Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE DRUNKARD. As men live, so do men die.—Within twenty-four hours of the deatli narrated in our last, another member of the human family had fled to the unseen world with widely different feelings; would that we could add with a widely different fate. He was not ignorant of the doctrines of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To his youthful training, an inquisitive mind, aided by no contemptible talent, had added a considerable stock of theological learning. His reading had been chiefly of our old divines, and his knowledge was not more extensive than his sentiments were sound. Where scarcely any society existed of a higher class, and where in his own rank of life any tolerable acquaintance with such subjects was sufficiently rare, we regarded him as some acquisition. It was evident that his mind had found its chief exercise in religious inquiry ; and on the various c points of Christian doctrine his judgment was clear, his reasoning acute, his conversation interesting and animated. Nor did he converse like a man who had a mere speculative knowledge of momentous truth. He spoke with seriousness and fervour, with reverent inquiry and docility, and took a pleasure in dwelling on repentance, justification by grace, and the other fundamental doctrines of our faith. On these subjects his views were perhaps as correct as an orthodox creed thoroughly studied could render them ; we do not say that they were as clear as if they had been sealed by the teaching of the Spirit. He prayed frequently, if nothabitually, in his family, and occasionally with some of the more seriously disposed amongst his neighbours, by whom we understood him to be regarded as excelling in devotional exercises. The public ordinances of grace be seemed to appreciate, and to observe them with self-application. His ...