# Ten years in a Portsmouth slum

Author: Dolling, Robert R. (Robert Radclyffe), 1851-1902

Genre: Winchester College Mission (Portsmouth, England)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77351

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## Summary

I wrote back that, if he ordered me, I was perfectly willing to obey the Prayer Book, and to have no other services, but that I felt my duty to my people made it incumbent upon me to impress the fact upon him that such change of services would mean a great diminution in the congregations, especially on the week-days, when the services complained of were used, and that I should like to know who had been his informant, as regards the wishes of my parish, and the opinion of my brethren in Portsmouth. His answer was, “I know that many of the clergy, by whom I certainly do not mean Mr. Young or Mr. Aldwell, regret your action, as calculated to throw suspicion upon all Church work. I do not wis...

## Chapters

- [ii. Service of Compline, in which, as far as I can](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-years-in-a-portsmouth-slum-77351/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ii. I believe with good reason that those clergy in Portsea who](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ten-years-in-a-portsmouth-slum-77351/chapters/1/index.md)