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 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
 
 I HE following pages are a brief sketch of 
 of the work and progress of S. Saviour's 
 Parish during the last fourteen years. The 
 account is suggestive rather than exhaustive, 
 for to have gone into greater detail would have 
 made the story too long. I have only recorded 
 such matters as may suffice to indicate the 
 nature of the work which has been going for- 
 ward, and the character of the circumstances 
 under which it has been performed. 
 
 The story is one of change and awakened 
 life, and therefore necessarily of contrast in 
 many ways to what went before. I, however, 
 disclaim any intention to draw comparisons 
 between the work prior to my assumption of 
 
 nTOaOAO?^ 
 
the charge of the parish and that which has 
 gone on since, except where it has been abso- 
 lutely necessary to do so in order to indicate 
 the progress made in certain directions. I 
 would express my warm appreciation of the 
 earnest and devoted labours of my predecessor, 
 with whose transparent singleness of purpose, 
 personal piety, and blameless life, it would 
 indeed have been rash on my part to venture 
 upon any comparisons. 
 
 This sketch of parochial progress has been 
 written under a vivid sense of the fact, that it 
 is, after all, but a record of outward signs 
 which, though they form the only standard by 
 which in this world the progress of a parish 
 can be estimated, are by no means infallible 
 indications of its inward spiritual growth. 
 
 With these reservations, it will be seen that 
 this memoir is not an attempt to foster feelings 
 of self-satisfaction, but a simple record of facts, 
 such as would seem to be the duty of every 
 incumbent to make from time to time and in 
 
some shape, in order to register the historical 
 continuity of the work in his parish, and to 
 furnish his flock with an incentive to future 
 effort. 
 
 M. T. 
 
 Lent, 1897. 
 
I. 
 
 GETTING INTO HARNESS. 
 
 |0W well I recollect my first visit to S. 
 Saviour's Parish towards the end of 
 November, 1882 ! The neighbourhood now so 
 familiar to me, so full of interesting associations, 
 was then a terra incognita to me. I was not 
 aware that such a parish existed, until I re- 
 ceived the Bishop's letter offering me the 
 living. 
 
 It was, I remember, on a gloomy November 
 evening that I first set eyes on S. Saviour's 
 Church. I have learned to love that church 
 well, but it was not a case of ** love at first 
 sight." If the atmosphere without was dreary, 
 the atmosphere within was hardly less so. 
 Threading my way up the nave through a forest 
 
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 of pew doors which projected at various angles 
 into the centre aisle, I presently found myself 
 in a salmon-tinted recess which constituted 
 the chancel. There was no organ in it, that 
 instrument being in the west gallery ; and I 
 observed that there was no accommodation for 
 a choir, and no room to communicate the 
 people decentl}^ and in order. The physical 
 features of this part of the building presented 
 to my mind such insuperable difficulties in view 
 of my anticipations of dignified services and 
 large numbers of communicants, that I was on 
 the point of deciding to refuse the Bishop's 
 offer when it casually transpired, in the course 
 of conversation with my discreet escort, that 
 there was a piece of vacant ground beyond 
 available for building purposes. Upon ascer- 
 taining this fact I there and then resolved, 
 simultaneously, to accept the living and to 
 build a new chancel. 
 
 The prospect, however, was not a cheery 
 one. During the interval between this pre- 
 liminary inspection and my taking actual charge 
 of the parish, many absurd rumours got abroad 
 as to my practices in my former parish, which 
 
II 
 
 did not make matters easier for me. One of 
 those rumours is worth recording. A parish- 
 ioner of S. Saviour's, who at this time visited 
 my former church on one very foggy Sunday in 
 order to spy out the nakedness of the land, 
 reported on his return, that he had seen me 
 '*in a red cassock, crawling on all fours to- 
 wards the altar" ! The best of it was that it 
 was not I whom he saw at all, but the Bishop 
 of London, who happened to be preaching at 
 the church on that particular Sunday morning. 
 No doubt the fog without and within this good 
 person transformed the scarlet D.D. hood worn 
 by the Bishop into a red cassock. I am not 
 in a position to say whether " crawling on all 
 fours" accurately describes the ambulatory 
 method adopted by the Bishop on that occa- 
 sion, but those who knew Dr. Jackson will 
 consider it very improbable. 
 
 During this period several communications 
 were sent to the Bishop from those who re- 
 garded my coming amongst them with mis- 
 givings. This led to a lengthy and difficult 
 correspondence between Dr. Jackson and 
 myself, which ended in my oifering to resign 
 
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 the living before I had actually entered upon 
 its duties, being desirous not to add to the 
 Bishop's many anxieties. His lordship, how- 
 ever, would not hear of this. Another depres- 
 sing experience at this time was the large 
 number of letters which came to me from people 
 in the parish, offering me their houses on 
 favourable terms if I had not already selected 
 a residence. So many of my future parishioners 
 being anxious to give up their houses and leave 
 the neighbourhood did not look promising. In 
 addition to all this, my enquiries into the finan- 
 cial position of the parish revealed a somewhat 
 gloomy state of affairs. Except at Holy 
 Communion and on special occasions, there 
 were collections in church only once a quarter. 
 These did not suffice to pay for the bare 
 expenses of conducting the services. There 
 was no provision for the maintenance of the 
 assistant clergy, no endowment of any kind, or 
 for any purpose, connected with the parish. 
 And in the face of this there appeared at that 
 time very little prospect of mending matters by 
 the institution of more frequent collections, as 
 so many of the parishioners were attending 
 
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 neighbouring churches to which they had 
 become attached, and the congregations at S. 
 Saviour's were represented to me as miserably 
 small. 
 
 Altogether the prospect was not encouraging 
 when I finally entered upon the charge of the 
 parish in the early days of January, 1883. 
 
II. 
 
 i883— 1886. 
 
 N my first arrival in the parish, I was 
 struck with the marked absence of any 
 cohesion amongst the parishioners. There ap- 
 peared to be no parochial life, nothing in 
 common to keep the parish together. Socially, 
 church-people seemed to know very little of one 
 another. Again and again I came across those 
 who told me that they were only remaining in 
 the neighbourhood because they could not let 
 their houses and leave it. There seemed to be 
 next to no loyalty to their parish, or affection 
 for their parish church. 
 
 It was clear that, first of all, if the place was 
 to be awakened into life, the people must be 
 brought more together; they must meet one ano- 
 ther and be got to work together. To this end 
 some common object of interest had to be 
 
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 found, some work in which all could take a 
 share. A new chancel to the church promised 
 to form such an object of interest and united 
 energy, and I determined to set about this at 
 once. 
 
