The writer of the following most intereating article prefers Not oc~ iutlg' to pu hin signature to.
Twas at home on furlouzth, tal some post-graduate study bridge and preaching for my Mission fon Sundays, when 1 was summoned to the Old Palace, Canterbury, to talk with the Archbishop on ani portant shatter, and T to spend the My mind was perturbed: I wrote and told. my mother, a prayerful woman, int whom I hod always co: t-fided, and on the appointed day I arrived at Canterbury and went to my room under the gabled roof to elvess for dinner. I was nervous as 1 met the Avehbishop and Mes. Davidson in the drawing room. The other embers of the party 8 Ta nil sister of Mra. Davidson, and a chaplain, 1 think Mr. Bell, now Dean of Canterbury. "We six sat down to dinners the ladies were chatty and I oon felt more at my ease, It was the very opposite to overpowering; they evidently want relieve the embarrassment naturally felt, After dinner the Archbishop took me aside and toll me that {had been nominated to him for Bishopric in China, It was easy to protest my incapacity for such a post, especially in a country and among a great people of which knew but little, but his Grace wwietly explained the whole situation ind said we would have another talk in the morning. T went to my Yoom in a state of mental commotion, and spent a restless night, trying to think and pray calmly, and listening to the Cathedral clock striking the hours. My recollection now in that T was oppressed by the thought of responsibility in taking up such a post and task and Groubled bythe anticipation of having to appear in the customary episcopal garb.
The next morning after breakfast Archbishop talked with further, and sent me away to think over it," T-consulted my family and a few of my chief friends, the Secretaries of my Society and the Master of my College.
T wrote to] 4 accept the post and the next day the appointment was announced in the newspapers.
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