Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII Father Dolling's work with individuals--His friends' recollections of various incidents--Specimens of his correspondence--His speech at English Church Union meeting, S. James's Hall, on the Lambeth Opinions (October 9, 1899)--His article in the Pilot on ' The Genius of the Church of England ' (February, 1902). 'Personal influence the means of propagating the truth.'--Cardinal Newman: Parochial and Plain Sermons. 'Surely whosoever speaks to me in the right voice, Him or her I shall follow, As the water follows the moon silently, With fluid steps anywhere round the globe.' Walt Whitman. At Poplar, as before all through his life, an immense amount of work was done by Dolling in the recovery of individuals from the effects of misfortune or of sin. Persons of all sorts came to stay with him, by his invitation, in order to be set right, like those who came to David in the cave of Adullam, 'everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented.' Still Dolling's sympathy for those who had received the hard knocks of the world, his love 'for helping lame dogs over stiles, ' did not lead him to be a mere credulous believer of tales of misfortune. His great experience and his keen insight into character balanced his human kindness and that Bohemian strain in his temperament which led him to sympathise with Bohemians; and so he kept lines consistent with reasonableness and common-sense in his dealings with the multitude of 'cases' (for their number was legion) which came before his notice. In his accessibility to individuals needing moral and spiritual 257 17 help (while without necessarily, pressing his own form of Christianity upon them), as well as his sympathies with all movements for the...