 Within a month of my arrival in the parish 
 a meeting of parishioners was called to consider 
 the subject. It was a critical meeting, some 
 being of opinion that we should wait and see 
 whether the church became popular under the 
 new regime, others suggesting as a condition 
 of support that I should pledge myself in 
 various ways as to the conduct of the services. 
 After these expressions of opinion, a section of 
 the meeting seemed disposed to drop the pro- 
 ject for the time. But seeing the vital im- 
 portance of immediate action, I took the decided 
 step of asserting that I declined to pledge my- 
 self to anything except obedience to the Prayer 
 Book in the matter of public worship, and 
 pointed out that the church was never likely to 
 become popular until certain structural altera- 
 tions in the building itself made decent and 
 orderly services possible. The line I took 
 commended itself to the meeting, and one 
 
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 thousand pounds was promised in the room 
 then and there. Another thousand pounds was 
 got together before the year was out. 
 
 No time was lost in putting the work in hand. 
 Plans were prepared by the architect, Mr. 
 Fairfax Wade, and on July gth, 1883, the 
 foundation-stone of the new chancel was laid 
 by Lady Burdett-Coutts. The work was com- 
 pleted and consecrated by the Bishop of 
 London in the following February — a year and 
 a month after my arrival in the parish. The 
 initial cost of the work^ including the erection 
 of stone staircases under the tower — for pre- 
 viously there had been no exit from the 
 galleries at the west end of the church — was 
 about 3^6,500. The whole of this sum was 
 raised in just over three years, the last thousand 
 pounds being got together in small subscrip- 
 tions in the short space of six months. On 
 July nth, 1886, I was able to announce from 
 the pulpit that not a farthing of debt rested on 
 our new and beautiful chancel. 
 
 Two months, however, had hardly elapsed 
 before I had to venture on another appeal to 
 the generosity of the parish for further building 
 
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 projects ; and while our people were just 
 beginning to take breath after the effort of 
 providing the chancel, I was asking them to 
 build a Mission Room on the outskirts of our 
 large parish. But we are somewhat antici- 
 pating events. 
 
 Although the building of the new chancel and 
 west-end staircases formed the most conspicu- 
 ous feature of our parochial life from 1883 to 
 1886, a great many other things were going on 
 besides. The services held in the course of the 
 year were very largely increased, being no less 
 than seven times as many as had been previ- 
 ously held. And here a tribute of praise is due 
 to the clerk of the church — whose duties in this 
 respect alone were now suddenly increased 
 sevenfold — for the loyal and willing manner in 
 which he adapted himself to the new state of 
 things, and entered into the spirit of the 
 awakened life of the parish. 
 
 A new atmosphere seemed now to pervade 
 our House of God, and to take the place of that 
 unused and dreary atmosphere which had been 
 physically perceptible when the church was 
 shut up for the greater number of days in the 
 
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 year. Not a day now passed without the 
 presence of the clergy and some of the faithful. 
 Mattins and evensong were daily heard within 
 its walls, and the all-sufficient Sacrifice on 
 Calvary pleaded at the Altar on Thursdays 
 and Saints* Days. Periodical Instructions and 
 Bible classes were held in the Church during 
 the week, and the parish became accustomed 
 to the frequent sight of worshippers entering 
 and leaving the House of God. At the peni- 
 tential seasons all this was largely increased, 
 especially in the matter of teaching, which was 
 so much needed at this time if the people were 
 to go along intelligently with the forward move- 
 ment in the parish. On looking back, I find 
 that about this period sometimes no less than 
 nine or ten addresses and instructions would 
 fall to my own lot during a single week. The 
 Sunday services were increased by more fre- 
 quent celebrations of the Holy Communion. 
 Instructions were repeatedly given on this 
 subject after evensong, and these, together with 
 the teaching of the dignified Altar of the new 
 chancel, all helped to draw more attention to 
 he highest act of Christian worship. 
 
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 A remarkable increase of reverence became 
 observable in the congregation, especially at 
 the Blessed Sacrament. During this period 
 the number of those making their Easter Com- 
 munion at their parish church was treble that 
 of 1882 ; and although we were destined to go 
 on under God*s blessing in this respect, until 
 in 1896 the number of communions made during 
 the year were 10,148 as against 2,329 in 1882^ 
 or in other words, nearly five times as many^ 
 we were well satisfied at the time. Rogation 
 and Ember Days were observed and special 
 attention drawn to them, though it was not 
 until after this period that they were, as now, 
 further emphasized by Eucharistic devotion.. 
 The '' Three Hours " service on Good Friday,, 
 the Midnight service on New Year's eve, and 
 the Children's Flower Service on Hospital 
 Sunday, were among the special services in- 
 troduced. 
 
 The services, however, were not only multi- 
 plied, but altogether altered in their character. 
 I found on my arrival in the parish the use of 
 the black gown in the pulpit, evening com- 
 munions, a mixed choir of men and women ia 
 
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 the west gallery, and the Hymnal Companion. 
 The old congregation parted from all these 
 Avith commendable self-restraint. A surpliced 
 choir of men and boys was formed, and got in 
 readiness by the time the chancel was opened 
 for worship. The kind voluntary help of the 
 men of the choir was then, and has been since, 
 one of the most grateful associations of my 
 ministry in S. Saviour's. Hymns, Ancient and 
 Modern, were introduced. Sunday Mattins 
 and Evensong were chorally rendered, and the 
 great festivals marked by choral Eucharists, 
 processions, etc. The Altar, which had hither- 
 to been destitute of any furniture beyond its 
 covering, was furnished with the proper orna- 
 ments ; the Church's seasons were distinguished 
 by their proper colours ; and we were quickly 
 in possession of everything needful for the 
 reverent performance of the Holy Mysteries, 
 including a magnificent and costly set of silver- 
 gilt communion plate, specially manufactured 
 from an ancient English pattern, which was 
 presented to the church by a member of the 
 congregation as soon as the new chancel was 
 built. 
 
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 Although at this period we were only ap- 
 proaching an ideal of beauty and reverence 
 in our worship and in the furniture of our 
 church, which we have since more fully attained, 
 these were great changes in the eyes of those 
 who had been accustomed to a very different 
 state of things. They were, however, effected 
 with the loss of only about a score of the old 
 congregation. This is somewhat remarkable, 
 seeing that the character of the services which 
 had hitherto prevailed had been of so very pro- 
 nounced and opposite a type, and that I had 
 actually inherited amongst the members of the 
 congregation the Secretary of the Church 
 Association, though I did not, I am sorry to 
 say, succeed in retaining his allegiance after 
 my second Sunday. It is seldom that a church 
 has undergone such changes in its services and 
 teaching as S. Saviour's has, and yet retained 
 almost all of its original worshippers — effecting 
 almost a bloodless revolution. It is seldom, 
 too, that a church where the present services 
 and teaching widely differ from the traditions 
 which have hitherto all along prevailed in the 
 parish can claim, as S. Saviour's can, to have 
 
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 a thoroughly parochial and not an eclectic 
 congregation. 
 
