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1863-68] LAST DAYS AT FULHAM 539
who had now for many years been working as a Roman
Catholic priest in Islington, wrote in terms of the warmest
affection, adding
"
I remember it was what your friends predicted long, long
ago at Balliol, and it is an evidence of our prescience. . . . What
a curious fact it is that one like myself should have been a pupil
of the Bishop of Winchester and the tutor of the Archbishop of
1
Canterbury."
"
Diary.
STONEHOUSE, Novr. 22, 1868. I have been almost over
whelmed by letters of congratulation and good-will. . . . To-day
I have preached at St. Peter s. I intended to have had the day
quiet for prayer and reading. I do feel, I think, in this great
change, the nearness of the final change, and the nothingness of
earthly honours. Such things come to a man of my age, and in
my state of health, with a very softened feeling. O Lord, keep
me day by day waiting upon Thee, day by day striving simply to
do Thy will, through Jesus Christ. Give me the will and the
power to fulfil the duties of this awful post in quiet dependence
upon Thee.
"23 November 1868. We have sent off to-day about 160
letters. This is the anniversary of my consecration in Whitehall
Chapel twelve years ago. How
. . .
greatly have I been blessed
during these ! years . . . Great has been the assistance I have re
ceived from the laity rallying round me, especially in the matter
of the Bishop of London s Fund. . . . The principle on which
I have gone all these twelve years has been not to repress, and
always, if possible, to encourage every zealous effort to advance
mistakes and abundant failures
Christ s cause. . . . Amid many
on my own part, God has watched over the work. Lord, I pray
Thee to grant that in this new post I may be sustained by Thee.
Teach me to live a quieter, a more calm, a holier life. I thank
Thee, O Lord, for the great help I have received from my dear
wife. Spare her to me, I beseech Thee, for Jesus
sake. . . .
"
FULHAM, Christmas Day,
Christ s
1868.- -The ordination week
passed, full of work and solemn interest. My last address to the
1 See above, p. 44.