i877.] 



REMEMBERED. 



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Mr. W. Robson and Mr. Beaumont (Mayor at the time of the 

 distress, p. 106). These were twice reprinted as a pamphlet : 

 the second edition included the recollections of Mr. F. Monks, 

 who had been an inmate of his home. There are several 

 extracts from this Warrington Memoir in the fourth chapter. 



" The actions of the just 

 Smell sweet and blossom as the dust : " 



and his death revealed in many unexpected quarters the 

 impression which he had made : sometimes by a token of his 

 loving interest and warm-hearted sympathy : or by some kind 

 act or encouraging word, which he had soon forgotten : or 

 by his care and teaching, which he feared that others had 

 forgotten ; for he had .sown good seed from which there 

 appeared no growth, though he had watered it with his tears : 

 it was trodden in the dust ; yet in due time it sunk deep into 

 the earth, and sprung up, and yielded fruit. There are many, 

 on whom he thought he had bestowed labour in vain, who are 

 trying to teach their children what he had taught them. 



Many were the letters which showed how he was remembered 

 by those who loved him : one by the Rev. Franklin Howorth, 

 of Bury, is quoted as the testimony of a most faithful fellow- 

 labourer.* " Christian conscientiousness seemed to me the basis 

 of his character. . . . The love of Christ constrained him to 

 oppose existing evils, at whatever cost : renouncing self, and 

 faithfully following duty and principle. And all was accom- 

 panied with the grace of true Christian humility. His single- 

 ness of purpose, united with intellectual power, gave great 

 force to his advocacy of truth . . . and his loving and large 

 heart carried him onward in the fight for the great interests of 

 humanity, with a zeal, an energy, and a persistency, that would 

 never rest satisfied with compromise or expediency, or suc- 

 cumbing to difficulty. His great aim in life, like that of his 

 Divine Master, was to be constantly doing good to the bodies 

 and souls of men : hence his great economy of time, that 

 every moment might be turned to account. . . . What a charm 

 his holy and benevolent conscientiousness gave to his life, 



* See Chapter III. and p. 249, etc. 



