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and the like. I think we have beams in our own eyes. How- 

 ever, notwithstanding this, if I thought the address would do 

 good, / could have signed it, feeling in myself that I was 

 trying to do right in my own country, and also feeling that 

 I should be ready to receive a rebuke back again. An address 

 of sympathy with the Abolitionists I (and all the ministers 

 hereabouts) would have signed at once." He added that he 

 did not approve of an address, exclusively from Unitarians. 

 He objected more and more to religious parties and sectarian 

 names. "All hold the brotherhood of man, which is the 

 great doctrine that opposes slavery." 



On Good Friday he preached before a Unitarian associa-- 

 tion at Rawtenstall (where he had preached the school 

 sermons and given a temperance lecture the year before). 

 Travers Madge was with him. His sermon was extempore, 

 from "Disciples called Christians;" "first telling them that 

 I belonged to no association : had great liberty, and con- 

 tinued about fifty minutes." The following month, he walked 

 over and preached to them the "faith which worketh by 

 love;" and then walked eight miles over the hills to Padi- 

 ham — " a most magnificent country : I was in perfect ecstasies. 

 The temperance lecture in the evening was to have been in the 

 chapel; but they wished it to be in the open air, so I con- 

 sented. We got a nice place with walls to shelter from the 

 wind, and I spoke for about an hour and a half. They were 

 very attentive, A Chartist got up afterwards to oppose me, 

 but I set him down very nicely, and made him shake hands 

 with me. On Sunday morning we had a prayer-meeting from 

 seven to eight ; then breakfast ; then the children and teachers 

 walked through the town — this was necessary, as the Orthodox 

 denied that there were so many. Then I addressed them 

 at some length : after dinner, talked with the people ; then 

 afternoon service ; then tea and talk ; then evening service. 

 I caused one of the old ministers * to take part in the afternoon 



* Messrs. Robinson and Pollard were the devoted lay-preachers at the 

 "Nazareth Chapel." A minister, then one of the congregation, remembers 

 the objection which Philip modestly felt to heading the procession of the 



