The life and letters of James Martineau . aged heads, full of the Puritantradition, were shaken over this Romanising tendency. Itwas a more serious thing, as we shall see, that the awfuland mysterious charge of Germanising was whispered,and afterwards loudly expressed, against the thoughtful andfearless preacher. For the moment, however, he was ableto surrender himself undisturbed to the emotions whichwere awakened by the prospect of resuming his ministryunder these improved conditions. The following letter tohis friend, the Rev. Charles Wicksteed, gives us a glimpseof the hope, mingled with h
The life and letters of James Martineau . aged heads, full of the Puritantradition, were shaken over this Romanising tendency. Itwas a more serious thing, as we shall see, that the awfuland mysterious charge of Germanising was whispered,and afterwards loudly expressed, against the thoughtful andfearless preacher. For the moment, however, he was ableto surrender himself undisturbed to the emotions whichwere awakened by the prospect of resuming his ministryunder these improved conditions. The following letter tohis friend, the Rev. Charles Wicksteed, gives us a glimpseof the hope, mingled with humble apprehensions, with whichhe contemplated a new period in his life: — Herischdorf near Warmhrunn, Schlesien, Aug. 3. dear Wicksteed, — A small scrap of paper from avery distant place has, I am aware, the shabbiest of as Nature is said to blow thistle seeds across the Atlantic, ^ The Chapel in Upper Brook Street, Manchester, had been already built,and mistaken by Mr. Henry Crabb Robinson for a Popish Chapel. 194. HOPE STREET CHURCH LIVERPOOL OPENED IN THE AUTUMN OF 1849 1849] OPENING OF HOPE ST. CHURCH I will venture, as humble imitator, to commit my worthlessweeds to wind and tide. In truth, I am so overjoyed to hearthat my sensible people beg you to come to our aid at theopening of our new church, that I cannot refrain from a wordof entreaty added to theirs. You cannot, however, I do be-lieve, refuse us; the place of your first Ministry, and theabode of so many true friends, has claims upon a heart likeyours not to be gainsaid. I can add nothing to them, or Iwould pray you to stand by me at a crisis which, as your re-cent experience will tell, needs every support which friend-ship and faith — the human stay united with the divine —can give. This return, under such new conditions, is in manyrespects a turning point in life with me; and with a naturethat has in it more of resolve than of hope, I look on it withan awe which I would fain, by the pres
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