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establishment of a Church or Society for the salvation of men with a definite 

 method of admission thereinto, is as understandable on scientific lines as is 

 the formation of a vine for the elaboration of grapes through a series of 

 definite processes. It is the indefinite un-dogmatic Christianity abroad 

 among us, due, I think, it cannot be unfair to say, to the teaching given in 

 Board schools rather than in Denominational schools, that is leading the 

 masses into weakness of belief in Christianity, or on into the non-belief of 

 such persons as "Interested," whose hearts still feel after a religion of some 

 kind. 



The recently passed Education Act was very unfair to the Church, but 

 I hope that the clergy, at least, are too busy to either actively or passively 

 resist it. Rather let us make the best of it, and give sound Christian and 

 Church teaching in our denominational schools, so that the youth trained in 

 them may be a leavening of the masses growing up with inadequate 

 conception of the Christian system, and likely to give origin in the next 

 generation to a people divorced from Christ. From which fate may God and 

 the Church defend our fatherland!— Yours, etc., 



JOHN HAWELL 

 Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, 



Middlesbrough, Nov. 27th. 



Mr. Hawell had the literary gift of facile writing and in his 

 descriptions of scenery, history, geology, and folic lore he carried 

 the reader pleasantly along, instructing and entertaining him at 

 the same time ; sometimes one is reminded of Charles Kingsley, 

 in fact in many respects Mr. Hawell was a similar character, and 

 with both, their relaxations were science and hard work They 

 both took a broad and wide view of Religion and its Power, of 

 human affairs, and the cause of history, and the progress of 

 humanity as a whole. Had he lived a few years longer we might 

 have looked forward to another delightful book rivalling in 

 interest the well-read," " Forty years in a Moorland Parish," by 

 the late Canon Atkinson, but it would probably have been named 

 " A Quarter of a Century in a Cleveland Parish." Nothing 

 came amiss to him in the Scientific, Theological and Antiquarian 

 World, a stone by the roadside or a field name equally interested 

 him — and as to this old globe, his thoughts ever turned. " The 

 face of the earth was to him," (as to another geologist recently 

 deceased). " The face of a great angel, with infinite smiles and 

 anguish-lines and profound sympathies with peace and suffering 

 stamped upon its features. Every lineament a line of tragical 

 history, full of pathos and sublimity." 



But, with deep contemplation of the long history of the earth, 

 and all that its marks and fui lows teach the graveyard for millions 

 of years of countless organisms, ever progressing in type and 

 form, until at last the jjenus homo was reached ; he gazed into 

 the remote past and lived in the present a very real life of enjoy- 

 ment, and we doubt not he would fully have entered into the 

 sentiment of the late Sir E. Burne-Jones whose life was centred 



