 forbearance one to another, bear each other's 
 burdens, and by their holy disposition and 
 temper of mind, and by their bonds of love, 
 fulfil the law of Christ. 
 
 In the text, also, we discover this practical 
 tendency of the apostle, or rather the intro- 
 spective habit of his mind. He has argued at 
 some length that the death of Christ is the 
 only meaus by which man might be delivered 
 from the curse of the law ; the only expedient 
 by which the moral Governor of the universe 
 could, in harmony with the essential attributes 
 of his nature, or with the stability and honor 
 of his righteous government, bestow pardon 
 on his rebelious subjects, and thus lay the 
 true foundation for their reconciliation to and 
 union with him. He has viewed the death of 
 Christ in its relation to God. He now con- 
 siders it in its relation to himself. He speaks 
 of a certain effect which it has produced on 
 himself. He ascribes to it great moral power 
 over the human heart. And it is in this he glo- 
 ries. He glories in the cross of Christ, be- 
 cause by it he is crucified unto the world and 
 the world unto him. I do not, of course, mean 
 to assert that he glories in this to the exclu- 
 
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 sion of those other truths connected with the 
 cross, and which he has set forth with so much 
 clearness and force in the former portion of 
 his epistle. But that it is the combined ef- 
 fect of all these truths upon himself, on his 
 own character and state, in which the apostle 
 glories in the text. 
 
 What is this effect, and how shall it be ac- 
 counted for? 
 
 The effect is described as a crucifixion of 
 himself unto the world, and of the world unto 
 him, by which language we are to understand 
 that in the most complete and perfect manner 
 he had become dead unto sin. In other 
 words, the apostle declares that the cross is 
 the all-efficacious instrumentality by which in 
 his heart and over his life the love and do- 
 minion of sin are vanquished; by which is 
 overcome whatever within him or without him 
 is in opposition to the divine will. 
 
 A mighty efficacy surely is this which is 
 here ascribed to the cross of Christ. But it 
 is evident, from the writings of the apostle, 
 that in his view the cross is the sum and sub- 
 stance of the gospel, and that he everywhere 
 claims for it this sanctifying power. He 
 
POWER OF THE CROSS. 113 
 
 preached the cross everywhere, among Jews and 
 Gentiles. He was determined to know nothing 
 save Jesus Christ; not merely as the perfect 
 example, though no man followed that example 
 more closely than he ; not merely as the great 
 Teacher, though Christ was to him the direct 
 source of religious truth; but as Him cruci- 
 fied. In perfect harmony with his assertion 
 in the text, does he invariably speak of this 
 effect of the cross on himself : " I am crucified 
 with Christ ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but 
 Christ liveth in me ; and the life I now live in 
 the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, 
 who loved me and gave himself for me." 
 
 In his view, it was the cross which had the 
 sovereign efficacy not only to save men from 
 the curse of sin, but from the dominion and 
 power thereof. And therefore let other men 
 glory in what they would ; in their carnal and 
 fleshly ordinances, their rigid observance of 
 external rites, their formal adherence to the 
 ceremonial law ; " but God forbid," says he, 
 " that I should glory, save in the cross of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 We should, however, greatly err, and expose 
 ourselves to the charge of gross superstition, 
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114 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 should we attribute any of this efficacy of the 
 cross to the bare and ragged wood on which 
 the Prince of Glory died. We have, we con- 
 fess, something akin to respect for that feeling 
 which prompts the devotee of a superstitious 
 faith to treat with reverence the instrument 
 of the sufferings of our Lord ; but we ascribe 
 to that instrument no sacredness and no moral 
 power. It is the death of Christ, as an 
 atonement for sin, and the stupendous truths 
 involved in it, which produce this effect, which 
 exert this sanctifying power on man. 
 
 Neither is it asserted that these truths of 
 themselves, and independent of any other 
 agency, can ever produce the effect of which 
 we speak. We believe that a man, by care- 
 ful and thorough study of the Scriptures, may 
 arrive at just views concerning these truths, 
 may have a correct intellectual appreciation 
 of them, may be able to trace them in all 
 their bearings, to exhibit them even with clear- 
 ness and fidelity in their relations both to God 
 and to man, and yet not feel their power in 
 his own soul, nor be transformed by them 
 into the image of Him who is at once their 
 source and their object. The convictions of 
 
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 the understanding neither regenerate nor sanc- 
 tify man. The heart needs that demonstra- 
 tion of the Spirit which belongs to God alone 
 to give. And it is only when these truths 
 are brought home to the conscience and the 
 heart, and applied in all their power by the 
 almighty energy of the Spirit, that the effect 
 of which we speak is produced. They are 
 but the instrument in the hands of the Spirit, 
 who is the author of all moral changes. 
 
 Bearing in mind, then, what is meant by the 
 cross of Christ, and the agency of the Spirit 
 in the work of sanctification, we may now con- 
 sider how this effect of the cross on man is 
 accounted for. 
 
 And first, the cross has this sanctifying power 
 because it presents to man the clearest exhi- 
 bition of the enormity of sin. 
 
 Of all the things connected with the 
 dispensation of divine grace, there is none, 
 perhaps, of which we have so inadequate a 
 conception as sin, its essential deformity, and 
 its most fatal tendency. But it certainly con- 
 cerns us most nearly to appreciate these 
 things justly. And if you accept but the fact, 
 a fact so clearly taught in the New Testa- 
 
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 ment, that the death of Christ was an atone- 
 ment for sin, you have the strongest possible 
 proof of its aggravated nature in the sight of 
 God. By the severity of the sufferings en- 
 dured on its account, viewed in connection 
 with the super-angelic nature of the sufferer, 
 you may see in all its deformity that which 
 occasioned the infliction of them. Other 
 means, indeed, may be employed to awaken 
 in man the conviction of the enormity of sin, 
 with more or less of success in individual 
 cases. Some shall be led to it by arguments, 
 which prove, on the admitted principles of 
 ethics, that sin is wrong in itself, contrary to the 
 holiness, the justice, and the goodness of God, 
 a serious evil done to our own souls, which 
 have the capacity for virtue, and which find 
 their true end only in God. But it is main- 
 tained that such considerations are adapted 
 only to a limited few, and that for the great 
 mass of mankind the cross is the only truth- 
 ful exhibition of that abominable thing which 
 God hates, and that in this respect even it is 
 the wisdom of God unto salvation. 
 
 As we look with the eye of faith to Calva- 
 ry, we see there how a pure and holy God 
 
POWER OF THE CROSS. 117 
 
 regards sin. We have an open exhibition of 
 its enormity; of His displeasure against it. 
 The simple fact that the precious "blood of the 
 immaculate Son of God was shed in expiation 
 for sin, gives us a more vivid conception of 
 its enormity than all the logical demonstra- 
 tions of all the moralists could give, than all 
 the express declarations of Holy Writ apart 
 from their connection with the cross. It is 
 impossible to conceive any truth so calculat- 
 ed to penetrate us with a just horror of sin 
 in general, and to cover us with the deepest 
 confusion for our offences, as the doctrine of 
 the cross. It stamps upon sin a character of 
 darkness which no tongue can utter; and 
 while it pours gladness into the bosom of 
 the penitent, to the presumptuous rebel it 
 speaks only death. 
 
 Again: In the cross is seen the clearest 
 exhibition of the Divine justice. 
 
 Reason, it is true, tells man that God must 
 be just. For the simplest idea of God is 
 that of a being of infinite perfections. Such 
 a being would be alone worthy of our deepest 
 reverence and love. But how could we rev- 
 erence or love a being without justice. It 
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118 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 seems also to be a conviction of man, the 
 testimony of the universal conscience, that 
 this justice demands strict reparation for of- 
 fences. What other meaning have those oft 
 repeated prayers and penances, those terrible 
 and bloody sacrifices of superstition and hea- 
 thenism the world over? They are but so 
 many painful efforts, on the part of those who 
 perform them, to atone for their past sinful- 
 ness, and to offer some satisfaction to the 
 justice of the Deity. Still man is much inclined 
 to think that God is altogether such an one as 
 himself, and to attribute to him human weak- 
 ness. There are some who love to repre- 
 sent God in the light of an indulgent and feeble 
 father, who, tired of his own severity, shuts 
 his eyes on the faults of a guilty child; or 
 of a timid governer, who does not inflict 
 upon offenders the threatened penalty of his 
 laws. 
 
 But how utterly falsified are all such views 
 by the cross of Christ. From that cross the 
 justice of God shines forth in an awful blaze 
 of light. In the death of the adorable victim 
 who hangs thereon, we feel how inadequate 
 were our conceptions of this attribute of the 
 
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 Deity. We see the presumption and folly of 
 comparing it with any human standard. Now 
 we perceive that this justice, so far from 
 being mingled with any human weakness, is 
 so stern, so passionless, that it will not spare 
 God's only begotten Son, when he voluntarily 
 presents himself, but inflicts upon him the 
 penalty of the dishonored law. As we stand 
 in sight of that most appaling spectacle; as 
 we hear the groans of anguish, which betoken 
 the agony of spirit on the part of Him who 
 is voluntarily drinking to its dregs the cup 
 of the Divine displeasure against sin; as we 
 mark how the very elements are conspiring 
 to enhance the awful grandeur of the scene, 
 the darkness which covers the heavens, the 
 rending of the vail of the temple, the quaking 
 of the earth, the breaking asunder of the 
 rocks, and the coming forth of the sheeted 
 dead from their sepulchres — in all this do 
 we behold the most tremendous exhibition 
 of the inviolable justice of Him who is the 
 moral Governor of the universe, in whose 
 hands are all our destinies, and who has de- 
 clared that " the soul that sinneth, it shall 
 die." 
 
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 Thus does the cross appeal, trumpet-tongue d, 
 to man's fears ; and who that knows the nature 
 of man, will deny the powerfully restraining 
 influence of such an appeal? 
 
 But while the cross of Christ thus shows 
 man, in all its nakedness, the enormity of 
 sin, and in all its awful character the justice 
 of God, thus urging him by the strongest 
 appeal to his fears to escape from sin, to 
 seek to avoid the retribution which is sure to 
 follow it, it proclaims one other fact which 
 stirs the deepest and best emotions of his soul, 
 and gives an all-controlling influence to his 
 life. An atonement is there made for sin. 
 The Great Sacrifice, so often shadowed forth 
 in all the religions of the nations, is there of- 
 fered up. The justice of God, the honor of 
 his government, is vindicated j there is no lon- 
 ger any obstacle to the exercise of his all 
 comprehending pity and love j and man, the 
 guilty offender, can be pardoned. 
 
