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1186 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
was effected by Mr. Hindmarsh for those of Dr. Priestley. Well
might the discomfited champion of Unitarianism in all other instances
so impatient of rebuff, retire, as he did, as silently as possible, from
a field in which he had reaped nothing but disgrace. He had entered
the field with sufficient flourish, and had avowed his determination
to return again to the charge, with seeming eagerness for the
opportunity, so long as he only heard of Mr. Hindmarsh’s Answer
as being in preparation : but when he had once seen it, he took care
never to rouse such an antagonist again."
After the beginning of the present century Mr. Hindmarsh,
according to Mr. Sibly, relinquished the printing business, and for
some time, engaged in business as a stock-broker; but being inex
perienced in the artifices practised by those who are usually engaged
in the line he was then pursuing, he found himself, after a time, to
be a loser; but although the losses were not legally binding on him,
yet he paid the whole. He thus came out from among them with
clean hands and a pure heart ; although the sacrifice he made left
him a poor man in comparison with what his circumstances in life
had been before. Mr. Noble continues :
"During the antecedent part of his life he had occasionally filled
the pulpit ; but he always expressed a disinclination to undertake
the regular teaching of the truths of the New Church in this manner.
However, having seen it advisable to withdraw altogether from
secular business, he retired in 1810, to Manchester ; where some
liberal admirers of his talents warmly soliciting him to engage
regularly in the ministerial office, he saw it his duty to comply. A
large and neat chapel was built for him in Salford, where the copious
variety of brilliant truths which ever flowed with ready elocution
from his tongue, speedily attracted many admirers, and drew together
a considerable congregation. In this way he laboured for about
fifteen years, ever active in the duties of his office, and rendering
valuable services to the now rising New Church, both as a most
effective missionary and a stationary preacher. He also was eminently
qualified for usefulness as a teacher, by his talent for conversation
and oral discussion, in which few men were his equals. At length
about 1826 he finally withdrew into retirement. His leisure he
employed in important literary labours.
"His other published works have been rather numerous. The
most admired of them, after his Letters to Priestley, is his Vindication
of the New Church, in answer to a far more slanderous assailant ,
Mr. Pike, a Baptist minister, of Derby. Here again we behold him
riding on the white horse, the invincible bow of pure doctrine in
his hand, and going forth conquering and to conquer. All his other
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