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CONTENTS. 



The New Life : a Revival — Ministerial exchanges — Edits his 

 father's ' i Lectures on the Atonement" — ' 'Stirring people up" — 

 Temperance — Lectures — " One or two cases " — Proxies — Wine 

 at the Lord's Supper — Franklin Howorth — Anti-slavery Address 

 — School sermons — British Association at York — Death of 

 Mr. Philips — Dissenters' Chapels' Act — A year's work — The 

 Sanitary movement — " Letter to Young Men, etc." — Puseyism — 

 Anniversary of the Lord's Supper— Rossendale — British Associa- 

 tion at Cambridge — Invitation to Warrington — Dr. Martineau 

 and his family — Urged to remain at Stand — The curate — " Em- 

 ployers and Employed " — Keeps school — Death of Herbert 

 Martineau — George Dawson — Peace Meetings : opposition to the 

 Militia — The silver inkstand — Address to young men — Retro- 

 spect : sermons : influence in the district : " servant of all : " his 

 peculiarities — Farewell letter to Rev. A. Dean ... ... ... 32 



CHAPTER IV. 



Ministry at Warrington : 1846-1858. ^Et. 26-39. 



Warrington Academy — Depression — Anti-slavery Meeting — Sunday 

 school essay — Famine and fever — Working hard — Sanitary 

 efforts — Swimming lessons — Industrial School — His sister's work — 

 " The Oberlin Press " — His work among young men — Water cure 

 — Cairo Street : his chapel-house — Peace Congress at Paris 

 (1849) : honours paid the delegates — Changes in his home : 

 receives young artisans — Public Health Meeting: condition of 

 Warrington: though defeated, still works on — "The Helper:" 

 plain speaking : purity — Lectures on Christianity : Swedenborg — 

 Collision in. Sutton Tunnel — Visit to Port Royal — Robbery : his 

 remarkable handbill — Christmas-tree — Miss Harriet Martineau 

 — Teaches Militiamen : protests against feasting the officers — 

 School treats — Footpaths: public meeting: "Fair play" — 

 " Words on the War : " the Christian standard — Natural history : 

 Mazatlan shells — Collection presented to the British Museum : his 

 "Catalogue" — Report to the British Association — Death of his 

 mother — Letter to his sister Mary — Visits to Halifax — Lectures 

 on Christ's teaching : English Presbyterians — Congregational 

 troubles : the " Money test : " Memorial of a minority : the 

 name "Unitarian:" ministerial freedom: letter to his sister: 

 a principle at stake — The Permissive Bill : a canvass — Vege- 

 tarianism — Sails for America — Review of his work in War- 

 rington : his preaching : the wSunday school : Bands of Hope : 

 country walks : teaching music : tune-books — Reaching onwards 97 



