The other individual, to whom I have ventured to refer, is your late dear and honoured Secretary, Dr. Steinkopff. The present was not the first opportunity I had enjoyed of tracing the extent of his labour, and of ascertaining the estimation in which he is held on the continent. It is right to be known, that Dr. Steinkopff, before he came to England, filled an office of large correspondence on the subject of religion, and which gave him perhaps a better acquaintance with the religious state of Germany, than, I may venture to say, any other individual. He has constantly held communications with his successors in the important and influential office which he himself held; and this has given, to himself, a power of judging of the exact state of the continent; and, to his labours, a degree of efficiency, which could scarcely have been possessed without it. But when I speak of the value of Dr. Steinkopff to the Bible Society, it is not to any mere outward circumstance I would mainly advert. I may venture to say, that his character has been one grand instrument of your success on the continent. “If,” said a person, of considerable influence in Germany, to me, “you do not want Dr. Steinkopff any longer in England, send him over here, and he will find friends enough.” Wherever he has appeared, either as the officer of your Society or as a private individual, he has left a name behind him which, next to the favour of the Master he has so affectionately and devotedly served, and the good which he has been the instrument of effecting for his fellow-creatures, may be his comfort in his hours of sickness and of solitude. I saw none who knew him who were not ready to bear testimony to his humility, his conscientiousness, his vigour, his undeviating devotedness to the Society whose officer he was. May God long preserve him to assist us by his counsels, and to advocate the cause of the Society, with a voice which, whether at home or abroad, has been rarely heard in vain. I will now venture, in conclusion, to urge upon the Committee, as the plain inference from the foregoing statements, what appears to me to be a most imperious duty. It is that of cultivating and to manifesting a _spirit of kindness_, _of generosity_, _and enlarged benevolence towards our continental brethren_. If it be considered as an offence that we express our “unfeigned Christian regards” towards many of our fellow labourers abroad, I trust that we shall continue thus to offend. I had constantly occasion on the continent, whilst speaking on the subject of the Apocrypha to those who most materially differed from us, to urge, that, whereas by the new resolution of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the ground upon which we could unite was somewhat narrowed, our temper of mind, our sympathy, and love might remain the same; and that, if we could hope less than ever to “reconcile all opinions,” we might still endeavour “to unite all hearts.”