A sermon lies before me, preached first at Great Glemham in 1801, and afterwards at Little Glemham, Sweffling, Muston, and Allington; at Trowbridge in 1820, and again at Trowbridge in 1830.

The preacher probably held his discourses quite as profitable at one stage in the Church's development as at another.

In this estimate of clerical responsibilities Crabbe seems to have remained stationary.

But meantime the laity had been aroused to expect better things.

The ferment of the Wesley and Whitefield Revival was spreading slowly but surely even among the remote villages of England.