The Wesleyan Methodists in Whitford now felt themselves at liberty to allow their smouldering animosity against Powell to break forth2 openly, for he had seceded3 from the Society. Some said he had been expelled from it, but this was not true, although there was little doubt that, at the next Conference, his conduct and doctrine4 would have been severely5 reprehended6; and, probably, he would have been required publicly to recant them on pain of expulsion. Should this be the case, those who knew David Powell had little difficulty in prophesying7 the issue. However, all speculations8 as to his probable behaviour under the reproof9 of Conference were rendered vain by the preacher's voluntarily withdrawing himself from the "bonds of the Society," as he phrased it.
Then broke forth the hostile sentiments of the Whitford Wesleyans against this rash and innovating10 preacher. Unfavourable opinions of him, which had been concealed11, or only dimly expressed, were now declared openly. He was an Antinomian; he had fallen away from the doctrines12 of Assurance and Christian13 Perfection; he had brought scandal on large bodies of sober, serious persons, by encouraging wild and extravagant14 manifestations15 among his hearers; his exhortations16 were calculated to do harm, inasmuch as he preached a doctrine of asceticism17 and self-renunciation, which, if followed, would have the most inconvenient18 consequences. That some of these accusations—as, for example, that of Antinomianism, and that of too extreme self-mortification—were somewhat incompatible19 with each other, was no impediment to their being heaped simultaneously20 on David Powell. The strongest disapprobation of his sayings and doings was expressed by that select body of citizens who attended at the little Wesleyan chapel21. And yet there was, perhaps, less bitterness in this open opposition22 to him than had been felt towards him during the last days of his ministration in Whitford. So long as David Powell was their preacher, approved—or, at least, not disapproved—by Conference, a struggle went on in some minds to reconcile his teaching with their practice, which was an irritating and unsatisfactory state of things, since the struggle in most cases was not so much to modify their practice, in order to bring it into harmony with his precepts23, as ingeniously to interpret his precepts so that they should not too flagrantly accuse their practice. But now that it was competent to the stanchest Methodist to reject Powell's authority altogether, these unprofitable efforts ceased, and with them a good deal of resentment24.
The chorus of openly-expressed hostility25 to the preacher, which, I have said, made itself heard in Whitford, arose, in a great measure, from the common delight in declaring, where some circumstances unforeseen by the world in general comes to pass, that we perceived all along how matters would go, and knew our neighbour to be a very different fellow from what you took him to be.
Here old Max was triumphant26; and, it must be owned, with more reason than many of his acquaintances. He had openly quarrelled with this fanatical Welshman, long before the main body of the Whitford Wesleyans had ventured to repudiate27 him.
One humble28 friend was faithful to the preacher. The widow Thimbleby maintained, in the teeth of all opposition, that, though Mr. Powell might be a little mistaken here and there on points of doctrine—she was an ignorant woman, and couldn't judge of these things—yet his practice came very near perfection; and that the only human being to whom he ever showed severity, intolerance, and lack of love was himself. Mrs. Thimbleby was not strong in controversy29. It was not difficult to push her to her last resort—namely, crying silently behind her apron30. But there was some tough fibre of loyalty31 in the meek32 creature which made it impossible for her to belie33 her conscience by deserting David Powell. The cold attic34 at the top of her little house was prepared for his reception as soon as it was known that he was about to revisit Whitford; and Mrs. Thimbleby went to the loft35 over the corn-dealer's store-house in Lady Lane one Sunday evening to beg that Nick Green would let Mr. Powell know, whenever he should arrive, that his old quarters were waiting for him, and that she would take it as a personal unkindness if he did not consent to occupy them. She could not help talking of the preacher to her grand lodger36 Mrs. Errington, of whom she was considerably37 in awe38. The poor woman's heart was full at the thought of seeing him again. And not even Mrs. Errington's lofty severity regarding all dissenters39 and "ignorant persons who flew in the face of Providence40 and attempted to teach their betters," could entirely41 stifle42 her expressions of anxiety as to Mr. Powell's health, her hopes that he took a little more care of himself than he formerly43 did, and her anecdotes44 of his angelic charity and goodness towards the poor, and needy45, and suffering.
"I should advise you on no account to go and hear this man preach," said Mrs. Errington to her landlady46. "Terrible scenes have taken place in Wales; and very likely something of the kind may happen here. You are very weak, my poor soul. You have no force of character. You would be sure to catch any excitement that was going. And how should you like, pray, to be brought home from Lady Lane on a stretcher?"
But even this alarming suggestion did not deter47 Mrs. Thimbleby from haunting the "Ranters'" meeting-room, and leaving message after message with Nick Green to be sure and tell Mr. Powell to come up to her house, the very minute he arrived. Nick Green knew no more than the widow the day and hour of the preacher's arrival. All he could say was, that Powell had applied48 to him and to his co-religionists for leave to preach in the room—little more than a loft—which they rented of the corn-dealer in Lady Lane. Powell had been refused permission to speak in the Wesleyan chapel to which his eloquence49 had formerly attracted such crowds of listeners. Whit Meadow would, indeed, be probably open to him; but the year was drawing on apace, autumn would soon give place to winter, and, at all events in the evening, it would be vain to hope for a large number of listeners in the open air.
