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perhaps you will find a difference." Certainly the 

 last thing that he thought about in his preaching was 

 anything approaching to oratorical effect, though 

 he by no means valued lightly powers of speech 

 in others ; his one aim and object in all his utter- 

 ances in the House of God was to benefit those 

 who heard him. 



His great dislike to party signs in things ecclesi- 

 astical, to which brief reference has been made, 

 was well known, and showed itself in various ways. 

 Some of his practices might have led a stranger 

 to suppose that he sided with one party, and others 

 with another. On the question, for instance, of the 

 observance of Friday he held opinions that would 

 seem to attach him to the more strictly " Church " 

 party, while his views as to the way of keeping 

 Sunday would bring him more or less under the 

 category of a Sabbatarian. In 1890 he wrote 

 several letters to one of the leading Church papers 

 on the observance of Friday, and shortly afterwards 

 published a leaflet headed " Every Friday," in which 

 he gave some very plain reasons for a due regard 

 being paid to that day, and showed what the 

 Church's rule was in this particular. As another 

 instance of his avoidance of anything that seemed 

 to him to savour of party spirit, it may be mentioned 

 that, if he had a collection in his church for foreign 

 missions, he would always divide it equally between 

 the two great Missionary Societies of the Church. 



It must not be supposed that no other music 

 had charms for him but the solos and choruses of 



