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Scott’s Life, pp. 117, 118. Mr. Walker writes very feelingly upon this point, mentioning among his principal trials ‘a most abominable fear of men’s faces, especially in personal conference. I have been forced to fight every inch of my way against this, and not without repeated advantage on its part, and a perpetual consciousness of not having acted up to duty. I hardly have courage to this day in that private way, to act on the offensive. This was evidently from a love of esteem, supported by a constitutional timidity.’ Life. p. 453. Second Edition. Comp. pp. 342, 343. The apostle appears to intimate the power of this Ministerial hindrance, in exhorting Timothy to “stir up all his gifts” of “power, love, and of a sound mind” (which—and not the “spirit of fear”—had been given him by the imposition of hands) to resist its influence. 2Tim. 1.6-8.