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i. ODMAN AND SCHARTAU. 365
They may be compared, I imagine, to those of Fenelon in
France and Keble and Pusey in England, especially to
those of the latter. He had something of the character of
Dr. Pusey in his relation to those who consulted him, but,
in his position at Lund, and his general influence, he was
perhaps more like his English contemporary, Charles
Simeon (1759 1836), at Cambridge. He set himself to
develop strength and reverence apart from sentimentality,
and in this way he separated himself from the Pietists,
and he valued the Church, and the sacraments and
ordinances of the Church, in a way that they often failed
to do. His conversion, if we may call it so, came to him
in hearing the absolution pronounced by a very ordinary
priest in the communion service, and the powerful
ministry of this rite in public or private was one of the
most characteristic features of his own career.
His fault, which was exaggerated by his followers,
was a certain constant reference to the forms and divi
sions of logic and to the inward state of the soul
in other words to psychology. This led to a curious
and anxious introspection, to a balancing of motives and
convictions, and to the requirement of a conscious ascent
through certain stages of progress, which was not alto
gether healthy. In his followers these characteristics
have produced a certain dryness and tediousness, and, it
is said, too great a dependence on the
"
direction
"
of the
chosen spiritual guide. But there can be no doubt of the
depth of the influence of Schartau and his best disciples.
And this influence, being deep, is also abiding, though
popular favour is no longer strong for the system which
he inaugurated.
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