Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish Author:William Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Black Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fr... more »om more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Tutor at Eton -- Correspondence -- Licensed as a probationer -- Assistant in St. Andrew's Church, Glasgow -- Assistant at Bonhill -- Proposal to go to Canada -- Characteristics of Mr. Gregor of Bonhill -- Assistant in St. George's, Edinburgh. As has been already stated, Eobert Candlish's fourth session at the Divinity Hall was a partial one, that is, while he was enrolled as a student for that session, he did not attend the class. This was a course very generally followed by students of theology at that period. The cases, indeed, were rather exceptional in which attendance was given during the whole four years over which the curriculum extended. Attendance on the classes, in many instances, was almost wholly dispensed with; but when this happened the rules of the Church provided that five years must elapse from the time of entering the Hall before the student could be licensed to preach the gospel . In the case of Robert Candlish there was a special reason for bringing his studies at the Hall so suddenly to an end. Miss Duncan says -- " After he had entered the Divinity Hall a letter came to some of the Professors asking them to send the most able young man they could recommend to go to Eton as tutor to Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont. Mr. Candlish was asked to undertake the charge, and went." This was at the end of 1826. Miss Duncan adds -- "I remember hearing some of his letters to his sister read at home, expressing how much overwhelmed he felt at being placed among so many great doctors and bigwigs. He felt very small indeed." The earliest of his letters...« less