and he came to the personal parts, touching himself and his new
congregation, what he knew he ought to be to them and to do for them,
what they should do for themselves, and earnestly besought their
prayers, I was completely overcome, and weeping profusely.

Fanny Patteson and Arthur Coleridge were sitting with the Judge, and
were equally overcome. When the service was over, and the
congregation dispersed, Coley joined these three in the porch,
holding out his hands, taking theirs and shedding tears, and they
with him--tears of warm emotion too deep for words. He was evidently
surprised at the effect produced. In fact, on looking at the sermon,
it does not seem to have been in itself remarkable, but as his cousin
Arthur says: 'I suppose the deep spirituality of the man, and the
love we bore him for years, touched the emotional part of us.' The
text was significant: 'We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake' (2 Cor. iv. 5).

The services that the newly-ordained Deacon undertook were the
ordinary Sunday ones, and Wednesday and Friday Matins and Litany,
Saints'-day prayers and lecture, and an Advent and Lent Evensong and
lecture on Wednesdays and Fridays. These last had that great
popularity which attends late services. Dr. Cornish used to come on
one Sunday in the month to celebrate the Holy Communion (which is
given weekly in the mother Church); and when Mr. Grardiner was able
to be at Sidmouth, recovering from his illness, he used to come over
on the second Sunday in the month for the same purpose; and the next
Lent, the Matins were daily, and followed by a lecture.

At this time Patteson's constitutional shrinking from general society
was in full force, and he also had that dislike to 'speaking to'