strain. Another has said: "It was his one remark to me, in speaking of his leaving the college, that it did not seem to be the Master's will that any one person should begin and carry on to completion any great ^\T)rk. The law of the kingdom has always been, 'one soweth and the other reapeth. ' To Dr. Wallace, it seemed to be given in many things to preside over beginnings. His hands laid the foundation; others reared the superstructure. He sowed the seed and others reaped the harvest of his toil, as coming generations will reap the fruit of their labor." CHAPTER V. LAST DAYS. The different positions held by Dr. Wallace, or tendered him, came unsought, very frequently in the face of decided protest. Yet, when a position Avas offered to him, he always gave it a careful consideraton. His one desire seemed to be to know the mind of the Lord in the matter. He was very slow in conclud- ing to leave one place of labor for another. He felt that if the Master gave him a field to occupy, he must remain until his work was completed. The ad- vice he gave to others — and it was the one he him- self always followed — was, "The Master has placed you where you now are, and the presumption is in favor of your remaining. If you change, there must