It is to be hoped that the readers of the Earthen Vessel will not mistake the few memorial notices here recorded of the late Mr. Philip Dickerson for a biography of him. Personally we knew but little of Mr. Dickerson, not having heard his voice since he preached to an overcrowded house the funeral sermon of the late John Foreman, of blessed memory. Having, however, at hand, by the great kindness of Mr. Samuel George Ince, of Bishopsgate-street, all the original materials for a biography of Mr. Dickerson, it would be comparatively easy to write and publish his life in full, if time and means were at command. From a real love of all good men and a felt sense of the worth of their…