330 MEMOIR OF 



sleep that knows not breaking.' Love to you 

 all." 



During a portion of that eventful year (1875) 

 his time and thoughts were much occupied in 

 preaching for charitable institutions, in behalf 

 of which he not only took an active interest, 

 but proved himself, as before mentioned, a 

 most successful advocate. So truly, indeed, 

 were his services appreciated, that, at the 

 proposal of Earl Fortescue, he was constituted 

 an honorary governor of the North Devon 

 Hospital. '' I am worked to death," he wrote, 

 " at this season of the year (November) ; going 

 about from church to church on working days 

 as well as Sundays, preaching and begging for 

 the N. D. Infirmary and similar institutions, and 

 finding, when I come home, heaps of letters to 

 answer, but no one there to cheer me in my 

 labour — alone ! alone ! " 



In the same year, as if well aware that 

 occupation is one of the main secrets of life's 

 happiness, he accepted the office of chaplain to 

 the High Sheriff of Cornwall, Mr. George 

 Williams, of Scorrier, who, in most compli- 

 mentary terms, offered him the appointment. 

 Of course, he rode to Bodmin, whence, in his 

 epigrammatic style, he thus described the duty 

 he had just performed : — " Here I am, doing 

 chaplain to the High Sheriff of Cornwall, George 

 Williams, M.F.H. ; and am just returned from 