 And this brings me to still another consid- 
 eration by which I would account for the sanc- 
 tifying power of the cross. 
 
 In the cross of Christ there is the fullest 
 exhibition of Divine love. 
 
POWER OF THE CROSS. 121 
 
 The proofs of the essential benignity of 
 God, are indeed abundant in all his ways 
 and works. This, not less than his eternal 
 power and God-head, is manifested in the 
 things he has made. It is written all over 
 this material universe. It is legible no less 
 in the moral than in the physical creation. 
 It may be seen in an enlarged view of the 
 dealings of God with every individual and 
 with our race. Every succeeding dispensation 
 of Divine grace, has been only a larger and 
 clearer development of the love of God. 
 
 But in the wondrous plan of redemption 
 through Jesus Christ, of which the cross is 
 the centre from which all things proceed and 
 to which all things tend, there has dawned upon 
 the world, the noon-day fulness of the Divine 
 compassion. How feeble, in comparison with 
 this, are all the other manifestations of that 
 attribute of the Almighty? Reason as we 
 may concerning the benevolence of the Deity; 
 adduce as we can the long array of proofs 
 from the works of nature and providence ; sum- 
 mon the witnesses from every field of science 
 and human investigation, and blend all the 
 testimony into one great argument; yet the 
 
122 THE STUDENT-PREACIIER. 
 
 grand demonstration is not there. It is where 
 an apostle has placed it, and only there. " In 
 this was manifested the love of God towards 
 us ; because God sent his only begotten Son 
 into the world, that we might live through 
 him. Herein is love, not that we loved God 
 but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be 
 the propitiation for our sins." " Herein " re- 
 sponds the believer " is love ; " " love unspeak- 
 able, and full of glory." 
 
 And the more fully he apprehends what his 
 condition would be without Christ, the claims 
 of that moral law, under which every son of 
 Adam is born, the justice and the extent of 
 those claims, and the equity of that punish- 
 ment with which it threatens all transgressors, 
 the more truly does he appreciate the extent 
 and greatness of that love which has provided 
 for his escape, and the more deeply does he 
 enter into the idea of the apostle, " Herein 
 is love." 
 
 u Herein," too, lies especially the sanctify- 
 ing power of the cross. "Herein" is the 
 power which, by the Spirit, subdues the re- 
 bellious heart, melts it in contrition, moulds it 
 anew, and thus recreates the man. Nor is it 
 
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 difficult to perceive the reasonableness of this 
 assertion. Man cannot be influenced to the 
 right by an appeal to his fears only or chief- 
 ly. For, he has affections, powerful in their 
 nature for good or evil, and which are uncon- 
 querable by time, by anguish, or by death it- 
 self. They are the secret springs of his life. 
 His outward acts do but reveal the objects 
 and the character of his affections. And so, 
 would you turn his life into a new channel, 
 you must first awaken his love. But love is 
 not commanded, it is inspired. The severest 
 injunctions, and the most formidable threat- 
 enings, cannot create in the soul a single emo- 
 tion of tenderness, much less cause the affec- 
 tions of the soul to rise to the benignant 
 Father in heaven. 
 
 The vivid exhibition of the enormity of sin, 
 and of the inviolable justice of God in the 
 atoning death of Christ upon the cross, do, 
 as we have said, make a tremendous appeal to 
 man's fears; and in what we now say, we 
 allow that appeal its full weight in the secret 
 process by which man becomes crucified unto 
 sin. But this of itself is not sufficient to that 
 end. Nay, more, it is not the principal cause 
 
124 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 of the sanctifying power of the cross. Man 
 can steel his heart against the fierce denunci- 
 ations of vengeance ; but he cannot so easily 
 resist the touching persuasions of love. His 
 very nature forbids it. The exhibition of 
 earnest and self-denying affection toward him, 
 degraded as he may be, naturally awakens 
 a kindred feeling in his own breast. And 
 this principle of human nature, illustrated so 
 often in the life of every individual, an 
 apostle has embodied in the declaration, " We 
 love Him ( i. e. God ) because He first loved 
 us." 
 
 But God might have been as merciful as 
 he is, had not Christ died. For we cannot 
 suppose that the death of his Son, changed 
 in the slightest degree the essential nature 
 of Him who has said, " I am the Lord ; I 
 change not." Yet man could never have 
 known the extent, or felt the power of his 
 mercy, but by the exhibition on the cross. 
 His mercy could have been manifested to 
 man's heart in no other way. And so it 
 cometh to pass, that when the believer speaks 
 of the love of God in the plan of redemption, 
 he views it as it is revealed in the sufferings 
 
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 and death of Jesus Christ; and to Him, as 
 to God manifest in the flesh, " God acting, de- 
 veloping the divine attributes through human 
 nature," are the warmest affections of the soul 
 raised. And this is in accordance with the 
 prediction of the Saviour himself, who said, 
 when referring to his approaching death, " And 
 I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto 
 me." What can be more natural than this? 
 In the light of the principles we have already 
 advanced, concerning the way in which the 
 affections of the soul are called into exercise, 
 what can be imagined more eminently fitted 
 to produce such a result, than the amazing 
 spectacle of so exalted a being, humbled, suf- 
 fering, dying for us ? 
 
 <l Greater love hath no man than this, that 
 a man lay down his life for his friends." 
 "For scarcely for a righteous man will one 
 die, yet peradventure for a good man some 
 would even dare to die. But God commend- 
 eth his love toward us, in that while we 
 were yet sinners, Christ died for us." 
 
 " O for this love let rocks and hills 
 Their lasting silence break, 
 
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126 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 And alt harmonious human tongues 
 The Saviour's praises speak. 
 
 11 Angels assist our mighty joys ; 
 Strike all your harps of gold ; 
 But when you raise your highest notes, 
 His love can ne'er be told," 
 
 Human nature must have lost all essential 
 traits, all the fibres of the human heart 
 must have been broken, if the conviction of 
 so great a love does not excite all our love. 
 
 Herein, my hearers, is the Divine wisdom 
 of the cross revealed. By the exhibition of 
 a love whose heights and depths no finite mind 
 can fathom, it produces in the soul of the 
 believer what all the combined efforts of hu- 
 man ingenuity, what all the wisdom of all the 
 philosophers can never do — love to God as 
 he is manifested in Jesus Christ. 
 
 Now, what must be the legitimate effect of 
 this on the believer's character and life ? 
 Manifestly the one which the apostle sets forth 
 in the text, a crucifixion of himself unto sin. 
 Has Christ died for his sins, and can he love 
 his sins ? Has Christ died to relieve him 
 from the curse of the law, and will he not 
 
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 from henceforth obey the law ? It is a strange 
 love that does not produce obedience. 
 
 I have thus attempted to account for the 
 sanctifying "power of the cross. I have en- 
 deavored to show that it presents to man 
 the clearest demonstration of the enormity 
 of sin, of the justice and benevolence of God; 
 thus appealing to man's fears, and to his moral 
 sentiments, especially to his affections ; and 
 thus on the one hand awakening in him an 
 abhorrence of sin, and restraining him from 
 the commission of it,* and on the other, pro- 
 ducing in his heart love to God; making obe- 
 dience to the divine will joyous, and, so to 
 speak, the spontaneous effort of his soul. 
 
 In view of this great effect wrought in man 
 through the instrumentality of the cross, and 
 of the divine wisdom in the adaptation of the 
 means to the end, how rational are the grounds 
 on which the apostle gloried only in the 
 cross. 
 
 And in conclusion, my brethren, let us bring 
 this subject home to ourselves. It presents 
 to us the cross of Christ as the appointed 
 instrument, not only for our deliverance 
 from the curse of the law, but also, in the 
 
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 hands of the Spirit, for our ever increasing 
 advancement in holiness of heart and life. 
 Let us cherish it in each of these particulars ; 
 not regarding the one to the exclusion of the 
 others. 
 
 And if there be any here present, who are 
 as yet without Christ, but who have begun to 
 feel the heavy burden of sin pressing down 
 upon their spirits; who desire to be freed 
 from it; who have in vain made many at- 
 tempts to overcome the evil propensities of 
 their nature, and to obtain purity of heart; 
 before your eyes I would set forth Christ 
 crucified, Jesus the only begotten and well 
 beloved Son of God, dying for you. Then 
 behold the divine provision, not only for your 
 escape from the punishment due to your sin- 
 fulness, but also from its degrading bondage. 
 Turn not away from the Sufferer. Open your 
 hearts to receive Him ; bid Him enter ; and 
 like the lame man of old, who was healed of 
 his infirmity by the miraculous cure wrought 
 in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you 
 shall be healed of your spiritual malady, aud 
 shall go forth from this temple praising God. 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN 
 
 FOR GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN. 
 MATT. V. 12. 
 
 In these words the Saviour presents the 
 reasons why His disciples should rejoice and 
 be exceeding glad even amid persecutions and 
 revilings for His sake. "Blessed are ye 
 when men shall revile you, and persecute you 
 and say all manner of evil against you falsely 
 for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, 
 for great is your reward in heaven." 
 
 He who knew what was in man, foresaw 
 with what hatred the world would treat 
 those who had embraced a religion, the fun- 
 damental doctrines and requirements of which 
 are in direct opposition to the pride and sel- 
 fishness of the unrenewed heart. With that 
 entire truthfulness which marked all his words 
 and acts while in the flesh, He did not hes- 
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130 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 itate distinctly to declare to them what would 
 be their fate. He used none of the arts of 
 the imposter in gaining converts to himself. 
 He excited in them no hopes of present gain, 
 of worldly aggrandizement. Contempt, and 
 hatred, and persecution were to be their por- 
 tion. But as they were to serve a divine 
 Master, so their services should have a di- 
 vine reward. And, in harmony with the 
 character of Him who would bestow it, that 
 reward should be great; not in the present 
 world, but in the world beyond the grave; 
 their reward should be great in heaven. 
 
