to preach in the meeting, sir; and if all cannot be accommodated, part of them had better remain outside, especially as it is a fine day.” On our arrival, we found that the service had commenced nearly half an hour. While I was attending to the horse, the Rev. Andrew Fuller came to me, and inquired from whence I brought Mr. Hall. I told him from Dunstable. He asked me where he was gone. I said I did not know, I lost him in a minute. Pray, Mr. Fuller, what part do you take to-day in the service?' 'O, I have no particular part. Mr. takes the principal part of the service here to-day.' He then went in pursuit of Mr. Hall. In a few minutes I followed; and, after some inquiries, found Mr. Hall in a private room, with a pipe, his Bible, and some tea before him. I said, Mr. Fuller has been looking for you, sir: have you seen him?' "No, I have not: what part of the service does he take to-day?" O, sir, he says he has no particular part assigned him: Mr. —- takes the lead to-day.' Why, sir, this is extraordinary: you must know, sir, that Mr. Fuller is always at the head of these associations. What did he say? How did he look? Did not Andrew appear cut? Well, it is the first time Mr. was the principal figure in a piece: but every one has his day. His time is short, and I hope he will make the best of it." I mentioned to Mr. Fuller Mr. Hall's determination not to preach in the open air. As it was a double service, they adjourned till the afternoon, when Mr. Hall preached, in the Meeting

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House, a very striking sermon, from the second chapter of the Revelation, and the first verse: Unto the angel of the church at Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.

I took no notes of the sermon at the time; but, as far as my memory serves, Mr. Hall pursued the following ideas. That Jesus Christ was the Author and Source of all moral and spiritual light. When he came into the world, he said, I am the light of life, I am the light of the world; he that believeth in me shall not walk in darkness. He came to dissipate the darkness of the earth, and the gross darkness which covered the people. The means he employed to embody and diffuse this light were, by constituting christian churches in different parts of the world. Believers derive a portion of light, and heat, and influence from him; and he exhorts them to let their light so shine before men, that others, seeing their good works, may glorify their Father which is in heaven. This made the light beneficial to a certain degree; but he ordained that these scattered rays of light should be collected in different places as beacons, to preserve and exhibit a greater body of light: hence the seven churches of Asia are called the seven golden candlesticks, as exhibiting the light of Christianity in great splendour and effulgence. The design of Jesus Christ has been to multiply these lights by increasing the number of churches in different parts of the world, until the whole

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earth is filled with his glory. Who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand;-denoting his protection and guidance, to preserve their light pure, and to keep them from wandering. They are not to be wandering stars, but regular in their movements, and fixed in his hand: therefore, he holdeth them in his right hand. Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. He walketh,representing the ease, the familiarity, and the delight he takes in beholding the order and regularity of the works of his own right hand planting; and also his communion with them, as it is said, Genesis iii. 8, our first parents heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, &c. &c. He closed by a powerful application of the subject to the ministers present, who are termed angels, or stars of the churches; and also to their different members, whom he exhorted to preserve the purity of their light, lest, after the example of some of the seven churches, they should be rebuked and have their candlestick taken out of its place, &c. &c.

After service I parted with him, and drove to Market Harborough; delighted, beyond measure, with his conversation.

Having spent three days with Mr. Hall, it was a relief to be alone. No person who has not been much with him, can have any conception of the effects produced by his uncommon weight of intellect, if I may be allowed the expression, pressing upon the mind. It was a continual flow of conversation on a variety of subjects for hours in

succession, when he either expected his friend to converse or listen attentively; and occasionally questioning him, as he proceeded, that he might know whether he was understood, and if his friend assented or dissented, or wished for further information. Thus he kept the mind on the run, as it were, till it became jaded and almost stupified; from which nothing but retirement and solitude could recover it. Many persons, much my superiors, have admitted that this has frequently been the case with themselves; and that they have on such occasions experienced so much lassitude and head-ache, that it was impossible to give much account of his intellectual conversation. I have heard Mrs. Hall say, that her head has frequently been in such a state, that she has been obliged to cease attention, to recover herself, when he has been drawn out in conversation upon an interesting subject.

I think it was the following autumn, in returning from Leamington, I went to Leicester, on a Saturday, to spend a Sabbath with him. When I arrived, I found that he was engaged to preach the next day, at Sutton in the Elms, a village, a few miles from Leicester. He supped with me at the inn. Early the next morning, I went to Sutton, and heard him preach from James iv. 13-15: Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time,

and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. The sermon was upon the folly of presuming on the future, from our absolute ignorance of the events of life; and the piety and necessity of referring all our actions and plans to the divine will: If the Lord will, we shall live and do this, or that. "The presumption of asserting that we will go appears,' said Mr. Hall, "from the consideration that we may not be able to go: we may be prevented by death, by sickness, or other calamities of a providential nature; and if we did go into such a city, we might not live there a year, to buy and sell; and if we did live to buy and sell, we could not be sure of getting gain; for riches are not always the lot of men of understanding and enterprise, &c. A pious mind, on the contrary, will refer every thing to the divine disposal, and say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that," &c. &c.

After dining with me at the house of a mutual friend, he retired to his chamber, to prepare for the afternoon's discourse, which was founded on The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. The characters of the righteous and the wicked were so beautifully and correctly delineated, that I cannot do justice by even a slight sketch of the sermon. After this service, a number of friends assembled to drink tea with him; but Mr. Hall was missing. I found him praying in a retired part of the garden. He was alone, and in an agony. Unconscious of my approach, with the deepest expressions of humility