Haworth - Past and Present; A History of Haworth, Stanbury, & Oxenhope

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... was not Haworth, and it does not follow that a debauched curate at the former place influenced the inhabitants there for two centuries, and is totally absurd to connect it with Haworth--many miles away. The ministrations of Mr. Hartley alone could not he lost upon the people of Haworth, and he was but one of the faithful leaders, as our references to Mr. Grimshaw will show. Can it be supposed that Mr. Grimshaw's influence at home was nearly nil when his usefulness is referred to to-day for nearly twenty miles round. Even such-visitors to Haworth as Dr. Fawcett and the Rev. William Crabtree must have left indelible impressions on the minds of those who did not avail themselves of the sermons preached in Haworth Churchyard by those worthies--Rev. Benjamin Ingham, Rev. John Wesley, Rev. George Whitefield, Rev. Henry Venn, Rev. W. Romaine, Rev. J. W. Fletcher, and others of their co-workers. Mr. Crabtree's sermon on the death of Mr. Hartley is entitled--The Christian Minister's Farewell to his Flock. Mr. Hartley was born in 1722, and profited under the ministrations of Mr. Grimshaw, and Mr. Richard Smith, of Wainsgate. About 1748 he gathered the church of which he became the pastor. He was ordained over it, June 12th, 1752, and retained his office to the time of his death, February 2nd, 1780. The Epitaphium (seemingly by Mr. Crabtree, ) consists of seven verses. Slowly his earthly frame decay'd, His end was long in sight; Nor was his steady soul afraid To take her awful flight. Mr. Hartley, the summer before his death, had a paralytic stroke. The Rev. Isaac Slee, who had before been a clergyman of the Episcopal Church at Plumpton, in Cumberland, was Mr. Hartley's successor. He preached with great acceptance and success for about three years. His constitution w...