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188 THE RECOBD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
where tide sunshine the bird brooded sang * and over the the deer fair herded old- . world A rich ic , ture calm , and noon in
the recessed embrasure of the great deep mullioned p window ; , sat and lu a kni te blending th ghtl e y fairy mins music fancy trel , his wi of th sword the hi full laid h and thou idly g noble ht by , , t he who q t uain he soare ch t i concei va d l w rous it t ,
g quil Shakspeare The and spring tempera , or of action te j dreamed oy was of musing broken with and S within penser of medi me . ; t but ation in , the my tran quie - t
solitary life was not without its visions and its phantasies . -depression And yet the the timidi aimlessness ty of na of tural enfeebled reserve , health the corrosion clung of to lon me g
and floated , round me as a cloud does round a , hill . My own , experience had taught me a strong sympathy with
" The still , sad music of humanity , " me and who I sou needed ght to i render tOur wha littl t li e tt village le help even I mig ht t t ained o those error around and
s occupa wan t t , t crime tion hened . , i In gnorance the this . clergyman occupation , and sorrow of our I , and was parish I greatl , . soon The y gained assis Rev ted . Arthur a new and
Lawrence reng the nephew of the Rev . Sydney Lawrence , of Seanook , came residence to our , littl in e i village t . He a had few been month curate s after at I a had fashionable taken up
for my London a l member ittle ch , urch obscure of , bu hi t s relin i small llage quis , in flock hed which his to town he uide mi du and g t ies t h el wi p t h ever p leasure know soul
w every ithin his little cure . He was about , g eight-and-twent p y when y he h firs is t universi came amongst ty career us an . d He had had a considerable been highly reputation distinguished for elo in
-Hi quence h Chur and ch scholarsh and , I i fancied p . When that first he was he cam inclined e , he to was that rather
unmeaning g exaltation ; of the priestly office which demands unfound reasoning that re forms spect and without ceremonies meriting and * ritualism real reverence were but . But stumbling , as he
was blocks too in true the and way e of arnest his doing a servant good , of he his discarded Divine them Master . He to
After neglect he the had sp been irit for amongst the letter us , a the few substance months for the shadow in the .
, everyone He parish knew felt what it was was to the hav friend e a true pastor iser and cons sp oler iritu teacher al guide of .
all the hamlet everyone . He ; linked all life , around , him to , the unseen Higher Life above .
grew and He hel to called per be . my I upon held dearest me him . both friend We in _soc , my love _-n becam best and reverence companio e very intimate . n , He my . was guide He a I !
scholar and a gentleman , and upon this basis raised the super-
188 The Recobd Of A Vanished Life.
188 THE RECOBD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/44/
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