The first of these circumstances was, that, unconsciously, and probably wholly unknown to himself, the founder of the lecture ship had been for more than fifty years a constructive force in the mind life and spiritual life of the lecturer. It is not given us to know here what subtle in?uences go from us, fashioning other lives. Possibly it may be an element of the joy or sorrow of eternity to make the discovery. It gives me profound pleas ure to make this public acknowledgment of a long-standing debt of gratitude. The pressure of a hand laid on me when a strip ling is still sensibly felt.