 But changes like these naturally provoked 
 some opposition. It must not be imagined 
 that while the outward peace of the parish was 
 preserved, my own peace of mind was allowed 
 to remain perfectly undisturbed. The doubt- 
 ful, the objecting, and the ignorant had to be 
 reassured, and calmed, and informed. This 
 involved an immense am^ount of time and work 
 in the way of letters and personal interviews. 
 For I carefully abstained from what I believe 
 to be a fatal mistake on the part of any parish 
 priest, making the difficulties and objections of 
 individuals the subject of public utterances 
 rather than of private explanation. The local 
 press in those days was frequently made the 
 channel of communications of an inaccurate 
 character, but I never concerned myself to 
 refute them, leaving the misgivings of those 
 who did not choose to approach me personally 
 with their grievances, to be dispelled by time, 
 which should shew that they were groundless. 
 I have now the gratification of numbering some 
 of those who were the most apprehensive, 
 
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 amongst the most regular and loyal members 
 of the congregation. 
 
 At this time, too, I was the recipient, almost 
 daily, of a large number of anonymous letters. 
 Most of these I have preserved, and they form 
 an interesting collection. Though for the most 
 part uncomplimentary in their character, many 
 of them were not devoid of a certain unconscious 
 humour. One correspondent, for example, ob- 
 jecting to my turning my back to the people at 
 certain portions of the service, considerately 
 condones the offence in my particular case, as 
 in the judgment of the congregation " my back 
 was preferable to my face " ! — an original argu- 
 ment for the eastward position, which I would 
 recommend for the use of any brother clergyman 
 facially unattractive, when he finds other more 
 ecclesiastical arguments fail. Another is angry 
 because the ringing of the church bells had be- 
 come more frequent than it used to be, " espe- 
 cially as it serves only for the assembly of a few 
 old ladies and fewer still infatuated females,''^ This 
 had a distinct interest, as implying that old 
 ladies are neither infatuated nor female ! 
 Another, puritanically disposed, is scandalized 
 
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 by having seen a Penny Reading poster on the 
 church notice board. "The matter," writes 
 this correspondent, "is being discussed with 
 horror, and the man who posted it up must 
 have acted under satanic influence'' The letter 
 concluded with a solemn appeal to my con- 
 science, "whether anything was more calculated 
 than a Penny Reading to send an infidel to 
 destruction.'' These are samples of the varied 
 and comprehensive character of the anonymous 
 criticism which the new regime provoked. It 
 did not take up any of my time dealing with 
 these objectors. There is a redeeming feature 
 even in the anonymous letter : it does not 
 involve the labour of a reply. Though curiously 
 enough, I might, had I cared to do so, have 
 replied to one voluminous correspondent of this 
 kind, for a detective police officer had seen each 
 of the letters dropped into a suburban pillar- 
 box, and suspecting that they had some bearing 
 on a case (quite unconnected with the parish) 
 on which he was engaged, was good enough to 
 call upon me and tell me who had written them! 
 In addition to the alteration and multiplica- 
 tion of the services during this period, a great 
 
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 deal of work was being organized in the parish 
 outside the walls of the church itself. In the 
 direction of temperance, a branch of the 
 C.E.T.S. was inaugurated, which from feeble 
 beginnings has gradually developed into the 
 present vigorous Band of Hope, with its weekly 
 meetings, which we believe is doing a great 
 work among the children of the parish, and 
 laying, at all events, the foundation of a pos- 
 sible resistance in many lives to our national 
 sin. In the direction of Foreign Missions, a 
 parochial Association of S.P.G. was formed. 
 It began in a small way, but has gradually 
 grown as a power in the parish, until now we 
 are able to record with justifiable satisfaction 
 that only one, or perhaps two other parishes 
 in the London Diocese, contribute annually to 
 S.P.G. more than we do. It is gratifying to 
 know that S. Saviour's parish has now for many 
 years been a household word in Ahmadnagar. 
 In the flourishing schools of that district of 
 the Bombay Diocese, we annually provide for 
 the cost of educating a large number of native 
 children. 
 
 In 1884 we started a Debating Society. 
 
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 This, too, had very small beginnings, but it 
 developed so rapidly that it somewhat exceeded 
 the nature of a parochial institution, and was 
 dissolved in 1888, being converted into a wider 
 institution, now known as the Paddington 
 ParHament, which meets weekly at the Vestry 
 Hall. Our parochial venture, however, tho- 
 roughly answered its purpose. It was the 
 means of bringing together the leisured and 
 the working men of the parish, and enabled me 
 to become well acquainted with many men who 
 would otherwise have been unknown to me, and 
 whom I am now glad to be able to number 
 among our regular worshippers and supporters 
 of the church. 
 
 Another new departure was made about this 
 time which greatly helped me to see more of 
 the men of the parish — always a difficulty with 
 a London clergyman. In 1885 I commenced, 
 and have continued ever since, the practice of 
 being *' at home " on the first Sunday of each 
 month from four to six, to any gentlemen of 
 the parish who might wish to visit me. I have 
 found this the greatest help in keeping touch 
 with the male members of the congregation* 
 
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 Although a very simple idea, it made a stir 
 beyond the limits of our parish, altogether, as 
 far as I can see, out of proportion to its im- 
 portance. It formed the subject of an amusing 
 picture in one of the comic weeklies, and was 
 favourably noticed not only in most of the 
 newspapers of our own country, but in the 
 American and Australian papers as well. This 
 is a curious instance of the unaccountable way 
 in which some minor subjects are taken up by 
 the Press, while more important ones fail to 
 obtain any notice. 
 
 In the same year we held our first annual 
 supper for cab-drivers resident in the parish. 
 These men form a large proportion of our 
 working population, and from the nature of 
 their occupation it is extremely difficult to bring 
 any good influence to bear upon them. In 
 order to become personally acquainted with 
 these men, I invited them and their wives to 
 supper, and have continued to do so each year. 
 It was a somewhat large and difficult under- 
 taking — for we sometimes sit down as many as 
 ninety — but I have never regretted it. The 
 hospitality extended to this deserving body of 
 
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 men has issued in some very distinct practical 
 good. The interest awakened in the cabdrivers 
 of the parish by these gatherings made it a 
 comparatively easy matter to raise funds for 
 the erection of the S. Saviour's Cabmen's 
 Shelter at the rank in Warwick Road, one of 
 the most exposed positions in London. This 
 has been the means, not only of securing much 
 bodily comfort to all who use the rank, but also 
 of starting a S. Saviour's Sick Benefit Society, 
 with the Shelter for its office. This Society, 
 composed almost exclusively of cabdrivers, now 
 numbers over 500 members, and at our last 
 meeting we divided, after paying all sick and 
 funeral expenses, £52^ in surplus funds. So our 
 annual supper, it will be seen, has been the 
 indirect means of enabling our cabdriving 
 brethren to provide against a rainy day in two 
 senses — in body and in pocket. The Bishop of 
 Marlborough, a frequent and sympathetic visi- 
 tor to our parish, was kind enough to come and 
 address the men on one occasion. There are 
 few offices which I am more gratified to hold 
 than that of President of the S. Saviour's 
 Sick Benefit Society by the unanimous suffrages 
 
