In Memoriam, Frederick William Holls (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from In Memoriam, Frederick William Holls The sudden death of Mr. Holls brought distress to a very wide circle, not only of his friends, but his followers - one might say to his pupils - who did not know him personally. Indeed, we have had no other instance which illustrated, as his life did, the "public duty of a private citizen." He had resolutely withdrawn himself from what is called public office, but at the same time he knew that the People rule America, and he knew that no sovereign is worth a straw unless on any occasion he is in the saddle, foremost among those who rule. And so it is that in what are called the private charities, because they are not taken care of by political appointments, he was ready to be at the helm or at the bow, wherever he might be needed most. Thus it was that while he was the counselor most beloved, the first sought for in the most important questions of diplomacy, at the same time he was the adviser who knew best what was to be done in the humblest charities of city life. "He was the companion of princes and he stood unawed before kings." And the same man who knew how to teach, knew how to instruct a widow in an attic in New York how she should take care of her children. What is more, he understood that he was serving the Good God, whose child he was, as completely in the one case as in the other. It was then simply a matter of course that with the tidings of his death there came a chill and a tearful regret, and even anxiety, as to the great duties in which he was engaged - how in this enterprise or in that for the coming of the kingdom of God the endeavors which he directed could go forward without his visible presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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