He read the seventeenth chapter of
Exodus, the story of the water brought out of the rock; and he
thanked the Almighty with great earnestness for the favour shown him,
never once expressing a doubt that he would not be successful. He
was not mistaken, for Ogden had a place for him, just as good and
just as permanent as the one he had left in London.
CHAPTER X--DISINTEGRATION BY DEGREES
We must now advance a little more rapidly. It was in the beginning
of 1815 that Zachariah found himself settled in Manchester. That
eventful year passed without any external change, so far as he was
concerned. He became a member of the Hampden Club, to which Ogden
and Bamford belonged; but he heard nothing of Maitland nor of
Caillaud. He had a letter now and then from Mr. Bradshaw and it was
a sore trial to him that nobody could be found in Manchester to take
the place of that worthy man of God. He could not attach himself
definitely to any church in the town, and the habit grew upon him of
wandering into this or the other chapel as his fancy led him. His
comrades often met on Sunday evenings. At first he would not go; but
he was afterwards persuaded to do so.
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