Note 306 — 1757.

This was the Rev. Mr. Vowler, curate of St. Agnes. He died, within a year afterwards, on July 30, 1758. He was a young man, in the prime of life, who entered into all Mr. Walker’s projects, with great zeal and piety. A weeping throng crowded to his burial, and Walker preached his funeral sermon to the society at Truro. (Walker’s Life, p. 451.) Wesley bears testimony, that “he rejoiced in the love of God; both preached and lived the gospel; and was an upright, zealous, indefatigable labourer” in the great Master’s vineyard. (Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 402; and vol. iii., p. 108.) He heard him preach in St. Agnes’ church “two such thundering sermons as he had scarce heard these twenty years.”