In complying with this natural request, I was not uneonscious of the fact, that the outer life, of the Rev. Mr. Mcdowell, had little in it of the stirring incident that usually imparts interest to biogra phy. But if, on the other hand, the work done, the battle fought, the suffering endured, in the invisible domain of the human heart, have been found to possess often a great and tragic interest, then, it cannot be denied but some degree of interest, — especia!ly to those that knew.hirn personally — must attach to the inner lite of a man, who, — though naturally his heart was haughty and his eyes lofty,-became, by the discipline of su?ering, like one whose soul was even as a weaned child.