APPENDIX 11. 



An account of the religious experiences of my father in 

 the year 1842 and onwards I have thought it proper to give 

 here, in his own words and without comment. The follow- 

 ing passage, written in February, 1888, it maybe interesting 

 to note, was only just concluded when his fatal illness 

 attacked him, and is the latest of his compositions : — 



A great crisis in my spiritual life was approaching ; for the Holy 

 Ghost was about to unfold to me the hope of the personal Advent 

 of the Lord Jesus, of which hitherto I had not the slightest concep- 

 tion. Two of the most valued of my pupils were Edward and 

 Theodore Habershon ; the elder of whom, Edward, a thoughtful 

 and very amiable youth of fifteen, had already secured a large 

 place in my aftections. He had occasionally spoken to me of his 

 father, Matthew Habershon, as an author, and had suggested that 

 I might feel interested in his works on sacred prophecy. But I 

 had never heard of them or him ; and Edward's words met with 

 litde response. One day, however, Mr. Habershon sent for my 

 acceptance his Dissertation on the Prophetic Scriptures, second 

 edition. It was in June, 1842, when days were at the longest. 

 I began to read it after my pupils were dismissed in the afternoon, 

 sat in the garden eagerly devouring the pages, and actually finish- 

 ing the work (of four hundred octavo pages) before darkness set 

 in. When I closed the book, I knew not where I was ; I hatl 

 become so wholly absorbed in the great subjects, that some 

 minutes elapsed before I could recall my surroundings, before the 

 new world of my consciousness did " fade into the light of 

 common day." 



Of the Restoration of the Jews, I had received some dim mkhng 



