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so virtue moves us with greater impulse when we see it living and acting in a good example. Many years ago a tutor in one of our Colleges limped in his walk. After several years had passed he was accosted by a gentleman who recognized him and asked if he was not the Chaplain of the College at such a time. The tutor replied that he was. "I was there", said the man, and I knew you by your limp. "Well" said the tutor it seems my limping made a greater impression on you than my preaching. Ah Sir! was the reply: it is the highest compliment you can pay a minister to say he is known by his walk rather than by his conversation. Seneca once said of Socrates, that the crowd of philosophers which followed this unclear man derived more of their Ethics from his manners than his Words. When native heathen converts are asked "what first led you to think of becoming