ss that she was listening to him.
However, he read the service clearly and impressively, in the manly
tone, and simply religious manner of one who knows that he is leading
the prayers and praises of a congregation who cannot express their wants
too humbly and naturally, to One who knows what they desire, even before
they ask. No one in that church prayed more earnestly to be delivered
from 'all blindness of heart, from pride, vain-glory and hypocrisy; from
envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,' than he did. And
as he proceeded with the litany, his mind grew calmer, and he gradually
received strength to overcome the great inward struggle that he was
suffering from.

Before reading the thanksgiving, he gave out in a tremulous voice, that
a 'member of that congregation was desirous of returning thanks to
Almighty God for her recovery from dangerous, illness.' When he thanked
God for all His mercies to all men, 'particularly to her who desires now
to offer up her praises and thanksgivings for late mercies vouchsafed
unto her,' every one felt that he was returning thanks for his own
mother's recovery, and joined him in so doing. His father was seen to
put his handkerchief to his eyes, as he lifted up his heart in praise.

His earnest manner evidently impressed his congregation, who were
usually accustomed to the somewhat monotonous reading of his uncle, and
to his rather learned discourses.

It is generally the case, that words spoken from the overflowings of the
speaker's own heart and feelings, make the greatest impression on the
hearts and feelings of his hearers; so it was now. When Rowland, in
simple and forcible language, told his listeners that the first words of
our Lord's Sermon on the Mount were to bless the poor in spirit, and to
promise them the kingdom of heaven; and went on to contrast such poverty
of spirit with the pride and vain glory inherent in man, and to call up
the various scriptural examples and texts that bore upon the subject of
humility; he gained the attention of all. Then he enlarged more
particularly on the necessity of curbing and bridling and keeping down
the spirit, until it attained that lowliness to which Our Saviour
alludes in the very first of the beatitudes; and finally went through
that Saviour's life, as the great example for all men, of meekness,
gentleness, and humility--the interest in his words increased.

Rowland preached from the heart to the heart, and so his ser