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MR. GILPIN's natural parts were very good. His imagination was lively, his memory retentive, and his judgment solid. By unwearied application he had amassed a great store of knowledge; but it was chiefly such as had some relation to his profession. His temper was naturally warm; but, through divine grace, he was enabled to correct this infirmity. Though his disposition was serious, yet he was usually very cheerful, and his behavior was almost always frank and affable. He was a candid interpreter of the words and actions of other men; and when he spoke of them, he was particularly careful to say nothing which might prove unnecessarily hurtful to their reputation. To the opinions of others, however different from his own, he was very indulgent. He regarded moderation as one of the most genuine effects of true religion in the heart. He was therefore an enemy to all intolerance: and though he thought the opposition of the dissenters to the established church to be wrong, VOL. II. New Series.

he thought it equally wrong to molest the quiet separatist. His regard to truth was strict and undeviating. He disdained all those little arts and evasions, which men are apt to vindicate on grounds of expediency; and his character in this respect came at last to be so well understood, as greatly to enhance his weight and influence with all who knew him. The lustre of his other

graces was much increased by his unfeigned humility. To con quer pride, is one of the highest triumphs of religion; and this conquest his religion achieved in a very signal degree.

One of the most remarkable features in the character of Mr. Gilpin, was his conscientious.

ness.

Motives of personal con. venience or present interest appeared to weigh as nothing with him. When he entered on the care of a parish, it immedi ately engrossed his main attention, even to the exclusion of his favorite pursuits of learning. He had naturally a strong propensity to retirement; but thinking the life of a recluse to be oppos

ed to the principles of christian. ity, he resisted this inclination, and would hardly even afford to old age the needful repose. Of popular applause, as far as it respected himself, he was regard. less he valued it, however, as a means of usefulness. The good will of his people he felt to be one step towards gaining their attention; and on that account he prized it highly. He was bold in reproving vice; and his unblameable life, and the seriousness and tenderness of his ad. dress, strongly enforced all he said. Knowing the low capacities and limited information of his people, he studied to adapt both the language and the arguments of his sermons to their apprehensions; and hence the ef. fects of his preaching are said to have been often very striking.

When Mr. Gilpin first undertook the care of Houghton, he saw that the duties of the pastoral office were very generally neglected. The greater part of the clergy paid no attention what. ever to the spiritual concerns of their flock; and of those who were not chargeable with the utter disregard of their ministerial obligations, many expended their zeal in vehement opposition to the sectaries, and in defending the external constitution of the church from their rude attacks; while others were almost wholly occupied in discussing the more abstruse and speculative points of religion. Few manifested a due solicitude to see their people growing in faith and holiness, Mr. Gilpin's first care gain, if possible, the affections of his parishioners. To this end, without using any servile compliances, he "became all things

was to

to all men." He was kind and courteous to all. He bore with the infirmities of the weak, the violence of the passionate, and the doubts of the scrupulous. He was at the same time unwea. ried in his pastoral labors. He was not content with reading the prayers of the church, and delivering a discourse to his people from the pulpit : he instructed them in private, and from house to house; and encouraged them to apply to him in all their doubts and difficulties. His sympathy won their hearts; and even his reproofs were given in so gentle and friendly a manner, that they did not offend in the degree which might have been expected. He devoted himself, in a peculiar degree, to the improvement of the younger part of his flock; think. ing it a more hopeful task to rear them in habits of piety, than it would be to turn them from hab. its of vice when once contracted. For all who were in affliction, he entertained a lively concern; and he was so well skilled in the art of administering consolation to them, that he was always hailed in the house of mourning as a messenger of good. In short, as a minister of Jesus Christ, the progress of his people in the knowledge and love of God was his grand aim; and success in this object constituted the great source of his happiness.

Mr. Gilpin, however, did not confine his labors to his own par. ish, extensive as was the sphere of his exertion. Every year he used regularly to visit the most rude and uncultivated paris of the northern counties, where he endeavored to call the savage borderers, among whom hardly any other man would willingly have

trusted himself, from their predatory course of life and irreligious habits, to a knowledge of God, and of their duty both as citizens and as Christians. His warm and affectionate man. ner, joined to the plainness of his style, arrested their attention; and his efforts among them proved highly beneficial. In these excursions, which he generally made about Christmas, as he had then a better chance of finding the people disengaged, he often suffered great hardships, through fatigue and the severity of the weather. But he underwent all cheerfully, in the hope that it might please God to make him the instrument of good. His disinterested labors among them produced a general veneration of his name, even on the part of those who did not profit by his ministry. In consequence of this, when on one occasion his horses were stolen, it was no sooner known that they belonged to Mr. Gilpin, than the thief returned them, confessing his crime, and declaring that he did not dare to retain them after he had discovered who was the owner of them.

