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‘I fell into a mistake, when a young man,’ (observes Mr. Cecil) ‘in thinking, that I could talk to men of the world on their own ground, and could thus win them over to mine. I was fond of painting, and so I talked with them on that subject. This pleased them: but I did not consider, that I gave a consequence to their pursuits which did not belong to them: whereas I ought to have endeavoured to raise them above these, that they might engage in higher. I did not see this at the time, but I now see it to have been a great error.’ Cecil’s Remains—a work abounding with most important thoughts upon the subject of the Christian Ministry. ‘That man is mistaken,’ (observes Quesnel) ‘who thinks to prevail upon the world, by conforming himself to its fashions and manners. The world will much sooner corrupt the heart which opens itself to it.’ On Matt. 11.8.