Life and Letters of Dean Church (Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II WHATLEY It would be hard to imagine a more complete contrast than that which awaited Mr. Church when he exchanged his life at Oxford for the care of a country parish. Whatley was a little village of two hundred people, wholly agricultural in its occupations, lying in the midst of the rich Somersetshire pasture country, twelve miles from Wells, and three miles from Frome, its nearest market town. For many years the parish had been without a resident rector; both church and rectory were out of repair; and the people of the place, unused to and suspicious of strangers, lived as such small and isolated communities are apt to do, almost exclusively within the range of their own little local occupations and interests and feuds. To Mr. Church, who had had no training in parochial work, and no experience beyond what he had gained when helping some clerical friend during the leisure of Oxford vacations, there was a good deal in the life awaiting him that was at first unfamiliar and irksome. The. separation from friends, which his position, single- handed in his parish, entailed, as well as the loss of the freedom and the variety of interests to which Oxford had accustomed him, told heavily at first upon his spirits. " I am tired of telling my friends how badly I do without them," he writes to Mrs. Johnson at the Observatory, in May 1853, during the solitary months which had to elapse before his marriage. " I am sure it is very kind of them to think of me; but I can assure them that they cannot miss me as much as I miss them. ... I see nobody, and feel no great wish for acquaintances. And two sermons a Sunday is not after my mind. I suppose I am being punished for my antipathy in former days. . . . The weather is very fine, and the country looking very pretty; but it does n...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II WHATLEY It would be hard to imagine a more complete contrast than that which awaited Mr. Church when he exchanged his life at Oxford for the care of a country parish. Whatley was a little village of two hundred people, wholly agricultural in its occupations, lying in the midst of the rich Somersetshire pasture country, twelve miles from Wells, and three miles from Frome, its nearest market town. For many years the parish had been without a resident rector; both church and rectory were out of repair; and the people of the place, unused to and suspicious of strangers, lived as such small and isolated communities are apt to do, almost exclusively within the range of their own little local occupations and interests and feuds. To Mr. Church, who had had no training in parochial work, and no experience beyond what he had gained when helping some clerical friend during the leisure of Oxford vacations, there was a good deal in the life awaiting him that was at first unfamiliar and irksome. The. separation from friends, which his position, single- handed in his parish, entailed, as well as the loss of the freedom and the variety of interests to which Oxford had accustomed him, told heavily at first upon his spirits. " I am tired of telling my friends how badly I do without them," he writes to Mrs. Johnson at the Observatory, in May 1853, during the solitary months which had to elapse before his marriage. " I am sure it is very kind of them to think of me; but I can assure them that they cannot miss me as much as I miss them. ... I see nobody, and feel no great wish for acquaintances. And two sermons a Sunday is not after my mind. I suppose I am being punished for my antipathy in former days. . . . The weather is very fine, and the country looking very pretty; but it does n...

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General Books LLC

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United States

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 7mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

122

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978-0-217-01093-1

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9780217010931

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0-217-01093-8



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