“With much affection, and many prayers, “From your faithful Friend and Vicar, “E. HOARE.” It was at this time, when his bodily health was so feeble, his step slow and head bowed, that a visitor who had never heard him preach came to Trinity Church. Knowing his reputation, the stranger had great expectations, but at first sight his heart fell within him; as he afterwards acknowledged, “I could not _believe_ that old man in the pew was going to preach, but he got up into the pulpit with some difficulty, and _then_, it was the power of God!” A clergyman friend who had known him intimately for forty years said of the aged preacher that “his ministry had grown in power up to the very end.” The chief cause of this was doubtless the life of prayer in which he moved and had his being. All who knew him were aware of this, and certainly he who has been permitted to peruse the sacred pages of his journal can no longer feel surprised at the marvellous success which attended that prayer-steeped ministry. While upon this subject it is worthy of record that he often told those whom he wanted to help in their preaching that he _prayed over his sermons more even than he prepared them_, and the latter part took several hours of his time. When blindness came upon him, and others had to read for him and take down his thoughts for the preparation of his sermons, it was his custom to stand up by his study table and say: “Here is my mind, Lord; take it and use it. Thou knowest who will be there; give me the right thoughts and words, that I may speak as Thy messenger, for Christ’s sake!” And this prayer too was answered. * * * * * The following letters, written in the last few months of his life, show the clearness of his mind and width of his sympathy up to the end. To the Rev. C. H. Dearsly, who asks, “How far is it Scriptural that female evangelists should address large mixed assemblies—or men only?” “_January_ 19_th_, 1894. “Mrs. Fry used to draw a wide distinction between ‘prophesying,’ as in Acts ii. 17, and ‘teaching,’ as in 1 Tim. ii. 12, as she believed the former to be an appeal called forth in a special manner by the Holy Spirit, and so she justified her own ministry. I have often thought that there is some truth in her distinction, and I have never felt able to put a hindrance in the way of what may possibly be the movement of the Holy Spirit; so I have thought it safer to be passive in the matter, and not to forbid even though I have felt unable to support.” To the late Dean of Canterbury on the death of his wife:—