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twenty to forty young men on these occasions. . . . We are 

 having a teetotal move at Town End, a rough part : the fruit 

 partly of our chapel lectures and school meetings, and partly of 

 our open-air Sunday afternoon meetings. They have taken a 

 room, and are beginning an adult night and Sunday school. 

 About fifty riotous young men signing causes a sensation. There 

 is quite enough to encourage us, and quite enough horrid 

 wickedness that we have no power over." 



After Philip's death, there appeared a letter in " The Man- 

 chester Examiner," from one who said that he was now advanced 

 in years, and wished to bear his testimony to a good man by 

 whom his character was to some extent moulded : — " It was 

 his pride and pleasure to gather together young men of pro- 

 mise, not for proselytizing purposes, but in order that he might 

 influence them for good, mentally, morally, and I may add 

 physically. A more tender teacher and friend no youth could 

 have, and the value of his instruction and friendship was all 

 the greater, seeing that it was ' without money and without 

 price.' I was one of many young men who, while differing 

 from him in politics or in religion, yet sat at his feet, and 

 I cannot refrain from bearing testimony to his worth as a man 

 and a Christian. His services in establishing an industrial 

 school in Warrington at a time of severe depression in trade 

 merit more than a few lines in a letter ; suffice it here to say 

 that there must be many yet living who owe to him that they 

 were plucked out of the gutter, as it were, and learnt trades, 

 by means of which they could earn honest livelihoods, and 

 more than that, who are indebted to him for the knowledge 

 they possess of this world and the world to come." 



Soon after Philip's school was opened, the clergy opened 

 theirs ; and altogether about eight hundred young persons 

 of both sexes received instruction, and were partially fed. 

 When they were closed, the working-men held a meeting, 

 to which J. Fielden, Esq., M.P., the champion of the Ten 

 Hours' Bill, was invited, at which they presented a testimonial 

 to the rector * and to Philip : the rector had a medal ; Philip, 



* The Hon. and Rev. H. Powis, afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Man : 

 he died soon after Philip. 



