Show A pen pon sketch of P Bo bertson smith passing along union street aberdeen in a western direction about of an afternoon when ta the 16 colleges of the granite city arc are in in session the chances are that you will meetor meet or might inight have met before he lie was vas suspended a simply built young man of small stature accompanied probably by bv a student a budding divine v C to whom he lie is chatting cheerfully and car carrying i ig beneath liis flis arm a few books there 12 is very little about his general appearance to attract the attention ht of a i stranger if you happen ento to stand aside for a moment to however wever you will perceive that one of f two persons proceeding in the same direction as yourself nudges his companion as they pass pas the little M man an and doth noth turn and look at him hini ho ile stops at the enu ella of crown street and while he lie ia is speaking to the student you take ulna up a position at the on cosite corner comer and eye him a it litt little mol more c closely A mere boy he looks und and act yet there is something unusually unusually striking about the round cheerful beardless face and dark lark brilliant eyes blinded by a soft wideawake wide vide awake hat something which tells of hard stud B tudy and deep thought in a few minutes lio lie leaves the student and hurr hurrying along crown street enters hurrying the ding door of his house you then discover that the person you have been watching is none other than mr william robertson si smith sinith nith the free freo church professor the keen debater who lias has during the past few years f fairly air I outwitted the fathera and and brethren in general assembly and who lias bas shaken ecclesiastical scotland to its very centre lond tendon wall |