u8 MINISTRY AT WARRINGTON, [Chap. IV. 



yearnings, it was a grief to us that he had not a family of his 

 own around him ; but, had it been so, there are many who 

 would have lost a most valued means of improvement. Mr. 

 Robson writes : — 



" Another feature of Dr. Carpenter's moral character, and 

 almost peculiar to himself, and to which Warrington is at this 

 moment indebted for the existence of the White Cross Iron 

 Works,* was the personal friendship he formed for young 

 men in whom he discerned a desire for mental and moral 

 improvement. For many years he had a succession of such 

 living with him, on terms of social equality, in his own house. 

 They worked at their trades, but lived and boarded with him, 

 and in this way received influences from him which have 

 borne wonderful fruit in after years. His untiring industry, 

 his promptitude, his wonderful and never-failing punctuality, 

 his perfect purity, his high-toned charity, and his warm and 

 earnest heart wonderfully fitted him to influence and educate 

 young people, as the event has shown " (Memorial, p. 8). 



In the year 1850, Philip had to undergo a great disappoint 

 ment in his sanitary labours. We have mentioned the ris 

 of the Working Men's Health of Towns Association in 1847 

 in the following May, its first annual meeting was held in the 

 Cairo Street school-room — "one of the largest and most in 

 fluential ever held in Warrington ; " and the Town Counci 

 petitioned for the Public Health Act, which was carried in the 

 following session. The working men naturally supposed that 

 the Council would accede to their memorial, urging that im 

 mediate application should be made to put the town under the 

 Act; but an amendment wa"s carried, to await its working in 

 other places. The Association again sent a memorial, probably 

 in no measured terms; for Philip objected to parts of it, "on 

 the ground that they appear to me to impugn the motives of 

 certain parties mentioned by name. It is my conviction 

 that though we may deal with the actions of men, we have 

 no right to speak of the motives of which we may judge 

 erroneously ; " and at length, finding that he could not con- 



* Mr. F. Monks, the first manager, had been one of his inmates. 



