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    Loose Leaves

    By F. W. Boreham

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    Loose Leaves chronicles F. W. Boreham's pilgrimage to the birthplaces and homes of great English and Scottish writers. His communion with them as a young writer recalls quotations and thoughts from their books. He writes about history, literature, faith, heroism, royalty and the charms in everyday life. Boreham's ability to paint a picture, tell a story and uncover fascinating detail is evident.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Broadbanks Publishing
    Release dateJun 17, 2010
    ISBN9780983287513
    Loose Leaves
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    F. W. Boreham

    BOREHAM, FRANK WILLIAM (1871-1959), preacher and writer, was born on March 3, 1871 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, eldest child of Francis Boreham, solicitor's clerk, and his wife Fanny Usher. He was educated and was later a pupil-teacher at Grosvenor United School, Tunbridge Wells. In December 1884 he became junior clerk with a local brickworks where, in a locomotive accident, he lost his right foot, necessitating the life-long use of a stick. Late in 1887 he went to work as a clerk in London, becoming increasingly involved in church, debating and writing activities. Although his family was Anglican, he was baptized at Stockwell Old Baptist Church in 1890; he preached from pavement and pulpit and published "Won to Glory" in 1891. He was admitted to Spurgeon's College, London, in August 1892, serving as a student-minister at Theydon Bois, Essex, where he met Estella Maud Mary Cottee. In 1894 Boreham was called to the Scottish community at Mosgiel near Dunedin in New Zealand, and was inducted on March 17, 1895. Stella, then 18, followed to marry him at Kaiapoi on April 13, 1896. Boreham became president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand in 1902, and published "The Whisper of God and Other Sermons." He wrote editorials for the Otago Daily Times, contributed to theological journals and, as a keen temperance advocate, participated in liquor polls in 1905 and 1907. In June 1906 Boreham was called to the Baptist Tabernacle, Hobart. He edited the Southern Baptist and later the weekly Australian Baptist and in 1910 became president of the Tasmanian Baptist Union. His "George Augustus Selwyn" was published in 1911. He wrote a biographical series for the Hobart Mercury, which in 40 years covered 2000 persons; in 1912-59 he contributed 2500 editorials to the Mercury and the Melbourne Age. Boreham's 80 publications, including religious works, homiletic essays and novels, sold over one million copies.

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      Loose Leaves - F. W. Boreham

      LOOSE LEAVES

      A TRAVEL JOURNAL

      BY THE REV. F. W. BOREHAM

      PUBLISHED BY

      JOHN BROADBANKS PUBLISHING

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      LOOSE LEAVES

      A TRAVEL JOURNAL

      BY THE REV. F. W. BOREHAM

      John Broadbanks Publishing

      Eureka, CA

      2010

      Copyright Whitley College 2011

      John Broadbanks Publishing has exclusive digital rights to publish electronic editions of F. W. Boreham's writings.

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      ISBN-978-0-9832875-1-3

      Proofreader: Jeff Cranston

      Cover Design: Laura Zugzda

      Interior Layout: Stephanie Martindale

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      An Introductory Confession

      Putting Out to Sea

      Water, Water, Everywhere

      Turning the Corner

      A Foreign Port

      Crossing the Line

      Tenerife

      I Can See England!

      Home at Last

      My English Home

      A Rural Excursion

      Where England was Conquered

      The Streets of London Town

      From London to Edinburgh

      A Pilgrim in Edinburgh

      Out and About

      A Visit to Glasgow

      A Visit to Essex

      Parting Peeps

      The Cape of Good Hope

      Home Through the Ice

      About the Cover

      Publisher’s Note

      PREFACE

      STACK OF SCRIBBLINGS

      In a self-deprecating manner Frank Boreham advised readers not to take this book too seriously. The title and ‘introductory confession’ admit this book contains only the ‘scribblings’ of a traveler yet importantly they represent the early work of one who became a famous and prolific author.

      F. W. Boreham had for several years supplied the editor of the Taieri Advocate with material for a weekly column and together they hatched the idea of the young minister sending leaves from his travel journal for publication in the newspaper so that people of the district could enjoy these reflections of his return voyage from New Zealand to England. These thoughts were later compiled and published in 1903 under the title Loose Leaves.

      THE SCRIBBLER

      By 1902 F. W. Boreham was making his mark as a pastor and writer. He had built up the congregation at the Mosgiel Baptist Church and through his regular articles in the Taieri Advocate and the Otago Daily Times he was becoming a well-known personality in his town and the neighbouring city of Dunedin.

      At the national level Boreham’s contributions as editor of the New Zealand Baptist had attracted the attention of his denomination and at the age of thirty-one he became the youngest President that the Baptist Union had ever appointed and this only seven years after his arrival in the country.

      In this momentous year Frank Boreham authored his first book, The Whisper of God, and he and his wife welcomed a second daughter, Wroxie, into their home.

