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Cecil’s Remains. Most of us will subscribe to the following humbling confessions—‘In the preparation of our sermons, alas! how cold, how formal we have often been! Prayer has been the last thing we thought of, instead of the first. We have made dissertations, not sermons; we have consulted commentators, not our Bibles; we have been led by science, and not by the heart: and therefore our discoveries have been so tame, so lifeless, so uninteresting to the mass of our hearers, so little savouring of Christ, and so little like the inspired example of St. Paul.’ Bishop of Calcutta’s Essay to Baxter’s Reformed Pastor, p. xiii.