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Perhaps a profitable recollection may be gathered from the diary of a late excellent Minister—‘Pardon me, O Lord, that I do not meet my friends more like a Minister of Christ.’ Jay’s Life of Winter. It was the opinion of the heavenly Leighton,—that nothing takes off more from the authority of Ministers, and the efficacy of their message, than a custom of vain and frivolous conversation.’ Pearson’s Life, 126. ‘I perceive too much compliance with worldly company and conversation. Oh my soul, if I give way to this, my usefulness will be much diminished. ‘Let me often remember, that I renounced the world at baptism.’ Diary of Legh Richmond. Life, p. 71.