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another, and I quote therefore the account which Robert Southey 

 has given us of Relph : — "He was the son of a Cumberland 

 statesman, who, on a paternal inheritance which could not much 

 exceed, if it even amounted to, thirty pounds a year, brought up a 

 family of three sons and a daughter, one of whom he educated for 

 a learned profession. Josiah was sent first to Appleby school, — 

 one of the many excellent schools of this country, — then to 

 Glasgow ; he afterwards engaged in a gramraar-shool in his native 

 place, and succeeded to the perpetual curacy there ; but there is 

 no reason to believe that his income was ever more than fifty 

 pounds." 



" In a lonely dell," says Mr. Boucher, " by a murmuring stream, 

 under the canopy of heaven, he had provided himself a table and 

 a stool, and a little raised seat or altar of sods ; hither in all his 

 difficulties and distresses, in imitation of his Saviour, he retired 

 and prayed ; rising from his knees he generally committed to paper 

 the meditation on which he had been employed, or the resolves 

 he had then formed. On business and emergencies which he 

 deemed more momentous, he withdrew into the church, and there 

 walking in the aisles, in that awful solitude, poured out his soul in 

 prayer and praise to his Maker. His sermons were usually medi- 

 tated in the churchyard, after the evening had closed. The awe 

 which his footsteps excited at that unusual hour is not yet forgotten 

 by the villagers." 



He continued his school when his constitution was visibly giving 

 way to that disorder which at length proved fatal, being accelerated 

 by his ascetic mode of living. " A few days before his death he 

 sent for all his pupils, one by one, into his chamber, — a more 

 affecting interview it is not possible to conceive ; one of them, 

 who is still living, acknowledges he never thinks of it without awe. 

 He was perfectly composed, collected, and serene. His valedictory 

 admonitions were not very long, but they were earnest and pathetic. 

 He addressed each one in terms somewhat different, adapted to 

 their different tempers and circumstances ; but in one charge he 

 was uniform, — lead a good life, that your death may be easy and 



