text:  They have read the Scriptures perhaps to better purpose than their revilers and know better how to use the lessons learned there applicable alike to us all--the lessons searching and merciful which proscribe mutual judgment amongst beings all in the eye of absolute Holiness and Truth stained erring worthless: And none so well as aged religious men in such dwellings know from their own experience from what they have witnessed among their neighbours and from what they have read of the lives of good and faithful servants out of the heart of what moral storms and shipwrecks that threatened to swallow the strong swimmer in the middle passage of life has often been landed safe at last the rescued worshipper upon the firm land of quiet duties and of years exempt from the hurricane of the passions! Thus thoughtfully guided in their opinion of him who died young--cut off long before the period when others under the gracious permission of overruling mercy have begun to redeem their errors and fortified perhaps by a sacred office to enter upon a new life--they will for ever solemnly cherish the memory of the Poet of the Poor