A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV. FREDERIC B. DUVAL, D.D. 
 
 PASTOR KNOX CHURCH 
 WINNIPEG 
 
 AND MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 IN CANADA 
 
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A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV. FREDERIC B. DUVAL, D.D. 
 
 PASTOR KNOX CHURCH 
 WINNIPEG 
 
 AND MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 IN CANADA 
 
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 “ The life was the light of men.” John i., 
 
 0 Thou, the only holy life, 
 
 Ordained the light of men to be, 
 
 1 turn from all my mental strife, 
 
 And pray Thee to enlighten me. 
 
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 Through all the avenues of earth 
 My soul has wandered in its quest 
 Of lasting good, but finds a dearth, 
 
 And meekly turns to Thee for rest. 
 
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 There is a spirit all men feel, 
 
 A mystic form they could not trace, 
 
 A kinship needful to their weal 
 That lingered long with veiled face,- — 
 
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 This heavenly kinship, gracious Lord, 
 
 In Thy pure life, I fain would see ; 
 This hidden glory, long adored, 
 
 Thou dost in love reveal to me. 
 
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 It lights the way to life divine, 
 
 And strength affords to walk therein ; 
 It upward draws to love like Thine, 
 And purifies the heart from sin. 
 
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 With sorrow for the worthless past, 
 
 I turn repentant toward Thy way; 
 
 With chastened hope of peace at last. 
 
 I'll walk with Thee, my light and stay. 
 
 — Frederic B. DuVal. 
 

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 For nearly twenty-one years, the Rev. Dr. DuVal 
 has been the minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, 
 Winnipeg. This city is the commercial, educational and 
 political capital of Western Canada ; and Knox is the cathedral 
 church of the portion of the Dominion in which it is located. 
 It isi, with one exception, the oldest Presbyterian church in the 
 country, the wealthiest and most influential. In its philan- 
 thropic work it has sought to set a mark for other Presbyterian 
 churches in the West. 
 
 On his arrival in the city of Winnipeg, in the spring of 
 1888, Dr. DuVal immediately assumed a prominent position, 
 both by reason of the position to which he had been called and 
 his own great gifts and endowments. His ability in public 
 address was immediately recognized. It was also at once 
 apparent that he was a man of sound judgment, of unselfish 
 spirit, of the highest purpose, of extensive learning, sympa- 
 thetic and kind at heart. Such was the opinion formed of him 
 Iwenty-one years ago by the most cultured people of the city, 
 cmd in the period which has since passed he has risen steadily 
 in the esteem and regard of the members of his congregation 
 and of the general public. In all matters relating to the 
 administration of the Church in Canada his judgment is 
 received with the deepest respect. 
 
 During the entire period of his pastorate in Winnipeg he 
 has been a leader in every good cause, and prominent in all 
 matters relating to the public welfare. His appeal for con- 
 formity to a higher standard in public and private life has 
 been constant and unwavering. In all his work he has had 
 the cordial support of his congregation, and he has won 
 a large circle of devoted friends. He has occupied many 
 positions of trust, responsibility and honor, and his election in 
 1908 to the position of Moderator was universally recognized 
 
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 as a fitting tribute to the value of his services to the city and 
 country in which he lives. 
 
 He is appointed to address the Pan-Presbyterian Council in 
 New York on Home Missions in Canada, and later he will 
 represent the Presbyterian Church in Canada at the cere- 
 monies connected with the observance of the four hundredth 
 anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, in Geneva. 
 
 A native of Maryland, of Huguenot and Scotch origin, 
 Dr. DuVal was graduated from Princeton College in 1872, in 
 the honor-roll of his class, with gold medals for oratory and 
 debate, and First Prize for Bible Scholarship, on examination 
 in a four years lecture course by President McCosh. 
 
 Before graduating from the Theological Seminary in 1875, 
 he received a call to three pulpits. Settling in the First Pres- 
 byterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, he soon won, as 
 newspaper references of the time indicate, “golden opinions 
 as a preacher and pastor, showing great depth of thought, 
 which marks him as an able minister and one destined to take 
 high rank among Presbyterian divines.” 
 
 From Guyot he had caught the idea that the glory of God 
 was seen best in the perfection of human character. This set 
 the key-note of his life. All the grace of God, all truth 
 written and unwritten, were concentrated here. As the Presby- 
 terian Encyclopedia of the time said : “He wove truth into the 
 warp and woof of practical life.” 
 
