ooks, and
could do no work. Only the thought that God had taken her to Himself, and
that He doeth all things well, finally availed to quiet him. So of all his
friends; he never forgot and was never false to them. But his special care
was bestowed upon the young men of the University, who had gathered about
him, in the spirit of a most enthusiastic discipleship, out of all
Germany, and indeed out of nearly all Christendom. To the last he
continued to be a young man himself, as fresh, impulsive and eager, and
with as entire a freedom from all appearance of assumption and authority,
as though his pupils and he were merely peers. There was at once a warmth,
a blandness and a child-like simplicity of manners, which made him the
idol of every heart. And he carried the same amenity of temper into all
the theological controversies of his life. He never stooped to ungracious
personalities, and never seemed to be in pursuit of victory at the
expense of truth and fairness. The result was that he was never assailed
with personalities in return. Through all the bitterest contentions which
raged around him, he was uniformly treated with respect and deference. Not
that men were ignorant of his opinions, or thought him neutral, but
because he was felt to be an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile.
He committed himself to no clique, and allowed no clique to be committed
to him.

In his personal habits he was temperate and frugal in the extreme; though
not for the sake of accumulation. His income from his books and lectures
must have been considerable; but he gave it nearly all away. Hundreds of
indigent students could testify to his generosity, while amongst the poor
of the city, there were many pensioners upon his bounty.

In regard to his intellectual gifts and powers, their peculiar cast has
already been intimated. The dominant feature of his genius was its deeply
subjective and spiritual character. The accidents of a subject never
detained him for a moment from his search after the essential and the
abiding. Outward circumstances were of little interest to him. And in this
direction lay the main defect of his mind; it was too exclusively
Platonic, subjective and spiritual. Had his profound Germanic
intuitiveness of vision been tempered with a little more of our homely
Anglo-Saxon common sense, the combination would have been well-nigh
perfect.

What has just been said of his intellectual peculiarities will help us to
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