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Excerpt from Address of the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia
Next, we must consider ourselves to have been something more than fortunate in securing Miss Machin as our first lady principle, for she brought to us not only her excellence of character and disposition, and her well-furnished and trained mind, but also her experience, in a school of her own, of how rightly to lay out a good and thorough course for a church-girl's education, what things to avoid, what measures to adopt, in commencing such an Institution as we were setting up; and how, while gaining the good will and co-operation of her assistants, and the love of her pupils, yet to rule, with the firm hand of a disciplinarian, the complex household of which she is the head. Probably we all know how powerful, whether for good or evil, are school traditions. I believe Miss Machin is striving to create at W'indsor such traditions as will be a great help to those who shall come after her, and a safeguard to future generations of scholars. There is one more whose name must be mentioned here to-day, with admiration and gratitude. Belief, not only in the need for the school, but in its feasibility, provoked him to be first enthusiastic in its behalf, and to then work unceasingly for its accomplishment. No obstacle could make him despond, no difficulty be too great for removal, no detail too trivial for his attention. Lovingly did he supervise the alteration and preparing of the old building, with a still deeper feeling and a more watchful solicitude did he every day watch over the erection of the new. It is reported that Mary, Queen of Scots, said that after her death the name of her kingdom would be found written on her heart: it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that when he dies the name of Edgehill will be found engraved on the heart of Henry Youle Hind. N 0 more ready counsellor, no more steady friend, no nrore untiring worker can the Church School have than he.
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