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On one occasion I remember preaching in a large hall, as the Unitarian Church could not have held the congregation. It was during the campaign that Mrs. Young and I conducted in Sydney in 1900, and we had spent the day a delightful one with the present Sir George and Lady Reid at their beautiful home at Strathfield, and returned in time to take the evening service at Sydney.
How much better to have laid him simply here at Strathfieldsaye, and left it as a place of pilgrimage, as Strathfield will be, although between the two men, in my mind, there was no comparison; the one was a genius, the other mere soldier, pure physical force measured with intellect the richest and the proudest.
But one of our pleasantest memories was of a day spent with the great freetrader and Mrs. Reid at their Strathfield home. I was anxious to hear Mr. Reid speak, and was glad when the opportunity arose on the occasion of a no-confidence debate.
The original, I believe, still hangs, framed, in the Secretary's room at the hospital; and as I think it likely to be interesting, as a specimen of the Duke's epistolary powers and peculiarities, I append a copy: "Strathfield Saye, Dec. 11, 1842. "F.M. the Duke of Wellington presents his Compliments to Mr.
An appeal for funds for Melanesia resulted in £10,000 being raised within a few weeks, and also in the gift of a new ship for the island work; a letter to a young friend who remembered Selwyn's parting sermon in 1841 secured the noble and saintly Patteson for the same mission; an interview with another of his early friends Henry Harper, vicar of the Berkshire village of Strathfield Mortimer won from this humble parish priest the promise to come out to New Zealand for the bishopric of Christchurch, as soon as a duly authorised request should be forthcoming.
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