at the Truro Grammar School, and then went to Cambridge, where he
was entered at St. John's College. Who should he find already
settled there as a student but his old champion of the Truro
Grammar School? Their friendship was renewed; and the elder
student from that time forward acted as the Mentor, of the younger
one. Martyn was fitful in his studies, excitable and petulant,
and occasionally subject to fits of almost uncontrollable rage.
His big friend, on the other hand, was a steady, patient,
hardworking fellow; and he never ceased to watch over, to guide,
and to advise for good his irritable fellow-student. He kept
Martyn out of the way of evil company, advised him to work hard,
"not for the praise of men, but for the glory of God;" and so
successfully assisted him in his studies, that at the following
Christmas examination he was the first of his year. Yet Martyn's
kind friend and Mentor never achieved any distinction himself; he
passed away into obscurity, leading, most probably, a useful
though an unknown career; his greatest wish in life having been to
shape the character of his friend, to inspire his soul with the
love of truth, and to prepare him for the noble work, on which he
shortly after entered, of an Indian missionary.

A somewhat similar incident is said to have occurred in the
college career of Dr. Paley. When a student at Christ's College
Cambridge, he was distinguished for his shrewdness as well as his
clumsiness, and he was at the same time the favourite and the butt
of his companions. Though his natural abilities were great, he
was thoughtless, idle, and a spendthrift; and at the commencement
of his third year be had made comparatively little progress.
After one of his usual night-dissipations, a friend stood by his
bedside on the following morning. "Paley," said he, "I have not