David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ But amidst all these amiable endowments is it to be wondered at, since there is not a just man upon earth that liveth and sinneth not, if one hears a distant hint that now and then my dearly-loved friend might have been supposed to have made somewhat of a small elopement from that cheerfulness, which is truly Christian, towards a disposition too much bordering upon a turn of pleasantry, which might have needed a little more the spirit of solemnity? ”

“ Rouquet for many years of his life seldom used to preach less than seven times in a week.” I have room for only one extract from the sermon:—
“As a friend, from a very intimate acquaintance with him, give me leave to bear my testimony that one more constant and sincere I never found. To have equalled him would have been difficult; to have excelled him, impossible. And no wonder; an experimental knowledge of the friend of sinners is the only true basis upon which real disinterested friendship can be built. ”

“ That heavenly cheerfulness which true grace must ever inspire, united to the natural sweetness of his temper, gave him an opportunity to prove that it never was the end of the Gospel of Christ to make men melancholy and severe. ”