Alice Ottley

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Excerpt from Alice Ottley: First Head-Mistress of the Worcester High School for Girls, 1883-1912 "We thank God for the blessing He conferred on this city when He gave us Alice Ottley." These were the words spoken in Worcester Cathedral by one of the Canons at the time of her death, and it is this gift to Worcester which makes appropriate the request that I, as Bishop, should write some words of preface to her memoir. I find it difficult to choose which of three thoughts should come first - what she herself was, what she did for the School, or what her influence was, but the first governs the rest. Alice Ottley seems all her life long to have dreamed of God. As a child at Richmond, when she gazed out on the stars from her room, or in middle life when, writing from Switzerland, she spoke of the snow mountains reminding her of the slow unravelling of God's eternal purpose for us and the Church, it was the same lofty spirit which yearned forth to all that was noble and pure, because in those things it saw God. In such a nature the best sort of evangelical training found ample scope, it seems to have given to her what that training often gives, a quiet, deep sense of personal relationship and trust between the Redeemer and the redeemed. Then came the influence of Keble's Christian Year and Isaac Williams' Baptistery, and finally the strong, full teaching of Cleaver of St. Mary Magdalene's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.