No good man's conscience will suggest to him that he ought to become weary of his labours. He who delights in the service on which his duty or his usefulness depends, can have no wish to relinquish it. He is anxious to persevere in the duties which he can in any degree accomplish, even when he is conscious of his decline. He looks up to God, to whom he thinks he shall soon return; and though he knows that his summons to die cannot be distant, it continues to be the first wish of his heart, that he may be found employing the last portions of his health and life, in the duties of his proper place.
Henry Moncreiff Wellwood — Sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood, Bart., D.D. and F.R.S. Edinburgh, One of the Ministers of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Sermons (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne, 1805), Sermon 2, p. 66
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