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should be tea provided for the singers, and that we should 

 not invite others, but trust to our own strength ; so if they 

 choose to come of their own accord, they cannot complain of being 

 deprived of their rights. " He found that, in a Sunday school of 

 the district, ten teachers left in anger when their drink was 

 withheld ! " This makes me feel more the pleasing nature of 

 the Stand people, who seem very ready to make improvements." 



Having just published the Memoir of my father, I had the 

 happiness of spending about three months with Philip at this 

 time; supplying pulpits in his neighbourhood, before settling 

 with a congregation. I heard Mr. Hockings, the eloquent 

 l< Birmingham blacksmith," and had the need of teetotal societies 

 so vividly brought before me, that I soon followed Philip's 

 example ; and our sisters and brother subsequently helped the 

 temperance cause : but he was our leader, and his determina- 

 tion and zeal were the strongest. Philip's earnest and affec- 

 tionate piety — he believed in prayer with all his heart — and his 

 ardour in well-doing, were a great stimulus to one who witnessed 

 it day by day. There was no lack of cheerfulness and fun. I 

 noticed that he often could not quite understand the Lancashire 

 dialect, in which many of his people addressed him (though 

 he afterwards got very familiar with it), and he had to learn 

 their usages and modes of expression, some of which much 

 amused him. In one of his " Poz. papers " he describes how, 

 when he asked some of them to tea, they replied, "Wha's 

 coming too, then ? Well, perhaps I may drop in ; but I won't 

 promise." He afterwards set this to music, as a catch : — 





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