Two years after that evening, Livingstone married Miss Mary Moffat (daughter of the man to whom I was listening), in South Africa, and she became the sharer of his trials and explorations.

After Moffat had concluded his speech, a broad-shouldered, merry-faced man, with thick grey hair rose on the platform.

"Who is that ?" I inquired of my next neighbor.

With a look of surprise that I should ask such a question in Birmingham, he said: "It is John Angell James." He was the man whom Dr.Cox wittily described as "An angel vinculated between two Apostles." He spoke very forcibly, in a hearty, humorous vein, and I could hardly understand how such a jovial old gentleman could be the author of such a serious work as "The Anxious Inquirer." But I have since discovered that many of the most solemn and impressive preachers were men of most cheery temperament who could laugh heartily themselves when they were not making other people weep.

Mr.
James looked like an old sea captain; but he was an admirable pilot of awakened souls, whom thousands will bless through all eternity.
Dr.Thomas Guthrie, of Edinburgh, was once pronounced by the _London Times_ to be "The most eloquent man in Europe." Ruskin, Thackeray, Macaulay, and other men of renown joined in the crowd that thronged St.
John's Church when they were in Edinburgh; and a highland drover was once so excited that in the middle of a powerful sermon he called out: "Naw, sirs, heard ye ever the like o' that ?" My good wife made a run to Edinburgh while I was stopping behind in England, and on her return to me almost her first word was, "I have heard Guthrie; I am spoiled for every one else as long as I live." Guthrie, "Lang Tam" (as the toughs on the "Cowgate" in Edinburgh used to call him), was built for a great orator.