Christian philanthropy exemplified in a memoir of the Rev. Samuel Wilson Warneford, LL.D., late Rector of Bourton-on-the-hill, and honorary canon of Gloucester and Bristol : wherein an attempt has been made to shew the diversities of its operations, but the sameness of its spirit; the varieties of its form, but the universality of its principle / by...Vaughan Thomas ; illustrated by extracts from his letters.

  • Thomas, Vaughan, 1775-1858.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Christian philanthropy exemplified in a memoir of the Rev. Samuel Wilson Warneford, LL.D., late Rector of Bourton-on-the-hill, and honorary canon of Gloucester and Bristol : wherein an attempt has been made to shew the diversities of its operations, but the sameness of its spirit; the varieties of its form, but the universality of its principle / by...Vaughan Thomas ; illustrated by extracts from his letters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pastoral exercises. But his Memorialist found that he was precluded from such access or reference by Du. Warnefoud’s solemn injunction, confided to the friendship of his professional adviser, Joseph Sewell, Esq. that all such papers should be committed to the flames; an injunction which he conscientiously and immediately fulfilled. Under this disappointment, the Writer was thrown alto- gether upon such resources, as an affectionate remembrance of the ways and workings of Dr. Warneford’s philanthropy, and of the many de- signs and undertakings upon which he had been consulted, would suggest or supply ; and he had made some progress in such a general repre- sentation of what Dr. Warneforu had charitably or piously done or designed, when it occurred to him to enquire of the Representatives of Joshua Watson, Esq. (who had departed this life nineteen days after Dr. Warneford, and who for more than nineteen years had shared in his counsels and correspondence,) whether any of his letters were to be found among Dr. Watson’s papers; convinced that, if selections were made from them, and interwoven with what had been already written, they would serve' to illustrate the Chris- tian principles and practices, and truly evangelical characters, of both of these excellent and inde- fatigable almoners to the spiritual and temporal wants of their fellow-creatures. The Writer was so happy (as has been acknowledged in another