 The promise contained in the text, though 
 made to the first disciples, and given to them 
 as an encouragement in peculiar circumstan- 
 ces, must be susceptible of a much wider ap- 
 plication. The first disciples were but dis- 
 ciples of a common Lord, whose promises 
 and consolations are for all who in any age 
 believe on His name. Nor can we suppose 
 that the reward here promised is bestowed 
 only on those who encounter open persecu- 
 tion for Christ's sake. It is general in its 
 nature. It is made to all Christians, and is 
 given to them as an encouragement to fidelity 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 131 
 
 in a life of obedience to their Lord and 
 Master. They who in any age or in any 
 circumstances, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and walk in the way of his commandments, 
 may take to themselves the assurance, that 
 their reward in Heaven will be great. 
 
 It may not be amiss here to observe, that 
 though the sacred writers show no reluctance 
 in using the term reward, we must be care- 
 ful to bear in mind, that the term is not to 
 be taken in its strict and proper sense. We 
 are taught in Scripture, that man can merit 
 nothing of God; and we cannot suppose that 
 the rewards of the righteous, so often men- 
 tioned in the Bible, are to be considered 
 strictly as wages which God owes to them, or 
 as an equivalent for the faithful performance 
 of those duties which ought to be performed 
 first as if there were no recompense. 
 
 We understand by the term reward, as 
 used in the text and generally in the New 
 Testament, the inseparable result which God 
 has joined to a life of Christian obedience. 
 
 In considering, therefore? the greatness of 
 the Christian's reward in heaven, our thoughts 
 will be turned to some of the leading cir- 
 
132 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 cumstances which reason and Scripture en- 
 courage us to believe will constitute the hap- 
 piness of the future state of the righteous. 
 
 It must however, be confessed at the out- 
 set, that direct and positive information on 
 this subject is not abundant in the Scriptures. 
 Much of the language in which the future 
 state of the good is mentioned or alluded 
 to, is indefinite, popular, and figurative. We 
 are told of an inheritance incorruptible, un- 
 defiled, and that fadeth not away ; of a 
 crown of glory, and of life eternal; of treas- 
 ures where neither moth nor rust can corrupt ; 
 of a kingdom which shall not be moved; of 
 a building of God, a house not made with 
 hands, eternal in the heavens; of the many 
 mansions ; of a place prepared from the foun- 
 dation of the world, into which the righteous 
 shall be admited, and where there shall be 
 no more death nor sorrow. 
 
 All this, and similar language and imagery 
 are fitted to impress us with the excellence, 
 the indestructible character, the extent and 
 greatness of the* Christian's reward, but 
 leave us much in the dark concerning its 
 nature. Still something may be inferred 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 133 
 
 from the general strain of revelation; and if 
 this be done in the exercise of reason, and 
 fancy be not permitted to frame a thousand 
 vain conceits, the subject may be a profit- 
 able one. For, on our views of that 
 future state, very much depend the kind 
 and the amount of exertion we shall make 
 in preparation for it. 
 
 What then are some of the conceptions 
 we are encouraged to form of the greatness 
 of the Christian's reward in heaven, or of 
 some of the leading circumstances which go 
 to make up the future and eternal state of 
 the righteous ? 
 
 I. It is reasonable to suppose that the 
 happiness of heaven, will in part consist 
 in a total exemption from all the natural 
 ills to which in this life we are necessa- 
 rily exposed. For, if heaven is to be a 
 state of reward and happiness, the removal 
 from it of all natural evil is obviously in- 
 dispensable. It is presumed that the in- 
 habitants of that holy place, will be freed 
 from all the ills which flesh is heir to. 
 For without being definitely informed as to 
 the characteristics of the bodies of the glorified 
 
134 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 children of God, we are assured that, " that 
 which is sown in corruption, will be raised 
 in incorruption; that which is sown in dishon- 
 or, will be raised in honor; that which is 
 sown in weakness, will be raised in power; 
 that which is sown a natural body, will be 
 raised a spiritual body." 
 
 And this view is corroborated by the 
 Saviour's own words. " They who are thought 
 worthy to obtain that world and the res- 
 urrection from the dead, neither marry nor 
 are given in marriage, neither can they die 
 any more; for they are like unto the an- 
 gels, and are the children of God, being 
 the children of the resurrection." 
 
 Again, it is presumed that in heaven 
 there will be a total exemption from all 
 those ills which are incident to the present 
 life as a state of probation and discipline. 
 It is the teaching of Scripture that the af- 
 flictions of the righteous man are ordained in 
 mercy, and are one of the means which God 
 uses to transfer his affections from the things 
 of earth to things heavenly and divine. 
 His highest good demands some bitter expe- 
 riences. So earthly is he in his nature, so 
 
HAPPINESS OP HEAVEN. 135 
 
 strong in him are the old habits of sin, 
 even though renewed by the grace of God, 
 that he must, while in the world, be sub- 
 ject to the discipline of his heavenly Fa- 
 ther,- which, though the highest proof of 
 His wise regard for his earthly children, is 
 oftentimes painful to be borne. 
 
 But in heaven our probationary state will 
 have ended, its great purpose will have been 
 accomplished, and no such discipline will be 
 needed. 
 
 Pain, we cannot believe, will exist in 
 heaven. There will be no more sickness 
 and disease, fatigue and accident, hunger and 
 thirst, nor dread of dissolution. There will 
 be no anxious days, no restless nights; no 
 tears are shed there ; no breaking of family 
 ties there, no death bed scenes; no funeral 
 bells; every sigh will be hushed, every woe 
 will be forgotten. Tranquility, serene and 
 holy, reigns undisturbed throughout the heav- 
 enly mansions. 
 
 With what joyful confidence may the faith- 
 ful Christian, then, look forward to that fu- 
 ture state of eternal blessedness, in which 
 he shall be freed from all the natural ills of 
 
136 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 the present life, and how strong may be his 
 assurance, that in this respect even, his re- 
 ward in heaven will be great. 
 
 II. Closely allied to this view, and in 
 part resulting from it, is another, which we 
 are permitted, we think, to form, concerning 
 the happiness which will be experienced in 
 heaven, as the reward of a faithful adher- 
 ence to Christ. Not only will there be in 
 heaven a total exemption from all natural, 
 but also from all moral evil. If the for- 
 mer is regarded as necessary to a state of 
 reward and blessedness, much more must the 
 latter be deemed essential to the complete 
 felicity of a rational soul. 
 
 The kingdom of God, as the inward reign of 
 purity and peace, is indeed begun on earth, 
 but it will have its glorious consummation 
 only in that spiritual and eternal world be- 
 yond the grave. The gospel of Christ is 
 indeed intended to work in man a moral 
 transformation, but it does not therefore fol- 
 low that this work is finished or perfected 
 while he dwells in the fleshly tabernacle. 
 Nor would the facts of Christian experience 
 by any means warrant such a conclusion. 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 137 
 
 The Christian, though born of God and an 
 heir of heaven, does not become a full-grown 
 saint on earth. The remnants of the old 
 man are in him, He is not wholly free 
 from the power of sinful habits. He is 
 ever exposed to the untoward influences of 
 the world, the flesh and the devil. The path 
 of his regenerate life is the straight and 
 rugged pathway of Christian obedience. His 
 life is a warfare, a stern encounter with 
 the hosts of evil within and around him. 
 His efforts are often attended with failure. 
 In his best attainments there is mingled 
 much of evil. Often, in the anguish occa- 
 sioned by the sinful propensities and desires 
 of his but partly sanctified nature, is the 
 bitter cry wrung from his soul, " 0, wretched 
 man that I am, who shall deliver me from 
 the body of this death." Often, in the still- 
 ness of meditation and earnest introspec- 
 tion when the law of God shines in its aw- 
 ful purity down into the depths of his spir- 
 itual nature, and is searching out whatever 
 is in opposition to itself, is he forced to ex- 
 claim, " I am a man of unclean lips." He 
 too, " finds in his members, a law warring 
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138 THE STUDENT-PKEACHEE. 
 
 against the law of God." In him, too, " the 
 spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." 
 He must often utter that seeming paradox, 
 " What I would, that do I not ; and what 
 I hate, that do I." 
 
 Doubtless this bitterness must be mins-led in 
 his earthly experience. Doubtless, tempta- 
 tion and conflict are needful for him here. 
 The gold is purified by the fire. The 
 Christian character is strengthened and 
 built up by a stern resistance against evil. 
 In the sense of his weakness lies his 
 strength. 
 
 Still we would insist on the moral trans- 
 formation of man as the one grand primary 
 object of the Christian dispensation. Salva- 
 tion is not deliverance from the punishment 
 of sin only, it is deliverance from sin; from 
 the love of it, from the power of it. Let 
 not that be lost sight of. Let no one use 
 the before mentioned facts of Christian expe- 
 rience as the shield from an upbraiding 
 conscience. Let them rather convince him 
 of the mighty ruin sin has worked in the 
 human soul, and lead him to vigilance and 
 earnestness in the religious life. But let the 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 139 
 
 Christian be humble and faithful, though bearing 
 about with him ever the grievous burden of 
 his many imperfections, with grateful joy send 
 his thoughts forward to that state of eternal 
 blessedness, in which his nature shall be 
 freed from all impurities and "be without 
 spot or wrinkle or any such thing." For to 
 what purpose has God awakened in the re- 
 generate soul, these earnest longings after 
 entire deliverence from sin, these aspirations 
 for a state of moral purity and holiness, 
 these far reaching desires towards a com- 
 plete conformity to the image of the Holy 
 One, if they be but idle vanities, if they 
 shall not have their glorious realization in 
 that eternal world above ? In this universal 
 reaching forth of the renewed soul towards 
 a state of entire moral purity, do I find a 
 strong probability that such a state awaits it 
 hereafter. Will the benignant Heavenly 
 ^Father excite in his children the hope of 
 such a state only to disappoint them ? 
 
 This probability is greatly strengthened, 
 when we consider that much of the impurity 
 of the regenerate soul here springs from its 
 union with a frail and sinful body, from which 
 
140 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 in heaven it will be delivered. That spir- 
 itual body, of which the apostle so sublimely 
 speaks, cannot be like the present one, nor 
 like it retard the free action of a soul that 
 delights in God. 
 
 And still further confirmation of this view 
 is found in the fact already noticed, that in 
 heaven, the Christian will be free from all 
 those external influences of an evil nature 
 which are inseparable from the present state. 
 
 We cannot believe that temptation in any 
 form will be permitted to assail the Chris- 
 tian in heaven. The great enemy of souls 
 with all his infernal cunning can not reach 
 him there. The allurements to evil under 
 the various forms of pleasure, and business, 
 and wealth, and fame, can have no place 
 among the inhabitants of the celestial world. 
 They cannot climb to heaven. 
 
