Summary: been left to officiate alone, I have found your sermons in a high degree useful and satisfactory, except, indeed, in those cases where I have found it necessary to throw myself into the attempt to set off a speculative notion by an appeal to the feelings of my hearers. Thus, for example, | your last discourse on subserviency versus liberality would have been very ill received by the chief men of my congregation, the whole of whom are inimical to me on the score of what they term my eager , aspiring, independent conduct, and who would, therefore, most certainly put the justness of the deductions you were about to draw in the balance against the motives and actions which were likely to be attributed to you, as well as to me, by the gentlemen in question. ”