REV.  JOSEPH  HUGHES,  M.A.  393

INIr.  Huglbes  was  little  known  as  an  author.  He  published
several  single  discom'ses, — a  sermon  before  the  Society  for  the
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  the  Highlands  and  Islands  of
Scotland, — a  sermon  on  the  Sabbath, — and  a  sermon  on  the
death  of  the  Duke  of  Kent.  He  published  also  an  Essay  on
the  Excellency  of  the  Scripture — his  best  performance.*

There  were  few  men  for  whom  I  entertained  a  higher  regard,
or  with  whom  I  exchanged  so  much  thought.
APPENDIX  BY  THE  EDITORS.
The  R.ev.  Dr.  Leifchild,  in  his  Life  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hughes,  thus
introduces  Mr.  Jay's  opinion  referred  to  in  the  preceding  Article.
"  With  the  Rev.  W.  Jay  of  Bath  Mr.  Hughes  was  more  than  ordinarily
intimate.  As  far  as  two  men,  of  somewhat  different  intellectual  habits  and
theological  views,  could  love  one  another,  they  did  so  love  to  the  end  of
life.  Let  the  survivor  speak  for  himself,  with  his  own  characteristic  naivete
and  force  :  —

" '  Mr.  Hughes  was  often  and  much  at  Bath  formerly,  supplying  several
years  at  Ai'gyle  Chapel  for  six  weeks  together  while  I  was  in  town.  I  have
been  intimately  acquainted  with  him  for  upwards  of  forty-three  years,  and
have  exchanged  more  mind  with  him  than  with  any  man  I  ever  knew,
except  my  friend  and  tutor,  Cornelius  Winter,  With  regard  to  religious
things,  we  only  dififered  as  to  Baptism ;  and  if  we  did  not  love  each  other
the  more  for  this  difference,  I  am  sure  we  did  not  love  each  other  the  less.
