The following anecdote is told of Cyrus Hamlin, a lifelong missionary
in Turkey and the chief founder of Robert College in Constantinople:
One day at Bowdoin, Professor Smith delivered a lecture on the
steam-engine to Hamlin’s class, not one of whom, perhaps, had
ever seen a steam-engine. Those were the days of the stage-coach
and the ox-team. After the lecture he said to Professor Smith,
“I believe I could make an engine.” The professor replied,
“I think you can make anything you undertake, Hamlin, and I
wish you would try.” He did try, and succeeded. By working
twelve and sometimes fifteen hours each day, he built a
steam-engine sufficiently large to be of real service as a part
of the philosophical apparatus of the college.--_Youth’s
Companion._
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