 In addition to his congregational work in Wilmington, he 
 was manager of the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty,” 
 and instituted a lectureship in Medico-Morals, for the instruc- 
 tion of young men in selBpreservation — all of this giving him 
 wide influence on the city’s weal. 
 
 After declining earlier calls, to Boston and San Jose, Cali- 
 fornia, finally, with the deep love of his people and the repu- 
 tation of being “a ripe scholar, a diligent student, earnest and 
 indefatigable in his work,” he accepted a call to Toledo, Ohio. 
 The printed sermons and lectures which appeared in the press 
 of Toledo, Columbus and Cleveland indicate a greatly increas- 
 ing strength. The local circumstances, materialistic indiffer- 
 ence, leading to a disregard of the spiritual springs of great- 
 ness fired the Huguenot blood. “Making Haste to be Rich.” 
 
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 “A Nation’s Duty,” and “The Purpose of the Sabbath,” are 
 some of the subjects the treatment of wdiich seemed to go to 
 the heart of human well-being. The press of Columbus spoke 
 of his address to a thousand representatives of the State 
 Y.M.C.A. Convention as “holding the audience spellbound 
 for an hour and a half.” The Cleveland press, the following 
 year, upon a similar occasion, characterized him as “a won- 
 derful man, a finished and powerful speaker.” 
 
 Eleven years after his ordination, the University of 
 Wooster, in recognition and congratulation of his “studious 
 habits, scholarly attainments, and distinguished success in his 
 chosen work,” conferred upon him, while still minister of 
 Toledo, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. At this time the 
 Canadian Northwest was beginning to discover its resources, 
 and to feel its way into the doubtful problems of Empire 
 building. It was looking for men of energy, with prophetic 
 insight and force of character, to guide its affairs. The Rev. 
 Dr. Daniel M. Gordon, now Principal of Queen’s University, 
 having resigned the charge of Knox Church, Winnipeg, Dr. 
 DuVal was called to succeed. From the many columns of 
 references in the press to his departure from Toledo, the final 
 sentence is quoted : — “The cause of Christianity in Toledo 
 loses one of its strongest supporters in the departure of Dr. 
 DuVal, but this is at least measurably compensated for by the 
 reflection that he goes to a field of greater usefulness, one 
 where it is believed greater good can be accomplished.” 
 
 His reception in Winnipeg, the capital of North-West 
 British America, was all that a generous people could make it 
 or a generous heart could expect. He met hard problems 
 from the beginning, and the spirit in which he faced them can 
 be best learned from the press report of the first meeting of 
 the St. Andrew’s Society, which he addressed : — “His speech 
 breathed forth the very genius of pioneerhood, and he showed 
 conclusively that it required an American to come and point 
 out that Winnipeg was the geographical centre of North 
 America.” His prophecies on that occasion have been more 
 than fulfilled. 
 
 During the years which have since passed, Dr. DuVal has 
 encountered the problems incidental to the up-building of a 
 
new country. The features of strength which were manifest 
 in the bud in earlier years here grew into power ; and evidences 
 of his Christocentrie thought during this period will be read 
 in the following lines on the Advent (Gal. iv., 4-5) : 
 
 ®{je EeiJeeming lorb 
 
 The world had long in darkness lain ; 
 
 It struggled with itself in vain 
 
 To find the way to light. 
 
 Great souls seemed bound in mystic shrouds ; 
 
 Their cherished hopes were dreams and clouds ; 
 
 Their dwelling was the night. 
 
 Philosophy had bowed its head; 
 
 Its vision sometimes caught the dread 
 
 Of darkness more profound. 
 
 But some pure souls saw, through the night, 
 
 The halo of a distant light, 
 
 That gave to hope a ground. 
 
 And when the ages’ course had run, 
 
 From out the Orient, like the sun, 
 
 A wondrous life did rise — 
 
 A life that angels from above, 
 
 In strains of deep, obedient love, 
 
 Exalted to the skies. 
 
 No rabbi did His speech indite; 
 
 He had no need of borrowed light ; 
 
 His life was light and grace — 
 
 The image of the living God, 
 
 Ordained in Heaven to be the Lord 
 
 And Savior of the race. 
 
 He came, Himself the Father’s dower, 
 
 With full authority and power 
 
 To break the oppressor’s rod. 
 
 He came the Spirit to impart, 
 
 To purify, enrich the heart, 
 
 And make us sons of God. 
 
 With joy let all His advent sing, 
 
 And let the heavens with echoes ring 
 
 To our redeeming Lord. 
 
