1 70 RISEN B V PERSE VERANCE. 



EXTRACT FROM FUNERAL SERMON BY REV. J. THOMSON. 



* His greatness was the greatness of a great nature rather 

 than of any separate or showy faculty. There was no mean- 

 ness or littleness about anything he did. He lifted, by the 

 sheer force of his own greatness, any matter in which he 

 became vitally interested out of the realm of commonplace, 

 and carried it irresistibly forward to final success. He moved 

 without effort among great undertakings, liberal enterprises, 

 and bountiful benefactions. What he did and gave was from 

 the level in which he lived, and to which other men rise with 

 effort, and only for a time. He could not be said to be a 

 great reader, a great thinker, a great talker, a great expositor. 

 He was better. He was a great man, having in him some- 

 thing responsive to all these forms of greatness ; and standing 

 among men, he was seen from afar ; his very immobility, for it 

 was the repose of strength, affording that support in tryiriti; 

 times that gave a staying power to the undertakings with 

 which he was identified, and which made them ultimately 

 successful. Men knew always where to find him, and came 

 also to trust that the cause to which he lent his name and 

 influence had some just claims to consideration, and would 

 finally succeed. In his personal friendships, where he trusted, 

 he trusted wholly, and would not soon forsake one to whom 

 he had given his confidence. The rising from one position to 

 another in the social scale had no effect on his friendships. 

 The friends of his youth were with him to the close ; or, if not, 

 it was they who had fallen asleep, or fallen away from him, 

 and from these noble enterprises to which he had consecrated 

 his strength and resources. He was a pioneer, a creator of 

 the new era. He showed how the graces of the old feudalism 



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