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provided their motor launch for the passage to Wat Paknam together with four monastic attendants. He was offered the full requisites of an abbot. Luang Phaw was granted the princely sum of thirty baht per month for the first four months and his attendants twenty baht per month each. Somdej Phra Wanarat accompanied him to his new temple. Monks, laymen and laywomen came out to greet him at the canal side in great numbers. At that time he had already received the title of Phra Kru Samu Thananukrom from the local monastic governor. Thus he came to take the title of abbot of Wat Paknam. His first duty as abbot was to clamp down on the misbehaviour of monks either under his supervision, or affecting the state of his temple. Many of the monks were not fit for the faith of the laypeople. Even the monastic governor of his district and other senior monks were involved in corruption. Luang Phaw assessed the state of the temple and that night invited the whole of Wat Paknam's monastic community to attend his inaugural sermon as new incumbent abbot in the temple: "I have been sent by the monastic governor of this region to govern this temple and advise all incumbents on their conduct using the Dhammañuinaya as my guide — if the temple is to prosper we must depend on our unity and mutual understanding. None of us was born in this temple. We are all newcomers — to come and abide here is like being cast away without knowing who to turn to for refuge because we are all strangers. I am certain that the virtue which all of us have accrued through practising in the footsteps of the