. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. had never dropped a word orintimation in my hearing that she desired me to be a preacli-er. She believed so fully in a divine call that she thoughtit wrong to bias the youthful mind with even a conversation settled my mind. What a blessing is asainted mother! I can even now feel her hand upon myhead, and I can hear the intonations of her voice in praj^er. And so the loving mother had hid away in her heart thisdeepest of her longings for her only son. The years hadcome and gone, and still her lips had been
. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. had never dropped a word orintimation in my hearing that she desired me to be a preacli-er. She believed so fully in a divine call that she thoughtit wrong to bias the youthful mind with even a conversation settled my mind. What a blessing is asainted mother! I can even now feel her hand upon myhead, and I can hear the intonations of her voice in praj^er. And so the loving mother had hid away in her heart thisdeepest of her longings for her only son. The years hadcome and gone, and still her lips had been sealed; he mustnot know, for she would not interfere with Gods right tochoose the messengers of his word; but in the silent hours THE MOTHERS SECRET. 51 of prayer, how often must she have opened her hearts se-cret to him with whom she communed—the Prayer-hearer!And when this son had been led up to the choice of thevocation to which, in the fulness of her love, she had con-secrated him, she could tell him that she had been waitingfor that hour ever since he was THE OLD COURT-HOUSE AT CADIZ. III. HIS TEACHERS. Uncle Matthew Sinii)son.—His High Standing as Teacher and Legisla-tor.— The Bishops Mother.— Dr. James McBean.— His Kindness toYoung Simpson.—Dr. Elliott.—The Start on Foot for Uniontown.—Kindly Received by the College President.—Is both Student and As-sistant Teacher.—Appointed College Tutor.—Dr. Elliotts Place amongMethodist Educatoi-s.—Presbyterianism and Methodism in the Forma-tion of the State of Ohio. UNCLE MATTHEW SIMPSON. 55 III. It is one of Thomas Carlyles pregnant sayings that, when a great soul rises up, it is generally in a place wherethere has been much hidden worth and intelligence for along time. The vein runs on, as it were, beneath the sur-face, for a generation or so, then breaks into the light insome man of genius, and oftenest that seems to be the endof it. To quote him again: Great men are not bornamong fools, and Bishop
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