 Yea, let His name, o’er land and sea, 
 
 By every tribe and kindred, be 
 
 Eternally adored. 
 
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 With the duties of preacher and pastor, he has been com- 
 pelled to unite the spirit of the publicist. The well-being of 
 the people for time and eternity has been ever before his mind. 
 As member of the Board of Manitoba College, and the 
 Council of the University ; as the examiner of ministerial can- 
 didates and the chairman of the Citizens’ Committee on Morals 
 he has been put to the front in public questions, in the pulpit 
 and 1 on the platform. His. discussion of the relation of Church 
 and State to public education in 1891 forms a part ;of the vol- 
 ume of the history of the abolition of separate schools in Mani- 
 toba. His address on the constitutionality of Prohibition 
 before the Prohibition Convention, in 1894, laid down the 
 principle that in the development of the British Constitution 
 from the reign of Henry II., “the people had been increasingly 
 looked upon as a power, capable, through their representatives, 
 of making and unmaking, according to the general rights of 
 mankind, and the original compact of society.” And again, 
 that “the struggling mind and heart of our race has brought 
 triumphantly to the top this gre,at principle, ‘The good of the 
 people is the supreme law/ ” The positions he took in respect 
 to the Colonial and Provincial rights of British subjects were, 
 a few years later, fully sustained by the Privy Council. In 
 1902, when the country feared that the Government was in- 
 sincere in its relation to the temperance legislation that had 
 been approved by the Privy Council, in the presence of an 
 audience of anxious citizens that packed the Parliament House, 
 Dr. DuVial, representing the ministers and the temperance 
 people of the Province, made to the Government what was 
 universally judged the strongest speech ever delivered in the 
 Legislative Hall. Upon questions of Moral Prophylaxis he 
 is looked upon as authority. In the Montreal press, during 
 the debates in the General Assembly of 1907, he was spoken 
 of as “the Nestor from Winnipeg.” 
 
 The crowning feature of his life, so far, was the spirit in 
 which he was called to the Moderator’s chair in the General 
 Assembly, and the manner in which he fills it. With reference 
 to his nomination to this high office, the editor of the Presby- 
 terian wrote “Presbytery after presbytery” (more than half 
 in the whole Church, including one in the Foreign Mission 
 
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 Field) “proposed his name for the highest office in the 
 Church’s gift.” His choice, therefore, upon the motion of Dr. 
 Bryce, seconded by Judge Forbes, was by acclamation. 
 
 His welcome to the Assembly was in the following lines : 
 
 Welcome to tfje (general Hesemtilp 
 
 From where the Atlantic’s raucle roar 
 Breaks on its bold, resisting shore, 
 
 To where Pacific’s milder wave 
 The mountain’s base doth gently lave ; 
 
 From prairie, hill and valley green, 
 
 Across the great lake’s silver sheen, 
 
 You come, once sons of prince and thrall, 
 
 But now the sons of freemen all. 
 
 You gather to the middle west, 
 
 The heart of Canada, the blest; 
 
 The land by God’s good bounty fed 
 Upon the sweetest of His bread ; 
 
 The land that never will deny 
 To toiling hands a full supply, 
 
 Nor from their children e’er remove 
 The fondest hopes of home and love. 
 
 You gather in the month of June, 
 
 When flowers bloom and birds attune 
 Their friendly voices to prolong 
 Their gratitude in summer song; 
 
 When generous sun and kindly rain 
 Make bright and fertile our domain, 
 Inspiring men with tempered cheer 
 Until the harvest doth appear. 
 
 You, chosen men with high intent, 
 
 To counsel for the Churches sent, 
 
 We welcome with an open door, 
 
 And on you blessings rich implore ; 
 
 That through your wisdom, faith and love, 
 And gracious favor from above, 
 
 The Church may strive with heart and hand 
 To plant the Cross in every land. 
 
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 His conduct of the Assembly was characterized by the lead- 
 ing members as that of a “master — skilful, urbane and kindly ; 
 with unfailing ability to get the correct view-point of every 
 question in debate, with happy self-repression, sustained day af- 
 ter day, with an even princely dignity.” Apparently, according 
 to the critics, his discharge of the duties of this high office was 
 without a flaw, so that he was termed the “Model Moderator.” 
 Of his work at this meeting of the Assembly, Professbr 
 Cappon, the literary critic of Queen’s University, wrote in the 
 Quarterly : “Throughout the proceedings, the personality of 
 the Moderator, the Rev. Dr. DuVal, of Winnipeg, was felt, 
 controlling procedure and' discussion in a decisive and pleas- 
 antly firm way. Possessed of a clear, resonant voice, and an 
 emphatic manner of speech, he interposed, from time to time, 
 very effectively, when the limits of debate or the procedure 
 threatened to range out of order, but always with perfect fair- 
 ness to all sides. A quick, acute, logical mind, which could 
 define the disputed rights of an amendment to an amendment 
 of an amendment, without a moment’s hesitation, and with all 
 the lucidity the case was capable of receiving.” 
 
