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Excerpt from The Life and Remains of the Rev. Rob't; Housman, A. B: The Founder, and for Above Forty Years the Incumbent Minister of St. Anne's, Lancaster; And Formerly Curate to Rev. T. Robinson, M. An;, Of Leicester
Rector of Roscrea, and vicar-general of the Dio cese of Killaloe. These poems display consider able elegance of mind, and might perhaps justify a persuasion that the vision and the faculty di vine were his. The taste which thus exhibited itself in the season of youth, was occasionally in dulged, for the gratification of particular friends, in later years.
What the circumstances were which startled him from a gay and careless mode of life - or whether, as is probable, the transition was effected bv in sensible degrees - I have not been able to learn; but H was during a solitary walk near Halton, on the western banks of the river Lune, one fine Good Friday, that the idea of consecrating his life and energies to the office of the Ministry, first seriously entered the mind of this eminent servant of Jesus Christ. For some time he continued pacing slowly to and fro, considering and re-considering his de sign; at length, retiring to one of the small and pleasant woods which beautify that most beautiful district of the vicinity of Lancaster, he threw him self on his knees upon the grass - and there, with no eye to see him but the omniscient eye that never sleepeth, implored God to bless his pious resolu tions, and to fit him for the work he had deter mined to do. The undertaking thus begun, was continued and ended in the same spirit of self-de dication and trust. Prayer, with which he com menced his long and active career of goodness, was the all-prevailing means of his subsequent success.
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