room and his intercourse there with his students that his toleration and liberality were, I think, if not most heard of, yet most real. Another thing that perhaps tended to prevent him from attempting to stamp the mark of any particular school or system upon us, was a certain impatience of details that characterised him. His own interest was always in the wider principles underlying the form of any doctrine, argument, or system; and he used to insist that, coming to him at the age we did, we ought to bring, or make, our minds familiar with the ordinary and acknowledged sources of information on his subject as supplementary of his own lectures. All the ordinary routine of class-drill was made subordinate to the apprehension of leading ideas. There was little danger, under his instruction, of losing sight of the wood for the trees. Even in setting an examination-paper he made sure that a facile memory did not supply the lack of intelligence.

But if what I have said would seem to imply that Tulloch's teaching had no distinctive character of its own, nothing could be less like the truth. Although he had little of a system, regarded as a body of impersonal conclusions, he brought to bear on whatever he handled a spirit of manly large-mindedness, fairness, sympathy, and dignity, contact with which was in itself an education. He diffused around him in the treatment of all themes an atmosphere of mental freedom, tempered only by the canons of thoughtful consideration and good sense.

Another trait of his teaching was the touch in which he endeavoured to keep it with what would be the future practical work of his students. He never suffered our studies to degenerate into mere verbal abstractions which had outlived their original interest. He brought in the air of the outer world of life into his class-room, and made us constantly feel that we were in training for parts in a day full of seething thoughts and conflicting tendencies. Himself keenly sensitive to all the influences of the time, in strong sympathy with some, moved by equally strong distrust of others, he strove to make us feel the meaning of these forces, and to make his class prelections a means of furnishing us against the time we ourselves would have to be immersed in them. Many of his most interesting discourses were unpremeditated utterances, suggested by some sentence in a text-book, or answer of a student. In this and similar ways he invested the work of his class with a continuous interest which but reflected his own vivid life and relations to all the higher hopes, faiths, and fears of the time.

In his manner towards us he inspired confidence without inviting familiarity. He was, indeed, somewhat constrained and dignified in the mere manner of his speech at first.

Another gentleman, the Rev. R. Menzies Fergusson of Logie, adds a similar testimony, describing how he was warned of the "latitudinarian principles" of his future professor, and that the tendency of his lectures was such as "unsettled the minds of the young men under his care.” He adds with warm enthusiasm :

Certainly Tulloch was broad and liberal in his grasp of theological questions, but his breadth never verged on latitudinarianism, nor yet gave any sensible man the impression that the verities of the Christian faith were doubtful, or even open to suspicion. His lectures on M. Renan's 'Vie de Jésus' are sufficient to show the intensity with which he held to the true doctrines, and the reasonableness with which he always discussed the living power of its original progression.

This gentleman, as well as various others who have added privately or in remarks already published their commentaries upon their instructor, adds a loving description of the lecture-room at St Mary's, with its tall windows looking out upon the quadrangle and the long line of the University library beyond, and the appearance of the Principal as he came in "with stately and measured steps" in the grey light of the winter morning-a scene evidently very striking and dear to the recollection, for all recur to it. The following, from the Rev. P. Anton of Kilsyth, if perhaps drawing a little too much upon the picturesque, gives no doubt a very true impression of the scene:—

The Principal appeared.

The little band rose to their feet. The Geneva gown hung from his shoulders in careless folds. He took his seat. The work of the day went on. Soon some idea was broached which touched some subject of the day. The lecturer discarded his paper. The sound of the driving quills ceased. The Professor warmed with his new thought, His eyes became suffused. The windows fronted the east. Often in the winter mornings the rising sun struck his gilded rays full on the speaker where he sat, and, when full of his subject, he looked like one transfigured, one who had come down from some glorious mountain to teach the children of men some peculiarly high and holy evangel.

This sudden touch of suggestion, the putting away of the prepared lecture, and following out of the new idea with all the eloquence of feeling, is remarked also by Mr W. W. Tulloch as one of the chief peculiarities of his father's teaching. It was the same as the Principal's hearers will remember in his preaching, his sermons almost always concluding in this way, and often with the greatest effect. A note by another of the Principal's students, the Rev. Kenneth Macleay of Craigrownie, gives a touching testimony to the work of the last session, when the Principal had already entered the valley of the shadow. He found the class-room dark on entering it and had the gas lit, and, perhaps with some fanciful idea of connection between his thoughts and the imperfect light, "made a slight apology lest the subject was not made sufficiently clear-when no apology was needed. For never," says this witness, "did he impress me as then, in these last lectures. He seemed to see further into another world, if he saw less clearly in the tiny class-room where he taught for so long."

"He was too broad and tolerant and essentially human for the timid and distrustful, who craved for a bare outward authority; for the rash, who would subordinate everything to the mere logical understanding, too reverent and cautious," says another, the Rev. A. Lawson, Elgin :—

Truth to him was infinitely great, and it was his constant thought, as he has expressed it in his last book, that "the truth itself can only be seen by a large vision." No man had ever less distrust of human reason as a rich gift of God, or sought more steadily and humbly to use it as the ground of life, or showed more faithfully the divine reason moulding and informing the course of human history, yet all the while he was overshadowed by the mystery of things, and his life was sanctified by the tenderest and simplest pieties. The simplest realities of faith were always near him, and he loved to treat of them. The fatherhood of God, the love of Christ, the discipline of suffering,-all these and kindred themes he handled much, because they made so much of life, and were the true nourishment of men. With speculative power of

the finest, none had ever less of vain curiosity or idle speculation. Faith and reason joined hands in interpreting life and reality, and their union was natural and harmonious.

I may conclude with an estimate of Principal Tulloch's characteristics as the head of the University, kindly sent to me by Professor Knight:

It is not difficult to say in what Principal Tulloch's eminence as the head of our University consisted. His mere presence was striking, commanding, and genial, at once dignified and courteous to every one. His knowledge of University affairs, the fruit of many years' experience, and his ever-ready tact in their management, were conspicuous. To be the official head of a University many things are needed. Not only wide culture, but an impartial sympathy with every department of intellectual labour, and with all the varied life that goes on within the University—the life both of professors and students-is even more indispensable. Rapidity and strength of judgment, a quick perception of the wants of the time and the means of meeting them, and more especially tact in representing the University to those around it and outside,—all these qualities Principal Tulloch possessed in an unusual degree. In all his academic policy he was a ConservativeLiberal and a Liberal-Conservative. He had the prescient outlook, the wise forecast of the needs of the future, and the constructive power to frame a policy and prudently to advocate it. It was as an administrator that his ability was most displayed. Those who at any time were with him in deputations to Government officials, and in writing to members of Parliament, will remember the ready address with which he invariably stated his case.

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