The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell.

  • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Date:
1930
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    handing the torch to you, who are bursting with greater potential for the race than ever I had, and I am trying to say Moriturus vos saluto. The glorious prerogative of youth is that the future lies ever in its hands. It was old Seneca who said that what youth needs most is some personality to imitate and follow. He suggested Socrates. The world to-day prefers the Teacher of St. Andrew. It is an odd thing that immediately the name of Christ is mentioned, an audience at once says to itself, “ Now we are in for a sermon,5’ in the spirit of the boy who, after listening to his father preach on “ It is more blessed to give than to receive,” asked him afterwards, “ Did you really mean that, dad, or were you only preaching ? ” It may relieve your minds to know that life has left me no chance to devote time to psychology or theology, or to B
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