The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-01-28
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
CLUB MEETING
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he might step into their shoes so as to
pIod on DR.. Lancaster, the dean of
Magdalene college. learned of the boys /
ability and he being anxious to help I
such as he, he asked him to his office I
and was so charmed that he placed him
in the college under free scholarship, |
where he remained as student and tu-
tor for ten years, afterwards elected |
fellow. He was a man who sought |
to do one thing well and the world
generally gives its laurels not to the |
man who does what others cannot do
but to the man who does best what
most do we'll
He was a man of conviction, and not
afraid to express himself; friend or foe,
never caused him to pass compliment
upon anything anyone If he did not
approve of what was brought to his
notice.
To him time, was Gods greatest gift,
for while travelling abroad, living like
a tramp. he was storing up a vast
amount of knowledge. even while weary
and sitting down to rest he was re-
arranging notes taken from objects of
interest He thought out his play
(Cato) while travelling over the noun
tains and resting amid the SHOWS Of
Switzerland. Without high birth and
with very little property he rose to a
place that dukes and lords would do
well to fill, undoubtedly the most popu-
lar man of his time.
He studied men. In this be became
so skillful that his judgment as to
human worth seldom failed. This vast
store of knowledge of all classes and
shades of society, combined with a
vivid imagination second only to
Shakespeare, made his success impera-
tive as a writer. He reached the hearts
of all classes.
| He was original; he initiated none
and none could initiate him. His motto
seemed to be the Golden Rule" for
none could induce him to return rail
ing for railing. In this his humanity
is without a parallel. When Pope
| flung his vile arrow of sarcastic criti-
cism at him in the form of poem and
scattered it abroad like the leaves of
autumn, his most dear friends begged
him to make an answer. but he replied:
If we could read the secret history of
our enemies we would find in each
mans breast sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm us of all hostility.
He was oft heard to say, AS life goes
on we find little time to think and
| less " 6pSdh VI tIb ldQAlS VI
others, for all are faulty; some more
faulty and none faultless, and it takes
so much time to find excuses for 9TH
ers that we have no time to make ex-
cuses for our failures
He was a true philosophers to
self-control. He trained himself to
have great foresight and presence of
mind, ever laborIng to rule himself.
When he lost his position and fortune
his friends came to console, expecting
to find him respondent, but instead he
said: Ny spirits are as good as ever
He could lay aside his pen and dismiss
every care and thought of labor from
his mind and enter into the festivities
of an evening at a mansion or at the
coffee house as though he had never
had a care. A cheerful temper Joined
with innocence will make beauty at
tractive, knowledge delightful and wit
good natured. 1t will tighten sickness
poverty and affection; convert ignor-
ance into an amiable simplicity and
render deformity itself agreeable His
: above words were best borne out as an
expression of his own heart, for even
though all who knew him best were
aware that his domestic life was faI
r from being happy, yet never a refec-
: life.
S 1T is no marvel that one who lived
, so close to the heart of God and hum
h anity could move all England and the
q world with his simple stories, and tina
his hands possessed such a golden toucl
f in this sphere that he laid them upor
t the Spectator, a worthless magazin,
with a disheartened editor, and almos
d in a fortnight 1t sprang into a living
Il journal of 1000 circulation daily
He had no creed but the Fatherhoo'
:, of God and the brotherhood of man
. He believed in charity. the most pre-
cious of all gems, and that it onl.
could cover a multitude of sins.
In his voyage to Italy, when tn
ship was gliding along the Ligurial
gulf and great storm came up and al
thought they would perish. this quie
man of letters retired to the cabin 0
y the ship and humbly called upon Go
I in prayer. The storm ceased and AID
| olson looked upon that day as one i
which the hand of Providence was es
pecially felt.
when he was about 10 die he Gale
- his friends about him, and after re
peating the xXIII. Psalm, he said: Sc
. how a Christian can die'?"