And, once more, he served _under a deep sense of obligation to God_. There is no motive in the universe of such mighty power, in the divine service, as the love of Christ to sinners; his love in redemption; his love in dying for the ungodly. “The love of Christ constraineth us.” And while it constrains us to love Christ, who redeemed us with his precious blood, it also constrains us to persevere in a course of christian service, with an alacrity and devotedness which no other motive could inspire. Oh! how this was felt by our beloved friend. What a master motive to his heart was the love of Christ in becoming the propitiation for our sins! In his speeches, and in his writings, what lofty inspiration did the theme produce! and how he seemed to feel as if he could never say enough, nor do enough, to testify his obligation to that benignant Master, “who loved him, and gave himself for him!” Delightful as it is, thus to speak of one, who, after this manner, served his own generation according to the will of God, we nevertheless desire to say it all in perfect accordance with the doctrine, that all his disposition, and all his capacity, for his Master’s service, was derived entirely from his Master’s grace. I should be doing a grievous wrong, not only to Scripture sentiment, but to his own most cherished convictions, if I were in the least degree to intimate that any of his spiritual excellencies were either self-originated or meritoriously exercised. No—amidst my highest admiration of his character, I would remember the admonition which he gave to me, when he met me on my way to preach the funeral sermon for Joseph Kinghorn—“praise the Master, not the servant;” and I do so when I say, that all which the servant became, the Master made him. The same hand which gave him the reward of the faithful servant, had previously given him the fidelity; and, therefore, we glorify God in him; and we carefully remember, that the holiest christian on earth, and the brightest saint in heaven, willingly unite in the one declaration, “By the grace of God I am what I am.” III. Our remarks on the christian servant must now be brought to a close; and having considered the office which he sustains, and the manner in which it is to be discharged, I must briefly consider in the third place, THE STATE IN WHICH IT TERMINATES. “For David, after he had served his own generation, by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers.”