"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 1 Cor. 2:2. In the "Memoir of William Marsh" it is related that a few days previous to his ordination, he was invited, with several other candidates for the ministry, to meet at the house of Richard Cecil, in order to spend the day in the study of the Scriptures, conversation, and prayer. Sixty years afterward he referred to it with the same freshness of enjoyment and thankfulness as if it had been but a day before. "Mr. Cecil," he said, "was most happy in the art of illustration. Wishing to impress upon our minds the importance of ever making prominent in our teaching Christ and his atonement, he told us an anecdote of his former life. He had been a great sufferer for years, and none of his medical friends had been able to ascertain the cause. At length Mrs. Cecil was told of a physician who was extremely skillful in intricate cases, and whom she entreated him to consult. On entering the physician's room, he said, 'Welcome, Mr. Cecil; I know you well by character, and as a preacher. We must have some conversation after I have given you my advice.'" "Mr. Cecil then described his sufferings. The physician considered a moment, and then said, 'Dear sir, there is only one remedy in such a case as yours; do first try it; it is perfectly simple;' and then he mentioned the medicine." "Mr. Cecil, fearing to occupy too much of his time, rose to leave; but the physician said, 'No, sir; we must not part so soon, for I have long wished for an opportunity of conversing with you.' So they spent half an hour more, mutually delighted with each other's society." "'On returning home,' added Mr. Cecil, 'I said to my wife, You sent me to a most agreeable man --such a fund of anecdote, such originality of thought, such a command of language!'" "'Well, but what did he prescribe for you?' Mrs. Cecil anxiously inquired." "There was a pause, and then Mr. Cecil exclaimed, 'I have entirely forgotten the remedy; his charms of manner and conversation put everything else out of my mind.'" "'Now, young men,' said Mr. Cecil, 'it will be very pleasant for you if your congregations go away saying, What eloquence! what original thought! and what an agreeable delivery! Take care they do not forget the remedy, the only remedy, Christ and his righteousness; Christ and his atonement; Christ and his advocacy.'"