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he wrote to me a short time before his death~ as it happened we were ordained and sailed for India about the same time—“ what memories of Germany and of India your letter calls up, and all of them pleasant.” When I became acquainted with Hastie, early in the session, 1 had a letter in my possession, an introduction from Robertson Smith to the famous theologian Ritschl, which was then weighing on my mind. Ritschl's manner in the class-room was magisterial. and the look with which be surveyed his auditory was not always, like that of the Gettingen professor, whom we all know, “ well-nigh celestial.” A shy young man, with a most im- perfect command of the German tongue. the sense of which was deepened by daily hearing from my instructress of the achievements of a brilliant young countryman of mine, who was also her pupil, and whose name I shall presently have to mention, for a certain relation of his, as
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duﬁgg the n<3”eitvelolpment of Dutch theology forward to a meeiim1 ":elntm:y“I “:33 locking indeed bUt “ct ng'Wlt] Ritschl With interest

' Without some trepidation.