The little known of his life was in his favour.

Some acts, not of indiscriminate, but judicious generosity and beneficence, were recorded; in repeating which, still, however, the narrators shook their heads, and expressed surprise how a stranger should have possessed so minute a knowledge of the quiet and obscure distresses he had relieved.
Two or three sick persons, when abandoned by their physicians, he had visited, and conferred with alone.

They had recovered: they ascribed to him their recovery; yet they could not tell by what medicines they had been healed.

They could only depose that he came, conversed with them, and they were cured; it usually, however, happened that a deep sleep had preceded the recovery.
Another circumstance was also beginning to be remarked, and spoke yet more in his commendation.

Those with whom he principally associated--the gay, the dissipated, the thoughtless, the sinners and publicans of the more polished world--all appeared rapidly, yet insensibly to themselves, to awaken to purer thoughts and more regulated lives.