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AFTERWARDS, 



[Chap. VIII. 



these boys loved him. One who had gone to a school at a 

 distance wrote : " I always thought of Dr. Carpenter as being 

 a kind of father to me. Ever since last Saturday, I have 

 scarcely thought of anything else : and when I went to tell the 

 head-master I could scarcely utter a word. In our room I 

 used frequently to tell the boys what I had learnt from him, 

 and all that he said against the bad habits practised at so many 

 boarding-schools. They all expressed a wish that some day 

 they would be able to see him : and last week, when I told 

 them he was no more, they all felt sorry, and the usual fights 



did not take place that week. and unite in saying 



that whenever they think of smoking or drinking, they remember 

 his warning, and will not have anything to do with either." 



Dean Bond (now Bishop of Montreal) made a simple and 

 touching address, on the Sunday following his death, to the 

 large Sunday school (500 to 600) of St. George's Church : — 

 " We to-day mourn the loss of a great man. We little know 

 how heavy our loss. Many of you are not able to appre- 

 ciate how great our loss. . . . We did not know his value. 

 He was so humble, so ready to take the smallest class in the 

 school, and yet ... his usefulness was so varied, so ready, 

 so adapted to the work appointed him. There was so much 

 that was hidden from the eye and ear, the result of faithful 

 prayer and faithful study. Scripture explained by Scripture 

 was his delight : his countenance lighted up, and his eye 

 beamed, when a happy illustration made plain some point he 

 desired to impress. . . . We shall miss him from his seat, 

 awaiting the call to work : we shall miss him from the class : 

 we shall miss him from this platform. How many of us will 

 miss his warm greeting and words of affection. . . . How 

 peaceful were his last hours : how emphatic in faith and love 

 and assured hope were almost his last words addressed to me : 

 how feelingly he joined in the last prayer by his bedside, and 

 then affectionately bade us farewell." 



The Rev. S. Massey (of the Presbyterian Mission) preached 

 on the Sunday evening (May 27), from Acts xi. 24 : " He was 

 a good man," and applied the words to Philip : — " Theirs was 



