I have notes of more than a score of matters, on which I purposed to ask his good counsel, when we should meet again.

And now it will never be." "I feel so unworthy to fill his place," he would say.

"My only comfort is in trying to carry out all his plans, and, so far as I can, tread in his steps." In this spirit the new Rector followed the old one, even to becoming an expert gardener.

He bought the old furniture of the Rectory.
Altogether, we were spared those rude evidences of change which are not the least painful parts of such a loss as ours.
With the parishioners, I am convinced, that Mr.Clerke was more popular than Mr.Andrewes had been.

They liked him at first for his reverence for the memory of a pastor they had loved well.