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Understanding the cause of his fear to give his hanife among th * rest—the rector being hia landlord , and his lease just out—I went to assure him of my entife conviction of his good feeling towards me , and he would have fallen on his knees had I not prevented him . His wife actuall y did « o , and sobbed a prayer . I was too much affected to be able to lift her up , and after twice attempting it , I ran out of the cottage abruptly to hide my emotion , leaving her still kneeling upon the floor , and sobbing- prayers aloud . These , my lord , are all the testimonials I have to offer ; exeept you may consider the result of inquiries concerning me as
something additional in my favour . I am in very ill health , and cannot expect to last long . I shall soon follow my dear and honourable boy . But I have a wife whom I love , and four
daughters advancing towards the age of womanhood . To leave them without a friend or protector in the world , and without means of support , fills my heart with apprehensions I dare not look in the face . It is for this reason I would fain live longer ; and I trust , my lord , that the contents of this letter will not indispose you to some favourable consideration of my case . I only wish to be continued in my present curacy ; or , if I must leave those
parishioners with whom an uninterrupted exchange of kindly feelings during twenty years , has placed me in a friendly relation approaching that of father and sincere adviser ; that I may be appointed to another as near this neighbourhood as possible . I remain , my lord , with respectful apologies for this intrusion , A sincere minister of religion , John William .
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To the Rev . John William , Curate of . Sir , —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your extraordinary communication ; ( for whether it should be designated as a
catalogue of complaints , a private narrative , or a letter of mendicity , I am quite at a loss to determine ;) and I must say that upon the whole I consider it not onl y unbecoming to your cloth and station , in a moral and social point of view , but nighly temeritous and reprehensible in its political tendencies . Had it not been for the
good word of the Rev . John Beane , of Shropshire , who has mentioned you in terms of some favour , and also of another gentleman , who has represented you to me as an industrious and well-meaning man , I Bhould not have considered it decorous or consistent with the station I hold * under Divine Providence , to vouchsafe any response to an address of so singular and unclerical a tenour . Nay , I should moreover have been led to conclude that the epistle emanated from the vague lucubrations of some unsuccessful
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THE BISHOP ' S ANSWER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/10/
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