 But from the language of Scripture, brief 
 though it be on this subject, may the Chris* 
 tian derive the assurance, that in heaven he 
 shall have complete deliverance from moral 
 evil. In the words of the Saviour already 
 quoted, the children of the resurrection are 
 declared " to be like the angels" And St. 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 141 
 
 John in his first epistle, says : " Beloved 
 now are we the sons of God, and it doth 
 not yet appear (fully) what we shall be, 
 but we know that when He shall appear we 
 shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as 
 He is." And if we are to be like the 
 angels and like God, then must we be like 
 the angels and like God in unsullied moral 
 purity and holiness. 
 
 May not the faithful Christian, then, con- 
 fidently expect that he shall at last enter 
 on a state of existence in which there shall 
 be a total exemption from all moral evil, 
 seeing that such a state is requisite for the 
 complete felicity of a rational soul, one to- 
 wards which the regenerate soul intensely 
 yearns ? Is not this a state which seems to 
 follow by necessity the separation of such a 
 soul from its union with a frail and sinful 
 body, and removal from all external influences 
 of an evil nature ; and one in which the 
 voice of inspiration declares, he shall be like 
 the angels, and like God? 
 
 Let him, therefore, faithfully labor and 
 quietly wait for that heavenly state, in 
 which his hard warfare with sin shall have 
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142 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 been ended, when there shall be no temp- 
 tations to assail him, no sinful desires to 
 resist, no infirmities to mourn over; but 
 where the soul which on earth did hunger 
 and thirst after righteousness shall be filled; 
 where, freed from all contact with earth, and 
 cleansed from all stains, it shall exult in its 
 immortality, and put on in its perfection 
 the image of its Creator and Father. By 
 as much then as he values a completed de- 
 liverance from moral evil, and a likeness 
 unto God, by so much let him be cheered 
 with the belief that his reward in heaven 
 will be great. 
 
 III. But we are encouraged to believe, 
 that the happiness of the future state which 
 is promised as a "reward to the faithful 
 Christian will also consist, in part, in the 
 inward activity of his intellectual faculties, 
 and his advancement in spiritual knowledge. 
 
 This seems to be an inevitable result 
 from the two preceding heads of our dis- 
 course. 
 
 We are all aware of the mutual relations 
 and dependence of the physical, the moral 
 and intellectual parts of man. We know 
 how very greatly the condition of one af- 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 143 
 
 fects the condition of the others. And if 
 we argue as we have done, and as no 
 doubt we may, that the separation of the 
 regenerate soul from the earthly influences 
 of the body, will be followed by its ex- 
 emption from moral evil, or by a vast im- 
 provement in its moral faculties and powers, 
 we may with great confidence expect a pro- 
 portionate improvement in its intellectual 
 faculties and powers. Clothed with a pu- 
 rified body, which will not experience the 
 impulse of unholy desires, which will nev- 
 er be disordered by sickness or disease, 
 freed from all moral impurities, the mind 
 of the Christian, it is in the highest de- 
 gree reasonable to suppose, will be tranquil 
 and collected, healthy and vigorous, and will 
 have an ever increasing relish for the pur- 
 est and noblest themes of meditation. 
 
 Even in our present state, the exercise of 
 our intellectual faculties and the acquisition 
 of spiritual knowledge, are among our high- 
 est and most refined pleasures. Christianity, 
 while it has to do especially with the heart, 
 does not neglect the understanding. While it 
 labors to mould the temper and the affec- 
 
144 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 tions, it does not discourage exertions of the 
 intellect. It favors its growth and activity, 
 stimulates and exalts all its faculties. It is 
 the inspirer of deep and generous thought. 
 It is a libel on Christianity to say that it 
 is unfavorable to the exercise and expansion 
 of the mind. Those spiritual objects to 
 which it directs our attention impart dignity 
 to our views and feelings. They make us 
 feel that we were made for excellence not 
 attainable in the present life ; that we cannot 
 reap the full fruits of our capacity in this 
 imperfect state. For, notwithstanding this 
 influence of Christianity in expanding the in- 
 tellect, notwithstanding much that may be 
 learned of God and divine things even here, 
 yet in these respects it is a most imperfect 
 state. With the largest attainments one 
 may be able to make in spiritual knowledge, 
 still it is true, that " clouds and darkness 
 are round about God." The divine nature, 
 perfections and government, are indeed the 
 noblest subjects of meditation which can en- 
 gage the human attention, and in the con- 
 templation of them the devout mind enjoys 
 the most exalted pleasure. But so strong 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 145 
 
 are the impressions of sense, so wide is 
 the distance between the finite and the In- 
 finite, so immeasurably higher are God's 
 thoughts than our thoughts, that at the best 
 we know but little in comparison with what 
 remains to be known. We must here walk 
 by faith and not by sight. 
 
 But the tendency of Christianity to excite, 
 to form, and to expand the intellect, points 
 we think, to our future destiny, and when 
 this is viewed in connection with the fact of 
 an entire exemption from all natural and 
 moral evil, the belief that in heaven there 
 will be an increased activity of the mental 
 powers, and an advancement in spiritual 
 knowledge, seems to rest on a basis of 
 reason. 
 
 Of the mode in which our intellectual fac- 
 ulties will operate, we cannot even conjuncture; 
 but we may expect that it will be more re- 
 fined and perfect than any of which we can 
 now form a conception. 
 
 Again, the language of the Scriptures seem 
 to warrant the belief and expectation that 
 with those who will be admitted to heaven 
 the intellectual capacity will be wonderfully 
 
146 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 increased and their attainments in knowledge 
 be beyond all present conception. For, what 
 is the language of the apostle Paul on this 
 subject? "Now," says he, "we see through 
 a glass darkly, but then we shall see face 
 to face ; now we know in part, but then 
 we shall know even as we are known." And 
 in the passage from John's first epistle, already 
 quoted, the reason given for the assertion, that 
 Christians shall " be like God," is that " they 
 shall see Him as He is." 
 
 From all these considerations the Christian 
 may confidently expect that in that future 
 state, which lies just beyond the dark river, 
 he will, in the enlargement of his faculties 
 and his increase in knowledge, find an exhaust- 
 less source of comfort and of strength. In 
 heaven the clouds of ignorance which now 
 collect around us will be gradually dispelled. 
 The page of truth, unsullied and serene, will 
 lie open before us, and doubts shall no more 
 vex or disturb us. The wonders of grace 
 will be unfolded; the crooked things made 
 straight; the things hard to be understood 
 made plain. TVe shall see order in what has 
 seemed intricate ; wisdom in what we have 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 147 
 
 deemed unaccountable ; kindness in what has 
 seemed severity; and good where we have seen 
 only evil. Freed from all disturbing causes ; 
 holding constant intercourse with God; our 
 souls imbued with all that they can comprehend 
 of the vast ; of the great, of the powerful in the 
 Lord; we shall become more and more ac- 
 quainted with the extent and harmony and 
 perfection of God's works ; obtain additional 
 and more distinct views of his moral glories, 
 and be more fully conscious of His all-pervad- 
 ing presence and love. 
 
 And to him who reflects on the limited 
 attainments one can here make in the knowl- 
 edge of divine things, and yet how fervently 
 the earnest mind seeks to comprehend them, 
 and how ennobling in its influence on the 
 soul such knowledge is, what does this quick- 
 ened activity of the mental powers, this con- 
 stant and everlasting advancement in spirit- 
 ual knowledge prove, if not the greatness of 
 the Christian's reward in heaven ! We have 
 thus considered some of the leading circum- 
 stances, which reason and Scripture teach 
 us to believe will go to make up the happi- 
 ness of heaven. 
 
148 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 We have named but these : a total ex- 
 emption from all natural evil ; a total 
 exemption from all moral evil; the increased 
 activity of our intellectual faculties, and our 
 consequent advancement in spiritual knowl- 
 edge. That they are all, or even the 
 most important, elements of the future and 
 eternal happiness of the righteous, is not by 
 any means asserted. For, in speaking of that 
 state which lies beyond the reach of mortal 
 vision, and one concerning which the Word 
 of inspiration does not make full revelation, 
 caution is obviously necessary; and wherein 
 we are ignorant, a reverential silence alone 
 befits us. Nor is it said that other circum- 
 stances, in which the happiness of heaven 
 will consist, might not be named, which have 
 as solid a basis in reason and Scripture as 
 those which have now been presented. 
 
 But enough, we think, has been advanced 
 for the enforcement of the thought that the 
 Christian's reward in heaven will be great. 
 In the light of this subject how elevating 
 and ennobling in its tendency, appears the 
 gospel of the Son of God. For, what is 
 more eminently fitted to give an enlargement 
 of view, loftiness of desire and aim, true 
 
HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN. 149 
 
 nobleness of character, than the prospect 
 which opens up into the future to him who 
 believeth in Jesus, and is faithful to the 
 end; of that state of eternal blessedness, 
 in which all the God-given faculties with 
 which we are so richly endowed, but which 
 in this imperfect scene are but partially- 
 developed, shall have their complete and 
 glorious fruition. 
 
 Living as we do amid the vanities of this 
 fleeting world, subject to all the fluctuations 
 of human affairs, surrounded by the images 
 of change and decay and death, it is en- 
 nobling to reflect on that world which the 
 gospel of Jesus has revealed; where all is 
 real and substantial; where no doubts be- 
 wilder and no hopes betray. Creatures of 
 a day, of the earth, earthy; the gospel of 
 Jesus points us to an immortal existence 
 of unsullied purity and holiness. By nature 
 attached to the things which perish with 
 the using, the gospel of Jesus would trans- 
 fer our affections to the enduring riches ot 
 heaven; and by the prospect of an eternal 
 recompense, would stimulate all the noblest 
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150 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 energies of our nature in the attainment of 
 it. 
 
 Shall not this glorious prospect which the 
 gospel opens to our view, by the blessing 
 of God on our reflections, induce us to the 
 cultivation of every Christian grace and vir- 
 tue. Shall it not lift our souls above every- 
 thing that is sordid and selfish and grovel- 
 ling, and attract us to < whatever is generous 
 and pure and holy? Shall not the eternal 
 reward which is offered to the faithful 
 Christian, reconcile us to do and to suffer 
 all our Master's will concerning us ? Know- 
 ing in whom we have believed, and that He 
 is able to perform that which He has prom- 
 ised, we may in all seasons of adversity 
 rejoice and be exceeding glad; in the day 
 of sickness, and in the declining years of 
 life, welcome the approach of death, as 
 the conductor to that blissful region where 
 no natural nor moral evil will affect us; 
 where God will reveal himself more fully 
 unto us than we can now conceive of, and 
 where in the contemplation of his resplen- 
 dent glories we shall forever advance in the 
 knowledge of His will, and be conscious of 
 an ever-increasing likeness to His image. 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 
 
 IF ANY MAX BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE. 
 2 COR. V : 17. 
 
