My daughter had also become very religious and was whole-heartedly in sympathy with his aspirations. I myself, naturally, had little sympathy with either of them on this score. When I had wished to send a sum of money to them shortly before they came to England, and had to go to the Bank of England to arrange the transfer, my request was greeted with smiles and sometimes laughter at so old and confirmed an atheist wishing to help someone to become a Minister of the Gospel.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3, chap. 3:Trafalgar Square, 1969
More info.:http://russell-j.com/beginner/AB33-140.HTM