Page:Sermons preached in the African Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Thomas', Philadelphia.djvu/252

248 always in trouble about other people's troubles. He was a kind of depository for every one to lodge his cares and anxieties. People of different denominations, whenever they got in difficulty, would invariably go to him; and he, in the kindness of his heart, would as often use his endeavors to have their affairs satisfactorily settled." As it regards his fidelity and zeal in the discharge of his ministerial duties, I need only quote the words of his Diocesan, delivered on the day of his interment. "It was my privilege," says the venerable Prelate, " to be often the depository of the cares and anxieties, the longing desires and earnest endeavors, the watchful solicitudes, the cheering hopes, the affectionate fears, and practical dependance on God's grace, with which he gave himself, instant in season and out of season to his pastoral charge. I have often said, and would now say, in