106 MINISTRY AT WARRINGTON. [Chap. IV. 



He had himself to follow this advice in reference to the 

 Industrial School. He and his friends had reported to the 

 Relief Committee that it was desirable to establish one during 

 the winter. They were defeated by the clergy ; but the follow- 

 ing copy of a printed letter, which Philip sent to his corre- 

 spondents, shows what was done : — 



* ' Warrington, 1 847. 



"My dear Friend, 



" I am very sorry that it has been quite out of 

 my power to write to you before : and now, you see, I am 

 writing, not with a pen, but with a compositor's stick. As this 

 is my first effort in printing, you must excuse errors. My time 

 is entirely taken up with managing the Industrial School, 

 which we have opened for the benefit of the unemployed 

 factory operatives. Owing to the bigoted conduct of the 

 clergy, who would not have reading or writing taught, we were 

 not able to organize the school under the General Relief Fund. 

 But our Mayor [Mr. Beaumont] (although a Churchman and a 

 Conservative) handed me ^50, and requested me to establish 

 and superintend a school without 6 benefit of clergy.' Of course 

 I undertook it : and I have now about 150 boys and young 

 men to look after, of whom seventy work at different trades. . . . 

 They have their dinner, if they come in time ; and many of 

 them get nothing else in the day, unless we give them some 

 Indian meal to take home, which we do as often as the dona- 

 tions we receive from friends will admit. I have also a night 

 school with fifty young men to look after. I might be called 

 the Town Nose, from my sanitary inquiries. Then there are 

 all sorts of extras, too numerous to mention. All this in 

 addition to my ordinary ministerial duties. So you will not 

 expect to hear much from me. Notwithstanding town air and 

 the work, I am very well ; thanks to a good bathe in the 

 country every morning. My sister is just as busy, with her 

 Industrial School. If you can help us with orders, materials, 

 or cash, we shall be very thankful. 



" Yours faithfully, 



" Philip P. Carpenter." 



