The Sacrifice Of Thankfulness: Sermons - Hardcover

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Gwatkin is Celtic, but the family of which Henry Melvill Gwatkin came had long been settled in Herefordshire. His grandfather was an Episcopal clergyman in Virginia, but, when the ,R evolution came, it found him a Tory ;he was in consequence unpopular ;he suffered, it is said, in purse and person, and came to England. The son of the loyalist was also a clergyman, and at his vicarage of Barrow-on-S oar, in Leicestershire, his second son was born on 30th July 1844. The child at an early age was left very deaf by an attack of scarlet fever, and the deafness drove him in upon himself. From childhood to the grave lie was unlike other people keener of brain and insight and memory, but hampered and cut off from common life by his infirmity. He could not hear the conversation at his fathers table, and he was allowed to read at his meals. Diaries of the years 1855 56 survive, and a few illustrations from them may give the main threads of his life. When in July 1914 he gave up his work for the University of Wales, I spoke, he writes, of the threescore years and more from the first enthusiasm of the child for history to the intense, absorbing, enthralling, overpowering charm of studies lighted by the solemn dawning of the western sunrise. The old volume bears on its title page: Observations made during the years 1855 56 by H. M. Gwatkiu. Vol. 1, 1855. The next leaf begins with the first observation. March 5. Sirius.
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