The Star of the West Being Memoirs of the Life of Risdon Darracott Minister O
The Star of the West Being Memoirs of the Life of Risdon Darracott Minister O
James Bennett
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A friend, to whom he had made a disclosure of his affairs, immediately applied to that valuable institution in London, known to dissenters by the name of the Fund Board, which immediately voted him five pounds as an annual addition to his salary. This, with the contribu- tions of private friends, enabled him to extricate himself from his embarrassments. His difficulties returned indeed, as did the in- vitations of destitute churches. But, though he never could resolve to leave a scene of so muc...h usefulness ; the claims of a delicate wife and ris- ing family induced him at one time to think of MEMOIRS OF DARRACOTT. 101 keeping a school. That this scheme was aban- doned should excite neither surprise nor regret* His ardent devotional soul bounded oft' frcjm the instruction of youth in the rudiments of human learning, to lead the souls of men into the heights and depths of redeeming love. And if he hesi- tated to leave Wellington, lest he should not be 60 useful elsewhere ; was it not equally to be feared that the diminution of his time for pasto- ral studies and labours might injure the tone of his mind, and make a proportionable reduction from his success in the ministry.
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