A CHRISTIAN OF THE RIGHT STAMP.

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1898, 8 April 1875, Page 4

A CHRISTIAN OF THE RIGHT STAMP.

CLERICAL LIFE. IN EAST : LONDON.

The London correspondent of the Brighton Daily News writes —" On Sunday morning Moncure Conway, preaching his usual sermon in his chapel in Finsbur'y, made a strong attack upontheNational Church,but subsequently modified it so far as to admit that it was possible for some clergyman of the Church to be of use in their day and generation; and he referred especially to the rector of a neighboring parish, whom he did not name, but who was evidently Septimus Hansard, rector of Bethnal Green, who is now lying dangerously ill of scarlet fever. This is the third perilloua illness he has had since he has been in his parish; each time it was caught while visiting %his sick poor. On one occasion he fell down suddenly in his pulpit. It was found that he was suffering from soiall-pox, and he at onco said that he would go to a hospital. A cab was brought to take him there, but he refused

to enter it, lest he should be the means of I infecting other persons; and a hearse hap-: j pening to pass, he declared that he would ( go in that, and in it he wen Ho the 'hospital —a rare instance this ot pluck and unselfishness. His next illness was typhus fever; ] and now, as I have said, he is suffering from a disease more terrible still. Five hundred a year (and two curates to pay out of it) is scarcely excessive payment for such a life as that."