Blessed is the man of whom it may be said, "From a child thou hast known the Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." But this blessedness belongeth not unto me, for my parents, like Galleo, "cared for none of these things." What little religious teaching I ever had was from an aged grandmother, when but a child, who taught me the Lord's prayer and a few of the collects, and the first chapter of John. I was born in Warwickshire in 1843, and at an early age began to realise my share in Adam's lot: "Of the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread;" for to this day I have never been allowed to eat the bread of idleness.…