 At this meeting of the Assembly, Dr. DuVal was appointed 
 to represent the Presbyterian Church in Canada at the Ter- 
 centenary celebration of the founding of Canada, in Quebec. 
 On this occasion, in an informal address to Earl Grey, he said : 
 “In the name of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, I con- 
 gratulate your Excellency upon the enlightened statesmanship 
 that did not allow this occasion to appear as a mere Church 
 parade, a Quebec demonstration, nor even a Dominion cele- 
 bration; but that you have given it, as it deserved, an im- 
 perial dignity and an international importance that will 
 exercise an influence on the spirit of international law. Who 
 can look through this great gateway to the Atlantic 
 and think of the conflicts that raged beyond the Atlantic, 
 without concluding that the Almighty opened it as a means 
 of escape for humanity into a betterment of life.” After 
 replying, His Excellency expressed a wish that Dr. DuVal 
 should make a statement, personally, to Lord Roberts, of the 
 thoughts and ideas which he had just expressed to him. 
 
 The sermon of the Moderator, given at Quebec, was re- 
 
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 ceived with the highest commendation and praise for its subject 
 matter, its aptness and its spirit. The editor of the Quebec 
 Chronicle stated it to be “the finest discourse he had ever 
 heard.” In all the subsequent functions, as Moderator, Dr. 
 DuVal has fully maintained the dignity of his high office. At 
 the late induction of the Principal of Knox College, the Toronto 
 press stated : “Dr. DuVal thrilled the audience in an address on 
 the duty of Knox College towards the young men who are 
 preparing for the ministry.” 
 
 Ever keeping to the fore his idea that all truth is to be 
 made tributary to the perfection of man, he pointed the patlv 
 way through the gradation of the sciences up to theology ; 
 through Nature up to Nature’s help and saving grace. 
 
 He lives with the age. As it was said on the reception of 
 his second degree of Doctor of Divinity in Toronto : “He unites 
 the spirit of science and philosophy, the spirit of the theologian 
 and the statesman, with poetic fervor, in the preacher and 
 prophet.” 
 
 From his sermon on the occasion of the Tercentenary 
 special services in Quebec we quote the close : — 
 
 “The highest ideals for common weal must be maintained. 
 All low party spirit that seeks by cunning ways to gain its own 
 and not its country’s good, must be frowned upon. All mock 
 patriotism, that Johnson saw could become ‘the last refuge of 
 a scoundrel,’ all talk of dying for one’s country while fattening 
 on its commissariat, must be met with contempt. The proof 
 of love is seen in sacrifice. To live nobly is to attain the great- 
 est wealth. This truth is regnant in the Government of God. 
 No other law secures good government to men. Across the 
 altar of whole sacrifice De Monts, Champlain, Montcalm and 
 Wolfe reached the niche of fame, and now sleep well, beneath 
 the garland memories of a grateful people’s love. 
 
 Fathers, in your business ; mothers, in your homes ; 
 teachers, in your halls; statesmen, in your Parliaments; 
 ministers of grace, in your pulpits — you are weaving the 
 character of the future. Go down from this Mount of Privi- 
 lege with hearts full-set to weave it well ; not only for self- 
 preservation, but to bear the strain of coming international 
 obligations. Canada and the United States hold this side of 
 
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 the ocean that washes the shores of the strongest peoples of 
 Asia. When the world meant the discovered parts of Europe. 
 Asia and Africa, the little Mediterranean was the sea of 
 power. In the course of Providence, it yielded to the Atlantic. 
 So will the Atlantic yield to the Pacific, and the powers ad- 
 jacent will be called to settle its problems. Problems great 
 will require a great people to solve. In the light of this 
 future, it is painful to witness in the United States and 
 Canada the waste of material, intellectual and moral re- 
 source, that will be needed in the future to measure up 
 against world powers. 
 
