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Another work of the good deacon's hand a reduced likeness of his friend Captain Hunnewell, holding a telescope and quadrant may be seen to this day, at the corner of Broad and State streets, serving in the useful capacity of sign to the shop of a nautical instrument maker.
Steering northward from New Zealand over a thousand miles of sea he touched at last the coast of the great "Southern Land" or Australia, on whose eastern shore, from some fancied likeness to the district at home on which he had gazed as he set sail, he gave the name of New South Wales. In two later voyages Cook traversed the same waters, and discovered fresh island groups in their wide expanse.
We all know that it needs distance to measure men, and the dropping away of the commonplace and the familiar ere we can see 'the likeness' of our contemporaries 'to the great of old. We have to travel across the plains before we can measure the relative height of the clustered mountains, and discern which is manifestly the loftiest.
My object in these chapters is merely to record the characteristic traits of eminent men who have honoured me with their friendship, and among those there is none for whose memory I cherish a warmer sentiment of affectionate gratitude than for him whose likeness I have now tried to sketch. His was the most precious of combinations a genius and a heart.
"God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him,"-Gen. 1:27. This declaration explains all the difficulties which are insuperable to the evolutionist. "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him." No animal is made in the image of God. There is not the trace of a soul in all animal creation. How could the soul of man develop from nothing?
But if you can return to-morrow in a calmer and more happy humor, with your lively spirit tuned to a softer key, then Pollux will be able to make a likeness which may satisfy the granddaughter of Claudius Balbillus."
How much more trouble ought we to take to make ourselves fit to do God's work? For these foot-racers do all this only to gain a garland which will wither in a week; but we, to gain a garland which will never fade away; a garland of holiness, and righteousness, and purity, and the likeness of Jesus Christ." The next example of abstinence which St.
There never was, and never could be such a God. He in whom I believe is the God that says, 'This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. It is as if he said 'Look at that man: I am just such! No other likeness of me is a true likeness. Heed my son: heed nobody else.
"Tipp," says his pleasant biographer, "never mounted the box of a stage-coach in his life; or leaned against the rails of a balcony; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet; or looked down a precipice; or let off a gun." I cannot follow Tipp, it may be, to his extreme tremors my hair will not rise to so close a likeness of the fretful porcupine yet in a measure we are in agreement.
He got him buried with military honors, and had a shaft raised over him, with a medallion likeness by Beaton and an epitaph by himself, by the time they reached Forty-second Street; there was no time to write Lindau's life, however briefly, before the train stopped.
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