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We resume Mr. Moore's reminiscences : — 



" When three mouths had elapsed, Mr. Cecil sent in his report to 

 the Board. Judging from Livingstone's hesitating manner in con- 

 ducting family worship, and while praying on the week-days in the 

 chapel, and also from his failure so complete in preaching, an unfavour- 

 able report was given in. . . . Happily, when it was read, and a 

 decision was about to be given against him, some one pleaded hard 

 that his probation should be extended, and so he had several months' 

 additional trial granted. I sailed in the same boat, and was also sent 

 back to Ongar as a naughty boy. ... At last we had so improved 

 that both were fully accepted. Livingstone went to London to pursue 

 his medical studies, and I went to Cheshunt College. A day or two 

 after reaching College, I sent to Livingstone, asking him to purchase a 

 second-hand carpet for my room. He was quite scandalised at such 

 an exhibition of effeminacy, and positively refused to gratify my wish. 

 ... In the spring of 1840 I met Livingstone at London in Exeter 

 Hall, when Prince Albert delivered his maiden speech in England. I 

 remember how nearly he was brought to silence when the speech, 

 which he had lodged on the brim of his hat, fell into it, as deafening 

 cheers made it vibrate. A day or two after, we heard Binney deliver 

 his masterly missionary sermon, ' Christ seeing of the travail of his 

 soul and being satisfied.' " 



The meeting at Exeter Hall was held to inaugurate 

 the Niger Expedition. It was on this occasion that 

 Samuel Wilberforce became known as a great platform 

 orator. 1 It must have been pleasant to Livingstone in 

 after years to recall the circumstance when he became a 

 friend and correspondent of the Bishop of Oxford. . 



Notwithstanding the dear postage of the time, Living- 

 stone wrote regularly to his friends, but few of his letters 



Livingstone spoke of Mr. Isaac Taylor, who had shown him much kindness, and 

 often invited him to dine in his house. He said that though Mr. Taylor was con- 

 nected with the Independents, he was attached to the principles of the Church of 

 England. Mr. Taylor used to lay very great stress on acquaintance with the 

 writings of the Fathers as necessary for meeting the claims of the Tractarians, and 

 did not think that that study was sufficiently encouraged by the Nonconformists. 

 Any one who has been in Mr. Taylor's study at Stanford Rivers, and who 

 remembers the top-heavy row of Patristic folios that crowned his collection of 

 books, and the glance of pride he cast on them as he asked his visitor whether 

 many men in his Church were well read in the Fathers, will be at no loss to 

 verify this reminiscence. Certainly Livingstone had no such qualification, and 

 undoubtedly he never missed it. 

 1 Life of Bishop Wilberforce, vol. i. p. 160. 



