The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

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

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This was a busy period of my life. I attempted too much, and some things I was not qualified for, being urged on by injudicious friends, besides Sunday School teaching, and being elected a deacon, urged to go out into the country villages to take services, for which I feel now, and have long done that I had neither the gift, or the thorough devotion. The one defect of my life has been, the lack of thoroughness. I have sometimes been surprised that I have succeeded as well as I have, it has been partly owing to the good influence my wife has exerted. In consequence of what we both considered to be very unchristian action, we both decided to leave Stoney St. and worship at Broad St. where I was pressed to become a teacher and afterwards superintendent of the school, which office I held for more than 20 years, and also President and Treasurer for many years of the Prayer and Alms Society. In 1843 we took and entered upon the premises

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