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than Routh, who thereupen adopted the plan of doubling'
the number of compulsory chapels and halving the food.
rations. The day after the order was given he went out
into the street and saw cabs rolling off to the station,.
each conttining a disappointed undergraduate. R. grimly
quoted l'tlatt. xvii. 21 (A.V., not R.V.).
As to influence, a man who could deal as Jowett deall
with a guest at his own table, started off on an unsavoury'
story, was bound to be influential. Some one gave me thll'
name of this severely disciplined individual, but I am glad
to say I have forgotten it.
One of tbe best-known names in England among aU
who travel or want to travel, and who have known what
it is to receive offers of timely help to this end, is that of
Sir Henry Lunn, a man not only of brilliant resourcefulness
in business, but a devoted and most generous worker
in the cause of Reunion between Anglicans and Nonconformists.
Very rarely is there to be- found so marked and even
a blend between deep piety of life and venturesome, not
to say combative, enterprise. The actual beginning of
his business career dates from the time when he had just
left school, satat eighteen, and seized the opportunity of
making a good thing out of the sale of lawn-tennis paraphernalia,
that game jus_t beginning to promise a future.
With his permission I record the characteristic denouement.
To put it briefly, young Henry, having been strictly brought
up, after four years bad qualms about growing to be a
rich man : ·" So, you see, I "gave up the business and. put
my father into it."