IN MEMORIAM, ANNUAL MEETING, I906. 



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To comprehend a historical era or event, to see the true grandeur 

 of a landscape or the real beauty of a large painting, we must be 

 far enough removed from it to see it in perspective, to bring all of 

 its effects, features and colorings under the eye at once. To see 

 history in the making gives no conception of its present import nor 

 future effects. Being in the midst of a scene one cannot see it. A 

 stage setting looks very unlike to actors and audience. The moun- 

 tain top, reached after great effort, does not possess the grandeur 

 and beauty that as a distant view tempts one to make the effort. 



Chas. I.eudloff, late of Carver, Minn. 

 Honorary life member. 



The painting, a world's masterpiece, is a daub without meaning or 

 beauty until seen at such a distance that all of its roughness and 

 all seeming crudities are lost to the eye and it is transformed into 

 a thing of entrancing beauty, a harmonious vision of form, pro- 

 portion and color. 



So it is with our human fellows, our associates and friends. 

 When they are with us and of us they symbolize the mountain top 

 whose grandeur is lost in our nearness to it, the landscape whose 

 beauty we cannot see because we are a part of it, and the picture 

 that seems rough and incongruous because it is so close to the eye. 

 Perhaps all of us will admit that we do not see our associates as 

 they are while they are associates. We do not appreciate their vir- 

 tues, admire their courage, understand their strength of character 



