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BY PROF. JOHN H. RAYMOND, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, N. Y.

There is a class of men whom we must admire, but may not eulogize. They are Christian heroes; men "of whom the world is not worthy," but who in themselves find nothing commendable, except just what is not their own, but the gift of God through the Spirit. "By grace I am what I am;-in me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:" this is the confession, not of their lips only, but of their hearts; and ever, as they rise to higher and higher degrees of moral elevation, they grow more and more painfully sensible of remaining imperfections and more peremptory in disclaiming all personal merit. Such men, conceiving themselves beneath, are so much the more lifted above human praise; and we instinctively feel that the language of eulogy, applied to them, is out of place, and can only misrepresent and degrade what it professes to exalt.

To that class the subject of the present sketch belonged; and under the restraint of such thoughts should a memorial be recorded of those Christian virtues and services, which gave him so high a place in the esteem of the people of God and made his recent removal an occasion of such universal mourning. It was certainly a lofty moral ideal, which his character and life embodied. We have all contemplated it with peculiar admiration. And, while the voice of panegyric is checked and hushed by a feeling that such a tribute would be especially distasteful to the subject of it, it surely is fitting that the example should be held up to public view, and suffered to shine in the simple light of facts, in honor of the grace whose power it illustrates, and as an incentive to others to walk after the same spirit.

ALFRED BENNETT was born Sept. 26, 1780, in Mansfield, Windham Co., Con-necticut. He was reared a farmer, with no other advantages of education than those furnished by a common country school at that period. But he possessed a native vigor of intellect, which went far to supply the lack of instruction. Of his boyhood we are only informed, that "it was marked by that vivacious, buoyant spirit, which, chastened by grace, was so peculiarly characteristic of him in maturer years," and which was perhaps the most distinctive of his natural traits.