"Open air!" echoed Mrs. Thimbleby, raising her hands and eyes; "why, Mr. Green, he ought never to think of preaching in the open air at this season, and him so delicate!"
"Nay50, sister Thimbleby," responded Nick Green, a powerful, black-muzzled fellow with a pair of lungs like a blacksmith's bellows51, "we may not put our hand to the plough and turn back. We are all of us called upon to give ourselves body and soul in the Lord's service. And many's the night, after my day's work was over, that I've exhorted52 here in this very room and poured out the Word for two and three hours at a stretch, until the sweat ran down my face like water, and the brethren were fairly worn out. But yet I have been marvellously strengthened. I doubt not that Brother Powell will be so too, especially now that he has given up dead words, and the errors of the Society, and thrown off the yoke53 of the law."
"Dear, I hope so," answered Mrs. Thimbleby, tremulously; "but I do wish he would try a hot posset of a night, just before going to bed."
The good woman was beginning to walk away up Lady Lane, somewhat disconsolately54, for she reflected that if Nick Green measured Mr. Powell's strength by his own, he would surely not spare it, and that the preacher needed rather a curb55 than a spur to his self-forgetting exertions56, when she almost ran against a man who was coming in the opposite direction. They were not twenty paces from the door of the corn-dealer's store-house, and a lamp that burnt above it shed sufficient light for her to recognise the face of the very person who was in her thoughts.
"Mr. Powell!" she exclaimed in a joyful58 tone. "Thanks be to the Lord that I have met you! Was you going to look for Mr. Green? He is just putting the lights out and coming away. I left a message with him for you, sir; but now I can give it you myself. You will come up with me to my house, now, won't you? Everything is ready, and has been these three days. You wouldn't think of going anywhere else in Whitford but to my house, would you, Mr. Powell?"
She ran on thus eagerly, because she saw, or fancied she saw, symptoms of opposition to her plan in Powell's face. He hesitated. "My good friend," said he, "your Christian kindness is very precious to me, but I am not clear that I should do right in becoming an inmate59 of your house."
"Oh, but I am, Mr. Powell, quite clear! Why it would be a real unkindness to refuse me."
"It is not a matter to be settled thus lightly," answered Powell, although at the same time he turned and walked a few paces by the widow's side. "I had thought that I might sleep for to-night at least in our friends' meeting-room."
"What! in the loft there? Lord ha' mercy, Mr. Powell! 'Tis cold and draughty, and there's nothing in it but a few wooden benches, and the rats run about as bold as can be, directly the lights is put out. Why 't would be a tempting60 of Providence, Mr. Powell."
"I am not dainty about my accommodation, as you know; and I could sleep there without payment."
"Without payment! Why, you might pay pretty dear for it in health, if not in money. And, for that matter, I shouldn't think of asking a penny of rent for my attic, as long as ever you choose to stay in it." Then, with an instinctive61 knowledge of the sort of plea that might be likely to prevail with him, she added, "As for being dainty about your accommodation, why I know you never were so, and I hope you haven't altered, for, indeed, the attic is sadly uncomfortable. I think there's worse draughts62 from the window than ever. And it would be a benefit to me to get the room aired and occkypied; for only last week I had a most respectable young man, a journeyman painter, to look at it, and he say, 'Mrs. Thimbleby, we shan't disagree about the rent,' he say; 'but I do wish the room had been slept in latterly; for I've a fear as it's damp,' he say, 'and that that's the reason you don't use it yourself, nor haven't let it.' But I tell him the only reason why I didn't use the room was as you might be expected back any day, and I couldn't let you find your place taken. And he say if he could be satisfied of that, he may take it after next month, when you would likely be gone again. So you see as you would be doing me a service, Mr. Powell, not to say a pleasure."
Whether David Powell implicitly63 believed the good creature's argument to be derived64 from fact, may be doubtful; but he suffered himself to be persuaded to accompany her to his old lodgings65; and they begged Nick Green, who presently overtook them, to send one of his lads to the coach-office, to bring to Mrs. Thimbleby's the small battered66 valise which constituted all Powell's luggage.
"I would have gone to fetch it myself," said the preacher, apologetically, "but, in truth, I am so exceedingly weary, that I doubt whether my strength would avail to carry even that slender burden the distance from the coach-office to your house."
