THE EXEMPLIFIED IN THE TESTIMONIES AND EXPERIENCE OF PERSONS "Tis immortality,-'tis that alone, Amidst Life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.-Young. BY LINDLEY MURRAY, AUTHOR OF AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR, &C., &c. NEW YORK: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE RESIDUARY S. S&W. WOOD, 389 BROADWAY. 1860. ADVERTISEMENT. LINDLEY MURRAY, the author of this work, in his last will, bequeathed certain funds to Trustees in America, his native country, for several benevolent objects, among which is the gratuitous distribution of "Books calculated to promote piety and virtue and the truth of Christianity" -and of which books he desired that "The Power of Religion on the Mind" might form a considerable part. NEW YORK, 1836. The Life of James Gardiner has been omitted in this edition. B. CRAIGHEAD, Carton Building, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street. To excite serious reflections on the unsatisfying and transitory nature of temporal enjoyments; and to promote a lively concern for the attainment of that felicity, which will be complete and permanent; are the objects of the present publication. Piety and virtue, abstractedly considered, are truly amiable, and appear worthy of our earnest pursuit. But when recommended by the lives and testimonies of eminent persons, who have known the world, and experienced the emptiness of its honors, wealth, and pleasures, they derive additional importance; and constrain us to acknowledge, that the greatest happiness of man is to be found in religion. Among the most important blessings, which the Divine Being has conferred upon mankind, may be numbered, the happy display of good and pious examples. In every age and country, perhaps in almost every little district throughout the earth, he has placed some of his faithful servants, or returning prodigals, to bear witness of his power and goodness, and to encourage others to a life of purity, piety, and beneficence. The following pages exhibit a few of those striking |