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MINISTRY AT STAND. [Chap. III. 



He had hoped to have had his last half-year " clear for 

 finishing his work at Stand," but fresh work presented itself. 

 In February the master of the Endowed School (in whose room, 

 adjoining the chapel, the Sunday school was taught) was taken 

 ill, and he felt obliged to undertake the school. Mr. Dean 

 afterwards helped ; but Philip took three days, having his own 

 pupils another day. " This," he says, " and hosts of lectures, 

 sermons, writing, and every kind of work, so filled my mind and 

 time, that my business letters were as short as possible, and I 

 scarcely wrote home. For half a year I never went to bed before 

 twelve, often one, or even two. If this had been mere work, 

 I could have stood it \ but the unhealthy room and the great 

 excitement of tuition were too much for me." 



He had been very anxious to state his views on the question 

 between the Employers and the Employed, in reference to the 

 mutual discontent which had prevailed during his residence at 

 Stand. He wrote two lectures, with great care, and delivered 

 them on consecutive Sunday evenings at the Mechanics' 

 Institute, Radcliffe, after his chapel services. A report of them 

 appeared in " The Inquirer," sent by his friend Mr. Howorth, 

 and he refers to them, and to other matters, in a letter that he 

 wrote to his sister Mary for her birthday : " The first lecture 

 was very well attended (about three hundred), and though there 

 were no mill-owners, yet there were some small manufacturers 

 and the more thinking part of the work-people. Mr. Howorth 

 came over, each time, with a detachment from Bury. Though 

 the lecture took (with the extracts read and Scriptures, etc.) 

 upwards of two hours, the people stopped to the end, and were 

 very attentive. The trust-deeds don't allow of preaching or 

 praying, by Dissenters, in any part of Radcliffe ; however, I 

 began and closed with a hymn, and read lessons, to show that 

 I meant it to be taken in a religious way. I felt extremely 

 happy in the freedom of being in my own hired room, and I 

 did not make my 'liberty a cloak of licentiousness,' but, by 

 all accounts, was very fair and calm. Of course, people expected 

 a tirade against the masters ; but in writing I was careful to 

 speak more to the workmen ; and I am very glad I spoke, for 



