Part 3 (1/2)
About this time the news reached us that the Vicar was dead; and thus ended my connection with Perranzabuloe As the Dean and Chapter would not appoint ements for o; but for various other reasons Ito leave a place where my health had been so wonderfully restored and sustained, and in which I had received so many tokens of God's favour It is true that ht ht as unto the Lord I took the work as fro Him for any token of success or co the place before I had done any good to the people; for, with allthem to receive my idea of salvation by churchmanshi+p
However, the door was shut behind me; and this crisis happened at the exact tied to befor a sphere of labour which would suit me, and also the partner of my choice, as in every respect likely to be an effectual helpive ourselves to the Lord's work (as we thought) in it
One of the ”Peel” districts in the neighbourhood of Truro, which I had designed, called Baldhu, was on the Earl of Falmouth's estate: it came to his Lordshi+p's ht the patronage from the commissioners, and then offered it to me, to Be made into a new parish This I accepted, with an immediately to dreareat distress in that place ast the tenants, on account of the failure of the potato crop; so his lordshi+p e up the barren croft for planting trees; there he gave ood central site for a church
Now Iperfect, and with ulations, my surpliced choir, churchwardens, and frequent services, all after ht that having free scope, mine should be a e palish; three thousand souls had been assigned to o and civilize them, buildthat was necessary
To begin with, I took a rooe school in the week, and for a service on Sunday This succeeded so well, that in a fewin which we asse made all necessary plans, and procured stones, timber, and slate, we co, and by Saturday night had a chancel (which I thought most necessary) ready for Sunday use!
All the world came to see this sudden erection This temporary church now held three hundred people; and with the addition of a new choir and hearty service, it was a great success, or, at least, so I iined, for in those days I did not look for y and sanguine hope I had, of course, gained more experience in the various duties of my ht, how sacraht to work
I preached on holy living, not conversion, for as yet I knew nothing about the latter
In 1847, I went on a visit to a very rereat effect upon me in many ways He was the Rev Robert Hawker, of Morwenstow, in the extreme north of Cornwall
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See his ”LIFE,” by Rev Baring Gould
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This friend was a poet, and a High Churchman, from whom I learned many practical lessons He was a man who prayed, and expected an answer; he had a wonderful perception for realizing unseen things, and took Scripture literally, with startling effect He certainly was most eccentric in htforwardness about him which charmed me very much; and I was the more drawn to him, from the interest he took in ends of holy men of old, and said that the patron saints of West Cornere in the calendar of the Eastern Church, and those in the north of Cornwall belonged to the Western His own patron saint, Morwenna, was a Saxon, and his church a Saxon fane He talked of these saints as if he knew all about them, and wrote of thees in the wilderness, And built theels like a dreahts as sweet as flowers”
He used to give rand descriptions of the storantic force, and tell thrilling stories of shi+pwrecks; how he saved the lives of some of the sailors, and how he recovered the bodies of others he could not save Then in the churchyard he would show you--there, a broken boat turned over the resting-place of some; here, two oars set up crosswise over several others; and in another part the figure-head of a shi+p, to mark the spot where the body of a captain was buried
The Vicarage house was as original as hilebe, a pound a day; A pleasant place to watch and pray
Be true to Church, be kind to poor, O minister, for evermore!”
The interior was furnished with old-fashi+oned heavy furniture and the outside was conspicuous for its remarkable chimneys, which were finished off as models of the towers of churches where he had served The kitchen chi, perplexed hiht me of my mother's tomb; and there it is, in its exact shape and dienerally by himself, when he prayed for the people ”I did not want them there” he said ”God hearsthe bell”
He had st the poor, and declared that his people did whatever he told thereens every Sunday , and set them up in their pew ends, where a proper place was made to hold them The whole church was seated with carved oak benches, which he had bought from time to time from other churches, when they were re-peith ”deal boxes!”
On the Sunday, I was asked to help him in the service, and for this purpose was arrayed in an alb, plain, which was just like a cassock in white linen As I walked about in this garb, I asked a friend, ”How do you like it?” In an instant I was pounced upon, and grasped sternly on the arht?”
He himself wore over his alb a chasuble, which was areen on the other, and was turned to suit the Church seasons; also a pair of criloves, which, he contended, were the proper sacrificial colour for a priest
I had very little to do in the service but to witness his proceedings, which I observed with great attention, and even ad struck me very much; he used to select the subject of his serh the year This happened to be ”Good Samaritan Sunday,” so we had a discourse upon the ”certain man ent down from Jerusalem to Jericho,” in which he told us that ”the poor wounded man was Adam's race; the priest ent by was the Patriarchal dispensation; the Levite, the Mosaic; and the good Samaritan represented Christ; the inn was the Church; and the twopence, the Sacraments”
He held his manuscript before his face, and read it out boldly, because he ”hated,” as he said, ”those felloho read their sermons, and all the time pretend to preach them;” and he especially abhorred those who secreted notes in their Bibles: ”Either have a book, sir, or none!”