 The Bible plainly teaches that man is in 
 a state of alienation from God; that although 
 made in the image of God, he has fallen 
 from his original exaltation, has forgotten 
 his celestial origin and destiny, has wan- 
 dered away from truth and holiness, for 
 which he was made ; and has thus estranged 
 himself from God, his great Creator, his 
 all bountiful Benefactor, his Almighty Sover- 
 eign and Ruler. The Bible, too, quite as 
 plainly teaches that God wishes this alien- 
 ation to cease, that man should return to 
 his Heavenly Father, and again enjoy the 
 divine approbation. To the attainment, how- 
 ever, of so desirable an object, we are taught 
 
152 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 that it is necessary that a radical change 
 should be wrought in man; a necessity so 
 forcibly expressed in the words, "ye must 
 be born again." 
 
 The effecting this change is the one prom- 
 inent result of the Gospel, as it is brought 
 home to the conscience and the heart of 
 man by the influences of the Holy Spirit, 
 through the gospel of Christ, of which Christ 
 is the sum and the substance ; so that to 
 receive the Gospel is to receive Christ, to 
 believe on him, to love him, to yield the 
 heart and the life up to him, to belong to 
 him, to trust to him alone for acceptance with 
 God. He who does this, is, in the language 
 of Scripture, in Christ. 
 
 In harmony with what has been said, the 
 text asserts that if any man be in Christ, 
 he is a new creature. Now it is quite evident 
 that this cannot mean that man is literally 
 recreated, with entirely new faculties and 
 powers of body, mind, and soul. It is only 
 a forcible way of expressing the radical 
 change wrought in man by the reception of 
 the gospel. While it alters no individual- 
 ity, imparts no new faculties of soul, yet so 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 153 
 
 essentially does it modify and change and 
 give a new tendency to the faculties and 
 powers already existing, that the change 
 thus wrought can be called nothing less, 
 as it were, than a new creation. 
 
 It is often in our power to witness the 
 change thus wrought in man by the gospel. 
 The openly immoral man becomes moral; 
 the profane man, earnest and prayerful; the 
 Sabbath-breaker, a constant worshipper; the 
 dishonest man, honest; the vicious man, vir- 
 tuous. The gospel certainly will in all 
 cases produce such effects. Still a change 
 in the conduct is not of itself a convincing 
 proof that the man in whom this change 
 appears is, in the language of the text, a 
 new creature. For, in Christian communities 
 at least, the principle of self-love, or a wise 
 regard to one's temporal prosperity alone, 
 would or might lead to such a change of 
 conduct. A man may be just and upright 
 in all his dealings with his fellow men, 
 strictly moral in all his outward deportment, 
 and ever amiable in all the relations of 
 life, and be still a stranger to the love of 
 God : nay more, such a man may pride himself 
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154 THE STUDENT-PREACHER; 
 
 in his morality ; and many there are who do so, 
 relying on their morality for justification, than 
 which nothing is more contrary to the gospel, 
 the application of which, by the Holy Spirit, 
 alone makes man a new creature. 
 
 There is an inner life of man, made up 
 of thought, and motive, of impulse, de- 
 sire, and affection. Here the Spirit com- 
 mences its work ; and these being, as it were, 
 newly created, they lead of necessity to new 
 manifestations in the outward conduct and 
 life; although a change of conduct, as we 
 have seen, does not necessarily imply a 
 change of heart. 
 
 To exhibit some of the more marked 
 changes wrought in this inner life of man 
 through the application of the gospel, by the 
 Holy Spirit, and the outward manifestations 
 of them, is the object of this discourse. 
 
 We shall attempt to exhibit them as they 
 relate: 1. To the relative importance of heav- 
 enly and earthly things : 2. To the individual's 
 own estimation of himself: 3. To his views 
 of his fellow men, and especially to Christ 
 as the Saviour of men. 
 
 Of course there is in respect to all these 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 155 
 
 things a wide difference in men, while unre- 
 generate, owing to the ever varying circum- 
 stances of birth, residence, education, and oc- 
 cupation. So no two can be found who will 
 think alike on all these topics. But once let 
 the regenerating influence of the Holy Spirit 
 act on the soul, let the great truths of the 
 gospel by this agency be received into the 
 mind and heart, and this difference will be 
 essentially modified, and a striking uniformity 
 will be found to exist between all believers. 
 And first, in respect to the relative impor- 
 tance of heavenly things and earthly. 
 
 Before his conversion, this world is almost 
 the sole object of man's thoughts. It has in 
 his eyes a transcendent importance. Its pur- 
 suits, its pleasures, its riches, its honors, seem 
 to him the only things worth living for. Spir- 
 itual things he thinks will do for weak minds 
 only. Let others if they will, let these deluded 
 Christians, deny themselves of that which the 
 world most esteems, let them be self-denying 
 instead of self-indulgent, let them seek spirit- 
 ual joys instead of sensual pleasures ; he either 
 pities them for their weakness, or sneers at 
 what he calls their hypocrisy. As for him, he 
 
156 the student-preacher: 
 
 wants to be rich, to have the consideration 
 which wealth gives among men, to enjoy the 
 luxuries it affords its possessor ; he wants the 
 applause of his fellows, political distinction, 
 fame. Of all these he indulges in fond dreams. 
 For them he toils perseveringly, and is will- 
 ing to wear himself out. 
 
 He lives in a world of shadows. He loves 
 shadows better than realities. He prefers 
 trifles to solid good, the transitory to the 
 eternal, the delusive pomp and- empty glitter 
 of a fleeting world, to the unspeakable and 
 eternal glories of heaven. Like Bunyan's man, 
 he chooses to rake together from the earth 
 sticks and straws, rather than look up and 
 take the golden crown held out for his ac- 
 ceptance by angel hands. 
 
 But the Spirit of God has wrought upon 
 him, it may be for years, it may be for a 
 much shorter time, until it hath brought him 
 to a full and hearty reception of the gos- 
 pel. 
 
 The scales have at last fallen from his 
 eyes. The things of time and sense are 
 stripped of their colossal proportions. Fic- 
 tion has given place to reality. This world 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 157 
 
 is now to him but a stopping place on his 
 grand march to immortality: and oh, how 
 light, and trifling, and contemptible, seem 
 the objects he once so fondly wished, now 
 that he views them in the solemn light of 
 eternity. Worldly riches are now but the 
 extremest poverty in comparison with the 
 treasures of heaven; worldly honors but 
 " trifles light as air," now that he has caught 
 a glimpse of the honor which cometh from God 
 only; worldly fame, but a miserable mock- 
 ery, now that he has a hope full of immor- 
 tality; time but a period of preparation for 
 eternity. Now, indeed, he knows and feels 
 that 
 
 "It is not all of life to live 
 Nor all of death to die." 
 
 This change in his feelings cannot be with- 
 out its effect on his purposes and manner 
 of life. 
 
 He does not, indeed, withdraw himself from 
 the world. Such a course he sees is in op- 
 position to the plain indications of Provi- 
 dence, and the dictates of sound common 
 sense. The wants of his nature still force 
 
158 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 him to be active in business. Society still 
 has claims on him, and he strives to dis- 
 charge them in all good fidelity. But there 
 is this essential difference in his life. In- 
 stead of lowering himself to the common 
 level of worldly pursuits, he seeks to elevate 
 these pursuits with himself, and give to them 
 a heavenward tendency. His plans are ar- 
 ranged with reference to eternity. 
 
 In his past life G-od was not in his thoughts, 
 and this was the grand secret of his sinful- 
 ness. Now his every aim is to please Him ; 
 and therefore he useth this world as not abus- 
 ing it. While he strives, in obedience to his 
 Great Master, to fulfil all the duties he owes 
 the world, he feels that his citizenship is in 
 heaven. There are his treasures. Thence 
 cometh his delight, and he looks forward 
 with earnest longing to the time when, 
 freed from his earthly prison-house, he shall 
 enter into a full participation of the rest 
 which God giveth his beloved. 
 
 2. But if his views of the relative impor- 
 tance of earthly and heavenly things are 
 thus changed, how greatly is he changed in 
 respect to his own estimation of himself. 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 159 
 
 Once lie was almost wholly unknown to 
 himself. Of his character in the sight of God 
 he had no just conception. To scrutinize his 
 motives, to explore the recesses of his heart, 
 to search and try his ways, were labors he 
 seldom or never undertook. It is true, con- 
 science rebuked him often; but its monitions 
 were soon unheeded, its voice was stilled by 
 the reflection that he was as good as others. 
 Sometimes, indeed, it was imperative in its de- 
 mands to be heard. But he would not listen 
 patiently to its faithful teachings. He would 
 seek to lose the remembrance of them in the 
 haunts of pleasure, or by a more entire devo- 
 tion to business. Did it still bear witness to 
 many wrong actions, he would quiet it by 
 some vague hope of God's mercy, or some 
 equally vague promise of future amendment; 
 and so by his continued neglect of its warn- 
 ings, it ceased to trouble him, and he was left 
 in ignorance of himself. And perhaps in this, 
 his miserable condition, he thought he was not 
 a sinner, and thanked God he was not as other 
 men are. 
 
 There have been men, it is true, of a con- 
 templative bent of mind, and of keen analytical 
 
160 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 powers, who have made it the business of 
 their lives to study themselves; and in many 
 particulars they have discerned important 
 truths. 
 
 Genius, with its quick, life-giving touch, lays 
 open many of the secret springs of life, and 
 discovers truths, the mere mention of which 
 awakens a responsive echo in every breast. 
 But neither the calm scrutiny of intellect, 
 nor the lightning flash of genius, can reveal 
 to man his true character and condition as a 
 subject of God's moral government. The light 
 of Heaven alone discloses that. Science may 
 tell us we have powers and faculties capable 
 of infinite expansion ; that knowledge, with 
 all its ample stores, is ours, if we will labor 
 wisely for it; and that such a nature exalts 
 us immeasurably in the scale of being. 
 
