ii2 MINISTRY AT WARRINGTON. [Chap. IV. 



by request, a Bible. In his private pulpit-record he noted : 

 " October 22. 6 We are unprofitable servants' (Luke xvii. 10). 

 As this was the first day of using the Bible given me by the 

 factory people, I thought it a proper day for this sermon, which 

 I had long intended to write." 



He had added the instruction of private pupils to his other 

 labours. These were checked in February, 1849, by an attack 

 of illness, which kept him a month from his duties. He was 

 restored by a visit to the water-cure establishment at Ben- 

 Rhydding, and henceforth practised and recommended parts 

 of the hydropathic treatment. On his way home, he visited 

 his friend Mr. G. Buckton at Leeds, to whom he wrote 

 (April 2) : " My sister was waiting to receive me, and a whole 

 bevy of Sunday scholars to bear off my bags and parcels in 

 triumph. I have kept well since I came here : w r as just in time to 

 christen a new bridge that had been made during my absence 

 at our bathing-place, and am ordered by the doctor a dripping 

 sheet in the afternoon. It was very pleasant to meet them all 

 on Sunday : the school seemed in a most prosperous condition, 

 and the congregation very fair. The new houses are up to the 

 second story, and altogether all things seem prospering, espe- 

 cially the influx of the Irish and — the smells ! " 



Those houses were the parsonage and the adjoining house,* 

 in the planning of which, for health and comfort, he had taken 

 great interest. They faced a new street, Cairo Street, from 

 which the congregation made a new entry to the burying- 

 ground and chapel, formerly approached from Sankey Street. 

 Unfortunately, in making these improvements, the trustees had 

 not been duly consulted ; and Philip had the first experience 

 of those divisions which saddened his ministry. 



This spring, I resigned my ministry at Bridgwater, where (for 

 the previous year) I had declined accepting the rents from 

 beer-houses on the chapel property, which excited some painful 



* From want of space in the wood-engraving on the opposite page, 

 most of the house adjoining the parsonage has been omitted, and the 

 burial-ground (between the chapel and the school-room) has been shortened, 

 which makes the school-room appear too small. The committee-room 

 (over which was Philip's printing-office) is behind the school-room. 



