Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton.

  • Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
1917
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Credit: Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VI Lord of the Ages 1 Thine Is the far-traced design That blends earth’s mighty Past with her To-be. Slowly the web unrolls, And only wisest souls Some curves of Thine enwoven cipher see j Power fades and glory wanes But the Unseen remains. Thither draw Thou our hearts and let them rest in Thee. APPENDIX IV A NORTHUMBRIAN SAINT By Harold Anson (From The Commonwealth, June 1913) The Commonwealth can hardly pass by without a word the death of so great an Englishman as Thomas Hodgkin, for indeed it would be difficult to find a nobler example of that kind of character which we should like to think was typical of English Christianity. It is indeed a rare thing to find a man who is at once keen and successful in business, an historian and scholar of the first rank, a noble type of country gentleman, a lover of Peace, and an ardent and passionate upholder of all great social and philan¬ thropic causes. Dr. Hodgkin was all of these, and there must be many who knew him in one or other capacity who were quite unconscious of his excellence in other walks of life of which they themselves had no experience, and yet, beyond all this there was something for which those who knew Dr. Hodgkin even a little loved him more and held him in greater reverence. He was surely the type of English mysticism at its best. We have become familiar of late years, as we used not to be, with the great mystics of mediaeval times, St. John of the Cross, St. Catherine of Genoa, St. Francis, and St. Ignatius. We realise and revere their greatness, and yet many of us surely feel that their lives leave us convinced that for us there must be a way of following Christ which is different from theirs. We reverence them for their sanctity, for their marvellous intuition of God,