The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell.

  • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Date:
1930
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Credit: The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patron saint of Scotland, while Judas’s spirit brought him to contumely and the gallows. Let us thank God that St. Andrew was the commonest type of mankind. Most of us are not born either leaders or geniuses. Both of course are valuable, though genius per se is apt to isolate one from one’s fellows. It is well said that “ God must have great use for the average man : He made so many of them.” Again, our fisherman Saint had no social position, and scarcely a “ bawbee.” I expect that his material assets were less than those of the least of us here to-day ; yet no part of the world has yet elected for its patron saint any plutocrat, not even so great a philanthropist as our Andrew Carnegie. Lincoln, the rail splitter, is fast becoming the patron saint of America. The world of Andrew’s day rated it at less than no importance whether a group of fishermen followed
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