Mr. Samuel Warmington was the youngest of a numerous family. He had enjoyed many religious advantages from early childhood, and had grown up in the society of persons many of whom were distinguished for their prudence and piety. His early youth was strictly moral, and gave promising indications of future worth. He had much simplicity of purpose, with a remarkable freedom from those moral taints which many youths imbibe as they rise into manhood. He enjoyed no particular endowments of mind that might serve to distinguish or raise him above his fellows; but he possessed those more useful characteristics which attracted the respect and love of the circle by whom he was best known. Naturally of a retiring disposition, he avoided many worldly dangers and temptations, and acquired a salutary acquaintance with his own heart in private. In due time, God, in infinite mercy, though by a very gradual process, created him anew in Christ Jesus. This change was seen and felt by himself and others, not so much in the outward conduct, as by the flow of feeling and affection towards subjects of the highest importance. He united himself to the church under the pastoral care of the Rev. Dr. Newman, about three years since; and from that period has constantly maintained an exemplary Christian deportment, though circumstances over which he had no control prevented his fulfilling his duties as a church member as he could have wished. He was soon subjected to the discipline of his heavenly Father, who correcteth every son whom he receiveth. A tender attachment he had formed for a very accomplished and pious young lady was reciprocated and mutually cherished, till it became interrupted by her illness and death. The excitement consequent on the commencement and ripening of this affection, under circumstances so mournful, gave the first development of incipient disease. His friends observed its effects with concern, but not with alarm. In the meantime his mind had been acquiring both fortitude and dignity. The warmest sympathies of his heart had been drawn forth on behalf of his fading, dying friend; but, at the same time, he had been brought so near to the realities of the eternal world as never to lose the impression afterwards. The beneficial effects this trial had upon his character was evident to all who observed him. He mingled again amidst the busy scenes of life with feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the grace and mercy which had been manifested towards his late friend, and with renewed devotion to the God who had mingled so large a share of parental love with the affliction he had appointed him to endure. He likewise mingled in scenes of family affliction with much sensibility and a matured judgment. He did his part, with other brothers, in solacing a mother's dying pillow by his prayers and by other filial attentions.