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 of my cabdriving friends, and there are few 
 objects in my study on which I look with 
 greater pleasure than a very handsome in-laid 
 walnut cabinet, presented to me on the occasion 
 of pne of the suppers, and bearing the inscription 
 '* Presented by his Cabdriving Parishioners, 
 Paddington, 1888/' 
 
 During this period we held our first Parochial 
 Mission, under the charge of the Rev. J. Hewett, 
 Vicar of Babbacombe, assisted by the Rev. F. 
 W. Christie and the Rev. B. Hoskyns. This 
 Mission was held just before Lent, 1885. A 
 considerable spiritual awakening in the parish 
 followed upon this effort. The number of can- 
 didates at the Confirmation which followed was 
 too large to admit of our taking them, as hither- 
 to, to some other church for the Laying on of 
 Hands, so we had the gratification of having, 
 for the first time in the history of the parish, 
 a Confirmation service in our own church, and 
 this privilege has been secured each year since. 
 Amongst other practical results of the Mission 
 was the formation of two extra Bible-classes, 
 and a monthly working-men's service in the 
 schools. A weekly service of Intercession on 
 
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 Fridays was also introduced. Our Communi- 
 cants became not only more numerous but 
 more regular in their attendance at Eucharistic 
 devotion. The number of worshippers at the 
 daily services became larger, and many who 
 had hitherto been '' standing idle " offered 
 themselves for church work of various kinds. 
 Just previous to the Mission, we started our 
 Parish Magazine, which has a circulation at 
 present of five hundred copies a month. 
 
 In the following year a Communicants' Guild 
 was inaugurated for the purpose of binding 
 together, by the use of a common prayer and 
 rule, those to whom we have always to look as 
 the nucleus of parochial life and work. All guilds 
 of this kind have their drawbacks as well as 
 advantages, but as we have always been care- 
 ful never to press membership on communi- 
 cants, and to leave the expansion of the guild 
 to growth rather than manufacture, we may 
 venture to congratulate ourselves on the fact 
 that it has numbered on the average, since its 
 institution, about four hundred members, or 
 in other words, about one-third of our Com- 
 municants' Roll. 
 
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 During this period we instituted our annual 
 Christmas Sale of Work, which has been the 
 means of raising for various parochial purposes 
 during thirteen years, an aggregate of nearly 
 ^2,000. The quiet and un-bazaarlike charac- 
 ter of these sales may be gathered from the 
 fact that the amount deducted each year for 
 working expenses does not exceed fifteen 
 shillings. 
 
 The four years we have been looking back 
 upon had indeed been busy ones. Close upon 
 ;^7,ooo had been raised for the building of the 
 new chancel, an achievement which repre- 
 sented an immense expenditure of time and no 
 little worry and anxiety. The financial arrange- 
 ments for meeting the working expenses of 
 the parish had all to be re-organized. The 
 church services had all to be remodelled, a 
 church choir to be got together, bands of 
 workers to be kept busy at church embroidery, 
 and a large number of classes, meetings, and 
 institutions to be set on foot. 
 
 But in addition to this, the ordinary routine 
 machinery of the visitation of the sick and the 
 whole had to be re-organized, for shortly after 
 
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 my arrival a startling discovery was made as 
 to the boundaries of the parish. By a pure 
 accident it was found that one side of Kilburn 
 Park Road, and the district lying on that side 
 of Elgin Avenue, were in S. Saviour's parish. 
 This meant that the parish included from 1,500 
 to 2,000 more people (nearly all poor) than I 
 had been led to suppose, and that our popula- 
 tion was just upon 11,000. It was now clearly 
 impossible to work the parish satisfactorily with 
 only one Assistant Curate, and the services of 
 a second Curate had to be obtained at once, 
 though I did not feel justified at that time, in 
 view of the heavy calls upon our people for 
 other things, in asking the parish to provide the 
 stipend even of one Assistant Curate. District 
 visitors had to be secured to work this hitherto 
 unexplored region. They were not to be found 
 just at first, but one lady whose name will for 
 many years be mentioned with gratitude and 
 affection in that part of the parish, came for- 
 ward and practically worked single-handed for 
 some time in that large district which is now 
 one of the best worked portions of the parish. 
 This discovery of our extended borders would 
 
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 soon, I saw, further necessitate the provision 
 of some building for meetings and worship 
 nearer than the parish church and schools. 
 For our parish, it must be remembered, has an 
 area of 212 acres, and to *'beat the bounds" 
 would involve walking nearly three miles. 
 
III. 
 
 1887— 1896. 
 
 JHE year 1887 opened with the prospect 
 of further building projects to be car- 
 ried out, and with a vast increase before us in 
 the routine work of all kinds, necessitated by 
 the fresh organizations set on foot during the 
 four preceding years. The impetus given 
 during those years to an extended parochial 
 activity in all directions continued to make 
 itself felt. Early in the year we commenced 
 building our Mission Room, having begun to 
 appeal for the necessary funds immediately 
 after the debt on the new chancel had been 
 paid off. Both for services and meetings of all 
 kinds this building has been of the greatest use 
 to us. It was opened by a Service of Bene- 
 diction on the Festival of S. Barnabas. 
 
 Before our Mission Room was finished or 
 
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 quite paid for, I found myself appealing to the 
 parish for funds to put in hand yet another 
 material work. This time the project was to 
 raise the chancel arch several feet, so as to help 
 the acoustic properties of the church, and to 
 add to the dignity and effectiveness of the new 
 chancel, the roof of which was practically 
 hidden from view by the old arch. It was a 
 costly and somewhat difficult undertaking, but 
 was successfully accomplished in the Autumn, 
 and all paid for early in the following year. 
 
 While this work was going forward the need 
 of a Parish Kitchen in which to make and dis- 
 pense soup, became apparent; and with Winter 
 close upon us we had to put this in hand at 
 once. Within a month of the completion of 
 the chancel arch, we were building a substan- 
 tial brick kitchen adjoining our Mission Room. 
 This was also completed and paid for before 1887 
 wasout. Atthesametimewe established aParish. 
 Library in connection with the Mission Room. 
 
