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tastes) that God has given you, are you not ' a 

 representative man ? ' But you will, I know, still 

 sing ' Non nobis Domine,' and in your modesty 

 confess yourself to be an 'unprofitable servant.'" 



Notwithstanding the iron arm and Draconic 

 rule of Dr. Richards, happy still are Russell's 

 recollections of his school davs at Tiverton ; and 

 thither he went periodically to promote the 

 celebration of the " Old Boys' Day ; " when he 

 and all good Blundellians testified with grati- 

 tude to the beneficence of the founder, and to 

 the high scholastic advantages conferred by that 

 excellent institution. On one occasion he told the 

 once-dreaded Doctor — then, however, no longer 

 in authority, but a visitor like himself — that " he 

 was the only man he was ever afraid of." 



" Nonsense," said Richards, good-naturedly ; 

 "and was I so terrible?" 



"Yes," replied Russell, "you were. I've set 

 to with some of the hardest men in England, 

 and never found one who could hit like you." 



At a meeting of the " Old Boys " at Tiverton, 

 Russell was once invited to preach the sermon, 

 which he accordingly did ; a local paper observing 

 that "the discourse was a very able one." In 

 addressing some remarks to the present boys, he 

 especially alluded to the brilliant example of Dr. 

 Temple, once a Tiverton scholar, and now the 

 bishop of the diocese — a beacon, he told them, 

 they should never lose sight of. 



