er daughter is a resident of the United States, her home being near Saint Paul, Minnesota. Harry's brother, Thomas Agnew, spent three years in China and about eighteen months on the west coast of Africa. He has been a British soldier for many years, having when quite young been one of two youths who, out of two hundred who tried the government examination, passed successfully, was chosen for service, sent to college and trained for that career in which he has steadily risen until he is now Captain Thomas Agnew of the Royal Navy, with headquarters at Malta.

Harry's father used to say, "My father always wanted his children about him, and they never amounted to anything; I want to push mine out and give them a chance" and he seems to have accomplished his purpose.

Captain Thomas Agnew is an earnest Christian man, and, during the many years of his public service in various parts of the world, is said to have maintained such uprightness and integrity of character as one rarely finds in military life. On first entering the government service he received good wages, for one so young as he, and, as his parents were poor, he began to send his mother two pounds (nearly ten dollars) per month-a practice he has continued to the present time. Not once in all the years that have passed has he failed to remit at the regular time, besides having always remembered her with a substantial present at Christmas time.

Being nine years older than Harry, when the latter was a small lad "Tom" was his ideal of a great and noble man. "Harry, put up your paper and eat your food," said his mother to Harry when, as a little fel

low, she saw him reading at meal time. The command not being complied with it was repeated, whereupon Harry, in self-justification, replied: "Tom reads the paper at the table." Tom was his ideal then and ever afterwards.

At four years of age Harry went with his brothers to a day school attached to the Sheerness garrison, and there began to show himself an apt scholar for his years. Scripture teaching was arranged for, it being provided that the Wesleyan Methodist chaplain should give some "religious" instruction on two days a week, for an hour a day, to any school boys whose parents wished them to receive it. The tenets of Methodism being nearer the ideals of Harry's parents than were those of the Church of England, he was placed under the Wesleyan chaplain's tuition, and so at an early and impressionable age became a recipient of Methodist instruction.

Concerning this school, where, for five years young Agnew received instruction in the rudiments of learning, something further may here be in place. Being a school attached to the garrison, it was attended nightly by such adults as were eligible and chose to avail themselves of its advantages. These students of riper years having some option as to what they would study, the system of electives somewhat modified the methods of educating the younger children. There existed no such plan as payment by results, and hence no "cramming" for any particular vocation in life. Moreover, being a government school, it was above any stimulation from competing private schools. Examinations were periodically held in the district for posts in the dockyard, and government service generally, but no efforts were

put forth in the direction of specially training the lads for such positions. Still, the education there received being of a sound general type, the few who passed the examinations and were promoted to higher posts were usually found better equipped than were those who passed through schools of a narrower but otherwise more effective grade.

Here it was that the coming missionary went through the usual course, from alphabet and lesson book to reading and writing, thence to the mastery of the various arithmetical processes, and finally on to where chemistry, optics and various other departments of natural science began to display their marvels to his youthful mind.

Coming now to those weightier influences which molded Harry's youthful character, we note that both of his parents were members of a religious society who call themselves the "Brethren," but who are more commonly known to those outside their own communion as "Plymouth Brethren." They were also of the exclusive or "Darbyite" wing of that body, matters of both doctrine and discipline having given rise to numerous divisions in the general society. It cannot be said, however, that the missionary zeal afterward displayed by Harry was directly due to any teaching or example furnished by them; for, although much latitude of opinion as to the necessity of foreign. missions was allowed, yet most of those who represented this particular division of the Brethren, in conformity with the views of J. N. Darby, their chief apostle, held that their duty in this matter lay chiefly, if not wholly, among those who were "awakened" among the churches. Hence, in regard to missionary

work among the heathen, their action generally resembled that of a particular division of the Baptists known as "Hardshells" or "Anti-missioners," except that the attitude of the Brethren on this subject was never expressed in dogmatic form.

While the influence of Harry's parents, or rather of their creed, did not directly prompt him toward the path of missionary evangelism, yet their example proved highly valuable to him, in that it exhibited and instilled into his young mind that self-renouncing spirit so indispensable to success in all such labors. By their sturdy faith in all the fundamental truths of Christianity; by their withdrawal from the world with its vanity and show, including their refusal to mingle even in its politics; by their ever strict observance of family devotion, and their exemplary piety at home;by all these influences he was in some measure molded for the great work of his life. The injunction, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord," which the Brethren so strongly emphasized and strove so diligently to exemplify, had always a deep significance for Harry, but evoked profoundly deeper responsive echoes from within his heart after his conversion to God and his subsequent determination upon a life of inward crucifixion.

Throughout the district where Harry's parents lived at this time the Church of England was the only ecclesiastical body designating its places of worship as "churches," the other denominations being content with the modest name of "chapels," except the Quakers and the Brethren, by whom every place of public worship was designated as a "meeting house." A large chapel of the Congregationalist (or Independent) body