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".GeOrge.AntlIonk King was a notable man whom I miss iCeettlY from the circle of my friends," says Archbishop Davidson in a preface to the engaging little memoir of King by Archdeacon Buekland which has just appeared (Religious Tract._Society,' 55.).„ Sir George, who died- last January at the age of seventy, was a cousin of Bishop Walsham How. He was a solicitor by .profession and from A901 won distinction as a- Master of the Supreme Court. But his heart was in religious and philanthropic work to which he devoted every hour of his leisure for many years. In his Okford dayi' he came Under the influence of that fine Old man, Canon-Christopher of St. Aldate's, and amid all the cares of an extensive practice he continued to teach in Sunday School, to speak for good causes like the Bible Society or the Religious Tract Society, and to attend to East -End missions, diocesan funds and the like.. Archdeacon Btickland's account of Sir George's activities should be a lesson to those who say that they have no time for good works. He thought nothing of attending a London committee at eight o'clock in the Morning andworking the whole.day through till after midnight. Indeed, he could not haVe done half as much had he not used every minute profitably ; like Gladstone he knew the value of those odd quarters: of an hour which most Of ua waste: Sir George was a strong Evangelical but in no sense a narrow- minded man. His simple piety and his lively humour made him popular with all parties in the Church. Would that there were more laymen like him ! The Church never needed them so much as now.
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