a time; though I walked about seven miles in going and returning."

My father was appointed to the Sunday afternoon lectureship in Bread Street, February 16, 1790, and retained it till he was chosen sole chaplain to the Lock, in March, 1802. His congregation seldom much exceeded a hundred in number; but they were attentive hearers, and he had reason to believe that his preaching there was useful to many persons, several of whom have since become instruments of good to others. One it may be allowable to specify, whose extensive and invaluable services may God long continue, and abundantly bless to his church! "I myself," observes the Rev. Daniel Wilson, in a note annexed to his funeral sermons for my father, "was, five or six and twenty years since, one of his very small congregation at his lecture in the city; and I derived, as I trust, from the sound and practical instruction which I then received, the greatest and most permanent benefit, at the very time when a good direction and bias were of the utmost importance-the first setting out as a theological student."

To the morning lecture at Lothbury, if I mistake not, he succeeded when Mr. Cecil became unable any longer to continue it. Though a source of no emolument, this too was a pleasant service to him. Few persons would attend at that early hour, who did not bear a real love to the ordinances of God's house; and that gentleman, in deciding his acceptance of the situation at the Lock, than to those of any other person: and in Mr. P. he found a constant friend to the end of his life; to whom he was indebted for many personal favours, besides the most skilful professional assistance, promptly and gratuitously rendered to him and his family, on the numerous occasions which required it.

among them were many pious servants and others, who found obstructions to attending public worship at other parts of the day.

In adverting to these lectureships, at this period of his narrative, my father has somewhat anticipated: it may be proper that I should so far follow him, as, in this connexion, to remark the extent of his Sunday labours at that time. And this I shall do in the words of a lady of highly respectable station and connexions in life, who repeatedly passed some little time under his roof, and was particularly struck with this and other circumstances of his habits and character. She writes thus:

"I must now, my dear sir, assure you, that during my pretty long wanderings in the world, even in the best part of it, I can truly affirm, that the various seasons I passed under the roof of your excellent parents are marked with a peculiar force on my memory, as presenting what came nearer to the perfection of a Christian's pilgrimage than I have often met with elsewhere. And this remembrance leads me to express the hope, that you will not fail to give the precise and accurate report of your great father's life to the careless and idle world. My opportunities have made me acquainted with such diversities of habits, that I believe the information you can furnish of his extraordinary labours will surprise, as well as edify many a weak brother. I have been called upon solemnly to attest the account of his common Sunday work, mental and bodily, as almost beyond belief."

This address led to the request, that the writer would herself put down what had struck her, as an occasional visitant, more than it might have done

those, who, from being accustomed to it, would be apt to pass it over as a matter of course. The reply I give with such very slight corrections as were required.

"The account I have been accustomed to relate of Mr. Scott's Sunday labours, is as follows, and my memory does not tax me with inaccuracy. At four o'clock in the morning of every alternate Sunday, winter as well as summer, the watchman gave one heavy knock at the door, and Mr. S. and an old maid-servant arose,-for he could not go out without his breakfast. He then set forth to meet a congregation at a church in Lothbury, about three miles and a half off; I rather think the only church in London attended so early as six o'clock in the morning. I think he had from two to three hundred auditors, and administered the sacrament each time. He used to observe that, if at any time, in his early walk through the streets in the depth of winter, he was tempted to complain, the view of the newsmen equally alert, and for a very different object, changed his repinings into thanksgivings. From the city he returned home, and about ten o'clock assembled his family to prayers: immediately after which he proceeded to the chapel, where he performed the whole service, with the administration of the sacrament on the alternate Sundays, when he did not go to Lothbury. His sermons, you know, were most ingeniously brought into an exact hour; just about the same time, as I have heard him say, being spent in composing them. I well remember accompanying him to the afternoon church in Bread Street, (nearly as far as Lothbury,) after his taking his dinner without sitting

down. On this occasion I hired a hackney coach: but he desired me not to speak, as he took that time to prepare his sermon. I have calculated that he could not go much less than fourteen miles in the day, frequently the whole of it on foot, besides the three services, and at times a fourth sermon at Longacre Chapel, or elsewhere, on his way home in the evening and then he concluded the whole with family prayer, and that not a very short one.— Considering his bilious and asthmatic habit, this was immense labour! And all this I knew him do very soon after, if not the very next Sunday after, he had broken a rib by falling down the cabin stairs of a Margate packet: and it seemed to me as if he passed few weeks without taking an emetic! But his heart was in his work; and I never saw a more devoted Christian. Indeed he appeared to me to have hardly a word or a thought out of the precise line of his duty which made him somewhat formidable to weaker and more sinful beings.-His trials, I should think, (as you would have me honest with you,) were those of temper. Never, I often remarked, was there a petition in his family prayers, for any thing but the pardon of sin, and the suppressing of corruption.

"His life, and labours, and devotedness, kept him from much knowledge of the world; but the strength of his judgment gave him a rapid insight into passing affairs and upon the whole I should be inclined to say, he was one of the wisest men I ever knew.-You know more than I can do of the nature and habits of his daily life. I can only say that, when fatigued with writing, he would come up stairs, where the Bible was generally open, and his relaxation seemed

to be, talking over some text with those whom he found there and I can truly declare that I never lived in a happier or more united family.”

It is implied in the above account, that my father's sermons were usually composed the same day they were delivered. This was literally the case. For more than five and thirty years, he never put pen to paper in preparing for the pulpit, except in the case of three or four sermons, preached on particular occasions, and expressly intended for publication: yet no one who heard him would complain of crudeness or want of thought in his discourses: they were rather faulty in being overcharged with matter, and too argumentative for the generality of hearers. -Indeed, an eminent chancery lawyer used to say that he heard him for professional improvement, as well as for religious edification; for that he possessed the close argumentative eloquence peculiarly requisite at that bar, and which was found to be so rare an endowment.-Nor did the bustle of the streets of London occasion any interruption to his meditations: he would generally rather prepare his sermons walking than in his study.

His statement concerning his pecuniary resources in London (from which we digressed,) he thus concludes: "The Lord, however, provided for me very comfortably; though, even on the retrospect, I can hardly explain or conceive how it was done. A subscription was annually raised for me at the Lock, as had been promised; but it fell considerably short of what I had been taught to expect, and a great proportion of it came from persons who had no concern in bringing me thither. I might