NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A-WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED-TO-THE BEST: INTERESTS-OF THENORTH-SHORE: 
Wol Il. No. 5 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1905 
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF 
HIS RELIGIOUS FAITH. 
[At our request Rey. Mr. Lincoln has consented to 
have the paper on his theological views, read on the 
occasion of his ordination and installation, at the 
Congregational church, Manchester, Friday, June 9, 
1905, printed in the BREEZE.— ED.] 
BY REV. C. ARTHUR LINCOLN. 
In making a statement of one’s 
theological belief, it is always diffi 
cult, | suppose, to distinguish clear- 
ly between that which has entered 
into one’s belief through genuine 
personal experience and that which 
has been absorbed as theory either 
from one’s own mental speculation 
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WOODLAND DRIVE AT MANCHESTER. 
Among the charms of the North Shore 
none is more attractive to the summer vis- 
itor than the picturesque woodland drives. 
The accompanying is one of the prettiest 
scenes, and is on the Essex road, not far 
from the Essex County club grounds in a 
section known as “ Dark Woods.” It is the 
happy combination of such woodland scenes 
and seashore that makes the North Shore so 
popular. 
EF LEP WoUR, 
Three Cents 
MASTERS OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
John Milton (1608—1674). 
By D. F. Lamson. 
[The present article brings to a close the 
series on the Masters of English Literature. 
In taking leave of his readers for the pres- 
ent, the writer wishes to express his thanks 
to all whose kind appreciation has helped 
to make the preparation of the papers, often 
amidst a pressure of other 
work, a real 
pleasure. J 
The life of Milton does not fall 
within the Elizabethan period,but he 
belongs to it by virtue of the splen- 
dor of his style, the range of his 
learning, the massiveness of his 
thought; he was the most perfect 
outgrowth of that period, its ripest 
though belated product, “the last of 
the Elizabethans,’ he has been 
called. 
Milton was born in London, of 
good parentage, and had the advan- 
tages of a good classical education ; 
he was a great student, and spent 
five years in study in retirement af- 
ter he left the university. He said 
he cared not how late he came into 
life, only that he came fit. He trav- 
eled in Italy, where he heard the 
news of the Civil War in England, 
which determined him to return; 
“inasmuch as I thought it base to 
be traveling at my ease for amuse- 
inent, while my countrymen at 
home were fighting for liberty.” 
When about forty years of age, 
Milton became blind, owing to his 
excessive labors in defence of his 
country’s cause, as Latin Secre- 
tary of State under Cromwell. He 
was warned of the danger, but nobly 
remained at his post, rather than al- 
low England to suffer. His sonnet 
on his blindness shows us the un- 
cumplaining, heroic spirit, ‘““bating 
not a jot of heart or hope,” but 
working on “as in the great Task- 
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