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He spent the summer previous to his ordination in this conorrejj^ation. In a letter to his friend, Marion Morrison, he gives expression to his feelings in reference to the work in which he was engaged, in these words: "It has been my lot heretofore to be compelled to work. I have got into the way of it — I can't keep from it — work I must. How do you find it? Is not preaching to souls a very serious business, far different than seminary preaching? Oli, how awful a business! . What earnest minister would think of decking his sermons with garlands, made of the flowers of rhetoric? For my part, I feel that the work is too awful for any such trilling. I talk right on the plainest truths of the word — naked though they be. I would not polish a truth, gloss it up, until it slips down like an oyster or a sugar coated pill; the rough corners sometimes make the impression." In this connection we will insert an extract from an article of the Rev. James A. Grier, which shows that his early ideas of preach- ing clung to him through life. "His presentation of truth was so exceedingly clear and simple that 10 A Busy Lifr. often it did not look well iu print. In the pulpit, from his lips, it was the great power of God. In all the branches of illustration, he was a master. Especially was he at home in analogies drawn from