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to sumptuous fare took the soup furnished gratis from 

 the public kitchen to the poor. 



The warming, lighting, clothing, feeding, occupying 

 the poor, seemed the sole object of all Sir B. Thompson 

 thought and of all he did. His success must be told 

 in his own words. 



My hopes of engaging others to follow my example are 

 chiefly founded upon my success in the enterprise. Then 

 why should I not mention even the marks of affectionate 

 regard and respect which I received from the poor people 

 for whose happiness I interested myself ? And will it be 

 reckoned vanity if I mention the concern which the poor of 

 Munich expressed in so affecting a manner when I was 

 dangerously ill? That they went publicly in a body in 

 procession to the cathedral church, where they had divine 

 service performed, and put up public prayers for my 

 delivery. That four years afterwards, on hearing that I 

 was again dangerously ill at Naples, they of their own 

 accord set apart an hour each evening after they had 

 finished their work in the Military Workhouse to pray for 

 me. 



Let the reader, if he can, picture my situation. Sick in 

 bed, worn out by intense application, and dying, as every- 

 body thought, a martyr in the cause to which I had devoted 

 myself, let him imagine, I say, my feelings upon hearing the 

 confused noise of the prayers of a multitude of people, who 

 were passing by in the streets, upon being told that it was 

 the poor of Munich, many hundreds in number, who were 

 going in procession to the church to put up public prayers 

 for me ; public prayers for me ! for a private person, a 

 stranger, a Protestant ! I believe it is the first instance 

 of the kind that ever happened; and I dare venture to 

 affirm that no proof could well be stronger than this that 

 the measures adopted for making these poor people happy 

 were really successful ; and let it be remembered that this 



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