could not let go. The days following the commence- ment of the work at Monmouth were dark. The political horizon was dark; the financial condition of the country was deplorable. To start, equip and Leaving the College. 61 endow a college, required herculean efforts, and great self-denial. While others stood by to aid, yet the burden fell upon his shoulders. He faltered not, but stood under the burden until it was mani- festly impossible for him to longer endure the 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 work. 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 was