Nor were Mr. Gilpin's endeavors to civilize this people limited to itinerating among them. He used every year to bring several of their children with him to Houghton, and there he educated them at his own expense; a practice which tended much to lessen the prevailing barbarism.

In his charities he was liber. al-nay, considering his means, I might almost say, profuse. Indeed, in his distributions he had no measure but the extent of his income. He called no part of

it his own, but readily bestowed it for the service of others, not as if he were granting a favor, but paying a debt. His extraor. dinary benevolence gained him the title of the Father of the Poor, and made his memory revered for many years in the country where he lived. He appropriated sixty pounds a year, sometimes more, to the maintenance of poor scholars at the university. Every Thursday throughout the year, he caused a quantity of meat to be dressed for the poor; and had a supply of broth prepared for them daily. Twenty four of the poorest were his constant pensioners. He always kept a stock of clothes by him, that he might clothe the naked, while he fed the hungry. And he took particular pains to inquire into every case where he suspected distress, that the modesty of the sufferer might not prevent his obtaining relief. But the use to which he applied his money still more freely than to any other, was that of encour. aging the exertions of industri. ous people, especially of those who had large families. When they lost a horse or a cow, and were unable to repair the loss, or were about to settle their chil dren in the world, his purse was always opened to aid them. He likewise paid great attention to the state of the jails, and was not only anxious to give the prisoners suitable instruction, but to relieve their wants. has been known to carry his charity so far, as, on the public road, to take off his cloak, and give it to a half naked traveller: and on another occasion, when he was travelling, one of the horses in a team that was pass.

He

ing having suddenly dropped down dead, he presented the owner, who was much dejected at his loss, with the horse on which his servant rode; and the man hesitating, "Take him, take him," said he; "you shall pay for him when I demand the money." For his parishioners and their families, he kept, at certain seasons of the year, three open tables,-one for the gentlemen, one for the farmers, and a third for the laborers. Besides which, strangers and travellers always found at his house a ready welcome. At the same time, well knowing that frugali. ty is the true support of charity, he regulated all his expenses with the utmost care and strictness, So much struck was the great lord Burleigh with the whole of Mr. Gilpin's domestic arrangements, particularly the methodical appropriation of his time and property; and with the rare union of economy and hospitality, of simplicity of man. pers and generosity of conduct, which he displayed, as well as with the superior nature of Mr. Gilpin's enjoyments, and the extent of the benefits he confer red on others; that he is said to have exclaimed, on leaving Houghton after a visit, "There is the enjoyment of life indeed! Who can blame that man for not accepting a bishopric? What does he want to make him greater, or happier, or more useful to mankind ?"

It may be proper to remark in this place, that in detailing the itinerant exertions of Mr. Gilpin, and his particular acts of charity, it is not my purpose to hold him out as the indiscriminate object of imitation. As

times and circumstances vary, we must vary the expressions both of our zeal and charity. It is the spirit that actuated him which I am chiefly anxious to recommend: and I have recorded the instances in which that spirit was displayed, rather to prove the strength of principle which produced them, than to point them out as indicating the best mode in which the same principle may be now exerted.

But no part of his character deserves more to be recorded, than his fervent piety. This in. deed was the source and support of all his other virtues. Religion he regarded as his main concern on earth. The attainment, therefore, of holiness, both of heart and life, became his chief, his invariable study. In all his investigations of religious truth, he considered himself as pursuing the means of acquiring a greater conformity to the will of of God. And when his views, whether they had respect to his belief or his practice, were once settled by a diligent examination of Scripture, they became from that time his principles and rules of action. All about him was Christian, formed on such mo. tives and directed to such ends as christianity requires. It was his daily care to do the will of God; and on his providence he placed an undeviating reliance. in every changing circumstance of life; being easy, resigned, and even cheerful, under the heaviest trials. Such trials be viewed as sent by God, to bring us to a sense of our misconduct, and to quicken us to a more de vout and holy life: he therefore made them the occasion of more than ordinary assiduity in exam.