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[Chap. III. 



and lecturing to poor people to do. I'll hold forth to the 

 Domestic Mission people, or children, or teetotalers, or any- 

 thing. I don't want to be idle ! " In the lecture-room built 

 for his father, he gave his " first Peace lecture and spoke very 

 plainly." At the teetotal meeting, after his address, thirteen 

 signed, including his sister Mary ; and in a few days his second 

 sister, Anna, wrote her name in his book. She approved the 

 part of the pledge forbidding members to offer intoxicants to 

 others (as a beverage), for it was for the sake of others that she 

 signed — not only of the poor, but of some whom drink was 

 ruining among her acquaintance. 



During this year he was engaged in editing his father's 

 " Lectures on the Scripture Doctrine of the Atonement, or of 

 Reconciliation through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 

 In Dr. Carpenter's reply to Archbishop Magee, 1820, he ex- 

 pressed his intention of publishing another volume on the 

 Scripture doctrine of Redemption. This, however, he had 

 never found time to complete. Philip compiled six lectures 

 from fourteen which his father had written at different times, 

 studying also his father's notes, " which cover twenty folio pages 

 of shorthand, and contain an abstract of the works he con- 

 sulted on the subject." He also added " a classified list of the 

 principal texts bearing on the subject," which is of great value 

 to those who wish to have a clear view of the teachings of 

 Scripture. He concludes his Preface thus : " To those who 

 are desirous of finding the way of redemption, and when they 

 have found it, of walking in it with all their hearts ; to the in- 

 creasing number of true believers of every name who hold that 

 ■ faith which worketh by love ; ' this volume is dedicated by one 

 whose desire it is to imitate the singleness of mind, the purity, 

 and the spirituality of him who, 6 by sanctity of life, as well as 

 by force of reason, persuaded men to believe and to exemplify 

 the truth as it is in Jesus.' "* He felt great satisfaction in 

 devoting so much time and care to the study of this important 

 subject, and to the completion of his father's work. 



On September 20, 1843, after pleading with his friend 

 * From the inscription on Dr. Carpenter's monument 



