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for the longer he lived the more strongly did he 

 seem to feel on all that pertained to the kindly 

 treatment of dumb animals ; while, needless to .say, 

 his crusade against vivisection was to the very last 

 unabated, and for some years during the last decade 

 of his life he would send out by post almost daily 

 large numbers of circulars, letters, and leaflets 

 bearing on that question. 



Thus the months and years rolled on, each day 

 bringing with it opportunities for work of various 

 kinds, not only in his own parish, but, as far as in 

 him lay, wherever he felt he could speak or act 

 for the great cause he had so much at heart. Never 

 was he so happy as when he felt himself permitted 

 to be instrumental in doing his own small share 

 in mitigating the world's evils, increasing its store 

 of happiness, and in promoting anything that made 

 for righteousness, justice, and truth. All this with 

 him was a religious duty, and literally a business. 



Sunday was to him a welcome day. Its duties 

 refreshed rather than overtaxed his powers. The 

 church itself in which he officiated for so many years 

 was very small, and needed no strain of voice to 

 fill. To say nothing of other considerations, the 

 very fact of his Sunday work being a change was 

 to him almost as good as a rest. 



Although considerable improvement had been 

 effected in the general appearance and fittings of 

 the little church at Nunburnholme shortly after 

 Mr. Morris came to the parish, yet anything like 

 a complete restoration of the dilapidated building 



