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 graven upon reverent hearts. “ The richest reward of my life-work has always been the affection and regard of my pupils. That* indeed, has been the most valuable asset of my life, as it has been also the most powerful stimulus in my work.” Tlum, the eight speeches of the first triennium of the Reformed, Provincial Legislature reveal, as from an elevated summit, the fulness of many- sided. sympathy and far-sighted statesman- ship on certain vital issues of the country’s progress. They show the true, ‘ liberal ’- indication ^of grave defects, tending to out-of-date effeteness, in the courses and control of Public Instruction even as a ‘ transferred subject and in the warm acceptance of the programme of free and compulsory elementary education of a practical type under an improved class of teachers with the temple-offerings ®f piety, rightly usable for the noblest of chanties ”5 and, again* in the strong opposition to any financial interdict upon wholesome religious teaching under missionary auspices. They show the
 * national ’ educationist in the pointed