When he was seated beside Mrs. Thimbleby's clean kitchen hearth67, on which burned a fire of unwontedly generous proportions—the widow declared that, as she grew older, she found it necessary to her health to have a glow of warmth in her kitchen these chilly68 autumn nights—when the preacher was thus seated, I say, and when the red and yellow firelight illuminated69 his face fully70, it was very evident that he was indeed "exceeding weary;" weary, and worn, and wan71, with hollow temples, eyes that blazed feverishly72, and a hue73 of startling pallor overspreading his whole countenance74. For a few minutes, whilst his good hostess moved about hither and thither75 in the little kitchen, preparing some tea, and slicing some bacon, to be presently fried for his refection, Powell sat looking straight before him, with a curious expression in his widely-opened eyes, something like that of a sleep-walker. They were evidently seeing nothing of the physical realities around them, and yet they unmistakably expressed the attentive76 recognition by the mind of some image painted on their wondrous77 spheres. The true round mirror of the wizard is that magic ball of sight; for on its sensitive surface live and move a thousand airy phantoms78, besides the reflection of all that peoples this tangible79 earth we dwell on. Powell's lips began to move rapidly, although no sound came from them. He seemed to be addressing a creature visible to him alone, on which his straining gaze was fixed80. But suddenly his face changed, and was troubled as a still pool is troubled by a ripple81 that breaks its clearly glazed82 reflection into fantastic fragments. In another moment he passed his thin hand several times with a strong pressure over his brows, shut and opened his eyes like a dreamer awakened83, drew his pocket Bible from his breast, and began to read with an air of resolute84 attention.
"Will you ask a blessing85, Mr. Powell?" said the widow timidly.
He looked up. A comfortable meal was spread on the white deal table before him. Mrs. Thimbleby sat opposite to him in her old chair with the patch-work cushions; the fire shone; the household cat purred drowsily86; the old clock clicked off the moments as they flowed past—tick tack87, tick tack. Then there came a jar, a burr of wheels and springs, and the tinkle88 of silver-toned metal striking nine. In a few moments the ancient belfry of St. Chad's began to send forth its mellow89 chimes. Far and wide they sounded—over the town and the flat-meadow country—through the darkness. Powell sat still and silent, listening to the bells until they had done chiming.
"How well I know those voices!" he said. "I used to lie awake and listen to them here, in the old attic, when my soul was wrestling with a mighty90 temptation; when my heart was smitten91 and withered92 like grass, so that I forgot to eat my bread. The sound of them is sweet to the fleshly ears of the body; but to the ears of the spirit they can say marvellous things. They have been the instruments to bring me many a message of counsel as they came singing and buzzing in my brain."
The widow Thimbleby sat looking at the preacher, as he spoke93, with an expression of puzzled admiration94, blended with anxiety.
"Oh, for certain the Lord has set a sign on you!" she exclaimed. "He would have us to know that you are a chosen vessel95, and He has given you the gifts of the spirit in marvellous abundance. But, dear Mr. Powell, I doubt He does not mean you to neglect the fleshly tabernacle neither; for, as I say to myself, He could ha' made us all soul and no body, if such had been His blessed will."
"We thank Thee, O Father, most merciful. Amen!" said Powell, bending over the table.
"Amen!" repeated Mrs. Thimbleby. "And now pray do fall to, and eat something, for I'm sure you need it."
"It is strange; but, though I have fasted since five o'clock this morning, I feel no hunger."
"Mercy me! fasting since five o'clock this morning? Why, for sure, that's the very reason you can't eat! Your stomach is too weak. Dear, dear, dear; but you must make an effort to swallow something, sir. Drink a sup of tea."
Powell complied with her entreaty96, although he expressed some misgiving97 as to the righteousness of his partaking of so luxurious98 a beverage99. And then he ate a few mouthfuls of food, but evidently without appetite. But seeing his good friend's uneasiness on his behalf, he said, with the rare smile which so brightened his countenance:
"Do not be so concerned for me. There is no need. Although I have not much replenished100 the carnal man to-day, yet have I been abundantly refreshed and comforted. I tarried in a small town on the borders of this county at midday, and I found that my ministrations there in the spring season had borne fruit. Many who had been reclaimed101 from evil courses came about me, and we gave thanks with much uplifting of the heart. And, although I had suffered somewhat from faintness before arriving at that place, yet, no sooner were these chosen persons got about me, and I began to pray and praise, than I felt stronger and more able for exertion57 than I have many a time felt after a long night's rest and an abundant meal."
Poor Mrs. Thimbleby's mind was divided and "exercised," as she herself would have said, between her reverent102 faith in Powell's being supported by the supernal103 powers and her rooted conviction regarding the virtues104 of a hot posset. Was it for her, a poor, ignorant woman, presumptuously105 to supplement, as it were, the protection of Providence, and to insist on the saintly preacher's drinking her posset? Yet, on the other hand, arose her own powerful argument, that the Lord might have dispensed106 with our bodies altogether had it so pleased him; and that therefore, mankind being provided with those appendages107, it was but reasonable to conclude they were meant to be taken some care of. At length the widow's mental debatings resulted in a resolution to make the hot posset, and carry it up to the preacher's bedside without consulting him on the subject—"For," said she to herself, "if I persuade him to swallow it out of kindness to me, there'll be no sin in the matter. Or, at least, if there is, it will be my sin, and not his; and that is not of so much consequence."
In this spirit of true feminine devotion she acted, and having coaxed109 Powell to swallow the cordial mixture—as a mother might coax108 a sick child—she had the satisfaction of seeing him fall into a deep slumber110, he being, in truth, exhausted111 by fatigue112, excitement, and lack of nourishment113.
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