In these times "school-boy days" mean much more than they did then. lt now means opportunity to lay a firm foundation for a life of usefulness, which may be of private benefit if one is selfishly inclined, or which may be of public benefit, if one is philanthropic and public spirited. Moses Hull's schooling did not include the curriculum of the modern school boy. He graduated-if that is the proper term to use of one whose studies were desultory and pursued at intervals-from an old log schoolhouse, with a log cut out for a window. The schools in those days were merely rudimentary, and never, in those backwoods districts, went beyond reading, writing, geography, arithmetic and English grammar. I am certain that he never fully covered all these studies in the time he went to school. At the age of five he went to school at Liberty Mills one or two winters, at most. After moving to the Reserve he went one term in the summer. Then his father sold his claim and located three miles farther West in dense woods, in which wolves were so bold that they jumped a yard fence in the twilight and killed a pet lamb. In 1847 his father moved to Kosciusko County, and in about two years there was a school two-and-a-half miles north of us which he attended, and the succeeding winter he went over to a Dunkard neighborhood and worked for his board while he attended school, walking a distance of a mile and-a-half each morning and evening. This was his last schooling. Whatever he has acquired beyond what he learned at these schools has been independent of any instructor. In all he had probably four or five terms of schooling and each of these terms a long time separated from one another. Since that his education has been by individual effort, and mostly in the direction of his ministerial work. He never studied with any other view than to make himself more useful to the world. He saw humanity groping its way in the dark, and his sole object was to render what assistance lay within his power.