A boy has the best chance of being well brought up in a household where there is solid comfort, combined with thrift and simplicity; and the family was increasing too fast to leave any margin for luxurious expenditure.

Before the eldest son had completed his thirteenth year he had three brothers and five sisters.
[It was in the course of his thirteenth year that the boy wrote his "Epitaph on Henry Martyn." Here Martyn lies.

In manhood's early bloom The Christian hero finds a Pagan tomb.
Religion, sorrowing o'er her favourite son, Points to the glorious trophies that he won.
Eternal trophies! not with carnage red, Not stained with tears by hapless captives shed, But trophies of the Cross.

For that dear name, Through every form of danger, death, and shame, Onward he journeyed to a happier shore, Where danger, death and shame assault no more."] In the course of 1812 it began to be evident that Tom had got beyond the educational capabilities of Clapham; and his father seriously contemplated the notion of removing to London in order to place him as a day-scholar at Westminster.

Thorough as was the consideration which the parents gave to the matter, their decision was of more importance than they could at the time foresee.