 “ ‘But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and 
 things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.' 
 Shall we not catch the self-sacrificing spirit of the fathers, 
 whose deeds we celebrate, to maintain the heritage bequeathed 
 to us, for human good? We stand on vantage ground of 
 sacred memories. Around these walls and over these elevated 
 plains there have been contests in other days ; but now garlands 
 of honor to the heroic virtues of the contestants intertwine 
 upon their common monument, and the perfume of their 
 blended memories to-day is grateful to their common posterity. 
 No more humanizing impulse could have been given to the 
 spirit of international law ; no more deliqate tint to the glory of 
 the reign of Victoria the Good ; no better guard of strength to 
 the reign of Edward the Seventh. ; no surer seal to the wisdom 
 of the governmental policy of Great Britain ; nothing more in 
 harmony with the aim of Christian civilization. And I bless 
 the Providence of God that enables these words to be uttered 
 by one in whose veins mingles the blood of both the powers 
 that contested the dominion of this continent. As in the roll- 
 ing of a river the rougher rocks are smoothed, so in the stream 
 of time the asperities of men are worn away. The Scottish 
 clans that once with claymores clove each other’s skulls, now 
 stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of common good. So 
 it is for the lasting glory of our institutions that different 
 nationalities, blending here under the same flag, can follow the 
 leading of God for the common good of man. 
 
 “May this significant gathering in Quebec prove to be the 
 seal and security of the fact that the settlement effected here 
 
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 was a forward movement of Divine Providence towards the 
 highest well-being of the race. 
 
 ‘‘As a nation we are only beginning life, and need to pray 
 
 O God, who through the struggles past 
 Didst faithful fathers lead aright, 
 
 With Thy full panoply and power, 
 
 Arm us, their children, for the fight. 
 
 For now life’s battle we begin ; 
 
 Our youth, unused to conflict sore, 
 Aspires great victories to win, 
 
 As did the Saints in days of yore. 
 
 Teach us the pure alone are strong ; 
 
 That sons of virtue are a tower ; 
 
 That right must ever conquer wrong ; 
 Before the holy, sin must cower. 
 
 Then fill us with courageous grace, 
 
 And rev’rence for our Rock of Might; 
 That one a thousand foes may chase, 
 
 And two ten thousand put to flight. 
 
 So let the Ark of God arise ; 
 
 The holy standard forward move ; 
 
 With souls exultant to the skies 
 The children will their valiance prove. 
 
 Till o’er the world, by God’s right hand, 
 His kingdom shall established be; 
 
 His saving love rule every land, 
 
 And breathe its peace on every sea. 
 
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 Out of many poetic productions we have taken the follow 
 ing as exhibiting the development of the philosophic tenden 
 cies of Dr. DuVal’s mind: — 
 
 a tLabp 
 
 (To a lady who bitterly complained of the injustice and 
 cruelty of God for taking away a little friend, 
 on whom she had spent much time, 
 money and complacent love.) 
 
 Come, bear with me until a long-tried parent's heart. 
 
 From which have fallen drops of blood in sacrifice, 
 Attempts to teach thee some divine philosophy. 
 
 The single human form I love and that loves me, 
 
 Is not the greatest thought in this vast universe ; 
 
 E’en human love can reach beyond the personal. 
 
 The Spartan mother to her best loved son could say, 
 
 As he went forth, his country’s honor to defend ; 
 
 If thou return at all, behind the victor’s shield 
 Stand thou, or on it let them bear thy body, brave 
 In death, unto thy mother’s loving heart and home. 
 
 And she will bless the gods, that such a son was born 
 Of her, as did not love this mortal life so well, 
 
 As to withhold it from his> country’s altar dear. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 The spirit of the patriot this, you say. But learn, 
 
 There is a love far wider, deeper still than this ; 
 
 A love that fits the need of this wide universe ; 
 
 That does not stay itself upon a single heart, 
 
 Nor bound its sacrifice with any nation’s pride. 
 
 God loved the World, and gave for it His only Son, 
 Eternally beloved. And yet you hard complain 
 Of justice here outraged, because a little flower, 
 
 That rested on thy bosom love, was snatched away. 
 
 I know you not, except as from your bleeding pen, 
 
 Your thoughts lie scattered on, the painful page; 
 
 But there you speak of interests none in this wide world. 
 Apart from those that centred in one little life. 
 
 Would’st thou in passion break e’en Nature’s seemly mould. 
 In which the Spartan mother’s noble heart was cast? 
 Re-write the Gospel : tell all men the earth abroad 
 That God so loved His only Son that He could not, 
 
 In justice give Him up to save a dying world? 
 
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 In this perversion of the truth, your love, you’ll see, 
 
 Is strangely out of harmony with love divine. 
 
