Life and Personal Recollections of Samuel Garratt

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. WORK IN LONDON. WHEN I was ordained, wrote my father in 1905, the feeling on my mind was very strong that my post must be chosen by God, a feeling which has never left me. . . . Wherever God sent me there I wished to go. The consciousness of the duty of awaiting God's guidance was so strong...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. WORK IN LONDON. WHEN I was ordained, wrote my father in 1905, the feeling on my mind was very strong that my post must be chosen by God, a feeling which has never left me. . . . Wherever God sent me there I wished to go. The consciousness of the duty of awaiting God's guidance was so strong within him, that he never sought for a change of post, or made any effort to obtain preferment. While at Islington, through the efforts of his friends he had an offer of a curacy in Cheshire, that of curate-in-charge at Grappenhall, near Warrington. He very much regretted that this application had been made for him, but he accepted the curacy, much as he would have preferred to have refused it, had he not felt that it was God's appointment. He did not like Grappenhall; but, he wrote, the strong feeling that where God had placed me I must remain, till He removed me, prevailed, and I took no steps whatever for a change. He evidently felt discouraged with the work at Grappenhall. But fifty-two years afterwards, in 1897, he received the following letter from a former member of his congregation there, proving that the seed sown had taken root: How gratefully I go back in memory to this timefifty-two years ago. . . . After this long interval, perhaps it may not be easy for you to recall those old Grappenhall days when you sowed the precious seed of the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; often disheartened, it was nevertheless incorruptible seed, and doubtless has taken root and sprung up in many hearts. /// have cause with much loving gratitude to remember those days why not hundreds besides ' The wind bloweth where it listeth.' We thank God for your prolonged life and work. The first sermon you preached in Grappenhall was, I think, from, '...