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_ RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
No. XXXVIII. 
_ The man of the hour is the product of 
the hour, a trimmer and time-server, 
more or less; a man for the hour is the 
man that the hour needs, and must be 
something more than a trimmer and 
time-server. The one floats with the 
current, the other often has to pull 
against it; the first is a mere politician, 
th Second i is a statesman; not to men- 
on Jater illustrations, Buchanan was an 
‘instance of the former, Lincoln of the 
latter. 
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_ There may be as much mystery in a 
molecule as in a star; there is more in 
either than we can comprehend; to de- 
‘spise the small and insignificant is no 
mark of a great mind. 
It is often hard to say what is great 
and what is little; a great deal depends on 
the view-point; from the top of Mount 
Washington many of the inequalities of 
the valleys below are unnoticeable; so 
must be with many of our distinctions 
and comparisons to a Mind that is over 
all. 
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Missions do not need the endorsement 
of men like President Taft and Mr. 
Bryan, but now that they have it so 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
in order for small critics, whether globe- 
trotters or stay-at-homes, to hide their 
diminished heads. 
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Some persons have a way of being 
positive and dogmatic, whatever the sub- 
ject under discussion; and when the sub- 
jectis an unimportant and insignificant 
one their positiveness and dogmatism be- 
come ridiculous: 
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To acknowledge other people’s merit 
without grudging, to give to all their due, 
to praise where praise is. deserved, to 
stand aside that others may have pre- 
cedence, distinguishes the large and _ lib- 
eral mind from the small and selfish one. 
After a breakfast at which the brilliant 
essayist had monopolized most of the 
talk in his usual downright and impera- 
tive manner, Lord Cockburn said to .a 
friend, “‘ I would be glad if I could be 
as cocksure of one thing as Tom Mac- 
aulay is of everything.’’ Exactly; but one 
who assumes to pronounce upon every- 
thing in an ex-cathedra and dictatorial 
way should be possessed of omniscience. 
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A thought, like a jewel, depends 
greatly on its setting; it should neither be 
encased in paltry metal nor overpowered 
by distracting gold. The multiplicity or 
brilliancy of words must not dwarf the 
idea; on the other hand the thought 
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word. Pope and Swift with their har- 
monious couplets are a warning against 
the subordinating of the jewel to the set- 
ting; Browning and Tennyson may 
serve as ideal literary lapidaries in ~ their 
delicate adjustment of the two; to these 
some would add George Meredith’ 
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Whether sorrows come single spies 
or in battallions, they are what most of 
us would probably be kept from altogeth- 
er; but it is doubtful whether this would 
be the best thing for us, whether some- 
thing of the bitter mingled with the sweet 
of life is not for our best well-being; the 
fact that troubles of some kind are so 
universal would seem to prove that it is 
so; and experience shows that “‘ often- 
times celestial benedictions assume this 
dark disguise.’’ 
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A living writer tells us of ‘‘ The light 
that failed;’’ but we had been told long 
before by a high authority of a light that 
never failed—the light of wisdom, the 
light of truth, the light of life; and yet 
men are eonunually shutting their eyes 
and saying they see no such light, and go 
stumbling on in their darkness; but thank 
God, the sun shines forthose who will 
look up and see it and rejoice in it. 
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