It is grievous to think how much good energy is wasted for want of due discretion to manage it; how much zeal there is which is not according to knowledge. Nay, further, it cannot be doubted that many wellmeaning persons are betrayed, from ignorance, into courses of conduct which are offensive to God. The person of whom we are about to speak is a rare instance of what can be done by the energies of a single individual in humble life; and is a still rarer example of one confining his energies to that sphere which the providence of God marked out for him. B |