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1834-41] CARE OF COLLEGE SERVANTS 73
trustees on condition that the interest should be given
as an honorarium to one of the tutors, appointed by the
Master, for the definite weekly instruction in chapel of
such of the College servants as might be willing to attend.
The names appended to the memorial, or deed of. gift,
are A. C. Tait, W. G. Ward, Robert Scott, and E. C.
Woollcombe.
The master discovered many difficulties in the way of
giving effect to this plan. But they were overcome at
last, and the journal of 1841 (a few days before the publi
cation of the Four Tutors Protest against Tract XC.) has
the following entry :
"Ash Wednesday, 24 Feby. 1841. I have spent much of this
day in prayer, though, I fear, it has come too little from the heart.
I have begun to-day a most important work in the teaching of
the boys among the College servants. O God, send Thy blessing
on this endeavour. Above all, lead my own heart aright, or
how can I teach others? Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast
smoothed the way for carrying out this plan for the College ser
vants. . . . Grant Thy Spirit to teacher and taught, that it may
not all end in dead formality."
LIBRARY ST. MARY S COLLEGE