 You almost deem God cruel in the course He takes, 
 
 To widen, deepen and enrich the soul of man. 
 
 The Master asks no more of thee than of Himself. 
 
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 By way of Golgotha the throne of love is reached. 
 
 Except a grain of wheat fall in the ground and die, 
 
 It bides alone — and this your grief, your sad complaint — 
 ‘‘Since she is gone, I no one love, and none loves me." 
 
 Dear soul, learn this, th’ unloving heart can ne’er be blessed ; 
 Because ’tis not at one with God, whose love enswathes 
 The world, and causes sun to rise and rain to fall 
 Upon the just and unjust lots of men, that both 
 The evil and the good, from fountains fathomless. 
 
 May drink the good of God that leads men to repent. 
 
 Into this ocean breadth and depth of love divine, 
 
 Away from self and selfish love, the Lord of life 
 Is leading thee to taste a sweetness else unknown. 
 
 The bitter comes before the sweet in life and death. 
 
 The sweat for bread we pay, and blood for character. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 ’Tis hard, I know, to pay the price of excellence. 
 
 So feels the sullen child at school, but mother love 
 Will hold it to the trial, hard though it may be, 
 
 Until the furnace fines the mind from baser dross, 
 
 And lifts her cherished image into dignity. 
 
 How else can such a child be weaned from childish things? 
 Love hath its school and discipline no less than intellect, 
 
 And we should magnify the parent love of God, 
 
 That cuts our childish ties from mere complacent things, 
 
 To educate the soul in what is best, 
 
 That we may clothe ourselves in character divine. 
 
 So only can we walk with God, full-robed in white ; 
 
 For none together walk except they do agree. 
 
 And hitherto your love, unlike His love, has been 
 A mere delight in something pleasant to your taste. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 But God so loved the world, unlovely in its sin, 
 
 And gave His Son, the Loved, the unlovely to redeem. 
 
 The test of love divine is seen in sacrifice; 
 
 No other test than this befits humanity. 
 
 This lesson deep, the harder learned in later life, 
 
 The faithful Father yet must teach His suffering child, 
 
 That she may perfect be in love, that casts out fear, 
 
 Of which you sore complain as clouding everything. 
 
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 Then bow thy head, dear soul, in sweet humility, 
 
 And learn the lesson here thy Father has to teach. 
 
 Go forth of self, the spirit of the Christ imbibe, 
 
 Who thought equality with God no prize to be retained 
 Compared with lowly service in a suffering world. 
 
 The Father therefore Him exalted high, 
 
 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
 
 In loving adoration all the world around. 
 
 Go forth with Christ to humblv serve each suffering heart, 
 And this will light to life, and love and joy impart. 
 
 So lifted up above the childhood of your race, 
 
 You shall, through suffering, fruits of love divine embrace. 
 
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 As indicative of his sympathy with nature, a short poem, 
 written during a trip to the Pacific Coast, is quoted. Feeling 
 that we can only express what we experience, he 
 placed himself on an exposed rock, jutting into the ocean, at 
 Point Lobos, California, until a raging storm passed into a 
 calm, and under the impression wrote these lines : — 
 
 tEf)e ©cean 
 
 Roll on, old ocean, roll ! 
 
 Thy waves’ majestic power, 
 
 In this dark threatening hour, 
 
 Makes all the land to cower 
 Before thy rage. 
 
 Roll on, old ocean, roll ! 
 
 But I’ll not fear to stand 
 Upon this rock-ribbed land. 
 
 Upon this trembling strand, 
 
 And hear thy roar. 
 
 Roll on, old ocean, roll ! 
 
 A power far more renowned 
 Hath set for thee thy bound, 
 
 And compassed thee around 
 With bars and doors. 
 
 Roll on, old ocean, roll ! 
 
 The continents, thy cage, 
 
 Through all the hoary age, 
 
 Have curbed thy passion’s rage, 
 
 Roar on, roar on. 
 
 Roll on, old ocean, roll ! 
 
 I’ll listen on thy verge; 
 
 There’s music in thy surge, 
 
 A deeply solemn dirge. 
 
 Eternity. 
 
 More gently, ocean, roll ! 
 
 The storm is passing by; 
 
 The Lord of sea and sky, 
 
 In majesty draws nigh, 
 
 Now softly roll. 
 
 With reverence, ocean, roll ! 
 
 A voice comes from above, 
 
 The voice of peace and love; 
 
 ’Tis softer than the dove. 
 
 Now cease thy roll. 
 

 
 
 
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