4 BISHOP M'ILVAINE'S INTRODUCTION TO MR. simeon's life.

That is certainly a good number for private meeting, after all the usual public services of Sunday, and where the only things to attract the minds of young men are, prayer one with another, connected with a simple, familiar exposition of Scripture. It surely speaks encouragingly for the state of scriptural piety and sound doctrine in that venerable University, in these days, when the open attack, and the sapping and mining of Tractarian war, leagued with the secret intrigues of Romish Jesuitism, are directed so mightily against those very views of the Gospel, of which such a meeting may be regarded as an expressive type. That meeting, with its hundreds of devout gownsmen sitting thus at the feet of the simple expositor of the Bible, is a precious monument to the memory of that faithful labourer, who sowed so long in tears, and now reaps in joy, who was first led to hold meeting in a private house in Cambridge, by the wardens of his parish church locking its doors and taking away the keys, to prevent him from preaching on Sunday night; whose subsequent usefulness was probably, in no one branch of his many labours, so great or so productive of lasting blessings to the Church, as in his familiar conferences with the young men of the University, meeting him amidst the kind hospitalities of his college-rooms. Happy the young men at Cambridge, who, both in the parish of Trinity Church and in the more retired walks of college association, have, in Mr. Carus, a successor to Mr. Simeon, so much after his own spirit, and so well qualified to carry on the modes of usefulness which he began.

Mr. Carus was left, by Mr. Simeon's own act, the possessor of the mass of materials out of which he has composed this Memoir. At the same time that so much tempting manuscript was consigned to his hands, his venerable friend restricted him in the use of it to the publication of a Memoir occupying a single volume. The editor was thus obliged to forego the pleasure of presenting a vast amount of matter which would have been of great interest to the reader. But in the selection before us he has evinced a sound judgment, and has given us a book which, like the biographies of those eminent missionary spirits, who received so much of their spiritual training at Simeon's hands-Buchanan, and Martyn, and Thomason; or like the Memoir of that admirable minister of the Gospel, who was in Christ before him, and was often his counsellor, the venerable Venn; will warm the hearts of thousands of Christian people, and will make the relics of Simeon efficacious, under the blessing of Him who alone giveth life, in quickening anew the graces of His people.

In a recent Letter from Mr. Carus he expresses his great pleasure and thankfulness in being permitted, at last, to complete and give to the public this memorial of the good man whom he loves to honour. With similar feelings have I set on foot its republication in this country, confident that much of the blessing which went with Mr. Simeon, when he was permitted to go in and out amongst men, "preaching and teaching Jesus Christ," will go with these his remains, in which, though he be dead, he yet speaketh everywhere of the same glorious theme.

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