He was a sound, experimental preacher, a gospel lover and walker, of a kind, generous disposition, and acceptable and useful to many churches in the neighbourhood where he resided. The following particulars are copied from a memorandum written with his own hand: "It pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb to call me by his grace when I was between 17 and 18 years of age, after a very shameful and wicked act in one of my frolics, as I used to call them, which I forbear to name from its repulsive nature, which brought no small disgrace upon me. The first Sabbath after this occurrence I remained in the house all day till evening, shame keeping me in. I then ventured to…