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plan is first to leap into the mire, and then to say to my friends, 'If you choose to give me an helping hand, I will take a few more leaps;' but my efforts must of necessity be bounded by my means. I do not first ask, and then act; but first act, and then ask; and leave it to the Lord to send friends to my assistance, or not, as it shall please Him. With respect to the issue I have no uneasiness. King Henry finds me with a very adequate supply to my wants, though I should have nothing else, and beyond my means I shall on no account proceed. Nevertheless, I am not anxious to stop much short of them. To be my own Executor is a thing which I contemplate with pleasure rather than with pain, provided I do only what is wise in itself, and conducive to the object I have in view.

"This plain story will be the best answer I can give. It speaks for itself, and supersedes all the apologies, which, if I were not thus frank and open, I should be constrained to make; and it at the same time demonstrates the sincerity with which I am, "My dear Sir, your most faithful friend and Servant, "C. SIMEON."

CHAPTER XXVI.

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LETTERS TO REV. T. THOMASON ON LORD POWERSCOURT'S BENEFACTION -MR. GOODE'S REMOVAL TO INDIA PROGRESS OF RELIGION IN CAMBRIDGE-GENERAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY- —SERMONS ON THE GOSPEL-MR. GOODE'S APPOINTMENT -THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AT THE JEWS' MEETING- TO J. J. GURNEY, ESQ. ON THE MOTTO TO HIS ESSAYS.'-TO A FRIEND ON FIDELITY TO GOD TO THE SAME ON SUFFERING PERSECUTION TO A MISSIONARY ON THE GOLDEN MEAN-ON HUMAN INFIRMITIES TO REV. S. CARR ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE APOCRYPHA-MEMORANDA ON A BEQUEST FOR RELIGIOUS OBJECTS -ON THE NUMBERS AT HIS EVENING PARTIES-ON RECEIVING MARKS OF ATTENTION.

1824-1826.

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

To the Rev. T. THOMASON.

"My beloved Brother, "K. C., Camb., June 8, 1824. "I now come to that which is more particularly my own province.

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"1st. To ask you whether you ever received my letter, desiring to know how I may, to the greatest profit, apply a sum of money left to me with two other trustees by Lord Viscount Powerscourt for the use of India. I wish you to learn, and to give me a choice of plans-not plans already carrying on by the Church Missionary Society; but others, to which their funds are not applied. I must not be limited to one, but must have different to choose out of. You will of course give me your opinion; but I shall submit all

to my co-trustees, and act with them: they are Mr. Justice Lefroy, and the Hon. Mr. Wingfield, Lord Powerscourt's brother.

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"2nd. Let me give you my opinion about your appointment to the Presidency Church. I wish I could send you my advice by a carrier-pigeon. On an abstract view of the question I might agree with Mr. Corrie and Mr. Sherer: but I have entered fully into matters, and I think I have already informed you that I am to appoint your successor, and have for the place, I hope, another Martyn, almost in talent and altogether in piety-my own assistant, Mr. Goode, a son of him who was Minister of St. Anne's, Blackfriars.

"All your exertions in India perfectly surprise me: your Bible Committees, Book Societies, &c., &c. ; I quite blush when I see what you are all doing. But we must all be content with doing what we can, and feel neither envy nor discouragement at being exceeded by others. In truth, the whole world seems to have received somewhat of a new impulse: and glorious times are fast approaching. The sun and the moon are scarcely more different from each other than Cambridge is from what it was when I was first Minister of Trinity Church; and the same change has taken place through almost the whole land.

"Dear Professor Farish has become an itinerant advocate for the Church Missionary Society. A few years ago I should have as soon expected that he would be historical painter to his Majesty, or Envoy Extraordinary to the court of China. His soul is surprisingly quickened, and his powers are increased. He looks very little older than when you were here.

"I believe I told you of the immense alterations that are taking place in the Colleges here. Corpus

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(Bene't) has built an entire new College, which will be finished before Christmas. Trinity has added a Court that enables them to admit into College double the number they used. King's is building a most magnificent College at £100,000 expense. St. John's think of emulating Trinity. A wonderfully fine Observatory is built on the road to Madingley.... What think you of taking away Caius College, and of rebuilding it by the Hospital? It is probable that may be done. By the way, Addenbrooke's Hospital also is doubled in size. Where Caius College now is, if it be removed, we shall have a grand Museum. Yet wonderful as all this improvement is, it does not exceed the improvement in the studies of the University. All is going forward together: and I hope, when you come, you will find us all improved."

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"I can fully enter into the difference you experience in your ministrations at the Cathedral; and I fear that your valuable time is sadly broken in upon by mere official calls. I have myself but three days ago finished my Course before the University. I have some idea that I told you in my last what the subject was: if I did, forgive me for mentioning it now. It was the glorious Gospel of the blessed God' (1 Tim. i. 11): its nature and office-its riches and fulness-its suitableness and sufficiency-its excellency and glory....

"Glorious news have I to tell you. This very day does my friend and assistant, Mr. Goode, receive his final appointment to succeed to your Church. You will now have a co-adjutor second only to dear Martyn. In his ministry he will be far superior to Martyn:

it is only in research and powers of mind that he will be second. I thank God most unfeignedly for enabling me to make this sacrifice. Mr. Goode, I expect, will sail in January with Mr. Sherer: a blessed pair to send you at once! ... I should tell you that the next vacancy for Bengal will be filled with one of my recommending: so that I stand in the same relation to India that I did before Mr. Grant's death. How justly is the memory of that blessed man honoured!

"I ought to tell you that the Master of Corpus, Mr. Lamb, took the chair at our Jews' Meeting, notwithstanding he was Vice-chancellor; and Dr. Godfrey, the President of Queens', was also there. In truth, things are wonderfully altered even since your time. What reason for thankfulness have we on account of these changes! As for me, I am precisely the same that ever I was; so that the change is in others, and not in me. But it is the Lord's work, and marvellous in our eyes."

To J. J. GURNEY, Esq., Earlham Hall.

"My beloved friend and Brother, "Jan. 4, 1825. "I have received your most kind and acceptable present, and had hoped before this time to have read your Essays on Christianity, that when I acknowledged the receipt of them I might be able to speak of them from a knowledge of their contents. It was a real delight to me to see your motto, EN TOYTOI IZOI, 1 Tim. iv. 15, in the title-page. O that it were written on the hearts of all who make a profession of religion; and so written that their profiting might appear unto all men! This is to be men of God.' Nothing short of this will suffice. Ask those who have profited most in every profession,

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