which came within his reach, cold as they might be before, were more or less overcome by the power of his tender love, His scholars were devotedly attached to him, and when, after his departure from the town, his place in the school had to be supplied by another, the fast-flowing tears of the children, when they learned that he had left for good, told how great his influence over them had been.

As an instance of Mr. Deans' self-denial, and selfdevotion, Mr. McBryde mentions, that on one occasion, when they had gone together to visit an absent scholar, and found, at the door of the house, that the child was ill of fever, Mr. Deans turned to his friend, and exhorted him to go home or remain outside, saying that he himself would enter alone. On another occasion, when they went to see a dying youth, the tender earnestness with which Mr. Deans exhorted the lad to accept of Christ was such as never to be forgotten. I may add that the minute enquiries after his quondam scholars, which occur in his letters after he had left the town, and the glee with which he writes of two of them having come to visit him, show his love for the young, and how fully he had imbibed the spirit of Christ. It is no wonder that he gained all hearts, and that his brief period of service in the Sabbath School is so vividly remembered.

His residence in Newcastle was cut short in the spring of 1859, by a painful circumstance to which I need not particularly refer. It is enough to say that he was

dismissed from his situation for refusing to do something which may be considered lawful according to the code of the commercial world, but which he regarded as forbidden by the law of God. He said very little about the matter, either then or since, but to one friend he wrote:-"I lost my situation on Saturday night. I trust it was for desiring to do right; at least my conscience tells me so. When will the questionable and the wrong be entirely eliminated from the transactions of trade?

Of course this reverse was painfully felt. His first impulse was to repair to Alnwick, where he spent the Sabbath; and we may be sure, that in the company of his attached friends, and in communion with God, his spirit was quieted and calmed. Early in the week he returned to Newcastle, where his associates of the Sabbath School were wondering at his absence, and with some of them he now took counsel as to what he ought to do. One very dear friend, Mr. Joshua Davidson, tells of a long walk over the Town Moor, in the course of which Mr. Deans confided to him all his hopes and fears, and of their entering into a plantation, that they might plead together at the throne of grace for heavenly guidance and strength. After a short season of anxiety, during which even his buoyant spirit was sorely tried, Mr. Deans was appointed under-master of a school attached to the chemical works of the Messrs. Pattinson, at Felling, a village near Gateshead. He was led to apply for this by

his reluctance to resume his place behind the counter; and possibly the prospect of having more time to devote to study had something to do with his desire to engage in the schoolmaster's "delightful task". Be that as it may, he had now turned a corner in the road which he was destined to pursue, and we shall see how eagerly he availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded of reaching the goal on which his heart was set.

"CAST THY

BURDEN UPON THE LORD, AND HE WILL

SUSTAIN THEE; HE SHALL NEVER SUFFER THE RIGHTEOUS

TO BE MOVED."-Psalm lv., 22.

"CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM, FOR HE CARETH

FOR YOU."-1 Peter v., 7.

CHAPTER IV.

Student Life.

1859-64.

I am sure that good wits, except they be let down like a treblestring, and unbent like a good casting bow, will never last and be able to continue in study. And I know where I speak this, Philologe, for I would not say this afore (all) young men, for they will soon take occasion to study little enough. But I say it because I know, that, as little study getteth little learning, or none at all, so the most study getteth not the most learning of all. For a man's wit, foreoccupied in earnest study, must be as well recreated with some honest pastime, as the body, forelaboured, must be refreshed with sleep and quietness, else it cannot endure very long.

ROGER ASCHAM.

Much study is a weariness of the flesh.

ECCLESIASTES xii. 12.