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SECTION II - LETTERS WRITTEN FROM HIS ACCEPTANCE OF YELLING, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS SON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Henry Venn  and
John Venn
Edited by
Henry Venn
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During the early part of the year 1770, Mr. Venn was incapacitated from all exertion, by the alarming illness mentioned in the Memoir, which was brought on by excessive labour in the discharge of his ministry. In the autumn of this year he was recommended to try the effect of a journey to Bath. Whilst at that place, he received the offer of the living of Yelling, Huntingdonshire; and immediately announced the intelligence, in a few lines, to Mrs. Riland; but entered more fully upon the subject in the following letter, written from London a few days afterwards.

TO MRS. RILAND.

London, Nov. 17, 1770.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

I conclude you have, by this time, received my letter, dated last Saturday. In that you will find I am Rector of Yelling. I wrote to you of this event the very day I received the account of it from the Lord Commissioner Smythe. I had received some intimation of his design to prefer me, the Saturday before; upon which I immediately wrote to Lady ——, urging her to press for the nomination of my successor at Huddersfield; and saying in a few words what I have ever thought of dear Mr. Riland—that he is one of the best creatures living upon earth. If he is not nominated, I hope, for my own sake, his faithful labours will be joined with my feeble efforts, to promote the glory of Emmanuel, in that new place to which I am called evidently by His providence.

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Life and a Selection from the Letters of the Late Rev. Henry Venn, M.A. , pp. 158 - 228
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1834

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