This Bunyan has done beyond all who could claim to be his equals in intellectual gifts. Others may rival or surpass him in genius, but no man of genius equals him in the extent to which he has guided pilgrims to the skies. For this he has a place in the hearts of thousands, more to be desired than the most wide-sounding fame; and for this he will reap a glorious reward throughout the coming eternity.

And now, thou ingenious and immortal dreamer, farewell! Very pleasant and profitable has been the time we have spent in thy company. There is that in thy life, still more than in thy writings, which stirs all that is best and holiest in our nature. We feel conscious of thy priceless worth to the people, to whom, being dead, thou art yet speaking. And while we pray that many may be charmed by thy pictures, and induced to venture on the pilgrimage thou hast described so well, we thank God, who, in troublous times, did raise thee up to become through after ages a teacher of His church and a blessing to the world.

HE subject of this sketch occupied a prominent place among the group of distinguished men who at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century shed lustre on their denomination. Among such names as those of Pearce, Ryland, Sutcliffe, Carey, Marshman, Foster, and Hall, his fairly takes its place as the representative of massive intellect, of lofty piety and integrity, and of distinguished service to the cause of Christ. If he be not the foremost of the group, he is at least abreast of the greatest; not so lofty as some of them, nor of the same exquisite quality and finish, but the sturdiest and most enduring of them all. With little of the ornamental in his nature or productions, he is a man of rare serviceable qualities, which, with singleness of purpose and untiring zeal, he consecrates to noblest ends. With an intellect massive in its proportions, firm in its grasp, clear in its vision, if not very wide in its range, but showing something of the narrowness of insufficient culture, with strong common sense, a judgment generally sound, except when it becomes

the slave of a logic strong in its links, but insufficient in its premisses; with a gravity of character which gave weight to his words, he was enabled, both by his ministerial and official labours as honorary secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, to exert an influence on his denomination greater than was wielded by any even of his more gifted contemporaries. The Mission at whose birth he ministered, and whose infancy he nursed, owes to his instrumentality not a little of the success with which God has crowned it. If Carey's zeal in the first instance, and afterwards his brilliant linguistic attainments, all employed more or less directly in the furtherance of the great work to which he had consecrated his life, kindled and kept alive the enthusiasm of its friends, Fuller's judicious, persevering, and self-denying labours established and conducted the organizations without which enthusiasm may be expended to little purpose. If the one nobly went down into the pit of heathenism to dig out of that deep, dark quarry living stones for the spiritual temple, the other has nobly and untiringly held the rope, never failing to respond to the expectations of the brethren who had gone out in simple reliance on the faithfulness of God and the co-operation and sympathy of His people. And did we now seek a revival of the spirit of former times, we hardly know which would be more conducive to its promotion -the raising up of Careys to labour abroad, or of Fullers to visit the churches at home..

It is not so much for his work as Mission Secretary, however, that we now call attention to this good and great man's life, as for the services he rendered to the churches of both his own and other denominations by his influence on the theology of his time. We do not attempt here to hold the balance between this and his services as Mission Secretary, nor do we pronounce the one superior to

the other. We select this for notice because, while there are others of our Worthies who are still more intimately associated with missions, and in connection with whose labours his cannot be altogether lost sight of, his influence as a theologian is unrivalled, whether among the men of his own or any other denomination, either during or since his time.

To whatever this influence may be owing, the fact of its existence--partially even now, though perhaps to a less extent than formerly, and it may be also in waning degree—will hardly be denied. Nor will it be questioned, by any whose opinion we care to dispute, that that influence, formerly, at least, was most salutary in its nature. His teaching shook to its foundations the hyper-Calvinism which forbade the preaching of the gospel to sinners, and practically, if not avowedly, denied the responsibility and free agency of man; and if it presented a too stern aspect to what it may have deemed an equally dangerous Arminianism, and failed frequently to understand that which it condemned, it only on that account gained the readier acceptance among those who would have taken fright at anything which appeared to be at variance with what they called "the doctrines of grace." Few preachers now can imagine the existence of trammels which would prevent their addressing unbelievers, and have difficulty, therefore, in properly appreciating the emancipation which was effected when it was shown that the free proclamation of the gospel to sinners was not at variance with the sovereignty of God in the salvation of men. Our theology may not be perfect yet; but in our opinion it presents a marvellous improvement on that which Fuller had to confront. And if we deem it an advantage that, except in obscure circles, into which the light slowly penetrates, our right to preach the gospel to all men is never