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The following memorandum of Bishop Wilson, for the use of his children, is in the most elevated spirit of primitive disinterestedness—‘If I do not live to tell you, why I have saved no more for you out of my bishopric, let this satisfy you—that the less you have of goods gathered from the church, the better the rest that I leave you will prosper. Church livings were never designed to raise families, or to make portions out of them, but to maintain our families, to keep up hospitality, to feed the poor, etc. and one day you will be glad that this was my settled opinion, and God grant that I may act accordingly.’ Stowell’s Life, pp. 58, 59.