ABSTRACT
1854 was the year of the Crimean War—the first of our European wars since Waterloo; and the author have heard his mother speak of how the income tax and the price of bread went up, and how difficult it then was to bring up an increasing family on limited means. Sixty years afterwards came a still more disastrous European war, and direr experiences of suffering and poverty. It was not until, in the course of our wanderings, we went to live in Melton Mowbray that he began to have any definite and connected impressions of life and religion. Before that time our home, after we left Coltishall, was first in Norwich and afterwards in the trim little Suffolk town of Stowmarket. Books, however, were not the only means of education which were open to a young student in such a town as Leicester at that period.
