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My relic of Simeon is a volume once his property, containing an 

 account of the life and writings of one Gerhard Tersteegan, a German 

 mystic, who lived 1697-1769. On the v,^hole, this book would be 

 greatly in harmony with Mr. Simeon's own views and temperament. 

 But at one place Tersteegan has expressed himself in a way that has 

 occasioned a slight outburst on the part of Mr. Simeon. Tersteegan 

 chanced to speak with approbation of a fourfold division of " Justifi- 

 cation," thus : " Justiiication, according to scripture and expeiience, 

 is properly fourfold ; which, being seldom sufficiently distinguished, 

 is the cause of so much misunderstanding and so much controversy." 

 Tersteegan here seemed to know too much on a point in regard to 

 which Mr. Simeon held himself to be a master. He accordingly 

 could not refrain from seizing his pen and making the following mar- 

 ginal note in a bold hand, to which also he appends his initials : "A 

 very confused head had this good man, with his fourfold justification! 

 C. S." Mr. Simeon's personal appearance is familiar from the many 

 engravings of him which are to be seen. The profile was somewhat 

 Jewish. Mr. Simeon always exhibited a special interest in questions 

 relating to the modern Jews ; and, I think, he believed he had Jewish 

 blood in his veins. I was present at his funeral, and after the cere- 

 mony, descended into the va.ult in which the body was laid, under 

 the nave of King's College Chapel. I shared also in a momentary 

 panic which took place on the occasion, egress for a time being made 

 impossible by the numbers who kept pressing in. Mr. Simeon's 

 twenty-one octavo volumes of skeleton sermons have been, with 

 astonishing industry, minutely indexed by Hartwell Home.' I sub- 

 join some judicious observations once made by Professor Farish to 

 Mr. Simeon, on the use of ridicule in controversy. Mr. Simeon had 

 indulged in some irony in an intended reply to strictures by Dr. 

 Pearson on himself. Farish advises him to strike the ironical expres- 

 sion out. He remonstrates with his old friend thus: "Aristotle 

 somewhere says that in Oratory, geloia [ironical words] are most 

 advantageously rebutted by serious arguments, and vice versa. And 

 the remark is very shrewd ; but it is not to be followed throiighout. 

 I don't see that you get any advantage by it in the present case, that 

 is not counterbalanced many times over by disadvantages. Ridicule, 

 as the test of truth, is a very powerful weapon in the hands of a dis- 

 ingenuous infidel ; but the sentiment is false, and the weapon suits ill 

 in the hands of a Christian. I don't see the propriety of using it in 

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