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Brown’s Life, p. 22. Mr. Winter tells us of his friend Mr. Whitfield—‘I hardly knew him to go through his sermon without weeping more or less; and I truly believe his were the tears of sincerity. I have heard him say in the pulpit—‘You blame me for weeping; but how can I help it, when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are upon the verge of destruction; and for aught you know, you are hearing your last sermon, and may never more have an opportunity to have Christ offered to you.’ Jay’s Life of Winter, pp. 27, 28. Constitutional causes will greatly vary the outward expression of love; nor would we insist upon tears, as a necessary evidence of a tender heart. But the spirit here was fully warranted to be genuine and fervent love for souls, and is well worthy of our imitation.