Address Delivered At the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of the Late Rev N
Address Delivered At the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of the Late Rev N
Mortimer Blake
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His personal abilities and his public usefulness. Such a distinction should be made, because an individual's usefulness depends much upon external circumstances, often beyond his control. Menial and moral excellence will, ordinarily, work their way upwards from the depressions of an humble station, and render themselves conspicu- ous. But sometimes they remain buried in obscurity, and their existence is never known. The reflections of Gray in the churchyard of Stoke Pogeis are apposite in any o...ther churchyard. ' Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ' We honor intellectual endowments as we do the work of God ; for they are His pure gift. But when the servant, to whom God has entrusted talents, has diligently employed them in the service of his master, we cannot withhold from him the well-earned enco- mium, ' Well done, good and faithful servant.
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