 Before the close of this busy year a generous 
 cheque, sent to me by a parishioner to be 
 used for any parochial purpose I might select, 
 enabled me to establish at once a most useful 
 
37 
 
 institution in our parish— the District Visiting 
 Dispensary — which has continued to do a most 
 beneficial work amongst our sick poor. We 
 are particularly fortunate in having had the 
 devoted labours of a medical man resident in 
 the parish, voluntarily placed at our disposal 
 from the first. He has attended twice a week 
 at the Dispensary, and, although the benefits 
 of the institution are exclusively for parishion- 
 ers, he has held on an average about 650 con- 
 sultations at the Dispensary itself, and made 
 on an average about 170 visits to the sick in 
 their own houses, in the course of each year. 
 It will be readily understood what untold com- 
 fort and relief this beneficent institution has 
 been the means of bringing to the sick poor. 
 
 The retrospect of 1887 had furnished many 
 reasons for thankfulness. In addition to the 
 increased beauty introduced into our parish 
 church by the heightening of the chancel arch, 
 four fresh institutions had been successfully set 
 afoot and were doing an excellent work : a 
 Mission Room supplying a centre for numerous 
 religious and benevolent works, a Parish 
 Kitchen dispensing nearly fifty gallons of soup 
 
38 
 
 weekly during the winter months, a Parish 
 Library, with 350 volumes to start with, and a 
 Parish Dispensary largely taken advantage of 
 by our sick poor. 
 
 The year 1888 witnessed no new departure 
 in our parochial machinery, but the following 
 review of the year's work, taken from the 
 Parish Magazine, will shew that growth and 
 vitality were observable in all the old paths : — 
 " Our congregations have certainly increased 
 during last year. The number of our com- 
 municants was larger last Easter Day by a 
 good deal than in any previous year, reaching 
 to close upon 900. The Communicants' Asso- 
 ciation has gone on steadily increasing in num- 
 bers. Our Temperance Society has largely 
 increased its members. There has been a 
 gratifying improvement in the attendance at 
 the Sunday services in the Mission Room. Our 
 Dispensary has proved a success beyond all 
 expectation, relieving hundreds where we ex- 
 pected it would only relieve tens. The 
 Mothers' Meeting keeps the high average of 
 attendance to which it attained as soon as it 
 was transferred to its present quarters." 
 
39 
 
 Side by side with this work of consolidatioa 
 and development in our various institutions, 
 several material works were accomplished this- 
 year. The organ was enlarged by the addition 
 of a third manual and several new stops. 
 Four life-size stone figures of the Evangelists^ 
 and the carved angels above them, were placed 
 in the chancel. An imposing and lofty dossal 
 and wings took the place of the old dwarf 
 dossal at the altar, and stone stairs flanked 
 with a chaste and richly-designed balustrade 
 of solid brass, took the place of the wooden 
 stairs and platform at the Lectern. A lady 
 most kindly sent me a cheque (£45) for this 
 last object after seeing me tumble down the old 
 wooden stairs. I wrote, explaining that I was 
 not hurt, but I did not return the cheque ! In 
 addition to these improvements in the church, 
 we erected the Cabman's Shelter in Warwick 
 Road, subscribed for by the parish. These 
 works represented an aggregate outlay of ;^650, 
 which was a very respectable sum to raise in a 
 year when we were supposed to be resting 
 on our oars, as far as material works were con* 
 cerned. 
 
40 
 
 The agitation for disestablishment which was 
 very active in the country during this year, led 
 to a series of Church History lectures being 
 given during the Lenten season. They pro- 
 voked a remarkable interest amongst all classes, 
 the school-room being filled to its utmost capa- 
 city on each occasion, and were of great 
 educational value. 
 
 We spoke just now of resting on our oars at 
 this time in respect of material works in the 
 parish, but this was destined to be of short 
 duration. In the following year (1889) I found 
 myself once more involved in a very big 
 business — this time in connection with our 
 schools. On my arrival in the parish I found 
 our schools doing an excellent work, each of 
 the three departments being under the same 
 competent head- teachers whose services we 
 still have the good fortune to retain. But the 
 buildings were miserably inadequate. I had 
 had my eye on these for a long time, and now 
 the threat of a Board school being planted in 
 the neighbourhood on the ground of our in- 
 sufficient accommodation, seemed to present a 
 favourable opportunity for one more big appeal 
 
41 
 
 to the parishioners. I confess I quailed before 
 the prospect, for the parish had hardly had 
 time to recover from the strain of building the 
 new chancel, and the many smaller but not 
 insignificant demands in the way of material 
 works which had been continuously made upon 
 it since then. 
 
 However, in the June of 1889 I summoned a 
 meeting, and, as usual, found no difficulty in 
 getting together a strong and helpful com- 
 mittee. We launched the project of enlarging 
 the schools to more than double their then size, 
 at a cost of ;^2,20o. Before the year was out 
 we had raised more than half of this sum, and 
 by the June of 1891 we had raised ;^2,ooo ; so 
 that the debt was practically paid off in two 
 years from the inception of the idea, at the rate 
 of j^ 1,000 a year. I need not say that this was 
 accomplished only by very hard work, and that 
 this result, recorded in two or three lines, 
 represented months of strain and anxiety, and 
 endless correspondence. It was a venture of 
 faith accompanied by human effort, and was 
 accordingly divinely prospered. 
 
 Both our Day and Sunday schools have con- 
 
42 
 
 tinued to increase in numbers and average 
 attendance since the enlargement of the build- 
 ings. The efficiency of the Day schools has 
 been annually attested both by the Government 
 and Diocesan Inspectors ; while in the Sunday 
 schools the system we adopt of the clergy in- 
 structing the teachers during the week on the 
 subject to be taught on the following Sunday^ 
 and afterwards catechizing the children on the 
 same subject, secures a methodical instruction 
 which, until recent years, has not always been 
 associated with the idea of Sunday schools* 
 This work is admirably undertaken by the 
 Assistant Clergy. 
 
 In connection with our Day schools, we 
 instituted a year or two before this, a '* Health 
 Committee,'' so that the bodies as well as 
 the minds of the children might have our 
 care. With the assistance of one of the 
 Committee (a medical man), we discovered 
 in the course of our periodical inspections, 
 that the weakly state of many of the chil- 
 dren, especially as to eyesight, was due to 
 neglected teeth. Accordingly— -with the per- 
 mission, of course, of the parents — the services 
 
43 
 
 of a dentist were called in, and on the occasion 
 of his first visit no less than forty teeth were 
 extracted, to the great relief and after comfort 
 of the young sufferers. Curiously enough, the 
 children seemed to enjoy being operated upon, 
 and some seemed quite aggrieved because they 
 were not selected for the purpose. 
 
 In spite of the engrossing efforts we had to 
 make for the Schools Enlargement Fund, we 
 managed during this year, through the generosity 
 of a parishioner, to substitute for an old curtain 
 at the entrance to the organ chamber, a costly 
 and elegantly designed open oak screen and 
 doorway, which greatly added to the growing 
 beauty of our parish church. We also started 
 this year a Parish Children's Flower Show, 
 which has been held annually since, and latterly, 
 on alternate years, an Industrial Exhibition has 
 been associated with it. The trouble involved 
 in these exhibitions is considerable, but we have 
 fortunately possessed all along an indefatigable 
 Honorary Secretary and many willing workers, 
 to whom the success of this venture is due. A 
 Youths' Athletic Club was also started at this 
 time. 
 
