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Excerpt from The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth, M.A., D.D: As Portrayed by His Letters and Illustrated by Photographs
I cannot refuse to write a few words Of introduction, though they certainly are not needed, to this memoir of an Old friend. When I became an Oxford don in 1875, I found myself drawn, partly as disciple, partly as colleague, into a circle of rather Older men who were already at work at the urgent task Of seeking to conciliate the claims Of reason and revela tion, and SO to interpret the ancient, catholic faith as not to lay an intolerable strain upon the free action of the intellect. In this group Of men J. R. Illingworth held a place entirely his own, and he fulfilled his special vocation with Singular complete ness. NO man ever more successfully declined to be interfered with by calls which he felt to be not for him. He never attended public meetings or sat on committees or was distracted by business. NO one would have thought of making him a rural dean or an archdeacon or a bishop. He retired to his quiet parish, and there, loved and honoured, he occupied himself in undistracted meditation on God and the world and mankind in the light of the Incarnation.
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