OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 9

OBITUARY.

The dcalh of Dr. Patrick, Principal of Manitoba College. Winin[)ot;. winch took place at ICirkiutillcch on the 28th ult., removes n iiinn who will bf widely ami sincerely mourned both in Scotland nnd Catiiid.i (wiites Dr. Dwmey in tho "J3ri-ti'-li AVcekly"). Dr. Patrick was Iwni in OHasjrow,- nnd nducated at the university of his native city. An c-xeelknk classiM.l Fcholar. ho took a tlill liipher place in philosophy, and in the Dialectic Sorieh- and Ihe Liberal Club he was always iii the front. More than thirty years nifo lie felt (he interest of those social questions which ore sfirrins our own time, and hs sti:d:orl jwlilicil fCopomy as carntstly .'is ho did Lightfoot or Meyer. In 11>0 I'ree Church College. Glasgow, ho studied under Professors Lindsay, Candlish. and , Bruce, nnd was easily the first student of his year. lie not only did his academic work admirably, he established his reputation for judgment nnd impartiality in tho city, as was shown when he was cho.-i'ii tu arbitrate, as he did with s;irce»«. i'.i a strike of tramway workers. In the Canadian Church ho look at once a .leading place. 110 was chairman of the Presbyterian Committee which has'.lieen for mine yi>nrs nouotintiiiß a union with tho Methodist and Congregational Churches of the Dominion. The issue of the enjl-erpriso is at present in suspense,, and Ins place will bo hard to lill. Dr.' Patrick himfclf, howpvw. wns fur more.and better than anything he did in public can reveal. For more than sov(l'lleen years ha suft'ered from a dislre.«.ing illne.'s,' yet he never allowed it to damp his spirit, or wring a word of complaint or disappflintment from his lips. He was generous to a fault, both with his money and his strength, and recalled tho early Christians who counted nothing they Jiail I heir own. A braver and ,i inon>'iiJi« , !Csh man could not bo conceived, iiiul by thosn who knew him ho will never be forgotten..