| -| Jas. v. 7, 8, be patient--husbandmen | | -| waiteth, but waiting, Luke xii. 36, 37, 39, 40, | | -| Peter 41, v. 58, 58 refers to days of long-suffering. | | | | +------------------ | | -| Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things, beware, etc., | | -| danger of falling away in many parts, i. 9, ii. 20, 21, 22, | | -| great pride of the _formal_ adherers, ii. 19, 13. | | | | | -| But the assurance is at iii. 18--i. 2, 8. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ COPY OF ONE OF THE CARDS FROM WHICH FARADAY PREACHED.] Another of his listeners said, "His object seemed to be to make the most use of the words of Scripture, and to make as little of his own words as he could. Hence a stranger was struck first by the number and rapidity of his references to texts in the Old and New Testaments, and secondly, by the devoutness of his manner." Yet another friend, who had been privileged to hear Faraday preach before his small flock, said of his sermons, "They struck me as resembling a mosaic work of texts. At first you could hardly understand their juxtaposition and relationship; but as the well-chosen pieces were filled in by degrees their congruity and fitness became developed, and at last an amazing sense of the power and beauty of the whole filled one's thoughts at the close of the discourse." This, his first period of eldership in the Church, continued from 1840 until 1844, when a slight misunderstanding having arisen between himself and the brethren, he for a time relinquished the office; occupying it again, however, later on in life. His earnest religious feeling was an abiding source of consolation to him in all his trials; it affected in no slight degree his life and life-work at all points, although, to his credit be it said, that it was rather the spirit of his religious feeling which was thus manifested, and it is not by any means to be understood that he was in even the slightest degree given to cant, such a thing being far from possible with him. His religion was a something too sacred and too immediately between himself and his God, as he said, for him to refer to it, except when circumstances especially called for it. Then, in the earnest sympathetic words of comfort, which he addressed to those persons with whom he was intimate when they were in trouble, we may trace the true deep current of religion, which was so essentially a part of his nature.