Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « A Tribute » Address by the Rt. Rev. H. E. Sexton, Bishop of Columbia, School Visitor, at the funeral service for Sir Percy Lake, i n Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, November 19th, 1940. THE words of Holy Scripture (Wisdom 111:1-9) to which we have just listened, and the hymn which will presently follow, are particularly appropriate to-day as we mourn the passing of an illustrious and dearly loved citizen, who has left in our hearts and in this place a memory which cannot be dimmed — a blank and a void which can hardly be filled up. As we all know, he was one of the Empire ' s most distinguished soldiers, and, like many of our great British military leaders, he was a devoted son of the Church ; a man who possessed great qualities of character, and exhibited the highest aims of life. So, to-day, we thank God for, and do honour to, the memory of a great and good man, whose funeral is signalized by a rare out- burst of profound respect and genuine affection. Our tribute is a recognition of the worth of character — the character which is moulded and influenced by strong religious convictions. Let us remind ourselves that out of a material world, it is something hit material which a man takes away when death comes — the char- acter which has been formed by the habits of a lifetime. It is right, then, that we should recognize the true worth of that habitual integrity of life which has left to us the heritage of a stain- loss example. So, calm in the consciousness of integrity; happy in a tender and never-ceasing devotion in a sweet home life; profoundly modest ; really unselfish ; exquisitely genial ; one of God ' s own gen- tlemen ; Sir Percy Lake passes from our earthly sight, but not from our living fellowship. Such men are the salt of the earth. His modesty was an out- standing characteristic — that modesty, or humility, which is a mark of all men really strong, really learned, and really good — that humility which was perfectly exhibited in Him, Who humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. [ 5 ]

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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR PERCY LAKE, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Chairman of the Board of Governors 1854 Shawnigan Lake School, 1928-1940 1940

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine We have lost him; and may God raise others like him to our need in these grim and difficult days. God give us men. A time like this demands Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing hands. As we thank the Great Father for bestowing on us the riches of this man ' s devotion and service, let ours be an earnest, loyal, whole- hearted resolve to live worthily, to bring our will into conformity with the Divine Will, never forgetting that The best portion of a good man s life Are his little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love As we bid an affectionate and respectful Farewell to a gallant gentleman, our hearts go out to her, who has been the recipient as well as the giver of a tender devotion in a long and happy home life, and with full hearts we say of our departed friend and brother : God rest his soul. [ 6 ]