598 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1869, 
Queenstown before noon; very smooth water, espe- 
cially since we were out of the St. George’s Channel. 
We are all doing very well, though some of our 
party, including Mrs. Gray, are poor creatures on. the 
water. 
I have read over the sermon with real interest. What 
I much like in it is the broadness of view and modera- 
tion of claim, which adds strength to the argument. 
It seems to me that every Christian man, churchman 
or no, would yield full assent to all you say. 
And, dear Mr. Church, consider that all your friends 
think, no doubt, as I do, that you are hardly at lib- 
erty to take counsel of your misgivings and humility, 
if asked to take some position in which your gifts may 
tell more directly upon educated men, especially the 
younger men. I don’t want to see you in a position 
which brings cares and anxieties along with high 
honors ; these I do not covet for you in the least. 
What I covet for you is fruitful leisure, some position 
for you which, while it gives you time, and income 
enough to supply real wants, makes also some de- 
mands; for rarely does one do anything to much pur- 
pose that he is not somehow constrained to do. 
We leave behind us in England most delightful 
friends, and we are not likely to forget them; but 
we are somehow drawn to you in a peculiar way, 
and shall often be thinking of you and yours when 
settled down again, if it please God that we may 
be, at our pleasant home on the other side of the 
Atlantic. | 
CamBripGE, Mass., November 23, 1869. 
Just a line to tell you —which you will be glad to 
know — that we safely accomplished our voyage home, 
