The professor of mathematics resigned and Ray took LITTLE 

 his place ; next he became Junior Dean and then Col- JOURNEYS 

 lege Steward ; and according to the custom of the 

 times he used to preach in the chapel. One of his ser- 

 mons was from the text, " Consider the lilies of the 

 field." Another sermon that brought him more notoriety 

 than fame was on the subject, " God in Creation," where- 

 in he argued that to find God we should look for Him 

 more in the world of nature and not so much in books. 

 Q Matters were getting strained. Ray was asked to 

 subscribe to the Act of Uniformity, which was a 

 promise that he would never preach anything that was 

 not prescribed by the Church. 



Ray demurred, and begged that he be allowed to go 

 free and preach anything he thought was truth new 

 truth might come to him! 



This shows the absurdity of Ray. He was asked to re- 

 consider or resign. He resigned resigned the same 

 year that Isaac Newton entered. 



Fortunately one particular pupil followed him, not 

 that he loved college less, but that he loved Ray more. 

 This pupil was Francis Willughby. Through the 

 bounty of this pupil we get the scientist otherwise 

 Ray would surely have been starved into subjection. 

 C[ Willughby took Ray to the home of his parents, 

 who were rich people. 



Ray undertook the education of young Willughby, 

 very much as Aristotle took charge of Alexander. 

 Ray and Willughby traveled, studied, observed and 

 wrote. They went to Spain, took trips to France, 



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