We read of his:
(i) birth and family;
(ii) education with a minister;
(iii) conversion;
(iv) desire for the ministry.
I enjoyed the account of the reading habits of the young Matthew: '"The efforts of the scholar kept pace with his privileges; and childish things being put away early, the usual temptations to sloth, and negligence, and frivolity, were voluntarily escaped. His tender mother was often afraid lest he should apply too closely, and was forced, when he was very young, to call him out of his closet ; and that his health might not suffer by inordinate confinement and application, to advise him also to take a walk in the fields.'
Evidently, he was always a reader!
R
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