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thought of this ? Do you ' think on these things ' ? 

 . . . Do not live as if you were never to die. Live 

 for death. Live for life, for real life, for a blessed 

 life ; for life eternal." 



In delivering his sermons he stood perfectly 

 upright, never placing the manuscript on the desk, 

 but holding it in his hand. Being written in his 

 small handwriting on ordinary-sized note-paper, it 

 would have been next to impossible to have read 

 it ^had it been any distance from the eye, while 

 to have bent down at all to read would have 

 been quite " against rule " with him ; and it posi- 

 tively irritated him to see any one holding himself 

 badly, while he took pains to avoid anything of the 

 kind in himself. Frequently, after a long sit at his 

 writing-table, >he would suddenly get up, perhaps 

 rush out of doors and violently throw his arms 

 backwards and forwards for some time an exercise 

 which tended, as he supposed, to expand the chest ; 

 and he had a theory about it that it was beneficial 

 to the lungs. 



In the latter years of his life he found a difficulty 

 in composing altogether new sermons, and so he 

 generally contented himself with rewriting, adding 

 to, and improving his older ones. He used to relate 

 that when first he went to Nafferton as a young 

 man, comparatively fresh from college, Archdeacon 

 Wilberforce asked him if he found any difficulty 

 in writing sermons, to which he replied that he 

 did not in the least. "Wait, then," added the Arch- 

 deacon, "till you are as old as I am, and then 



