“I hate dry doctrinal preaching, without warm, affectionate, and experimental applications. Oh! ’tis most pleasant to love one another with pure hearts fervently. Love is of God, for ‘God is love.’ The summit of our happiness must be the perfection of our holiness. By this blessed grace we have the brightest evidence that we are ‘born of God.’ If we allow that little shades of difference may exist, we ought to ‘love as brethren,’ and where Christian candour and love are found to reign, the odious sin of schism, according to its general interpretation, cannot exist.” “It is no sign that we value the blessings of God, if we can part with them” (i.e. dear friends) “without regret. That mind is badly framed that prefers stoical indifference to Christian sensibility, and though the pain is abundantly more acute where those finer feelings of the mind are found to exist; yet who deserves the name of a human being who is without them?” “While a soul within our reach is ignorant of a Saviour, we must endeavour to win it to Christ. How weary I am of a great deal of what is called the ‘_religious world_!’ High and Low Church Sectarianism seems to be the order of the day; we are much more busy in contending for _parties_ than for _principles_. These evils are evidences of a lack of genuine Christianity. Oh! when shall that happy day dawn upon us, when real Christians and Christian ministers of all denominations shall come nearer to each other.” The next extracts shall be from the writings of one who was scarcely appreciated by the world in general, but of whose excellencies I was enabled to judge, during my residence at Cambridge; Mr. Simeon. “Religion appears in its true colours when it regulates our conduct in social life; your religion must be seen, not in the church, or in the closet only, but in the shop, the family, the field: it must mortify pride and every other evil passion, and must bring faith into exercise. Try yourselves by this standard: see what you are as husbands or wives, parents or children, masters or servants.” {124}