A Brief Memoir of the Rev. Samuel B. Ardagh, A. M., T. C. D: Late Rector of Barrie and Incumbent of Shanty Bay, Lake Simcoe, Upper Canada (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Brief Memoir of the Rev. Samuel B. Ardagh, A. M., T. C. D : Late Rector of Barrie and Incumbent of Shanty Bay, Lake Simcoe, Upper Canada

Some men there are so connected with the great events of the generation to which they belong, that their lives may be considered historical. Whether good or bad, they stand forth so conspicuously, that it is impossible to overlook them.

Others again, and this is true of the great mass, live and die in obscurity: their names being unknown beyond the little circle of which they have been the blessing or the curse. A few years or months after their consignment to the earth, and the memory of them has passed away.

There is yet another class which lies midway between these two, a class neither widely famous, nor yet entirely unknown. These last were in their day honoured and blessed above many; but not sufficiently so to excite any large amount of public attention.

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