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at Bristol, and preached at Lewin's Mead Meeting. At Mon- 

 treal he was rarely asked to preach, except at Mission stations, 

 but he found his old Unitarian friends still willing to hear him. 

 It was a happy time at Red Lodge House. Mary and he allowed 

 themselves pleasant intercourse and communion : and he wrote 

 her a loving letter after he had left, saying how he could have 

 wished to have been all the time with her that he was not with 

 their aunt : he felt her the lonely one of the family. She 

 endorsed his cheerful and affectionate note, " Philip himself, as 

 in old times. " Thence he went to Weymouth, to be with his 

 sister Susan and her husband and their two daughters, enjoying 

 the " beauty and affection of the home." There I joined him 

 for a day. His weary letters had almost made me fear to see 

 him: but when he met me at the station, it was indeed " Philip 

 himself, as in old times." One of my congregation was at the 

 Eye Hospital near, and we went to see her, and I had the 

 comfort of again hearing his voice in prayer : and in the even- 

 ing there was sacred music. He returned with me on the 

 Saturday to Bridport, where our old friends Mr. and Mrs. 

 W. H. Herford were staying with us. He had written to me 

 that, as my colleague was away, he would be ready to preach 

 both times, if I wished. In the morning Mr. Herford read 

 our Liturgy, and Philip preached for fifty minutes, with great 

 earnestness, from 1 John v. 3, 4, " Whosoever is born of God 

 overcometh the world/' etc. : in the afternoon, he said a few 

 words to the Sunday scholars : and, as many were disappointed 

 at not having a teetotal lecture from him (he had given one at 

 Weymouth), he preached in the evening on Christian Tem- 

 perance * to a large and most attentive congregation. I took 

 the devotional service : and his sister and nieces had driven 

 over (twenty miles) from Weymouth, to be his hearers. They 

 will not forget " the heavenly sunset glow on his dear face n as 

 he wished them good-bye at the chapel gate. The next day he 

 enjoyed sitting with us all, and talking cheerfully, on a hillside : 

 with many happy people near us — for it was a Bank holiday ; 



* A full report of this discourse appeared in "The Bridport News," 

 and the editor of that paper reprinted it after Philip's death, in 1877. 



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