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HIS COLLEGE LIFE. 23 
“ In the closer intimacy of later years — on rare 
occasions of supremely sacred conversation — he would 
express a pained and puzzled, yet respectful surprise 
that others were the subject^ of an uncertainty and 
hesitation he never felt, and were not under the same 
sweet constraint with himself. And yet he could 
keenly discriminate between a missionary enthusiasm 
inspired — as I well remember in another by the life of 
David Brainerd — and that inspired by a distinct sense 
of missionary call. He hesitated not to assure me that 
the latter only was reliable and likely to be^^ermanent. 
“ His devotion to religious work in student days 
is well known, especially to the weekly children’s 
service at Camden Road. But the measure of his 
ardour in that service, and his special concern and 
endeavour for the conversion and consecration of 
every child’s heart to the Saviour, are only known to 
those who knew him well. I have known him return 
from medical study at University College utterly 
wearied, sometimes too much so to eat ; then away 
to Camden Road ; and, after the service, return to the 
college to write letters of affectionate and earnest 
appeal to one and another, whom he had reason to 
believe, from personal conversation, were under 
religious impression. And the time thus expended 
up to midnight would be compensated by early study 
on the following morning. 
His tenacity of purpose and buoyant hopefulness 
and power of concentration were very marked. He 
could turn from one occupation to another, and on 
each successively concentrate without distraction all 
his energy. His whole soul went alike into either 
recreation or work. On one occasion I was with 
him at a Christmas dinner, provided entirely by 
his exertions for some scores of waifs and strays, 
gathered by the aid of some city missionaries in 
Shoreditch. The abandoned joy with which he 
helped to feast the hungry ‘ robins,’ and the hilarious 
delight with which he shared the subsequent frolic, 
