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A onistic to the bishop than Father John Barham, the lately appointed Roman Catholic priest at Beccles, it would be iood ht, but so thin, so re, so wasted in appearance, that, unless when he stooped, he was taken to be tall He had thick dark brown hair, which was cut short in accordance with the usage of his Church; but which he so constantly ruffled by the action of his hands, that, though short, it see locks straggled over his forehead, he had acquired a habit, while talking energetically, of rubbing theer, which he had not since dropped In discussions he would constantly push back his hair, and then sit with his hand fixed on the top of his head He had a high, broad forehead, enor nose, cheeks very thin and hollow, a handso square chin He was utterly without worldly means, except those which came to him from the ministry of his church, and which did not suffice to find him food and raiment; but no man ever lived more indifferent to such er son of an English country gentleht hold a fa, and on the eve of his ordination had declared himself a Roman Catholic His family had resented this bitterly, but had not quarrelled with him till he had drawn a sister with him When banished from the house he had still striven to achieve the conversion of other sisters by his letters, and was now absolutely an alien from his father's heart and care But of this he never complained It was a part of the plan of his life that he should suffer for his faith Had he been able to change his creed without incurring persecution, worldly degradation, and poverty, his own conversion would not have been to him comfortable and satisfactory as it was He considered that his father, as a Protestant,--and in his ht to quarrel with him But he loved his father, and was endless in prayer, wearying his saints with supplications, that his father ht see the truth and be as he was

To hi that a man should believe and obey,--that he should abandon his own reason to the care of another or of others, and allow hi sufficient and of itself all in all,to a man, except as a testih to produce obedience, ion, and he would teach them in season and out of season, always ready to co their truth, afraid of no ene the hostility which his perseverance would create He had but one duty before hi over the world to his faith It ht be that with the toil of his whole life he should convert but one; that he should but half convert one; that he should do no hts of one so that future conversion ht be possible But even that would be work done He would sow the seed if it iven to hiround