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SAPIENT ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS
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1923-1924.

he was! I recall the day when the Armistice was
signed overtaking him as he made his way down town
with that peculiar swaying motion which some of
us at least had learned to love. One son had been
in the horrors of St. Julian, and was in active service
to the last; a second had been wounded in
the arm and taken out of the line; a third had been
dangerously wounded, taken prisoner and interned in
Switzerland. These things were all passing through
his mind as he said, taking me by the arm, that
we had great cause for thankfulness that the War was over.

"Even his intimate friends were at times astonished
at the extent of his interest in affairs, lively and keen
to the very last. He had been connected with the
Children's Aid Society, Sabbath Day Observance and
Prison Reform. He had been through stirring political
times in Kingston, coming into close personal
contact with such men as Sir John A. Macdonald,
Sir Oliver Mowat and others. He must surely be
a rare man on whom such men as Sir John A.
Macdonald and Principal Grant wished to depend.
His mind was a rich storehouse of anecdotes, which
he told with wonderful relish. Indeed I sometimes
think that there are a few pages of Canadian history
which will never now be written just because he has
not recorded his reminiscences. His peacefulness

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