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Show STORY OF A SOnu. jH Circumstances Under Which the H "Three Fishers" Was Written. .H Chnrlos Klngslcy wroto tho "Throo H Fishers" ns a result of tho many and jH sights ho had seen nt Clovclly. Ono H dny of horror in particular llvod In ' jH his nemory, n day ns ho dcscrlbod It ll "when tho old bay lay darkened with DLLH thu gray columns of tho wnter spouts, H stalking across tho waves beforo tho BH northern galo; nnd tho tiny herring- EaLLI boats floelng from tholr nets right for Hl tho breakers, hoping moro mercy '1 ovon from thoso Iron walls of rock H than from tho pitiless howllngswasto of spray behind thom; and that'monT H beach beside tho town covered with SH shrloklng women nnd old men, casting fiH themsehes on tho pebbles, In fruit- jf less ngontcs of prnyor, as corpse aftor fll corpse Bwcpt up nt tho feet of wife Pl and child, till In ono enso nlono a &LLI slnglo dnwn snw upward ot sixty 1 widows and orphans weeping ovor jl thoso who had gono out tho night be- foro In thu fullness of strength and jf courngo." Theso scenes lived ever jH In his mind. jH Dut tho "Three Fishers" was writ- TM ten as a result of ono ot tho strangest 1 Incidents In the stormy caroor of tho ll pronchcr-nuthor. In 1851 ho prcachod H a sermon In a London church on "Tho H Mcssngo ot the Church to tho Labor- H Ing Man." At Its closo tho vicar rose 1 and denounced him. Hlshop Blomflold 1 forbudo Klngslcy to preach ngaln In jM his diocese, until, having rend Uio fl sermon nnd scon Its nuthor, ho with- ll drew tho edict Thu samo night upon ll which ho delivered bis dlscourso Kl KlngBloy went to hla homo woary. ll Thoro had nearly been a riot In tho 1 church. Sick nt heart, ho rctlrod to ! H his study. When ho reappeared ho H handed to his family his Immortal ' H song; "ns though it wcro tho out- H como of It nil," ns his wlfo said. H |