In compliance with the request of many friends, I herewith send a few details with respect to the life, call by grace, and ministerial career of our late friend and brother, H. G. Maycock. He was born in India, near Delhi, on December 3rd, 1823 (his father being of the military profession), and brought to this country when about fifteen months old. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to his uncle (Mr. Swift, an extensive boot and shoe manufacturer, who was a rigid Roman Catholic, who had a form of daily devotion observed in his family, tracts read from "The Garden of the Soul," "Fenelon's Sermons,'' "The Writings of Thomas a Kempis," and other Roman Catholic works). This acted, for the time being,…