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The reply was full acceptance. Then taking his hand, the Bishop said, 'God bless you, my dear Coley! It is a great comfort to me to have you for a friend and companion. Such was the outward and such the inward vocation to the Deacon now within a month of the Priesthood. Was it not an evident call from Him by whom the whole Church is governed and sanctified?
'Oh! my dearest Coley, what comfort I have had in you what delightful conversations we have had together, and how thankful we ought to be to our gracious God for allowing it to be so: and still not less thankful for the blessings of being watched and comforted and soothed by the dear girls, and by that dear and good Jem.
Very characteristic this both of Eton's enthusiasm for the hero, and of the hero's undemonstrative way of receiving it, which must have somewhat surprised his foreign companions. A week or two later, in November 1844, came the competition for the Balliol scholarship, but Coley was not successful. On the Saturday he writes:
Therewith they separated, and Coley, going straight to Fanny, told her what had passed: 'I could not help it, he said: 'I told the Bishop of my wish. 'You ought to put it to my father, that he may decide it, she answered; 'he is so great a man that he ought not to be deprived of the crown of the sacrifice if he be willing to make it.
The next moment his own horses dash around the corner into State street, driverless and running away. A lady's head protrudes from the window. Yes, it is Esther! The druggist grasps his long pole lightly. He takes the middle of the street. He holds his pole like a fence before the team. "Whoa, Pete! Whoa, Coley!" he cries. The horses believe they must turn. They lose momentum. They shy.
'So believe me your dear Son, On the flap of the letter 'Uncle Frank' writes to the mother: 'My dear Fanny, I had Coley in my room to-day, and talked to him seriously about his misdeeds, and I hope good has been done. But I could scarcely keep my countenance grave when he began to reduce by calculation the exact number of fibs he had told.
Sunday was likewise kept distinct in reading, teaching, employment, and whole tone of conversation, and the effect was assuredly not that weariness which such observance is often supposed to produce, but rather lasting benefit and happy associations. Coley really enjoyed Bible- reading, and entered into explanations, and even then often picked up a passage in the sermons he heard at St.
'O my own dearest Coley, Almighty God be thanked that He has preserved my life to hear from you and others of your actual consecration as a Missionary Bishop of the Holy Catholic Church: and may He enable you by His grace and the powerful assistance of His Spirit to bring to His faith and fear very many who have not known Him, and to keep and preserve in it many others who already profess and call themselves Christians.
From that moment the matter was treated as fixed; and only three days later, the intention was announced to the relations at Thorverton. This is the letter to the little fatherless cousin, Paulina Martyn, who had always been devoted to Coley, and whom he loved with a triple portion of the affection children always gained from him.
I cannot say that I am not disappointed; but I know so well the uncertainty of examinations and how much depends on the sort of papers put, and on the spirits and feeling one is in, that I am never surprised at such results, and I do not blame you at all. Those who knew Coley best agree in thinking that this reverse took great effect in rousing his energies.
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