Excerpt from The McMaster University Monthly, Vol. 3: June, 1893 It was no detriment to his future career that Scottish blood ran through his veins neither that his lot was cast where poverty laid her moulding hand upon a nature calculated to respond to and be profited by its healthiest lessons. A boyhood spent on a Quebec farm of half a century ago, turning up the rugged soil, breathing the clear, cold, crisp air of the St. Lawrence valley, reared in a Christian home where love and discipline in due pro portion reigned - a few years in a country school, a few more clerking in a village store, were all fitting this well-knit frame of faultless build, this well-poised massive head, and this heart of warm and generous impulses for the great mission of life. After the grace of God had found him and thoroughly renewed him, and after his personal consecration to the service of his Master, it was part of the divine plan that he should turn his eyes to one of the few Christian schools of learning among the Baptists in America at the time - I refer to that at Hamilton in the State of New York. To reach it, he had, with few dollars in his pocket, to thread many a devious forest path and trudge on foot many a weary mile up the valley of the Ottawa - across through miles of virgin forest to the St. Lawrence and thence by stage or wagon to his destination. Footsore, weary, friendless, an alien in an alien land and almost penniless he faced, at nineteen, the great problem of life. If any of the young men here wishes to know the stuff of which the heroes of the past generation were made, let him buy and read the admirable life of Dr. Fyfe, by Prof. J. E. Wells, m.a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.