that deserved to be remembered was ever forgotten. It would be indelicate to notice his friends who are living, or to specify the excellencies which his discriminating judgment and kind heart delighted to trace in them; but we may specify some of the departed on whose worth he used to descant with a hallowed fondness. With Dr. Jerment, though long in an opposite party in the Secession, he lived in cordial friendship, and greatly valued his judgment, piety, and excellent taste. Of Dr. Henry Hunter he spoke with enthusiasm; of his eloquence in the pulpit, simple and yet most solemn and commanding; of his unrivalled powers in conversation, and of the interest excited by his Sacred Biography. He entertained the highest respect for Mr. Booth; for the unction of his writings, the fervour of his piety, and the modesty of his temper. He was strongly attached to Dr. Bogue, with whom he was associated in the formation and progress of the Missionary Society, and who, in the schemes of his mighty mind for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom, found in him a most useful fellow-worker. It is a most interesting circumstance, and beautifully illustrates the kindness of his heart, that while he thought with such veneration of his old or departed friends, he was alive to the worth of the young, and eager to form an intimate acquaintance with them; and while he spoke of the talents of those who were gone, it was not in the spirit that says, " the former times were better than these;" but to rouse the young to emulation, and to express his gratitude that the

mantle of ascending prophets had not fallen in vain.

But, in fact, his benevolence, in the true sense of the term, was universal. There was an habitual suavity, and a cordiality in his deportment to all, which attracted to him the warmest regard: wherever he went he was welcomed with delight. This was the case in the various tours which he made in the cause of missions and charity, and his return was fondly anticipated. He expressed his kind wishes for the welfare of those with whom he was mingling, in a manner that won their hearts. It is by sweetness and kindliness that the young are to be allured to religion, and that the opposition of the perverse is to be overcome. It has, indeed, been supposed by some, that austerity is the noblest feature of Piety, and that in such an evil world she should move through it in haste, and turn from all its scenes of intercourse with disgust; and they whose manners are courteous and cheerful are deemed too free and too gay to be religious. Such can be the impression only of an imbecile piety, or of a malignant censoriousness. Religion is degraded when it borrows from hypocrisy its whine, and from malignity its scowl. It appears most worthy of its Author when it hath the sunshine of cheerfulness on its countenance, and the law of kindness on its tongue.

Dr. Waugh took great delight in the society of his friends. It is said by one who knew him intimately, that his conversation was equally rich in point and unction, in anecdote and apothegm. He had a vast fund of anecdote, which he knew

how to introduce with the happiest effect, and a considerable measure of pleasantry. This was never mixed with sarcasm, but was agreeable to the object of it as well as to those who joined in it. The Scotch phrases which he delighted to employ gave a zest to it, and most of his stories related to the habits and customs of his native land. While he spoke English well, it was without that affectation which has so often brought ridicule on his countrymen; and to his latest hour he employed the Scottish dialect in familiar conversation, from its association with objects cherished in his heart, and its peculiar adaptation to the feelings and scenes of home.

He had a happy talent of interposing a jocular anecdote to terminate a debate that was kindling irritation, or to divert into a strain more agreeable to the company the conversation that was maintained by two disputants, to the disgust or annoyance of others. Thus, in a party some one was objecting to church establishments, that there was nothing in them specially to attract those spiritual influences which were the objects of all Christian institutions. Dr. Waugh was friendly to establishments; but not wishing to engage in the controversy, in the circumstances in which he was then placed, he put an end to it by the following jocular anecdote, which set all in good humour. "6 Weel, it may be so," he said. "I remember when I returned home at the vacation of Earlstoun school, I frequently went out to the muir to have some talk with my father's shepherd, a douce, talkative, and wise man in his way; and

he told me, a wondering boy, a great many things I never had read in my school-books. For instance, about the Tower of Babel, that

'Seven mile sank, and seven mile fell,

And seven mile still stands, and evermair sall.'

And about the craws, (there were aye plenty of craws about Gordon muir, and I often wondered what they got to live on), that they aye lay the first stick of their nests on Candlemas-day; and that some of them that big their nests in rocks and cliffs have siccan skill of the wind, that if it is to blaw mainly frae the east in the following spring, they are sure to build their nests on what will be the bieldy side; and mony a ane that notices it can tell frae that the airth the wind will blaw. After expressing my admiring belief of this, I thought, as I had begun Latin, and was therefore a clever chield, that I wadna let the herd run away wi' a' the learning. It was at the time when the alteration of the style had not ceased to cause great grief and displeasure to many of the good old people in Scotland, and I knew the herd was a zealous opponent of the change; so I slily asked him, Do the craws count Candlemas by the new or the auld style?' He replied, with great indignation, ' D'ye think the craws care for your acts of parliament?'

He was no talker on the politics of the day, but delighted to speak of the progress of the Redeemer's kingdom, and to discourse on the characters of men of worth of ancient days; and from his acquaintance with general history, especially

that of his own country, he could select whatever was adapted to illustrate and enforce his subject. It was his delight to introduce his friends to scenes interesting by their natural beauty, and by the events which had happened in them; and most eloquently did he expatiate on the hints which they suggested. To visit Westminster Abbey with him was one of the highest treats. There was not a monument of note there of which he had not something interesting to tell; and while treading over the ashes of the illustrious dead, and alive to the emptiness of worldly glory and sepulchral pomp, he did justice to the gratitude which celebrates the eloquence that had pleaded, or the valour that had fought, for its country, and to the affection which wishes to leave, in the house of silence, a voice to commemorate the worth which it cherishes. For himself, he desired no memorial save in the hearts of those that loved him; and on such occasions has said, that if he had a wish for the place of his repose, it was that it might be by the grave of his father and mother, with a heath bush at its head, and a green sod for its covering. It was the appointment of Heaven, that, before he died, a tie should be formed betwixt his heart and the burialground at Bunhill-fields, more tender than that of veneration for all the worth it covers, and that, like Jacob, he was made to say, “I shall "I shall go down into the grave unto my son mourning."

His conversation was so improving, and at the same time so pleasant, that instruction was always associated with delight. He gave the