Many eminent saints have lived of whose former existence no trace now remains; many deeply taught and highly favoured ministers have preached whose very names are now utterly lost. But the same God of all grace, who wrought in their hearts to believe, prompted others of His saints and servants to leave on record either their experience or their testimony to His truth; and thus, though dead, they yet speak in their writings, to the Church of Christ. Their souls have long entered into rest, and their bodies have long mouldered into dust, but they still live in their writings, and their words, which otherwise would have perished with them, are even now as goads and as nails fastened in our consciences by the great Master of assemblies.

J. C. Philpot.