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manual made constant, if not daily, use of it him- 

 self, even to his latest years. His well-worn copy, 

 with numerous emendations, showed how fre- 

 quently it had been in his hands, and, we cannot 

 doubt, had spoken comfort to him. 



The other tractate just mentioned was on a 

 subject which interested him deeply, namely, the 

 relation of the Wesleyan body to the Church of 

 England. For the old-fashioned members among 

 the Wesleyans who remained in communion with 

 the Church of their fathers he had every respect, 

 and was on friendly terms with those of them 

 with whom he came in contact, never compro- 

 mising himself, however, or deviating in the slightest 

 degree from his own principles. He deplored the 

 lamentable falling away of many modern Methodists 

 from the teaching of their founder, and the object 

 of the publication, " Words of Wesley on Constant 

 Communion," was designed to remind them of their 

 duty with regard to the performance of the most 

 hallowed religious act in which they could engage. 

 The pages consisted almost wholly of extracts from 

 Mr. Wesley's sermon on the subject. It was, too, 

 a matter to which Mr. Morris frequently alluded in 

 his own sermons. At the end of this little book he 

 added : " There is, I believe, not one argument that 

 I have been in the habit of using to bring you to a 

 proper sense of your duty in this respect which you 

 do not now see that he (John Wesley) has used 

 before me. And why ? Because he has taken 

 Scripture for his text and has gone by it, and I 



