CHAPTER III. 



MINISTRY AT STAND: 184.I-1846. MT. 21-26. 



" You must not think that Stand is a village ; no, nor even 

 a hamlet, or even a collection of houses : it is only a populous 

 neighbourhood." Even now, its name is not in the " Postal 

 Guide." The chapel is on high ground, as the name Stand 

 implies, about half a mile from the road between Manchester 

 and Bury; it was built in 18 19, on the site of one erected 

 in 1693 for "Protestant Dissenters," without any limitation 

 as to articles of faith. In front of it is a large burial-ground ; 

 on one side is a school-room, on the other were two cottages 

 and then "an infirm house [the parsonage] in a nice garden." 

 As is not unusual in chapels erected where no church was near, 

 there is a bell to summon the people. Since Philip's time, the 

 parsonage has been greatly improved, the cottages (represented 