      F. W. Boreham faced a dilemma when he was approached by the Nelson Baptist Church to become their new pastor. Not wanting to overstay his welcome at Mosgiel he shared this quandary with his church officers who after a brief consideration called a secret meeting of the church which unanimously carried these two resolutions:

      1. That we, the deacons and members of the Mosgiel Baptist Church, wish to convey to our pastor a warm appreciation of his work for the Master in our church and district; and we sincerely hope that, under his care, for many years to come, the good work may go on in our midst. We feel that the loss of his services would be a heavy blow to us as a church, and, moreover, that the great and growing influence which he exerts for good over the youth of the district would be irreparable for years to come if he were removed.

      2. That believing our pastor needs a prolonged rest for recuperation, we do heartily and unanimously grant him six months leave of absence on full salary, at such time as is most convenient for himself, and we would express our earnest desire that he will take as complete a rest as possible.

      T. Howard Crago records in The Story of F. W. Boreham that the Mosgiel minister, on hearing the announcement of these resolutions, thanked the church for their confidence and generosity and intimated that he and his family would take the opportunity of visiting England.

      During the next few months F. W. Boreham concluded his Presidential duties, celebrated his thirty-second birthday and led the anniversary of his church. The Mosgiel congregation held a farewell evening at which Frank and Stella were presented with cufflinks and a broach, both made from traditional New Zealand greenstone and engraved with the letters ‘N.Z.’ to keep the country in their memories while they were away.

      The mayor of Mosgiel sponsored a conversazione for all the townspeople to bid farewell to the Baptist minister and his family in an evening of music and speeches. The packed hall and the presentation of a purse of sovereigns demonstrated the affection in which the Boreham family was held by the people of the district.

      COMMUNING WITH AUTHORS

      In 1894, after only one month in the pulpit at Mosgiel, F. W. Boreham confessed that about the craft of preaching he knew nothing. Such an admission of homiletical bankruptcy made the fresh seminary graduate ripe for receiving the advice from his mentor who said, Read, my dear man…. Read; and read systematically; and keep on reading: never give up! So began Boreham’s practice of buying and reading a book a week.

      Less than a decade later Loose Leaves gives comprehensive evidence of the way Boreham had kept his reading pledge. In the 116 pages (of the original journal) there are scores of quotes and allusions to explorers (David Livingstone, Charles Darwin, Captain Basil Hall), missionaries (Allen Gardiner), soldiers and seamen (Lord Nelson, Lord Roberts) novelists (Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Harrison Ainsworth), historians (Edward Gibbon, Thomas Macaulay), activists (Richard Cobden, Harriet Martineau) and naturalists (Richard Jefferies) and the travelling parson quotes many lines from the great poets (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, Alfred Lord Tennyson and James Russell Lowell).

      Loose Leaves provides not only a record of Boreham’s journey to the birthplaces and homes of many great English and Scottish writers but his communion with them as the young preacher recalls quotations and thoughts from their books.

      Boreham’s pen romps over the pages as he writes about the topics which would become some of his lifelong themes—history, literature, faith, heroism, royalty and the charms in everyday life. In this early literary effort Boreham’s ability to paint a picture, tell a story and find fascinating detail is repeatedly evident as he writes about the evolution of social life on a ship, a night among the icebergs, the mysteries of crossing the International Date Line, why horseshoes are lucky, a grasshopper in London, the significance of a white pigeon over the ocean and the curiosities of a chiding stone.

      TO BE A PILGRIM

      F. W. Boreham often wrote about the educational value of travel and he commended this pursuit by taking many travel holidays in his lifetime. In this early ‘travel journal’ it is clear that for the author travel was not merely a way of getting from one place to another but the undertaking of a pilgrimage.

      Loose Leaves includes the personal account of going back to his boyhood haunts in Tunbridge Wells and revisiting Theydois Bois, the Essex town where Stella Boreham grew up and where the couple developed their courtship. The brief tour of England and Scotland also included visits to many historic sites which Boreham approached with curiosity and reverence.

      One notes the development of Boreham’s powers of observation when he makes this note in his journal:

      I confess that I saw more of London, and formed a more just appreciation of it during my brief visit after a lapse of several years, than during all the years of my residence in the metropolis.

      GOING HOME

      Loose Leaves contains numerous references to the ‘Homeland’ and one wonders how many times Frank and Stella discussed leaving Australasia and going home for good. In his autobiography F. W. Boreham reflected on his changing views about ‘home’ in an excerpt which provides a later and mature reflection on this journey to England:

      Life has a wonderful way of coaxing us into a frame of mind in which we not only become reconciled to our lot: we actually fall in love with it. No memory of my early days on this side of the world is more vivid than the recollection of a horrid terror, a cold paralyzing apprehension, that often

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