g, it is prophecy. So over these two, our old
friends who are friends no more, we sorrow not as men without hope. It
is only for those who seem to us to have lost compass and purpose, and
to be driven helplessly on rocks and quicksands; whose lives are spent
in the service of the world, the flesh, and the devil; for self alone,
and not for their fellow-men, their country, or their God, that we
must mourn and pray without sure hope and without light; trusting only
that He, in whose hands they are as well as we are, who has died for
them as well as for us, who sees all His creatures--

"With larger, other eyes than ours,
To make allowance for us all,"[3]--

will, in His own way and at his own time, lead them also home.

[1] #Ken#: knowledge.

[2] #Clough#: poem of "Qua cursum ventus."

[3] #Tennyson#: "In Memoriam."

* * * * *

THE END OF THE HALF-YEAR.

Another two years have passed, and it is again the end of the Summer
half-year at Rugby; in fact, the school has broken up. The fifth-form
examinations were over last week, and upon them have followed the
speeches, and the sixth-form examinations for exhibitions;[4] and
they, too, are over now. The boys have gone to all the winds of
heaven, except the town boys and the eleven, and the few enthusiasts
besides who have asked leave to stay in their houses to see the result
of the cricket-matches. For this year the Wellesburn return match and
the Marylebone match are played at Rugby, to the great delight of the
town and neighborhood, and the sorrow of those aspiring young
cricketers who have been reckoning for the last three months on
showing off at Lord's grounds.[5]

[4] #Exhibitions#: allowances of money, etc., made to certain
scholars at Oxford and Cambridge. The boys of the sixth form,
who were preparing for the universities, were competing for
these.

[5] #Lord's grounds#: see note on Marylebone, p. 304.

The Doctor started off for the Lakes[6] yesterday morning, after an
interview with the captain of the eleven, in the presence of Thomas,
at which he arranged in what school the cricket dinners were to be,
and all other matters necessary for the satisfactory carrying out of
the festivities; and warned them as to keeping all spirituous liquors
out of the close, and having the gates closed by nine o'clock.

[6] #Lakes#: Dr. Arnold spent his vacations at his country
place of Fox