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[Letterhead - Top] SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

1902-03

policy in Home and Foreign Mission work.
Coming from St. Matthew's Church, Halifax, in 1877, to assume
the Principalship of Queen's University, he quickly inspired
Professors, Students and friends of the University
with something of his own faith and hope. With indomit-
able courage he set himself to the task of securing
buildings, endowment, and an enlarged staff of teachers;
and the Queen's University of today, the great
educational centre for Eastern Ontario, a potent factor
in the educational life of the whole Dominion, embodies
the result of this effort.
A writer, with decided literary gifts; a preacher, with
a method and message of his own; a statesman, who
beleived that the principles of Christianity should
permeate every part of the body politic; a College
President of great administration ability, he was perhaps
greatest as a teacher and leader of young men.
Whether winning men to enthusiastic reception of his
opinions, or rousing them to oppose, he flooded the
subject with new light, and compelled men to think.
Those, who sat under him in the class-room, testify to the
comprehensive grasp and brilliancy of his mind, and
count his personal influence the greatest factor in their
training for the Christian Ministry.
His monument will not be the building that is to bear his
name,

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