. Charles Kingsley : his letters and memories of his life. een already. . , The Collect he invariably used before preaching for twenty fouiyears was the one for the Second Sunday in Advent, tiii about sixyears ago, when the question of prayer before sermon being dis-cussed in his parish, he consulted his diocesan (Samuel, BishopWilb^^iforce), and decided to abide by his opinion. From that timehe used in the morning the Invocation to the Trinity, in the after-noon the usual Collect and Lords Prayer. After he gave out his text, the poor men in the free sittings un-der the pulpit would turn towar
. Charles Kingsley : his letters and memories of his life. een already. . , The Collect he invariably used before preaching for twenty fouiyears was the one for the Second Sunday in Advent, tiii about sixyears ago, when the question of prayer before sermon being dis-cussed in his parish, he consulted his diocesan (Samuel, BishopWilb^^iforce), and decided to abide by his opinion. From that timehe used in the morning the Invocation to the Trinity, in the after-noon the usual Collect and Lords Prayer. After he gave out his text, the poor men in the free sittings un-der the pulpit would turn towards him, and settle themselves into j4s a Preacher. 171 an altitude of fixed attention. In preaching he would try to keejstill and calm, and free from all gesticulation \ but as he -vvent on,he had to grip and clasp the cushion on which his sermon rested,in order ??o restrain the intensity of his own emotion ; and when,in spite of himself, his hands would escape, they /vould be liftedup, the fingers of the right hand working with a peculiar hovering. EVERSLEY CHURCH. mov^ement, of which he was quite unconscious ; his eyes seamedon fire, his whole frame worked and vibrated. It was riveticg tosee as well as h^ar him, as his eagle glance penetrated every cor-ner of the church, and whether there were few or many theie, itwas enough for him that those who were present were human be-ings, standing between two worlds, and that it was his terrible responsibiUty as well as high privilege, to deliver a message to eachJind all. The great festivals of the church seemed to inspire him,ivnd his words would rise into melody. At Chrstmas, Easter, iy6 Charles Kings ley. Whitsuntide, and on the Holy Trinity especially, his sermon became a song of gladness; during Advent, a note of solemn warning. On Good Friday, and through the Passion week evening ser-vices, it would be a low and mournful chant, uttered in a deep,plaintive, and at moments, almost agonised tone, which hushed hiscongregation into
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