The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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batting, the aforesaid old deacon taking his early morning walk came by, book in hand, when he saw me bat in hand. I in my off-hand way said I would give him a catch. It either touched his dignity, or his Puritanism or both, for he called of me, and told me how sorry he was to see me spending my time in that manner. He had thought to recommend me to become a student for the General Baptist Ministry at the new College opened at Loughboro’, but he could not; he did not like young Christians having anything to do with games, so the ministry lost a “shining light”, and one more poor fellow was saved from entering upon a calling he was unfitted for. 1826 to 1830 About this time the question of slavery and of Parliamentary reform, and other

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