 Genius may stir the wondrous depths of 
 soul and feeling; touch, with so skillful and 
 tender a hand, each delicate chord, that all 
 shall be melody within us; or with quick, 
 thrilling, jarring discord rouse the fiery force 
 of passion; but the Spirit of God alone, 
 makes us to feel and know that the heart 
 of man is deceitful above all things and 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 161 
 
 desperately wicked. Man has faculties and 
 powers capable of indefinite expansion; pow- 
 ers of thought and feeling that can range at 
 will over the whole universe of God; but 
 these faculties have*been perverted, these 
 powers abused, and at last he knows it. 
 The conviction may have come but slow- 
 ly, through years of bitter experience. For 
 it is hard to break the stubborn will, to 
 subdue the proud enmity of the heart. He 
 has been driven from one false refuge to 
 another. He has been stripped of the mis- 
 erable rags of his self-righteousness, and now, 
 humbled in spirit and broken-hearted, he 
 cries from the depths of his soul, " God be 
 merciful to me a sinner I 11 
 
 The more he is taught by the Spirit of 
 God, the clearer he understands the distinct- 
 ive truths of the gospel, the more truly 
 does he see the sinfulness of his past life. 
 He wonders how he could have been so 
 self-deceived. He mourns over his pride, 
 his ingratitude, his willful disobedience. He 
 sees how empty was his self-righteousness, 
 how impious too ; and now, instead of de- 
 manding justification through his morality, he 
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162 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 accepts it joyfully as the undeserved favor 
 of God. 
 
 True, all believers do not have equally 
 extensive views of the. deadly nature of sin. 
 The constitutions and temperaments of men 
 are not alike. But this one thing is certain, 
 if any man be in Christ, he views the sins 
 of his past life as hateful to God, degrad- 
 ing to the soul, and but for the all-abound- 
 ing mercy in Christ Jesus, ruinous to its 
 eternal destiny. 
 
 With these new views of himself, come 
 fervent aspirations after holiness, increasing 
 piety, more earnest devotion: "Create in me 
 a clean heart, and renew a right spirit with- 
 in me," is his constant prayer. With these 
 aspirations come efforts, by prayer, self-ex- 
 amination before God, and frequent meditation 
 on divine things, to be transformed into the 
 image of God, to be filled with all his in- 
 finite fullness. 
 
 3. But in the third place there is a marked 
 change in respect to the believer's views and 
 feelings towards his fellow men. 
 
 Before his conversion, his maxim, practically, 
 if not theoretically, was, love your friends and 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 163 
 
 Late your enemies. In the struggle for rich- 
 es, in the strife for honors and worldly dis- 
 tinctions, he looked on many of his fellow men 
 as rivals whom he must overreach, and it mat- 
 tered but little what were the means of doing 
 it. Nor was he concerned for the highest 
 welfare of any of them. Having no regard 
 for his own, how could he think of theirs. 
 Perhaps he may have been what the world 
 calls a philanthropist; but even in that case, 
 allowing the most, he labored only for the 
 temporal, but not for the eternal good of his 
 fellows. And even in the most endearing re- 
 lations of life, how little of a pure and holy 
 spirit was there in his love ; how much of self- 
 ishness even in that. 
 
 But not only in respect to their bearing on 
 himself, had he wrong views of his fellow men. 
 When he looked on them as men, as mem- 
 bers of society, he still viewed them in a false 
 light. He looked only at that which affects 
 not their moral character. He saw men of 
 commanding intellect and gladly paid his hom- 
 age. He beheld them successful in the attain- 
 ment of wealth and honors, and hasted to do 
 them reverence. He bowed to the sway of a 
 
164 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 great name. He admired talent, boldness, en- 
 ergy; but he never stopped to inquire if this 
 talent and this energy were employed in the 
 service of God or of sin. 
 
 But now he is in Christ. How changed 
 his views of men. Their relations to him now 
 seem to be different. Having new views of 
 his own character and destiny, he looks at that 
 of others in the same light. External distinc- 
 tions among men are nothing. In the sight of 
 a just and holy God he feels they do not ex- 
 ist. All stand on the broad ground of equal- 
 ity before him. All are sinners in the sight 
 of Him who can not behold iniquity. None 
 have any occasion for boasting. 
 
 With an earnest, prayerful spirit, he ponders 
 their condition. Great names, splendid for- 
 tunes, towering intellects, lofty reputations, are 
 not now the objects of his thoughts. He be- 
 holds a company, vast and innumerable, of im- 
 mortal beings stripped of everything save 
 moral character, hastening to the grave and to 
 the retributions of eternity. How his heart 
 goes out in love towards them. He wants all 
 men to be Christ's disciples, to know the 
 peace which passeth all understanding. He 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 165 
 
 laments the folly and wretchedness of those 
 who will not obey God, and earnestly desires 
 their highest welfare. These desires do not 
 end in idle musings, but go forth in persever- 
 ing labors for their salvation. 
 
 But there is one class which calls forth far 
 different feelings. His love to Christ seeks 
 expression. He yearns for sympathy. He 
 cannot find it in the men of the world. 
 Where does he seek for it? In the society 
 of those whom he once shunned as peculiar, 
 or dreaded as fanatics. Before his conversion, 
 the society of Christians was not pleasant to 
 him. He may have admired the consistency, 
 the purity of life and heart of some Christian 
 friend, and have been won by his unvarying 
 gentleness to regard him with affection. But 
 still he could not feel entirely at ease in his 
 society; even when met by kindness and love, a 
 something, and his heart often told him what 
 that something was, made him prefer the so- 
 ciety of those more like himself. 
 
 Bat now he eagerly seeks the society of 
 that friend; for they are one in Christ Jesus. 
 My brethren, have you not the recollection 
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166 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 of just such an one, still on earth, or it may 
 be in heaven; and does not the remembrance 
 of those first moments of such spiritual com- 
 munion come over your spirits like the strains 
 of heavenly music ? 
 
 But not alone in the society of such inti- 
 mate friends, does the Christian find enjoy- 
 ment. In every one who loves Christ in 
 sincerity and truth, whatever may be his denom- 
 ination, he recognizes a brother and a friend. 
 Now it is pleasant to meet with the disci- 
 ples of the Lord, to hear them make mention 
 of his goodness, to sympathize in their trials, 
 to encourage them in the Christian life. 
 They may be widely different in all save 
 their feelings as Christians. But the great 
 tie of a common interest brings them closely 
 together, and together they strive to the 
 accomplishment of every good work. 
 
 4. But the most striking manifestations of 
 this change in the inner life of man, will 
 be found in the views and feelings with 
 which he regards the Author of his salva- 
 tion. 
 
 To the great mass of unregenerate men 
 it is ever true, that Christ is a root out of 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 167 
 
 dry ground, without form or comeliness. Their 
 eyes are closed against the exceeding loveli- 
 ness of his character; their hearts seem to 
 be sealed against the melting influences of 
 his great love. He is the object either of 
 their utter indifference, or their supreme con- 
 tempt. 
 
 Or to take a more favorable case : that 
 of a man who is a mere intellectual believer 
 in Christ. Such an one studies the life of 
 Christ, as he does that of any other histori- 
 cal personage. He may, indeed, believe that 
 the record of Christ in the New Testament 
 is true. His education and culture may ena- 
 ble him to perceive in a faint degree the 
 beautiful harmony of Christ's character. He 
 may perhaps see that Christ taught the pur- 
 est morality the world ever saw,* that every 
 step of progress the world has made since 
 Christ's ascension into heaven, has been 
 toward the standard of truth he unfolded 
 in his doctrines and demonstrated in his 
 life. But these are mere intellectual ideas ; 
 they do not affect the heart, they do not 
 make Christ an object of tender personal in- 
 terest. But let the Spirit of God graciously 
 
168 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 reveal to him the truths of the gospel, so 
 that he takes them into his mind and heart, 
 and Christ is to him indeed the one alto- 
 gether lovely. Every attribute of Christ is 
 invested with new charms, when viewed either 
 with reference to- the individual himself, or 
 to the whole race of man. He bows in 
 reverence before the miracles that he wrought, 
 and the many mighty proofs he gave of his 
 essential Deity. 
 
 With what a new and soul-subduing in- 
 terest he studies the record of his wonderful 
 life. In what a new and beautiful light does 
 the character of Christ appear to him — his 
 filial obedience, his untiring zeal in doing 
 good, his inexpressible kindness to all who 
 approached him, his uncomplaining submission 
 to the severest trials, his great forbearance 
 under wrongs and insults, his humility though 
 possesed of infinite wisdom, his meekness 
 though he could wield almighty power. 
 
 He is the believer's perfect example j and 
 as such is admiringly studied. With what 
 new force and beauty do the instructions of 
 the Saviour fall on the believer's ears. What 
 a conscious dignity there is in all he says ; what 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 169 
 
 a depth of meaning, and yet how plainly is 
 truth presented, and how joyfully is it received 
 into the believer's heart. He is the Chris- 
 tian's Great Teacher, and the source of all 
 truth. 
 
 But it is not as the Perfect Example, not 
 as the Great Teacher which most changes his 
 views and feelings of Christ: but that which 
 most clearly makes known the radical change 
 wrought in the man by the gospel, is the 
 preciousness of Christ as an atoning sacri- 
 fice. 
 
 He has often heard the story of Calvary 
 before ; has perhaps been familiar with it 
 from his childhood. It may have sometimes 
 awakened within him feelings of a vague com- 
 passion or a morbid sympathy, but no deep 
 and genuine emotion. 
 
 Now it excites the deepest and strongest 
 emotions of his nature. As he turns his 
 thoughts to the closing scenes of that stu- 
 pendous event ; to Gethsemane, with its terri- 
 ble burden of suffering and woe ; to that 
 hour when the mortal tenement seems too 
 frail to support the protracted struggle, and 
 an angel appears from heaven to strengthen 
 
170 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 it; to the hour when, breaking the stillness 
 of midnight, that cry ascends to heaven, My 
 Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass 
 from me, nevertheless not my will but thine 
 be done ; to the last great act of that 
 mighty drama, when amid the darkness and 
 the throes of nature, and the still deeper dark- 
 ness of his soul, the voice of the sufferer is 
 heard, My God ! my God ! why hast thou 
 forsaken me! when he cries out, It is fin- 
 ished! bows his head, and gives up the ghost; 
 0, who shall describe the love, the gratitude, 
 the admiration, which fills the heart of the 
 believer in view of such scenes as these ! 
 
