contemporaries, the career of these men ran parallel at home with
his abroad--Thomas Shillitoe, who stood before magistrates, bishops,
and such sovereigns as George III. and IV. and the Czar Alexander I.
in the interests of social reform; and John Pounds, the picture of
whom as the founder of ragged schools led Thomas Guthrie, when he
stumbled on it in an inn in Anstruther, to do the same Christlike
work in Scotland. Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was
ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared
that shoemakers had given to the world a larger number of eminent
men than any other handicraft. Whittier's own early experience in
Massachusetts fitted him to be the poet-laureate of the craft which
for some years he adorned. His Songs of Labour, published in 1850,
contain the best English lines on shoemakers since Shakspere put
into the mouth of King Henry V. the address on the eve of Agincourt,
which begins: "This day is called the feast of Crispin." But
Whittier, Quaker, philanthropist, and countryman of Judson though he
was, might have found a place for Carey when he sang so well of
others:--

"Thy songs, Hans Sachs, are living yet,
In strong and hearty German;
And Bloomfield's lay and Gifford's wit
And patriot fame of Sherman;

"Still from his book, a mystic seer,
The soul of Behmen teaches,
And England's priestcraft shakes to hear
Of Fox's leathern breeches."

The confessions of Carey, made in the spiritual humility and