Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . icient aid tounsectarian co-workers in the management of the Town Mission,Bible Society, Reformatory School, Asylum for the Blind, andkindred institutions, as well as to promote the cause of voluntaryeducation. Thus there gradually grew up around him a large body 588 RICHARD CLAYTON. of devoted friends, both within and without the Church, whofollowed his lead in schemes of local benevolence, and strengthenedhis hands in the perils of ecclesiastical controversy. Of this latterelement, engendered by the Tractarian movement, there was inNewcastle, as elsewhere,
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . icient aid tounsectarian co-workers in the management of the Town Mission,Bible Society, Reformatory School, Asylum for the Blind, andkindred institutions, as well as to promote the cause of voluntaryeducation. Thus there gradually grew up around him a large body 588 RICHARD CLAYTON. of devoted friends, both within and without the Church, whofollowed his lead in schemes of local benevolence, and strengthenedhis hands in the perils of ecclesiastical controversy. Of this latterelement, engendered by the Tractarian movement, there was inNewcastle, as elsewhere, no lack. His natural disposition wasaverse to theological disputation; but the clear and decided viewswhich he held upon Church questions were firmly maintained andpiously exemplified. Staunch and true to the old order of publicworship, he set his face rigidly against Puseyite innovations. Aplain but hearty service, accompanied by congregational singing, andfollowed by fervent preaching, were the characteristics of Divine <^^^,. ^fy- /t^/jpf^ffj!fnp 7- worship at St. Thomass, and those who wanted millinery andmummery, posturing and Popery, by which alliterative designa-tions the practices of high churchmen were derided, might go else-where. Two, at least, of Mr. Claytons sermons were of them preached at St. Thomass, 27th June, 1841, is entitled,Dissuasives from Frequenting the Race Course; the other,delivered in the same place, September i8th, 1842, bears the title ofOratorios Unsuited to the House of Prayer, and Inconsistent witha Christian Profession. In a little book about Jesmond Church,the late Councillor Cutter, whose father was for many years officiallyconnected with St. Thomass, tells us that—Mr. Clayton was theleader of the Evangelical party in the Church in this town, and the LUKE CLENNELL. 589 staunch supporter of the Church Missionary Society, the JewsSociety, and all kindred societies having for their object the diffusionof Evangelical principle
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