very trait commands their respect, and their love. It gives to
him a value, which he never appeared to possess before. Ten
months have I now had daily opportunities to observe this altered
man in a great variety of circumstances, and some of them, it
must be confessed, sufficiently trying. In one instance, I have
had to regret, and censure the appearance of that perversity
which made an important part of his character. But happily this
fit of turbulence was of short duration; and some months have
passed since, without witnessing a repetition of the infirmity.
Were I this evening asked to name a man in the Colony, who would
most carefully guard against offending, or causing even a
momentary pain to any of his fellow-men, I should not hesitate to
say that in my judgment, the man is L. C. On this point I insist,
because it was precisely in his revolting and unfeeling
churlishness, that his greatest and most incurable infirmity
seemed to consist. I hardly need add, were silence not liable to
misconstruction, that the duties and ordinances of religion are
matters of his most devout and diligent observance. How often
have I been awaked at dawn of Sabbath, by his devout strains of
prayer and praise, sent up from the midst of a little company of
praying people, who at that hour assemble for religious exercises
in a vacant building near my residence. How sure am I to find him
reverently seated in his place, among the earliest who assemble
in the house of God. What an active promoter of every commendable
and pious design, is sure to be found in him.

Every laudable habit, which had survived the general extinction
of all practical virtue, seems to have acquired additional
confirmation: and from the operation of higher principles, seems
to follow of course, and derive the best guaranty of its
continuance. I might go on to particularize; but it would only be
to fill up the outline already sketched, and which, whether
relating to his former or his present character, however,
imperfect, is strictly true. Ask of him the cause of so obvious
and surprising a change, and he humbly, but unhesitatingly
ascribes it wholly to the power of the Divine Spirit, operating,
he cannot tell how, but evidently by means of the word and
ordinances of God, upon his whole min