28 THOMAS J. COMBER. 
the school is ten minutes’ walk from the station, 
up the hill, and on the same side, behind a large 
chapel. If you come, I will pay you back for 
riding. I think Sidney will be there. If you don’t 
cdme, send me a line on post-card enclosed, telling 
me the name of your ‘third,’ and whether he is a 
Christian now or not. I suppose that, from what you 
say, he has wandered from Christ. I do hope, dear 
Percy, that you are proving in your actions, whether 
before others, or whether privately in the presence 
of God only, proving that you are one of Christ’s 
followers. I am glad indeed that you can answer 
those questions by ‘yes’; and I want you to 
remember that in them is a resolve : I zvill try to 
please Christ Your conscience tells you, dear Percy, 
when you are doing this. Renew the resolve every 
day, remember it always, and very often promise the 
Saviour tha^ you will, by His strength, follow Him. 
Do not forget to read His Word, and try and find 
your food for spiritual life there. — Your affectionate 
brother, TOM.” 
We have said that Mr. Comber entered as heartily 
into a joke as did any of his fellow-students. His 
love of fun would manifest itself in incidents such as 
the following : — It is said that on one occasion, when 
the practice of total abstinence was not so common 
as it is now — most of the students taking ale with 
their dinner — he went immediately before the dinner 
hour and filled all the glasses on the table with water. 
With delicious pleasure he watched the consternation 
of the men as they took their seats, and the difficulty 
they realised in securing their usual beverage. And 
perhaps his pleasure was none the less real, when, 
after dinner, revenge was appeased by putting the 
culprit under the pump, if thereby his preference for 
water might be fully satisfied. 
How Mr. Comber looked back upon his college 
days may be learned from extracts culled from one 