44 
 
 Though much occupied with parish work, I 
 nevertheless found time in the autumn of this 
 year to write a practical treatise on the religious 
 life, which was published by Rivington's in the 
 spring of 1890, under the title of ** The Soul in 
 Conflict." It deserves mention in this memoir 
 only because it had a large circulation amongst 
 our own people, and therefore constituted, in 
 some small degree, part of the teaching influence 
 brought to bear on the parish during this period. 
 
 Just before the Summer holidays in 1890, we 
 commenced building operations at our schools, 
 and the work was all completed by the i8th of 
 October, the Festival of S. Luke, on w^hich 
 day the Bishop of London visited the parish 
 and formally opened the new buildings. His 
 lordship was much struck by the plucky effort 
 which the parishioners had made in rebuilding 
 and enlarging their schools, at a time when so 
 many parishes were expressing doubts as to 
 being able to hold on to their schools at all. 
 Such evidences of vitality. Dr. Temple said, 
 furnished the most effective arguments for 
 those who had to fight the battle of the volun- 
 tary schools in Parliament. 
 
43 
 
 The following extract from a letter which I re- 
 ceived from one of the clergy of the Ahmadnagar 
 Mission will show, that by this time a consider- 
 able interest in foreign missions had been 
 awakened in the parish, and that in addition to 
 our general support of S.P.G., we were giving 
 some very definite and substantial help to the 
 particular Indian mission in which we had 
 interested ourselves : — " I hope you will let your 
 people know and understand how much we 
 appreciate their interest in the work here, as 
 they not only support several boys in the 
 school, for whom funds would not otherwise 
 suffice, but also some agents." 
 
 The first ** Quiet Day'* held in our parish 
 was provided this year just previous to Advent, 
 it was conducted by the Rev. J. Hewett, who had 
 been our Missioner in 1885. The devotions and 
 addresses throughout the day were all of a very 
 helpful character, and were largely attended. 
 
 The next three years, from 1891 to 1893, 
 though marked by a continued divine blessing 
 upon our normal and routine parochial activities, 
 were comparatively uneventful, except that in 
 the Autumn of 1891 our church tower was struck 
 
46 
 
 by lightning, and one of the pinnacles destroyed. 
 Although this damage was covered by insurance, 
 it led to the discovery of other pinnacles which 
 were in an unsafe condition. This involved an 
 outlay of 3^200, necessitating an appeal to our 
 people at an inopportune moment, as we had 
 only just got rid of the debt on the Schools 
 Enlargement Fund by a special effort. We 
 had great difficulty in awakening any enthusiasm 
 for an object so high up in the air, and the 
 comparatively small sum we required was a 
 long time in coming. 
 
 However, after a year's respite from calls on 
 the liberality of the parish, we found ourselves 
 once more adding to the beauties of God's 
 House. In 1893, the four blank spaces on 
 either side of the East window were filled in 
 with mural paintings representing the four 
 Archangels ; two massive brass standard candle- 
 sticks of Flemish design were placed within the 
 sacrarium ; and four more life-size stone figures, 
 representing S. Stephen, S. James the Just, 
 S. Paul, and David, were placed in the chancel. 
 These improvements involved an aggregate out- 
 lay of jf 350. It will be observed that all through 
 
47 
 
 the fourteen years with which this memoir deals, 
 we have endeavoured, as far as possible, side by 
 side with our appeals for more utilitarian pur- 
 poses, always to have something more or less 
 in hand in the way of beautifying our parish 
 church, some work always going forward, not 
 merely for our own benefit, but purely for the 
 glory of God. 
 
 In the following year (1894), the chancel was 
 further beautified by seven sanctuary lamps, the 
 memorial of a succession of private sorrows 
 which had fallen during the last year or two 
 upon my wife and myself. These family 
 troubles may account in some measure for those 
 years being unmarked by any fresh departures 
 of parochial activity, for it was sometimes 
 difficult at that time to fulfil one's ordinary duties. 
 
 The gradual growth in the beauty of our 
 chancel had now the effect of drawing attention 
 to the body of the church, for which we had 
 hitherto been able to do little or nothing beyond 
 the removal of the doors at the end of the seats 
 some years before. In 1895, we once more 
 find the parish engaged in an extensive material 
 work — the renovation of the body of the church. 
 
48 
 
 a work which was to cost more than one 
 thousand pounds. Through the munificence of a 
 member of the congregation, the interior of the 
 nave was entirely renovated and brought into 
 harmonyof colouring with the new chancel,under 
 the superintendence of Sir Arthur Blomfield, 
 and the windows were filled with coloured 
 glass. During the progress of this work a 
 fund was started for the installation of the electric 
 light, which was put in at the same time. 
 
 While all this was going on, we were busy in 
 other ways. Our first Industrial Exhibition 
 was held at this time ; a branch of the Mothers' 
 Union was inaugurated in the parish ; and into 
 the teaching work of the church we introduced 
 several *' Health " lectures, and a second course 
 of Church History lectures. 
 
 Immediately after the renovation of the nave 
 was completed, an unexpected emergency had 
 to be faced. The ground landlords of the plot 
 of ground on which our Mission Room was 
 built, required the site for other purposes, and 
 we had to pull down the Mission Room and 
 re-erect it on a new site. This was unfortunate, 
 for it necessitated an appeal to our people for 
 
49 
 
 another material work at a time when we should 
 have been glad to give them a little rest. The 
 work, however, was accomplished and paid for 
 by the end of the year. 
 
 In the Spring of the following year (1896) 
 our parish was once more the scene of a special 
 effort to quicken the spiritual Hfe of our people. 
 After an interval of eleven years a second 
 Parochial Mission was held during twelve days 
 previous to the Lenten season. Our Missioner 
 this time was the Venerable A. E. Seymour, 
 Archdeacon of Barnstaple, who was assisted 
 by the Rev. F. H. Dalby and the Rev. 
 K. B. Hancock. Although such a perceptible 
 spiritual advance as that which followed the 1885 
 Mission, held at a period when the initiation of 
 so much new work was going forward in the 
 parish, was not to be looked for after this later 
 Mission, yet we had many grounds for thank- 
 fulness. Apart from what this Mission did in 
 the way of building up the faith of our people 
 by concentrated and consecutive teaching, it 
 was of great assistance in enabling us to guage 
 the effects of the work of the thirteen preceding 
 years on the spiritual life of the parish. On 
 
50 
 
 the last night of the Mission, when my duties 
 took me into the body of the church and into 
 personal contact with most of the members of 
 the large congregation assembled, I was able 
 to recognize in nearly every individual present, 
 a communicant. Again and again I kept 
 coming across those whom we had long since 
 prepared for Confirmation, and many whose 
 faces took me back to the early days of my 
 ministry in S. Saviour's, and recalled occasions 
 of long ago when spiritual difficulties and 
 doubts had been talked over between us. It 
 was gratifying to find that, all through those 
 years, the impressions of Confirmation time and 
 the amended efforts which had followed upon 
 spiritual counsels had, by God's grace, been 
 kept alive ; and though the Mission reminded 
 me of many who had fallen away, it reminded 
 me, too, of the far greater number who had 
 remained stedfast, and were still *' pressing 
 toward the mark." In the very fact that this 
 Mission did not shew such perceptible results as 
 the last, we may venture, perhaps, to see an in- 
 direct indication of the spiritual progress of the 
 parish. 
 
