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The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51

Sunday, March 9th

Sunday, March 9th

A drizzly morning. We, in fear of another day's rain, put on our highlows and unspoilable clothes. However, before church time it cleared up, sunny, and in the afternoon grew very hot. A shower or two fell in the course of the day. Jackson preached morning, afternoon and evening—in the evening a most eloquent sermon, ending most impressively with an allusion to his immediate departure for Europe. He said the legacy he would leave—his last words and final injunctions—to us, a community, was 'to be at peace'. I have seldom heard a more truly eloquent flow of energetic speech in a sermon. He begins with a written sermon, which he delivers stiffly and ill at ease; towards the end he leaves it aside and bursts forth extempore. My opinion of his preaching is that he requires the stimulus of personal interest and events above the common to produce oratory, and in topics of ordinary practical religion, the 'routine of piety', he is unimpressive or of average quality. Wortley had Grubb on page 146board the Flirt today to survey her, and he has determined to buy her in partnership with Hanmer, Mason, Maunsell & Kent.