 What new views do they give him of the 
 awful nature of sin, that demanded such an 
 expiation. 
 
 He mourned his sins in view of the holi- 
 ness and purity of God, and his continued 
 loving kindness and mercy. But with what 
 an increased weight of anguish do they now 
 fill his soul, as he sees the Son of God, the 
 brightness of his Father's glory, thus set forth 
 a martyr, a sacrifice, enduring unspeakable 
 agonies, and yielding up his life for the sin- 
 ner. 
 
THE NEW CREATURE. 171 
 
 Herein, says the Apostle, is love; not that 
 we loved God, but that God loved us, and 
 sent his Son to. be a propitiation for our 
 sins. Herein, responds the Christian, is love . 
 love unspeakable, and full of glory. Once the 
 cross was an object of his deepest aversion. 
 Now it is the only hope ; and the abiding sen- 
 timent of his heart is, " God forbid that I 
 should glory save in the cross of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified 
 unto me and I unto the world." 
 
 The love of Christ is now the constraining 
 principle of his life. For, " to live is Christ." 
 All that he has, and all that he is, is thence- 
 forth devoted to his Kedeemer. He gives 
 himself a living sacrifice, and thinks it nothing 
 more than his " reasonable service." 
 
 How great is the change thus produced by 
 the reception of the gospel. Is it not indeed 
 " a change from darkness into marvellous 
 light." 
 
 To behold a man, once living a life of 
 practical emnity to God, disobeying His just 
 commands, regardless of His approbation or his 
 frowns, unmindful of his own high destiny, 
 debasing the exalted faculties of his soul to 
 
172 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 the petty and miserable things of earth, cast- 
 ing contempt on the adorable and only re- 
 deemer of man, now changed, now sitting at 
 the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right 
 mind; now glorying in that which he once 
 despised; now seeking in all humility and 
 faithfulness to please Him he had never ceased 
 to offend j now speaking a new language, wear- 
 ing the robes of righteousness and the garments 
 of salvation, and looking with a trustful spirit 
 beyond the grave to the bright prospect of 
 eternal bliss; is all this anything less than a 
 new creation? 
 
 To those who are strangers to it, it is in- 
 deed inexplicable ; to those who experience it, 
 the immediate gift of God. 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 
 
 FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IX 
 CUEIST JESUS. — EPH. II : 10. 
 
 The great theme of the Apostle in the chap- 
 ter from which the text is taken, is the rich 
 manifestation of God's mercy in Christ Jesus 
 to the saints at Ephesus. To impress this 
 upon them, and thus to call forth their grate- 
 ful love and obedience, he reminds them of 
 the depths of that moral degradation from 
 which by the quickening power of the Spirit, 
 they had been raised unto heavenly places in 
 Christ Jesus. And lest they should in aught 
 fail to ascribe the praise of this their salva- 
 tion unto God, by thinking that they had 
 performed some meritorious part of the work, 
 he most explicitly and repeatedly declares 
 that it is purely a work of grace. Their 
 salvation is in nothing owing to themselves, 
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174 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 to any peculiar excellence in them, or any 
 act of merit which they had done, but solely 
 to that great " love wherewith God had loved 
 them." " For/' says he, " by grace are ye 
 saved, through faith and that not of your- 
 selves ; it is the gift of God, not of works, 
 lest any man should boast." True, the es- 
 sential requisite or condition of their salva- 
 tion is faith. But since every work, and 
 consequently merit is excluded, faith itself is 
 denied mefitoriousness ; so that it is neither 
 on the performance of this condition, nor 
 any other, that we can say our own arm hath 
 saved us. We must acknowledge ourselves the 
 undeserving recipients of sovereign mercy, and 
 lift our souls in adoring gratitude to Him 
 u who worketh in us both to will and to do 
 of his good pleasure." 
 
 It is in confirmation of this view, that the 
 apostle introduces the words of the text. 
 They present the reason why salvation is not 
 of works, but of grace. "For we are his 
 workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto 
 good works." 
 
 Now, we think it evident from this connec- 
 tion, that in the mind of the Apostle this 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 175 
 
 quickening together with. Christ, of whic% he 
 had spoken, this deliverance of the Ephesians 
 from the thraldom of evil, this new life im- 
 parted to those once dead in trespasses and 
 sins, constituted essentially their salvation. 
 In this view only do we see how the text 
 confirms what precedes. It is as though the 
 apostle had said, "You are saved by grace, 
 because by grace you are regenerated. It is 
 not your good works that save you, because 
 these result from the renewing of your hearts 
 and minds, afld that is the work of God. 
 You do not save yourselves, because you do 
 not regenerate yourselves. It is God that 
 saves you, because it is God that regenerates 
 you." 
 
 In this unfolding of the Apostle's argument, 
 we have presented to us an idea of salvation, 
 which is in strict accordance with the uniform 
 teaching of Scripture, and which we ought to 
 bear carefully in mind. As herein represent- 
 ed, salvation consists essentially in regenera- 
 tion. It is not a mere judicial act of God, 
 by which the external condition of the sinner 
 is arbitrarily changed. It is not merely a 
 work done out of us, it is a work done in 
 
176 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 us. f We are saved from the punishment of sin, 
 by being saved from its dominion. 
 
 Of course, we do not abate one jot or 
 tittle of the necessity of the Saviour's atone- 
 ment in its relations to God. We seem to 
 perceive in some particulars in what that ne- 
 cessity consisted. In others we may not be. 
 able clearly to define it. For the finite mind 
 cannot grasp the movements of the Infinite 
 mind. 
 
 In its relations to ourselves, we feel less 
 of difficulty, because they seegn to us more 
 fully revealed, and the effects of that stupen- 
 dous fact on man, lie clearly within the range 
 of our own observation and experience j and 
 some of them will be noticed in the progress 
 of this discourse. 
 
 But while assured of the necessity of Christ's 
 atonement, we are as strongly assured by the 
 word of God, that our salvation, which by 
 that atonement is begun out of us, must be 
 completed in us ; that our characters must be 
 radically transformed ; that our hearts must be 
 changed from the love of sin unto the love 
 of God; that we must be renewed in the 
 spirit and temper of our minds ; that we must 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 177 
 
 put off the old man, which, is corrupt, 
 according to the deceitful lusts ; and put on 
 the new man, which after God is created in 
 righteousness and true holiness ; in other 
 words, that regeneration, a new birth, is the 
 only mode of man's entrance into the king- 
 dom of God, the only means by which he 
 may avail himself of the efficacy of Christ's 
 atonement. 
 
 The text declares the power by which re- 
 generation is effected. " For we are his work- 
 manship," that is, the workmanship of God. 
 In one sense, it is true, this language may be 
 used of all men. For we are all God's off- 
 spring. We are all the work of his hands, for 
 He has made us, and not we ourselves. But 
 the context clearly shows, that in its present 
 use it is applicable only to Christians. They 
 are the workmanship of God, in that He is 
 the author of their regeneration, of their new 
 spiritual creation. He is the mighty builder, 
 who, from the ruins into which sin had thrown 
 the soul, has raised it a glorious temple in 
 which his Holy Spirit deigns to dwell. He 
 it is, who, into the soul darkened by igno- 
 rance and error, has poured a flood of mar- 
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178 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 vellous light; he it is, who has caused those 
 once dead in trespasses and sins to rise to a 
 higher aad nobler life than that of the body; 
 who has brought into subjection their base 
 and unholy passions; who has caused to ger- 
 minate and nourish in the once barren desert 
 of their hearts, the heavenly plants of " love, 
 joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, good- 
 ness, faith." And in accordance with the con- 
 text of our subject, it is to be remarked, that 
 our regeneration is purely a work of grace : 
 grace the most pure and unmixed, the fruit of 
 G-od's sovereign will. " Of his own will be- 
 gat he us," says the Apostle James. " Of his 
 own will;" for though the nature of God's 
 agency cannot but be consonant with his charac- 
 ter, though the fruit of His Spirit cannot but 
 be most pure and holy, yet he was under no 
 necessity to interpose at all. " Of his own 
 will;" as opposed not only to any necessity of 
 nature in Him, but to any claim of merit 
 in us. No previous worthiness of ours, no at- 
 tractive excellence in us, no act of merit 
 which we have done, caused Him to exert his 
 power in our renovation. No, " not by works 
 of righteousness which we have done, but ac- 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 179 
 
 cording to His mercy He saved us, by the 
 washing of regeneration and the renewing of 
 the Holy Ghost." 
 
 We may not understand in just what man- 
 ner the Spirit of God acts on the soul of 
 man ; but surely he who created the soul can 
 act on it in whatever way He sees fit. And 
 when we consider the deep seated alienation 
 of the heart from God ; the strength of its 
 unholy passions, and the ever increasing power 
 of sinful habits, we feel a conviction amounting 
 to certainty, that He who created the heart 
 alone can change it. It is a mysterious influ- 
 ence, that of the Spirit in regeneration. " Like 
 the wind which bloweth where it listeth, and 
 ye. hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence 
 it cometh or whither it goeth." So the divine 
 spirit ruleth with a free omnipotence. You 
 experience its workings in the soul, but its 
 beginning, and the limit of its operation, lie 
 hidden in darkness far from human sight. 
 Man becomes spiritually renewed, by a process 
 as silent and invisible, by an influence as various 
 and unrestrained in its operations, yet as cer- 
 tainly known in its effects, as the force and 
 direction of the wind, and perceived by the 
 
180 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 displays of its power. Yet mysterious as 
 this influence may be, and how much soever it 
 may baffle the power of human comprehen- 
 sion, yet, when we behold a man changed from 
 sin to holiness, from a life of practical enmity 
 to his Maker, to one of grateful love and 
 obedience, in such a man we recognize in 
 its most exalted sense, the workmanship of 
 God. 
 
 But the second clause of the text, marks 
 somewhat more particularly in what this work- 
 manship of God consists. Christians are the 
 workmanship of God, in that by the trans- 
 forming power of the Spirit they have been 
 created anew in Christ Jesus. 
 
