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Rh view. As before remarked, it was the Lord above, the Creator and Father of all, who first saw and first felt for the sufferings of the prisoner; and it was He who raised up this man as an instrument for their relief. Who else gave Howard those feelings of benevolence, which enabled him to have interest and sympathy, when cases of distress came under his view, while so many before had looked upon them with indifference? Whence, but from the Source of all goodness, was that tenderness in Howard's heart derived? He himself humbly acknowledged the Source whence it came. He claimed no merit for his good deeds, for he felt and knew that the merit was all Another's. His motto was, "My hope is in Christ." He perceived and heartily confessed, that every feeling of kindness, consideration, and sympathy for his distressed fellowman, which burned within his bosom, was a direct gift from above, was communicated to him from the One Fountain of goodness, his Lord and Saviour. It was this belief and perception, which produced in Howard that true humility which distinguished him as strikingly as did his benevolence; that humility, which made him shrink with abhorrence from the idea of a monument being erected in his honor,—a project which had been set on foot by his friends and admirers, and which, but for his earnest and repeated protestations, would have been carried into execution. And the same consciousness that of himself he was nothing, and that any benevolence or beneficence which he might have manifested in his life, was not in the least degree self-derived, but was all from above, and thus truly was not his own, but God's,—showed itself in his language and behaviour to the last. When about to die, from the effects of a