Pastoral address by the Rev. J.M. Macleod ... Glencoe - Ontario. "Hold fast".
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Abstract
Entered, as we are, on the first day of a New Year, it is most becoming that we who profess our faith, both in God's infinite love and in His wise providence, should call upon our souls to bless His Holy name, and to magnify His goodness, for all His gracious dealings with us during the year that has just expired.It is, indeed, impossible to give a retrospective view of the past, without feeling deeply sensible of-the numerous benefits of which we have been daily the unworthy and ungrateful recipients.Nor can we be blind to the fact that the tender mercies of our God, which extend over all His works, loudly demand the most grateful and unqualified recognition on our part.And if we are alive to our unbounded obligation to Him in whom we live, and move, and have our being-who is at once the mighty guardian of the helpless, the unceasing friend of the needy, the benefactor and powerful preserver of all-our thoughts will spontaneously revert to the unmerited goodness which He has caused to pass before us, the impressions of which ought to be deep and per- manent.Another year of our short life has disappeared, and this is to many a more apparent fact than that they have been fed by the bounty of Jehovah.The precious Sabbaths of the past year have terminated with it.Its priceless privileges and countless blessings are no longer within our reach, and therefore we cannot improve them for time or eternity.But while these seem to have been left far behind, they have at the same time gone very far forward into the invisible future.The terrible records, r too, of the past year, with all their impor- tant interest, and with innumerable secrets which remain to be told, have already been added to the great annals of eternity, and they shall testify either for us or against us in the notable day of the Lord.That here we have no continuing city-that man is mortal-that time is short-are expressions to which we have been accustomed from our infancy, and they no doubt summon us to pious reflection.We see, indeed, that time, like a gigantic engine, is driving the world onward in an unalterable groove.And in reference to this truly solemn truth, the question is one not of uncertainty, but of duration.The world must indeed come to an end-the great judgment of quick and dead must come-and the angel must proclaim that there shall be "time no longer."But the question of duration must have immediate reference to our own existence on this side of the grave, and to the use which we make of our time in this vale of tears.And as we see that there "is none abiding," but, on the contrary, that "man fleeth as a shadow," we ought to be wise in the things which are heavenly, and belong to our everlasting peace, as well as prudent in those things that are seen and temporal.For this end also we ought to pray frequently : " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." " So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."Certain it is-for there are no difficulties in the matter-that the year which has just closed has brought us another stage nearer the eternal world from which no pilgrim can return.And whether men are impressed by the fact or not, they are hastening from this world to another, mysterious and awful, and in immediate contiguity to ourselves, rather than placed at a remote distance from us, for death is the boundary line between it and us.But amidst all the vicissitudes and trials of time-under all the sorrows, afflictions, and disap- pointments with which we are experimentally acquainted-it is our happy experience this day, that, as a Church and as individuals, the loving kindness of the Lord of hosts has not departed from us; and of tin's a sufficient proof is
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".