From Life to Life

Garfield was pointing in the line of truth when he preferred to have President Hopkins sitting with him on the other end of a log to any college he knew. There would be occasions when he would need laboratories and test-tubes and lecture-rooms and a library, but the best moments would undoubtedly be those when he had his rendezvous with President Hopkins on the traditional log.

John Colet visited Florence in his youth and felt the spell of Savonarola’s life and words. He returned to England and passed the kindling torch on to Erasmus. Erasmus found Thomas Bilney in his university days and left him “another man.” It was Thomas Bilney who awakened Hugh Latimer and kindled the burning passion in his soul.

It was Hugh Latimer who in the street at Oxford lighted a fire in England—a martyr fire—which by the grace of God has never gone out. In such ways, from life to life, the torch passes on, though not often, as in the above chain, can the linkages be traced. Rufus M. Jones 328