 There is contained in this expression a 
 reference both to the ground or occasion, and 
 the result of regeneration. The ground or 
 occasion of God's exercising the renewing 
 power of his Spirit in the soul of man, is 
 the expiatory work of Christ. By virtue of 
 Christ's infinite condescension in assuming hu- 
 man nature, of that unvarying faithfulness 
 with which He acted out all the precepts of 
 the broken and dishonored laws ; by His vol- 
 untary submission to its severest penalties, 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 181 
 
 and His atoning death on the cross, there is, 
 as it were a channel of communication opened 
 up from earth to heaven, through which the 
 Holy Spirit, source of all spiritual light and 
 life, may flow down into these hard and stub- 
 born hearts, whereby those hearts shall be 
 changed from the love of sin unto the love 
 of holiness, and thus " through Christ we who 
 were once alienated from God have access 
 by one Spirit unto the Father." 
 
 But the grand result of this recreating in- 
 fluence of the Spirit, which through the expia- 
 tory work of Christ is exercised on man, is 
 that it brings him to repose faith in Christ, 
 that is to receive Christ in all the characters 
 and offices with which he is invested; to believe 
 all that He has taught, concerning the char- 
 acter of God; the principles on which the 
 administration of his moral good pro- 
 ceeds, His designs of love and mercy 
 to His earthly children, the relations which 
 he sustains to his Creator and his fellow men, 
 his condition as a sinner, his need of a Re- 
 deemer, the gracious provision of just such 
 a Eedeemer as his necessities require; and 
 thus especially to receive Christ as his al- 
 
182 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 mighty deliverer from the dominion and curse 
 of sin ; to give himself wholly over to Christ's 
 guardianship ; that is, to rest all his hopes 
 of salvation on Christ. The man who has 
 been enabled to do all this, has been cre- 
 ated anew in Christ Jesus. And this is in 
 accordance with another declaration of the 
 same Apostle, that if any man be in Christ 
 Jesus he is a new creature, or a new creation. 
 
 We have thus given a general view of the 
 new creation in Christ Jesus. We have said 
 that it is effected by the omnipotent energy of 
 the Holy Spirit acting on the conscience and 
 heart of man in consequence of the expiatory 
 work of Christ, and that the one great result 
 of all this on man is that he is brought to a 
 joyful and unreserved acceptance of Christ as 
 the only Saviour of men. But still fixing 
 our attention on the idea of a new creation, 
 and for the purpose of illustrating what has 
 already been advanced, we may put it into 
 another form: viz. Faith in Christ is the 
 prominent characteristic of the regenerate 
 man. 
 
 Now we are assured by our own observation 
 and experience, that to the great mass of un- 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 183 
 
 regenerate men, Christ is a root out of dry 
 ground, without form or comeliness. Their eyes 
 seem to be closed against the exceeding love- 
 liness of His character, their hearts seem to 
 be sealed against the melting influence of His 
 great love. He is the object either of their 
 utter indifference or their supreme contempt. 
 Or to take a more favorable case, that of 
 those who are merely intellectual believers 
 in Christ. They study the life of Christ as 
 they do that of any other historical personage. 
 They indeed believe that the record of Christ 
 in the New Testament is true ; that He did 
 the deeds therein recorded of Him. Their 
 education and culture may enable them to per- 
 ceive, and eloquently to discourse upon, the 
 beautiful harmony of Christ's character. They 
 may perceive that He taught the purest mor- 
 ality the world ever saw, that every step of 
 true progress the world has made since Christ's 
 ascension into heaven, has been towards the 
 standard of truth which He employed in His 
 doctrines and illustrated in His life, and is 
 yet at an inconceivable distance below it. 
 But these are merely intellectual ideas, they 
 do not affect the heart, they do not make 
 
184 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 Christ an object of tender personal interest 
 to the believer. All this is far short of the 
 New Testament idea of faith in Christ, of 
 union with Him, of the repose of the soul's 
 eternal interests upon Him. 
 
 But let the Spirit of God graciously open 
 the heart of man to receive the gospel in all 
 its fullness, and Christ becomes unto him 
 indeed, the " chiefest among ten thousand, and 
 the one altogether lovely." Every attribute of 
 Christ is invested with new charms, whether 
 viewed in reference to himself or the whole 
 race of man. He bows in reverence before 
 the miracles that he wrought, and the many 
 mighty proofs He gave of His essential Deity. 
 With what a new and soul-subduing interest 
 he reads the record of that wonderful life, 
 which beginning in the lonely manger of Beth- 
 lehem, was brought to its sublimely awful ter- 
 mination on Calvary's Cross. 
 
 In what a new and beautiful light, the 
 character of Christ now appears to him; His 
 filial obedience ; His untiring zeal in doing- 
 good; His inexpressible tenderness towards all 
 who approached him, his uncomplaining sub- 
 mission to the severest trials ; His great for- 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 185 
 
 bearance under wrongs and insults ; His humil- 
 ity, though possessed of infinite wisdom j His 
 meekness, though he could wield almighty 
 power. The regenerate man receives Christ 
 as his Perfect Example, and in reliance on 
 Divine aid strives to follow it. 
 
 With what new force and beauty do the 
 instructions of the Saviour now fall on the 
 believer's ear. What a conscious dignity there 
 is in all he says ; what depth of meaning, and 
 yet how simply and how plainly is the truth pre- 
 sented by him who spake as never man spake ; 
 and how joyfully received into the regenerated 
 heart. The regenerate man receives Christ 
 as the Great Teacher, the source of all re- 
 ligious truth. 
 
 But the reception of Christ in these charac- 
 ters alone, does by no means constitute that 
 faith in Christ, which is the prominent charac- 
 teristic of the regenerate man. It is not as 
 the Perfect Example, not as the Great Teacher, 
 that makes Christ an object of the most ten- 
 der personal interest, but always and preemi- 
 nently as an Atoning Sacrifice, as " Him cruci- 
 fied," as Him who loved us and gave Himself 
 for us, as the Lamb of God who taketh away 
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186 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 the sins of the world. And it is the recep- 
 tion of Christ in this character which most 
 significantly marks the radical change, which by 
 the Spirit has been wrought in the believer's 
 heart. 
 
 In his unregenerate state, the doctrine of 
 Christ crucified, was to him foolishness. 
 Every objection which reason could invent 
 was urged against it, but all his objections 
 originated in the deep seated hostility of his 
 heart to the humbling truths involved in it. 
 It taught him that he was a sinner against 
 God, and by his own voluntary transgression 
 had forfeited the favor of heaven. It taught 
 him that in and of himself his condition 
 was one of irretrievable ruin; that he could 
 not merit salvation : it demanded that he 
 should renounce every claim to the approba- 
 tion of God; that he should cast aside his 
 pride, his self-righteousness, and in meek sub- 
 mission accept of salvation as a gratuitous 
 gift. To all this we know the natural man 
 is averse. 
 
 But the regenerate man has been brought 
 to see in its true light his lost condition 
 as a sinner, and in the profound conviction 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 187 
 
 of his own un worthiness and helplessness, in 
 true repentence for his sins, and in earnest 
 longings to be freed from them, has submit- 
 ted himself unto the righteousness of God 
 in Christ. He has been brought to see how 
 empty was his self-righteousness, how impious 
 too ; and renouncing every claim to salvation 
 he throws himself cheerfully on the free 
 mercy of God in Christ Jesus; and when 
 by the eye of faith he turns to the closing 
 scenes of the Saviour's life, to Gethsemane, 
 with its terrible burden of suffering and of 
 woe, to that fearful hour, when amid the 
 darkness and throes of nature, the majestic 
 Son of God gives up his life a ransom for 
 sinners ; it is then that all the best emo- 
 tions of his nature are stirred to its in- 
 most depths j it is then that he receives 
 Christ with his whole heart, as his personal 
 Saviour, and in view of that unparalleled 
 demonstration of divine love, the- fervent ex- 
 clamation of his soul is, " God forbid that 
 I should glory save in the cross of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified 
 unto me and I unto the world." 
 
 How great is the change which has thus 
 
188 THE STUDENT-PREACHER. 
 
 been wrought in man, in bringing him to a 
 hearty and unreserved surrender of himself to 
 Christ, and thus transferring himself out of 
 the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom 
 of God's dear Son. This change involves, 
 on the part of him in whom it has been 
 effected, entirely new views of himself, of 
 his fellow men, of the relative importance 
 of heavenly and earthly things, brings him 
 into the new and endearing relation of a 
 child of God and an heir of heaven. Old 
 things have passed away, behold all things 
 have become new. Does not all this verify 
 the doctrine of the text, that faith in Christ 
 is the result of regeneration, and that they 
 who are thus in Christ are the workmanship 
 of God, in that by the gracious energy of 
 his Spirit they have been newly created ? 
 
 "We have said that faith in Christ is the 
 result of regeneration. We are thus fur- 
 nished with a test by which we may try 
 our own religious condition and state, by 
 which we may determine for ourselves, whether 
 there has indeed passed on us that renova- 
 ting change, which the Scriptures assert to be 
 
REGENERATION THROUGH CHRIST. 189 
 
 an indispensable preparation for the kingdom 
 of God. 
 
 The text is a simple one : one level to the 
 understanding of any rational creature. The 
 question is not what were your feelings at 
 some particular moment of your past life ; 
 you are not called on to give an intelligible 
 explanation of the various steps by which, as 
 you trust, you have been brought into the 
 kingdom of God. You are not required to 
 give your assent to all the dogmas of some 
 theological system. The question has nothing 
 to do with the uninspired teachings of men. 
 It is not, Do you believe in Augustine, or 
 Calvin, or Edwards ? It is simply, " Do you 
 believe in the Lord Jesus Christ ? " Do 
 you sincerely, and with a whole heart, accept 
 of Him as your all-sufficient Saviour, and 
 with a firm unwavering trust, and in the 
 joyful assurance of safety, commit all the in- 
 terests of your undying soul to Him " who 
 was delivered for our offences, and raised 
 again for our justification." 
 
 If you say, if you can truly say, " Lord, I 
 believe, help thou my unbelief," then you 
 have the witness within you, that you have 
 
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 been born from above, and are a true child 
 of God. This is the proof of your regen- 
 eration, that you have faith in Christ. And 
 this is confirmed by the declaration of Saint 
 John, that "whosoever believeth that Jesus 
 is the Christ, is born of God," and u God 
 dwelleth in him, and he in God." 
 
 If we have thus received Jesus Christ, so 
 let us walk in him, rooted and grounded, 
 and built up in him, and established in the 
 faith, " till we all come, in the unity of the 
 faith, and the knowledge of the Son of 
 God, unto the perfect man, into the measure 
 of the stature of the fullness of Christ." 
 
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