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MINISTRY AT STAND. 



[Chap. III. 



one of his hearers. To her it was a most interesting day ; the 

 chapel was thronged, and the vestry was filled with nurses and 

 children. She wrote : " The people, notwithstanding the in- 

 tense heat, were very attentive. I did not see one sleeper 

 among them, or one who appeared tired at the end of the two 

 hours' service." 



In the autumn he went to Nottingham, where the minister 

 was the beloved and respected Benjamin Carpenter, his 

 father's cousin ; and he greatly enjoyed meeting Sir Charles 

 Fellowes, who, among other interesting particulars of his 

 great work in Asia Minor, told him what scandal-was caused 

 there by the drinking habits of Christians. Philip gave a 

 teetotal lecture at a Primitive Methodist chapel, which was 

 attended by many of the " High Pavement " congregation ; he 

 urged no one to sign, but to read and to study, and think a 

 great deal, as they would on any other important subject. 



At Nottingham he met his brother, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, 

 who returned with him to Stand ; and then they went together 

 to the British Association, which was meeting again in York, 

 where it had originated (183 1) : on the tickets was printed, 

 " Antiquam exquirite matrem." He was glad of the oppor- 

 tunity to see a good deal of his brother, and to hear his paper 

 on his discoveries, by means of the microscope, as to the struc- 

 ture of fossils, which were exciting great interest in the scientific 

 world : the large illustrations, drawn by his sister Anna, were 

 much admired. The week was one of intense and varied 

 delight, and he gives a very graphic description of it, with 

 notes on some of the papers and discussions, in a closely 

 written letter of fifty pages, which went the round of his family 

 and friends. A visit to York was in itself a great pleasure. 

 He entered the city by moonlight, and observed " all the houses 

 and streets with great complacency ; one feasts one's eyes with 

 the bricks and stones as if they were pearls, and trots about 

 from one side of the street to another, like children jumping 

 over streams." He and some old fellow-students enjoyed a row 

 in the old four-oar. The Minster occupied much of his leisure 

 time, and he had the pleasure of taking his brother to the 



