Nor were his services confined within the precincts of his own congregation, but always ready to be extended far and near. Various societies and charities have rejoiced in his help and activity, and will heavily feel their loss. But I must forbear and leave the fond strain of regret, for a word of serious and spiritual improvement. Was he faithful? Then the larger account have you to render. Did he preach the truth in love? Then the more will his preaching condemn those hearers, who have failed to be convinced and converted. He has expounded and illustrated for you the whole of the sacred volume, from Genesis to Revelation; he dug deeply into that precious mine in the field of the word of God, and presented for your acceptance the treasures and the jewels in all their intrinsic worth and brightness. The Bible, the inexhaustible stores of the whole Bible, he laid open before you in all their vast and magnificent abundance; and led you, by precept and by example, to “the way and the truth and the life.” If you have not received the word and the spirit of grace, if you have not laid the doctrine to your soul, if you have not in earnest begun the goodly work, if you are not far advanced, the fault is not with the departed: you will not seek to charge him with neglect. Whom then? and where does the burden lie? “Son of man, speak to the children of thy people and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people: Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.” The trumpet has sounded in your ears, long and loud; the clear, thrilling, evangelical trumpet. The herald of God has done his duty; would to God that every conscience could whisper, “And I have done mine.”