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Captain (Sir John) Ross was at York, ,and Philip wrote to 

 know his opinion as to the use of spirits in cold climates, and 

 received his testimony that "the less that is taken, the better." 

 He called on a surgeon who ridiculed teetotalism at the 

 Medical School, and wrote : " I took an opportunity to tell 

 him what water has done for me \ and how I had not been ill 

 since he doctored me last — for I attribute all my health to 

 sponging and anti-stimulants : I think I never was a year 

 without some illness before." He also spoke at a teetotal 

 meeting, " feeling pleased at the opportunity of teetotalizing in 

 old York." On leaving the railway station, " on leaning out to 

 take an affectionate farewell of the Minster, my travelling cap 

 and old rowing handkerchief went back to wish it, and the 

 river, good-bye for me; which I thought very considerate of 

 them. I accordingly travelled afterwards without a hat, which, 

 as it was a very strong, cold head-wind, and the carriages were 

 open,* was a source of wonder to my fellow-travellers. But 

 I explained with great zeal that cold-water people could do 

 anything, and I got no harm from it whatever." 



In his " Annual Statement" at the congregational tea-meeting 

 this year, he alludes to the death of his venerable friend, Mr. 

 Philips, of the Park, during the previous summer : " He was 

 universally respected and beloved among us. His life was an 

 example (singular, alas ! in his high station) of the absence of 

 a worldly and a selfish spirit \ it was spent in good works, and 

 closed in perfect peace, f The richest legacy he has left to us 

 is the manifestation of a gentle, an honest, and a pious spirit ; 

 and I pray earnestly that we may all be led by it to walk more 

 closely in the ways of God." He thus refers to the Dissenters' 

 Chapels' Act, intended to secure Unitarians and others in the 

 inheritance of property fettered by no doctrinal trusts (the 

 Courts having held that, since it was illegal, before 18 13, to 

 deny the doctrine of the Trinity, Unitarians could have no 



* The third-class carriages had no covering in the early times, and 

 even many second-class carriages were open at the sides, above the doors. 

 Through life, he often walked with his hat in his hand. 



t During Mr. Philips's last hours, Philip, at his wish, playei some of 

 the sacred music which he loved on the organ at the Park. 



