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characterized everything he did, awakened the public to a 

 proper appreciation of the important reform he was effecting. 

 When they thoroughly understood this, the bold undertaking 

 met with enthusiastic support from all classes, and crowds 

 of people thronged the thoroughfares on Saturday nights to 

 secure an unsophisticated loaf. 



He must have worked very hard, for the pure bread 

 business was only OHO of many philanthropical undertakings 

 with which he identi6ed himself at that period. He was 

 not only busily engaged in lecturing and in Sunday-school 

 teaching, but gave many hours to close study and practical 

 experiments in various branches of science. 



During this period of his life we are told that he escaped, 

 by an astonishing manifestation of mental warning, from a 

 disaster which hurried many unfortunate people to a shocking 

 death. 



An all-wise Providence preserved Robert Boyle for a life 

 of public usefulness. We may well ask with Tennyson 



" Do we move ourselves, or are we moved 

 By an unseen hand at a game ? " 



The dreadful catastrophe on the Clyde, caused by a 

 boiler explosion in a steamer, sent at the time a thrill of 

 horror through the country. Overwrought in nerve and 

 brain by the numerous scientific and philaiithropical pursuits 



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