The missionaries of the London' Missionary Society at Hankow are to be warmly congratulated on the appointment of Mr. S. Lavington Hart; D. So., asa fellow worker to ti mn. In this: eri deep religi their way. into the missionary: staff. following brief notice of Dr. Hart, which appeared in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, Deo., 1891, will be read with interest by many even in China, Ttia evidently written by a well-known friend, and reads thus DR. 8. COVINGTON HART, It will be interesting to all friends of the London Missiunary Society to know a little more of 80 tinguished a recruit to its army of workers abroad as Dr. S. L, Hart than can be conveyed by the bare statement of his titles and profession, and in Cambridge we are n lo jonlous that those who are at a how large the immediate sxorifice is, which he has determined to make, in order to be free for the new work to which he is called, and how confident our hope that the power which we have.seen day by day in his thought, his teaching, hit may work even more good in 4 than it has done in Canibridge.
Few men: have entered the mission-field in the service of any society with such a brilliant academic record, Certainly in recent years Cambridge has sent lio one ihe had eftaiped t2, angehiog like the came asti. "He was educated first in Paris, and afterwards at Mill Hill, entering St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1877, was elected toa Foutida-
Tu 1880 he was placed in the first Class of the Natural Sciences Tripos, which was, I believe, cousiderably more se} fire wrt of the been divided. Meanwhile ity of London he had wou the frst Honours in Matriculation (1877) with the Schularship, the Medal for Physics in the Intermediate in Science (1878), the Scholarship for.the same subject in the inal B.Se. (1879), and -in 1881 he obtained the coveted honour of the degree of Doctor of Science, mainly on the ground of vtiginal work in'electricity." In' the winter of the sime'yéar he was appointed University Extension Lecturer at' Nottingham, and hie—teaching was successful. in a marked: degree, as in' the - sabserjuent examination the -candidates attained an er witha Dissertation on Electrical tact,: which was especially commended by Sir William Thomson,: securéd chim Fellowship at his College' in 1883; and-an appointment its -etatfiag a fall lectorer the following year';, scun! after the tras reongnised by the Senate of the University of Cambridge us a teacher in Physics fur part of what Dr. Hurt's namermeans to to those who know him, or know any part of his work, though it is a great deal more than those' who met By chance could ever. imagine from: his rare modest: gentleness of bearing. It: would hi possible to enumerate the different kinds of religious and philanthropic-activity in which he has been incessantly engaged. To mention only the chief: the Working Men's Mission and Institute in Castle End, very poor and degraded district of Cambridge, found in him one of ita most devoted supporters; in all its branches, whether Sundays or in the week, kis help was: indispensable ud given. unsparingly.' Every one of his own largo class,.and a grextmany more, he knew intimately, and there was hardly " trouble affecting' any member of the school in which his'help wa or later invoked. In Victoria For several years ho acted as ltd' voluntary. regationnl Church he will be sorely missed.'
organist, and this ly one form of the Joyal rapport which, conjoined with that of others, helped to muke a struggling mission into a flourishing church.
I do not know whether any one outside Cambridge can estimate the strength: of the attraction which the place itself offers to those who have any kind of liking for advanced study, muct' more to there who have proved their capacity -fur: it. For such & man it seems hard to imagine 0 happier life than one spent in congenial teaching, with all the: opportunities for research and the social influence which are offered by a permanent post inthe University, It would not be easy to count the number of men who leave Cambridge every your bitterly disappointed because work of this kind las been beyond their reach. It is such a position of growing dignity and comfort that Dr. Hart' "ha "put to the hazard, for the sake of a people whom he has never seen." It is our earnest hope that before ing he may be ivined by other members of a sneiety which' he helped to found, the Cambridge University Auxiliary. Which of them would have 60 much to sacrifice to the call?
These few facts are nil that can be written. Those. who.read them may diviny something vf the life that is beneath them. Tt has fallen to.ine at times to share a Fitenod to his teaching of the things that rt of Dr. Hart's work, and I have often
lie nearest to him, and as often realised its wer. Dr. Hart will go to Chins followed such a stroam of gratitude, of affection, of reverence from " hundred hearts, as it is given to few men to win from even une. R. 8.0.
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