Religion & morality > Address to the Rev. Dr. Roxburgh on the occasion of his retiring from the active duties of the ministry

Ministerial Reminiscences. 35
midst of his days and of his usefulness. But
he has left behind him a sweet and fragrant
memory that will be cherished for many genera¬
tions. His name will survive in connection
with the revival of vital spiritual religion, not
in this town only, but throughout Scotland;
and his manifold labours, his eminent graces,
and saintly and apostolic spirit, short as his
interesting and active course has been, will
mark him out in history as the second Willison
of Dundee. He was, indeed, the object of an
esteem and reverence altogether singular toward
so young a man, and which had their foundation
in the deep and universal conviction of his
perfect integrity of purpose,—his unbending
sincerity and truthfulness,—his Christian gener¬
osity of spirit, and in the persuasion that he
was a man who lived near to God, as was
evident from his holy walk, his spiritual and
heavenly-minded frame, and his singularly ami¬
able and affectionate temper and disposition.
In his zeal for the cause in which the Church