My impression is that I spoke in this way on some five or six Sundays. Of all these discourses, I remember only the last one, of which the text was, ‘I am persuaded that neither height nor depth, nor any other creature,’ etc. The attendance was very good throughout, and I cherished the hope that I had sown some seed which would bear fruit thereafter. I remember that our own poet, Thomas William Parsons, happening to be in London at this time, suggested to me a poem of Mrs. Stowe's as very suitable to be read at one of my Sunday services. It was the one beginning:—
and I am glad to remember that I did read it as advised.When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean,
My work in London brought me in contact with a number of prominent workers in various departments of public service My acquaintance with Miss Frances Power Cobbe was pleasantly