Mr.Taylor used to lay very great stress on acquaintance with the writings of the Fathers as necessary for meeting the claims of the Tractarians, and did not think that that study was sufficiently encouraged by the Nonconformists.
Any one who has been in Mr.Taylor's study at Stanford Rivers, and who remembers the top-heavy row of patristic folios that crowned his collection of books, and the glance of pride he cast on them as he asked his visitor whether many men in his Church were well read in the Fathers, will be at no loss to verify this reminiscence.

Certainly Livingstone had no such qualification, and undoubtedly he never missed it.] We resume Mr.Moore's reminiscences: "When three months had elapsed, Mr.Cecil sent in his report to the Board.

Judging from Livingstone's hesitating manner in conducting family worship, and while praying on the week-days in the chapel, and also from his failure so complete in preaching, an unfavorable report was given in....

Happily, when it was read, and a decision was about to be given against him, some one pleaded hard that his probation should be extended, and so he had several months' additional trial granted.

I sailed in the same boat, and was also sent back to Ongar as a naughty boy....