At the close of the session in April he returned to Blantyre and resumed work at the mill.  He was unable to save quite enough for his second session, and found it necessary to borrow a little from his elder brother[9].  The classes he attended during these two sessions were the Greek class in Anderson’s College, the theological classes of Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, who trained students for the Independent Churches, and the medical classes in Anderson’s.  In the Greek class he seems to have been entered as a private student exciting little notice[10].  In the same capacity he attended the lectures of Dr. Wardlaw.  He had a great admiration for that divine, and accepted generally his theological views.  But Livingstone was not much of a scientific theologian.

[Footnote 9:  The readiness of elder brothers to advance part of their hard-won earnings, or otherwise encourage a younger brother to attend college, is a pleasant feature of family life in the humbler classes of Scotland.  The case of James Beattie, the poet, assisted by his brother David, and that of Sir James Simpson, who owed so much to his brother Alexander, will be remembered in this connection.]

[Footnote 10:  A very sensational and foolish reminiscence was once published of a raw country youth coming into the class with his clothes stained with grease and whitened by cotton-wool.  This was Livingstone.  The fact is, nothing could possibly have been more unlike him.  At this time Livingstone was not working at the mill; and, in regard to dress, however plainly he might be clad, he was never careless, far less offensive.]

His chief work in Glasgow was the prosecution of medical study.  Of his teachers, two attracted him beyond the rest—­the late Dr. Thomas Graham, the very distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Andrew Buchanan, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, his life-long and much-attached friend.  While attending Dr. Graham’s class he was brought into frequent contact with the assistant to the Professor, Mr. James Young.  Originally bred to a mechanical employment, this young man had attended the evening course of Dr. Graham, and having attracted his attention, and done various pieces of work for him, he became his assistant.  The students used to gather round him, and several met in his room, where there was a bench, a turning-lathe, and other conveniences for mechanical work.  Livingstone took an interest in the turning-lathe, and increased his knowledge of tools—­a knowledge which proved of the highest service to him when—­as he used to say all missionaries should be ready to do—­he had to become a Jack-of-all-trades in Africa.