CONTENTS. John's Birth, and early education Remarks on the Sabbath-Schools of Scotland John sent to the Grammar School of Perth Mr. Duff's account of him while there Difficulties in determining his Profession Essay on the Analogy which subsists between the operations of Nature, and the operations of An Attempt to show, that Knowledge gives its Possessor more power than Wealth does Letter to his parents, on the Death of a younger Letter to Mr. Orme, partly on the same subject The Doctrine of a Gradation of Rewards and Success during the third Session at College ib. View of John's talents and character at this time, by 11tudent PREFACE. I HAD scarcely received the intimation, alike unexpected and distressing, of the death of my beloved young friend, when I was importunately solicited to give some account of him to the world. The reasons for making this application to me, will be sufficiently apparent to the reader of the volumes, so that no explanation on that point is required in this place. Prompted at once by my love for the individual, and by a sense of duty to God, whose grace and goodness were eminently illustrated, I assented to the request, before I knew what it would involve. I had then no correct idea of the nature of the materials which existed, and supposed that a very small number of pages might include all that I could furnish of sufficient interest. No sooner, however, was my purpose made known, than, besides the papers left by himself, which were more numerous and valuable than I had supposed, his friends, and |