Societies fight for him to preach their charity sermon. You read in the
papers, "The Wapping Hospital for Wooden-legged Seamen.--On Sunday the
23rd, Sermons will be preached in behalf of this charity, by the Lord
Bishop of Tobago in the morning, in the afternoon by the Rev. C.
Honeyman, A.M., Incumbent of," etc. "Clergymen's Grandmothers' Fund.--
Sermons in aid of this admirable institution will be preached on Sunday,
4th May, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Pimlico, and the Rev. C. Honeyman,
A.M." When the Dean of Pimlico has his illness, many people think
Honeyman will have the Deanery; that he ought to have it, a hundred
female voices vow and declare: though it is said that a right reverend
head at headquarters shakes dubiously when his name is mentioned for
preferment. His name is spread wide, and not only women but men come to
hear him. Members of Parliament, even Cabinet Ministers, sit under him.
Lord Dozeley of course is seen in a front pew: where was a public meeting
without Lord Dozeley? The men come away from his sermons and say, "It's
very pleasant, but I don't know what the deuce makes all you women crowd
so to hear the man.
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