Eminent Christian Workers of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Eminent Christian Workers of the Nineteenth Century It has been pointed out that, although it is a mere congratulatory commonplace, when the rawest of youths takes Holy Orders, or cats his dinners in the Temple, to remind him, as the case may be, of Lambeth Palace or of the woolsack, the early references in Tait's correspondence to the arch bishopric of Canterbury and his own career are quite remarkable and persistent. On his first visit to London, when he had been out one evening for a walk, he was asked what he had been doing. Walking through Lambeth, he replied. Through Lambeth was the astonished answer; why, whatever possessed you to walk in Lambeth Well, I wanted to see how I shall like the place when I get there. A few years later his friend Mr. Hall wrote, Ogilvie (chaplain to Archbishop Howley) is flourishing about town, and Jones and I have agreed to pay him a visit together at your future episcopal residence next week. Again.
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