APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A. Page 22.

Among other good men I have known in the Episcopal Church, I enjoyed the society of the late Rev. Charles Siméon of Cambridge, ten days in my own house, when minister of Stirling, and a more eminently spiritual man in the whole tenor of his conversation, I never met with. There was nothing gloomy about him, but quite the reverse. There was a chastened liveliness in his manner, which could not but delight every Christian who came in contact with him. He presented the idea of a faithful servant of Christ, truly happy in his own mind, deriving his happiness from the highest sources, and ever looking with Christian benignity on all around him. He was a fine illustration of that trying text, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

I never met with that distinguished Christian and valuable author, the late Rev. Hugh White, of Dublin; but I had occasion to correspond with him. This arose from my requesting his permission to print separately, two very valuable discourses on

the "Holy Spirit," which I had only seen in detached leaves, and which I wished to present in a form fitted for a drawing-room table. This, he readily granted. In a long and excellent letter I had from him, he mentioned his satisfaction in general with the sentiments I had expressed, only adding, as he found I was a dissenter, that he was surprised that one who held such sentiments, did not see the beauty of his church-One proof among many of the powerful effects of early impressions.

The name Grimshaw is less known than that of the others in the above enumeration. But as he was an eminently faithful and successful servant of Christ, he deserves special notice. The following is extracted from a memoir of him, by the late Rev. John Newton, of London :—

"The last time I was with him, as we were standing together upon a hill near Haworth, and surveying the romantic prospect around us, he expressed himself to the following purport, and I believe I nearly retain his very words, for they made a deep impression upon me while he spoke. When I first came into this country, if I have gone half a day's journey on horseback towards the east, west, north, and south, I could not meet with or hear of one truly serious person,—and now, through the blessing of God upon the poor services of the most unworthy of his ministers, besides a considerable number whom I have seen or known to have departed this life like Simeon, rejoicing in the Lord's salvation; and besides five dissenting churches or con

gregations, of which the ministers, and nearly every one of the members, were first awakened under my ministry; I have still at my sacraments, according to the weather, from three hundred to five hundred communicants, of the far greater part of whom, so far as man who cannot see the heart (and can therefore only determine by appearances, profession, and conduct) may judge, I can give almost as particular an account, as I can of myself. I know the state of their progress in religion. By my frequent visits and converse with them, I am acquainted with their several temptations, trials, and exercises, both personal and domestic, both spiritual and temporal, almost as intimately as if I had lived in their families.' A stranger who had stood upon the same spot, from whence he could see little but barren mountains and moors, would scarcely think this declaration credible. But I knew the man well, and of all the men I ever knew, I can think of no one who was less to be suspected of boasting than Mr. Grimshaw."

What Christian minister would not rather wish at a dying hour to have the testimony of his conscience, that he had thus watched for the souls of his flock, than that he had been distinguished as the first historian, philosopher, or even preacher of his day. We may reasonably look for much prosperity to the churches of Christ, when a large supply of such faithful pastors is to be found among them. May the Lord of the vineyard send forth many such labourers into his vineyard !

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To this extract, I am happy to add the following quotation from a calmly, and ably argued tract, entitled, "Hints illustrative of the Duty of Dissent," by the Rev. Thomas Binney :

"In all the remarks which we have made, however strongly we have spoken, let it be remembered that we condemn the system, not the men ;—to them we owe charity, but we owe none to their errors we feel therefore that love to churchmen is perfectly consistent with opposition to the church. We believe and know, that in an Establishment, there are many holy and excellent individuals,— men of apostolic zeal, eminent spirituality, and extensive usefulness; we honour and esteem them; but, at the same time, we do not hesitate to express our conviction, that such persons are what they are, and accomplish what they do, in spite of their system, and not as the result of it. In preaching, for instance, they are useful by the exhibition of truths common to every portion of the Universal Church; and in private means of improving their flocks, they succeed just in proportion as they become irregular; the more they employ customs which prevail among us, or approach to our's, the more they find themselves "blessed in their work." The distinction referred to, should never be forgotten. It should never be forgotten in practice; and it should never be forgotten in judging of controversial writings, as it may prevent the injustice which would be committed by interpreting expressions relating to things, as if intended to be applied