IV. 
 AT THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 [N concluding this story of the work and 
 progress of our parish during fourteen 
 years, we are glad to be able to draw thankful 
 attention to the fact, that the progress has been 
 sustained. So far as progress in religious work 
 can be guaged by outward signs, the last of 
 those years at which we have been looking 
 supplies in many respects the most satisfactory 
 record. Our Easter Communicants in 1896 
 were more numerous than they had ever been 
 before, numbering 911 — an increase of 706 over 
 those in 1882. The contribution from our 
 parish towards the work of Foreign Missions 
 reached a higher figure than it had ever done 
 before, being nearly ^40 in excess of the pre- 
 vious year. The total given in collections 
 
52 
 
 during the year was larger than it had ever 
 been before. Our annual Christmas Sale 
 realized a higher sum than it had ever done 
 before, reaching the high figure of ^^ 190. Both 
 in our Day and Sunday schools, the numbers 
 on our books and in average attendance were 
 higher than they had ever been before. The 
 Mothers' Meeting still maintains the increased 
 attendance which commenced with its removal 
 to the Mission Room some years ago. The 
 various Clothing Clubs shew no diminution in 
 the practice of thrift among our people. We 
 have never had a more vigorous Band of Hope 
 than we have at present. We are able to do 
 more for the young men of our parish than we 
 have ever been able to do before. Our Cricket 
 and Athletic Clubs are now thoroughly well 
 organized, and the last new departure in our 
 parochial institutions which we have to record 
 in this memoir, is the recent establishment, 
 through the generous help of a lady, of an 
 Institute for young men, which is so far doing 
 an excellent work and promises to have a most 
 useful future. And last, though not least, to 
 look at parochial finance : after providing for 
 
53 
 
 the spiritual and temporal wants of the parish 
 (without one farthing of endowment for any 
 purpose) for fourteen years, and having entered 
 during that period upon liabilities for material 
 works to the amount of ^^12,500, we are at 
 this time quite free from debt. 
 
 Such is the simple, categorical narrative of 
 the progress of our parish during the last four- 
 teen years. To compare small things with 
 great : Jacob's work in the fields of Laban 
 lasted just this time, ai?d as I think of what the 
 parish was and what it is, when I reflect upon 
 the Divine blessing which has manifestly rested 
 upon the work during this period, I can almost 
 bring myself to echo the words of the patriarch, 
 " I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, 
 and of all the truth, which Thou hast shewed 
 unto Thy servant ; for with my staff I passed 
 over this Jordan ; and now I am become two 
 bands.'* 
 
 I, of course, only use the word ** I '* as the 
 representative unit of the parish. Whatever 
 has been achieved has, under God, been 
 accomplished not by one but by many — by a 
 
54 
 
 succession of able and devoted Assistant- 
 Curates whose labours, for the most part 
 unseen, have been, and are, beyond all praise, 
 and by a body of faithful lay-workers, without 
 whose co-operation such progress, both spiri- 
 tual and material as the parish has witnessed, 
 would have been impossible. Nor must I 
 omit to mention my debt of obligation to our 
 churchwardens for their counsel and assistance 
 in making arrangements for the reverent con- 
 duct of our services and in the organization 
 of our finances, and to those gentlemen of the 
 parish who have rendered such loyal and valu- 
 able help whenever called upon in our various 
 committees, especially in connection with the 
 Day schools and the building fund of the 
 chancel. 
 
 And now let me say that the object I have 
 had in view in penning this sketch of a period 
 in our parish annals, has been to foster in our 
 people a loyal interest in the fortunes of their 
 parish. No one acquainted with the teaching 
 given in S. Saviour's during this period can 
 charge us with neglecting to impress upon our 
 hearers that their sympathies should be com- 
 
53 
 
 mensurate with the great Catholic Church to 
 which they belong. But a keen and loyal in- 
 terest in their particular parish is not incon- 
 sistent with such wider sympathies. Indeed 
 without local incentives to energy and effort, 
 the results of the work of the Church at large 
 could never be what they are. I beheve that 
 the life of every parish would be strengthened 
 could the parishioners be made to feel more 
 conscious of possessing a history and traditions ; 
 and it is under this conviction that I have 
 endeavoured to recall what has taken place in 
 our parish during the time in which I have been 
 responsible for its working. 
 
 I would add that this brief memoir of the 
 last fourteen years of our parish life does not 
 pretend to record anything remarkable. Other 
 parishes, I am well aware, have accomplished 
 far more striking results in the same time, 
 especially in regard to the sums of money raised 
 for various purposes. 
 
 But in referring my readers to the one or two 
 tables which I have added in an appendix, 
 shewing the progress made in spiritual and 
 material respects, I would point out that those 
 
56 
 
 figures must be taken in connection with the 
 fact that certainly one-half, if not two-thirds, 
 of the houses of our well-to-do people are in- 
 habited by Jews, and are therefore necessarily 
 unproductive so far as parochial progress is 
 concerned. It must also be borne in mind that 
 our parish is not a rich parish, and must be 
 distinguished from such parishes as possess a 
 certain number of inhabitants who are in a 
 position to give, on occasion, large sums which 
 serve to make the collections represent hun- 
 dreds where, without such extraordinary help, 
 they would only represent tens ; and further, 
 that the money raised for various purposes has 
 been got together from our own people. It 
 should also be borne in mind that the parish 
 has been worked by a very small staff of clergy 
 — only half the number often to be found work- 
 ing in parishes of a similar population and 
 where similar work is being done — and without 
 the assistance of any staff of professed Sisters 
 or Deaconesses. 
 
