Part 19 (2/2)

One day a lady called on hiee, asked him for help Lord Shaftesbury had to confess he had no ive; then he suddenly remembered he had five pounds in the library: he fetched the bank note, which for, and presented it to her

One of Lord Shaftesbury's greatest works was the proed schools

To these schools, established in the poorest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, came the street arabs, the poor and abandoned, and received kindness and teaching, which comforted and civilised them

The outcasts who slept in doorways, under arches, and in all kinds of horrible and unhealthy places, were the objects of this goodafresh hundreds of lads ould otherwise have becoreat city

When he was over eighty years old he was still striving for the good of others So much was his heart in the work that he re onto say it--but I cannot bear to leave the world with all the misery in it”

The dawn cahty-fifth year this veteran leader was called to his rest

For convenience I have spoken of hihout as Lord Shaftesbury; but it may be well to mention that till he was fifty years old he was known as Lord Ashley Through the death of his father he became Earl of Shaftesbury in 1851

A STATESMAN WHO HAD NO ENEMIES

THE STORY OF WH SMITH

It is alell to reood citizen, as a soldier, as a statesman, or in any other walk of life, deserves our admiration as much as the missionary or the minister of the Gospel--each and all such are servants of the great King

By far the greater portion of our lives is spent at the desk or the counter, in the office, shop, or field; so that it is of the first importance we should keep the strictest watch on our actions in our work as well as in our leisure moments

One of the most successful men in coe to say, the desires of his early days were entirely opposed to business life At the age of sixteen he greatly desired to proceed to one of the universities, and prepare for beco opposed to such a step he gave up the idea in deference to their wishes

It was a great disappointment to him to do this--yet he was able to write, ”It isProvidence in all the veryin whatever state I am therewith content My conclusion is, then, that I a the path of duty, however imperfectly; wherever it may lead, or what it may become, I know not”

Thus did William Henry Smith see the door of the Church closed upon hirets, but in a spirit of sub of these days many years later, when as a Minister of the Crown he was in attendance upon her Majesty at Balhtelse to do; but events compelled me to what promised to be a dull life and a useless one: the result is that fewwork to do”

In his earlier years WH S repentance, faith, love, grace to help, gratitude, power to pray, constant direction in all things, a right understanding of the Bible, deliverance fro sin, constancy in God's service, relatives and friends, norance and sin in prayer, etc, etc; and it was one of the characteristics of his nature that he felt prayer both in youth and age to be _a necessity_

It was a busy life in which Smith was launched at the commencement of his career

His father had already laid the foundation of the newsagency business which is noorld-wide fahout the year, sunshi+ne or rain, fog or snow, father and son left their home for the business house in the Strand, at four o'clock Soer ; and from the time he arrived at the place of business there was constant work to be done It was difficult and anxious work too, and the constant strain told upon the young man's health

The collection and distribution of newspapers, which formed then the chief part of the business of WH Smith & Son, was one that needed the closest attention and the y

”First on the road” was old Mr Smith's motto; and he carried it out

Sreat newspaper offices, ready to carry off printed sheets to the Strand house for sorting and packing; and thence they sped swiftly through the streets in the earlyto catch the first trains for the country Occasionally _The Times_, which was the last printed journal, did not arrive at the station till the final moment The whistle would have sounded, the doors would have all been locked, the guard would have given his warning signal, when in would co its load of ”Thunderers” Ready hands would seize the papers, and the last packet would perchance be thrown in as the train was already stea of newspapers was in those days done by coaches To catch these with the later papers, Sht carts with fast horses If the coaches had started, Sht up the coaches at one of their stopping places