The history of Pembrokeshire / by the Rev. James Phillips.

  • Phillips, James.
Date:
1909
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    health of his old friend, and his personality seems to overshadow that of the County Superintendent, who was no longer able to deal with the difficulties and worries inseparable from the care of all the churches. One morning William Gambold, the only one of the Pun- cheston brothers who remained a Methodist to the last, rode over from Llawhaden to Parke to visit his sick friend. The worn-out veteran, being asked if he had any message for the societies, said : I think my labour is over, and I suppose I have no more to do now for my Master ; but though I am gone from amongst you, I am satisfied that the Lord will be with you. But only I caution you to take care that there be no divisions amongst your- selves ; then I believe He will stand by you, and you shall find Him with you as formerly.” The end was at hand. On January 13, 1770, he died. Traditions still linger of the great funeral procession that escorted his honoured remains from Parke to Haverford- west. He was buried at Prendergast. There beside the porch of the old church the Apostle of Pembrokeshire was laid to rest amid the weeping of the vast multitude. Many of them could remember the days of his early ministry there, when church and churchyard were thronged with men and women waiting to receive the Sacrament from the hands of their spiritual father. 2. John Gambold and the Moravians.—William Gam- bold left five sons. Of one of these nothing appears to be known. The others were John, William, George, and Hector. It was Hector who first joined the Unitas Fratrum, more generally known as the Moravian Church, and it was he who induced his eldest brother to take the same step. John’s high character and exceptional attain- ments had procured him the favour of admission to Orders before he had reached the legal age of twenty-three, and as soon as it was legally possible he had been made Rectoi of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire. His sister had been