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we were born being either a sort of clergyhouse or a 

 market-place, was too complete to be marked by any 

 eagerness. But in view of the market-place idea he was 

 the less calm. 



Like many others who had not yet come to know in 

 what high esteem he held the moral and spiritual nature 

 of children, I had thought he was the advocate of mere 

 secular studies, alike in the nation's schools, and in its 

 families. But by contact with him, this soon became 

 an impossible idea. In very early days on the Board a 

 remark I had made to a mutual friend which implied this 

 unjust idea was repeated to him. " Tell Waugh that he 

 talks too fast," was his message to me. I was not long 

 in finding out that this was a very just reproof. . . . 



The two things in his character of which I became 

 most conscious by contact with him, were his childlike- 

 ness and his consideration for intellectual inferiors. 

 His arguments were as transparently honest as the 

 arguments of a child. They might or might not seem 

 wrong to others, but they were never untrue to himself. 

 Whether you agreed with them or not, they always 

 added greatly to the charm of his personality. Whether 

 his face was lighted by his careless and playful 

 humour or his great brows were shadowed by anger, he 

 was alike expressing himself with the honesty of a child. 

 What he counted iniquity he hated, and what he counted 

 righteous he loved with the candour of a child. . . . 



Of his consideration for intellectual inferiors I, of 

 course, needed a large si.are, and it was never wanting. 

 Towering as was his intellectual strength and keenness 

 above me, indeed above the whole of the rest of the 

 members of the Board, he did not condescend to me. 

 The result was never humiliating. It had no pain of 

 any sort in it. He was too spontaneous and liberal with 

 his consideration to seem conscious that he was showing 

 any. There were many men of religious note upon the 

 Board, of some of whom I could not say the same. 



