and humble follower of the Lord Jesus.
He was very patient with his scholars, and tried not only to make them
learned, but to make them Christians. "I want these young soldiers of
Christ to be burning and shining lights wherever they may go," he said.
"If they are not all intended to be clergymen, they are all intended to
be Christians."

In the beginning of the next year (1727), Mr. John went home again to
help his father, who was getting very old, and was often ill. He stayed
at Wroote about two years, and then went back again to Oxford.

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CHAPTER VII.

Charlie goes to Oxford.--Won't have his brother
interfere with him.--A change in
Charlie.--Somebody's prayers.--Charlie's chums,
and how he treated them.--Dividing
time.--Nickname.--A nickname honoured.

BEFORE I tell you any more about Mr. John, I am sure you would like to
know how Charlie has been getting on all this long time. We left him,
you remember, captain of the school at Westminster, where his eldest
brother Samuel was a teacher. He was so clever and brave, and such a
generous, loving-hearted boy, that he was a favourite with everybody. He
stayed nine years at Westminster, and then, when he was eighteen, went
to one of the colleges at Oxford. It was not the one Mr. John was at,
but, being in the same town, the two brothers often saw each other.

Charlie was not a Christian, and made companions of the worldly young
students who spent their time in all sorts of wrong-doings. John was
very sorry for this, and spoke to him about it; but Charlie became very
angry at what he called his brother's interference, and said: "Do you
want me to become a saint all at once?"

However, while Mr. John was away at home those two years helping his
father, Charlie changed very much. He became steadier and more
thoughtful, and even wrote to his brother, and asked for the advice he
would not have before. "I don't exactly know how or when I changed," he
said in his letter; "but it was soon after you went away. It is owing, I
believe, to somebody's prayers (my mother's most likely) that I am come
to think as I do."

When boys and girls or grown-up people become Christians, those around
them soon find it out. Charlie's giddy companions soon saw something was
wrong with him. He used to be lazy and shirk his studies, spending his
time with them in pleasure and amusement, now he wa