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his thoughts and the findings of his heart ; he would then have 

 swept all before him. 



Most of us had a very warm corner in our hearts for " Our 

 fighting parson," as the soldiers called him, and he saved many 

 a soul from despair. It was not so much what he said as what 

 he did. Can anyone doubt that this sporting parson was 

 faithful, and in the fullest sense of the words carrying out his 

 Master's orders ? 



Would that there were more like him ! I have met many 

 parsons, and not a few have mistaken want of tact for plain- 

 spoken righteousness, thereby driving people from the fold ; yet 

 they go happily on their way, tripping themselves up and 

 others with them over their own red tape. The pity of it, 

 when many are sincerely good men acting according to their 

 lights and filled with fervour for the Cause. 



The soldiers admired Mr. Adams's strength and activity ; 

 he was a very spare man and as active as a cat. 



Peshawar was his favourite station in India ; he had been 

 Chaplain there three times, the first being in 1868, when he 

 received the thanks of the Government for his services during 

 the terrible outbreak of cholera that visited the place at that 

 time. 



Mrs. Adams was almost as popular as her husband. She is 

 a sister of Sir Arthur Willshire, late Scots Guards, and I am glad 

 to say she is still living. 



After leaving India the Adamses settled down into a quiet 

 country living in Norfolk, which, if I remember rightly, is in the 

 gift of the Duke of Rutland. Here the Padre spent the last 

 years of his useful life, dying in 1903. 



Lord Roberts erected a memorial in the church at Stow 

 Bridge to the memory of his old friend, and a brass plate was 

 placed in the church at Peshawar by other friends, amongst the 

 subscribers being the Viceroj^ at that time, namely, Lord 

 Curzon of Keddleston. 



After the Padre's death Mrs. Adams gave the portable altar 

 he had used during the Afghan Campaign to the church where 

 he was working last before his death. 



Unfortunately there is no son to walk in his father's foot- 

 steps. 



Mr. Adams was not heavily endowed with this world's 



