I fear the greater part of them are going to hell with their eyes open.'" But if they were so bound, it was not for want of exertion on Mr.Grimshaw's part to prevent them.

He used to preach twenty or thirty times a week in private houses.

If he perceived any one inattentive to his prayers, he would stop and rebuke the offender, and not go on till he saw every one on their knees.

He was very earnest in enforcing the strict observance of Sunday; and would not even allow his parishioners to walk in the fields between services.

He sometimes gave out a very long Psalm (tradition says the 119th), and while it was being sung, he left the reading-desk, and taking a horsewhip went into the public-houses, and flogged the loiterers into church.