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cised his ministerial- functions. While living at Nor- 

 wood from 1878 to 1885 he frequently assisted the 

 clergy of S. Philip's Church, Sydenham, and afterwards 

 was always ready to take Sunday duty to relieve a 

 brother cleric, and to give up his well-earned rest in 

 order that he might, in some degree, lighten the labours 

 of others. It was a common thing with him, while 

 absent upon his lecturing tours, to preach for a friend 

 upon the Sunday, wherever he might happen to be. 

 And as his sermons always cost him a vast amount 

 of care and anxiety, and, moreover, exhausted him very 

 considerably, the sacrifice upon his part, when consenting 

 to do so, was of no inconsiderable character. 



His style of preaching was peculiarly his own, and 

 his sermons themselves were never like those of anybody 

 else. During the earlier part of his clerical life, he 

 always read from a manuscript ; but afterwards, gaining 

 confidence by experience, he relinquished the practice 

 altogether, and trusted merely to the scantiest of notes. 



I give here the outline of one of his later sermons, 

 exactly quoted from his notes ; first, however, premising 

 that those notes are utterly incomprehensible to myself: 



"Matt. v. 14, & vi. i. ... Effect of words and 



"United . . . Church . . . deeds. 



WORSHIP . . . responsi- " JUDGE. 



bility. Not have to invent " Rebuke ; not young old ; 



too much. Pharisees child parent ; feel awkward. 



did. " Certainly, not elementary 



" Light united shine farther. duty. 



" LIFE. " Keep away. " 

 "Quiet . . . Face of Moses; 



