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COLLEGE LIFE. 



[Chap. II. 



sermon, as though he thought he was saying something im- 

 portant ! " Which I did," adds Philip. They argued on their 

 way home whether they were to say anything that could be 

 misunderstood. His friend did not believe in "the day of 

 judgment; 57 Philip thought it right to use Scripture language, 

 which people could interpret according to their light. A fort- 

 night later, he preached at the chapel in St. Saviourgate. 

 This service was in the afternoon, when the congregation was 

 scanty; but it contained many critics. He preached on a 

 characteristic theme — " The connection between the love of 

 God and of man 17 (i John iv. 20). He felt " perfectly dis- 

 gusted " with his sermon, though he had taken great pains with 

 it, and he had complied with Mr. Wellbeloved's wishes in 

 many little particulars.* He was rewarded by the cordial 

 approval of his venerable friend. " I am glad I pleased him, 

 as I was preaching for him. ... I then went to the Minster, 

 and heard the Et incamatus est — exquisite thing ! What shall 

 one do without the Minster ? f How do you manage to live ? " 

 His appreciation of this glorious music did not damp his efforts 

 to improve the choir at St. Saviourgate : he was organist there, 

 and induced the congregation to consent to having some 

 additions made to the organ ; but, as he found that it was 

 their habit to pay for repairs, etc., out of the fund that would 

 else' go to the minister, he went about collecting subscriptions. 

 He had the pleasure of opening the instrument, a few Sundays 

 before he left York, free from debt. 



In March, the exciting intelligence reached him that the 

 college (first of the Dissenting colleges) was affiliated to the 

 new University of London; and that students, duly certifi- 

 cated, might take the B.A. degree without matriculating, at the 

 next examination in June. He urged me to go up : and said 

 that as he was not twenty-one, and a dutiful son, he would go 



* " I arranged the prayers in the homiletic way ; and got an us bene- 

 diction [be with us- — not, be with you\ and did not say, ' in whose words,' 

 before the Lord's Prayer." 



t Earlier in the session, he wrote that he had not been able to go to the 

 Minster for three weeks, and "one sweet little boy, who used to open his 

 mouth, and sing out, when he saw me looking at him, has died of typhus 

 fever. " 



