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tiful allusions to my father. It was deeply impressive, and 

 all seemed to think it so; in most parts, there was quite a 

 breathless attention. They are very anxious to print : I 

 damp a little ; but it does not answer to throw quite cold water 

 on a red-hot plate — it only makes it spurt up." In the evening 

 there was a crowded tea-meeting, and 280 persons, comprising 

 members of the various Denominations in the neighbourhood, 

 besides Unitarians from other congregations, afterwards listened 

 to addresses in the chapel. Such a gathering warmed the 

 hearts of the people, and they often spoke of that " happy day." 



On the following Sunday, he deepened the impression by 

 an earnest sermon on " The harvest plenteous ; the labourers 

 few." He records, " Call for Sunday-school teachers responded 

 to by thirty-one names. Made mistakes, which shows I must 

 be very careful ; but very warm, and I hope warmed others." 

 He wrote home : "The old folk who used to teach the school 

 are delighted at the prospect of a revival." He soon reports 

 that he has commenced a class at the Sunday school, to study 

 his father's " Harmony of the Gospels." There were seventeen 

 classes, and the congregation showed their interest in it; but 

 the room was " shockingly wet and unhealthy," the floor being 

 below the level of the ground. Travers Madge was very 

 helpful. He called on the children and sat up with them at 

 chapel. "I always consider him as 6 the incarnation of the 

 absent-friend element ' (to use one of J. J. T.'s phrases) at 

 the Lord's Supper, and he does me great good in telling me my 

 faults. I could not have imagined that a year's acquaintance 

 could have made us so very brotherly. I stayed in school 

 yesterday with the children, as there is not time to get back by 

 half-past one on Lord Supper Sundays; and I forgot almost 

 all my dinner, in my zeal for reading them stories to keep them 

 something like half-quiet. There are about forty who come 

 from a distance, and bring their dinners with them, which are 

 'as various as the moon,' from a raw carrot to an apple-puff." 

 In the afternoon he began to preach extempore. " The 

 people certainly prick up their ears when they see me put 

 my watch on the pulpit-ledge, and not light the candles." 



