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Rh both just and appreciative. He has used his materials with discrimination, and has made the Church his debtor for the setting in which he has placed this jewel.—, D.D., President of Drevi Theological Seminary.

I knew Dr. Eddy well, and esteemed him very highly. He was a man to be not only admired, but enjoyed and loved. Few men inspire or bestow such friendship as he did. His biographer has caught the subtle aroma of his spirit, and has drawn him to the life; rather has photographed him truly, for he is made to shine in his own light.—, D.D., President of Wesleyan University.

This was an admirable and industrious life, sketched in an admirable way by a no less industrious Methodist preacher. Long and intimate acquaintance, added to a vivid sympathy with the laborious methods of Dr. Eddy, makes his biographer perhaps the most fitted, among all the friends who survive Dr. Eddy, to write his life. Dr. Eddy was a typical Methodist preacher—"in labors abundant," in enthusiasm unfailing, sympathetic with the individual, and magnetic in presence of the crowd—he went from position to position, cheerfully acquiescing in the habit of the Church, and adorning each succeeding place which he filled more than the one which he vacated. He was a growing man, and died in his prime. A man of less energy would have yielded long before to ill health, and few robust men would have accomplished so much. Perhaps the twelve years in which Dr. Eddy was editor of the North-western Christian Advocate were the most arduous, and certainly the most influential, of his life. He was eminently suited to be the editor of a religious newspaper in the North-west. For in the editorial chair, as well as in the pulpit his eloquence was free from bombast, his religion devoid of cant, and his cheerfulness never offended by familiarity. Dr. Sims has done the work of a biographer well. He lias put into the simplest form his own admiration of his friend, and has given to the young men of the Church an excellent picture of a devoted, gifted, and industrious Methodist preacher. The perfect likeness engraved for a frontispiece for the book is not a more striking picture of the original than are the pages of "The Life" themselves. An introduction to Dr. Sims' work is written by Bishop Simpson.—Christian Union.