loo IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



attitude of reverence. He is represented also in a 

 window in the chapel itself which was put up 

 about 1870. It is this former window which was 

 put up on account of the suggestion before 

 mentioned. 



Herbert protested, says Walton, against 

 ministers that "huddle up the Church prayers, 

 without a visible reverence and affection ; namely, 

 such as seemed to say the Lord's Prayer, or a 

 Collect, in a breath. But for himself, his custom 

 was to stop betwixt every Collect, and give the 

 people time to consider what they had prayed, 

 and to force their desires affectionately to God, 

 before he engaged them into new petitions." He 

 was a good musician. Cathedral music greatly 

 affected him — "it elevated his soul and was with 

 prayer his Heaven upon earth." He wrote : 

 "Kesort to sermons, but to prayers most." 

 Walton, however, narrates that by his order the 

 reading pew and pulpit were, in a church he 

 served, a little distant from each other, and both 

 of an equal height ; for he would often say : " They 

 should neither have a precedency or priority of the 

 other; but that prayer and preaching, being 

 equally useful, might agree like brethren, and 

 have an equal honour and estimation." Herbert 

 dedicated himself afresh to a life for God on 

 taking the preferment of Bemerton Church, near 

 Salisbury. Cowper's words apply to his case : — 