 This memoir, if it should have any interest at 
 all beyond our own borders, will be interesting 
 only as a record of what an ordinary West 
 
57 
 
 London parish can do under ordinary circum- 
 stances. It will show how the visitation of the 
 sick and the whole, from house to house, can be 
 carried out by a small staff of clergy constantly 
 in and out amongst all classes of the people, 
 and by such voluntary workers as can be got 
 together from amongst the faithful ; how the 
 parish schools can be maintained in efficiency, 
 by keeping prominently to the front the impor- 
 tance of the Church's educational work ; how a 
 vast congregation representative of the parish 
 can be attracted within the walls of the parish 
 church, and the duty of reverence inculcated, 
 without recourse to any methods of a sensational 
 kind, and with an economy of expenditure, 
 which leaves the parish free to do more for 
 outside objects ; how the interior aspect of 
 God's House and the level of worship, may be 
 raised to an aesthetic dignity sufficient for those 
 who are sensitive to the outward ceremonies of 
 religion, yet not distracting to those who by 
 nature prefer simpler forms of worship ; how 
 every means of grace in the Catholic Church 
 may, without provoking contention, be provided 
 in a parish for those who value and require 
 
58 
 
 them, when they are presented to the minds of 
 the people in consonance with the distinctive 
 genius of the AngHcan communion ; how the 
 supreme act of Christian worship can be empha- 
 sized, and the habit of eucharistic devotion 
 increased nearly five-fold in the people, by the 
 symbolic teaching of the reverent accessories of 
 sacramental worship, and by patient instruction, 
 in season and out of season, as to the true 
 nature of the Holy Eucharist ; and, above all, 
 it will show how vast changes and reforms can be 
 effected in a parish without disturbing the peace 
 and Christian charity of the community, if 
 carried out gradually, patiently, and with con- 
 sideration for divergent opinions and convictions 
 wherever conscientiously and not contentiously 
 entertained. 
 
 If this memoir serves to encourage any other 
 parish similarly situated ; if it serves to make 
 more plain to those with whom and for whom 
 I have laboured for the last fourteen years, the 
 lines upon which I have worked and the 
 motives with which I have acted ; if it serves 
 as an incentive to gratitude in the past, and to 
 continued effort in the future, we shall have 
 
59 
 
 recalled to some purpose the blessing with which 
 God has prospered our parish for so many years, 
 in spite of our many failures, and the short- 
 comings both of priests and of people. 
 
APPENDIX, 
 
63 
 
 Holy Baptism. 
 
 Number of Baptisms during 14 years — 
 
 from 186910 1882 1,237 
 
 Number of Baptisms during 14 years — 
 
 from 1883 to 1896 2,015 
 
 Increase ... 778. 
 
 Confirmation. 
 
 Total Confirmed during 14 years — from 
 
 1883 to 1896 1,121 
 
 Males ... 291 ; Females ... 830. 
 
 Average per year ... 80. 
 
 There is no record of numbers in previous years. 
 
 Holy Communion. 
 
 Number of those who made their Com- 
 munion at Easter, 1882 205 
 
 Number of those who made their Com- 
 munion at Easter, 1896 911 
 
 Increase ... 706. 
 
64 
 
 Number of Communions made during 
 
 the year, 1882 ... 2,329 
 
 Number of Communions made during 
 
 the year, 1896 10,148 
 
 Increase ... 7,819. 
 
A TABLE shewing amounts contributed each year 
 
 by the Parishioners during 14 years— from 1883 
 
 to 1896. 
 
 N.B. — Figures in column A represent amounts given for working 
 expenses of parish, and for Diocesan and other extra-parochial objects. 
 
 Figures in column B represent amounts given for building, and other 
 material works in the parish. 
 
 Year. 
 
 A 
 
 B 
 
 Total. 
 
 1883 
 
 941 
 
 £ 
 2,089 
 
 £ 
 3,030 
 
 1884 
 
 1,260 
 
 2,260 
 
 3,520 
 
 1885 
 
 1,107 
 
 1,221 
 
 2,328 
 
 1886 
 
 1,278 
 
 1,020 
 
 2,298 
 
 1887 
 
 1,331 
 
 515 
 
 1,846 
 
 1888 
 
 1,542 
 
 828 
 
 2,370 
 
 1889 
 
 1,294 
 
 1,030 
 
 2,324 
 
 1890 
 
 1,385 
 
 950 
 
 2,335 
 
 1891 
 
 1.338 
 
 238 
 
 1,576 
 
 1892 
 
 1,389 
 
 235 
 
 1,624 
 
 1893 
 
 1,366 
 
 350 
 
 1,716 
 
 1894 
 
 1,564 
 
 1,089 
 
 2,653 
 
 189s 
 
 1,505 
 
 359 
 
 1,864 
 
 1896 
 
 1,537 
 
 239 
 
 1,776 
 
 
 dE18,837 
 
 £12,423 
 
 £31,260 
 
66 
 
 Analysis or preceding Table. 
 
 Column y\, ;£" 
 
 For working expenses 
 of Day and Sun- 
 day Schools ... 2,701 
 „ Reliefofthe Poor 3,353 
 ,, Providing Clergy, 
 Choir & Church 
 Services ...10,269 
 „ Diocesan & other 
 extra - parochial 
 objects 2,515 
 
 £18,837 
 
 Column B. jQ 
 
 For Church build- 
 ings & furniture 9,372 
 ,, School buildings 2,520 
 „ Mission Room 
 
 buildings ... 550 
 ,, Cabmen's Shelter 191 
 
 £12,523 
 
 Note. — The above figures do not include seat-rents, 
 which, being of the nature of a payment, do not 
 come under the category of voluntary contribu- 
 tions to Church work. 
 
67 
 
 A TABLE shewing amounts given in Collections 
 each year— from 1883 to 1896. 
 
 Year. 
 
 General. 
 
 Special. 
 
 Total. 
 
 1883 
 
 318 
 
 456 
 
 £ 
 774 
 
 1884 
 
 521 
 
 370 
 
 891 
 
 18SS 
 
 534 
 
 269 
 
 803 
 
 1886 
 
 572 
 
 276 
 
 848 
 
 1887 
 
 538 
 
 329 
 
 867 
 
 1888 
 
 533 
 
 329 
 
 862 
 
 1889 
 
 864 
 
 233 
 
 797 
 
 1890 
 
 546 
 
 313 
 
 859 
 
 1891 
 
 550 
 
 220 
 
 770 
 
 1892 
 
 611 
 
 296 
 
 907 
 
 1893 
 
 60S 
 
 312 
 
 918 
 
 1894 
 
 583 
 
 392 
 
 975 
 
 1895 
 
 635 
 
 313 
 
 948 
 
 1896 
 
 588 
 
 396 
 
 984 
 
 
 £7,699 
 
 £4,504 
 
 £12,203 
 
68 
 
 Amounts given in Church Collections, respectively in 
 the year 1882 and in the year 1896. 
 
 Year. 
 
 General. 
 
 Special. 
 
 Total. 
 
 1882 
 1896 
 
 248 
 588 
 
 I 
 295 
 
 396 
 
 543 
 
 984 
 
 Increase ... jEMl. 
 
 The average amount given annually by the Parish- 
 ioners for building and other material works during 
 14 years— from 1883 to 1896, has been £888. 
 
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