Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton.

  • Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
1917
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Credit: Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    back, speaking at meeting on Sunday, January 5. At the evening meeting his subject was Christ’s presence in Samaria as healing national and ecclesiastical divisions. He records that Edwards the miner prayed, and describes it as ' a delightful meeting/ As usual, he worked at his yearly balance and hunted for f a recalcitrant penny ’ which he at last found. Then he helped George with his balance and, when it could not be got right, recommended him to ' own up to an error of 6d. in cash, instead of wasting more time over it/ Hunting one day for some old letters, he wrote, * The search did me good. It made me feel what an extremely interesting life mine has been. I must not grumble if, towards the close of it, the pace slackens somewhat/ The last days of January were spent in York with his daughter for a Peace Conference, when the question of the Australasian Defence Bill was discussed. He presided and gave the opening speech, but he was tired and flurried and felt that things went lamely. Joshua Rowntree wrote of this Conference : It was worth while for any deaf person to have gone to it just to watch Thomas Hodgkin sitting there, its leading figure, at fourscore years and over. He sat erect as if to prove that ‘ the labour and sorrow ’ predicted under the Old Dispensation, may be turned into gladness and tran¬ quillity under the New, as if to make it plain by the example which speaks more plainly than precept, that it is possible for men in this panic-stricken twentieth century, as it was in the seventeenth, to live in the virtue of ‘ that life and power which takes away the occasion of all wars/ Several of the audience spoke to his daughter afterwards about the good and helpful speech he had made, but she felt that the old fluency was gone and the old days over, when they used to marvel at the way in which his best lectures and addresses often came to him almost impromptu. He said to her rather sadly, ‘ I see I must not depend on myself now, I must write what I want to say beforehand. I did not make my points as I had intended/ In April, 1912, he hadbeen to a meeting for silent worship