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REV. HENRY CAUTHEN'S ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO LIFE OF DR. CAR LISLE DELIVERED SUNDAY NIGHT. OCT . 24= The consensus of opinion among •those who have known, by personal contact,. Dr. Jas. H. Carlisle is that he was the greatest Carolinian of his time. And considering the symmetry of the man perhaps the greatest of all tint#; There have been many giants in l he history of South Carolina but none oftbera have been superior to the great man who went from among us last Thursday morning. Calhoun is commonly given the premiership in the realm of the intellectual, but in his moral life there were many deficiences. Jackson has national reputation for the iron in his blood and for mili tary genius, but we have to throw the mantle of charity over other qualities of the man. Hampton was the South Carolina ideal of states manship and soldiery, but lacked the intellectual vigor that marked some others. Carlisle goes down in history as a giant in every thing that makes for manhood. Provi dence left nothing out of his make up. He was a giant physically, standing well above six feet with massive head and mighty limbs. Nature gave him a mighty physique to execute the mighty ideals that were implanted in his mighty mind. Other great intellects have been circumscribed by invalid bodies, but God gave this man the physical machinery to carry . out the great ideas of his great mind, and for eighty five years this physical machinery never failed to operate. He was a physical giant. But he was more than that—He was a giant intellectually. He was the peer of Calhoun or Jackson or Thomwell or any other. His massive mind hungered for knowledge, and during the whole of his long life he made dally deposits of truth in this great storehouse. He was a master of mathematics, of literature, of history, of philosophy, of science, of language. Nothing escaped his in vestigation and nothing slipj>ed from his mind when he had fixed it there. His superior in a knowledge of astronomy has not appeared among us. A greater master of the classic languages we have never had. No one knew more of the history of South Carolina, written or unwrit ten, than Carlisle knew. He read as Lord Macaulay read—not by words, but by paragraphs and pages. The great library tnat he accumulated during his long life rested not only on his shelves, but in his great mind. He knew his books. He could quote accurately pages of what he con sidered the cream of poetry and prose. Upon one occasion he de livered an address to the school children of Spartanburg in the theatre and I asked for the address to publish in the morning paper of w-hich I w r as city editor. He told me that he had not written the address. * When i expressed regret that 1 had not made notes he proposed to produce the address in writing for me. In a few hours he had put every word that he had spoken on paper for taie. His memory was m rvelous and never failing. A volume could be written of the in tellectual gianthood of Carlisle. He was not only a physical and in tellectual giant, but a moral and spiritual one. Where other great men had shown weaknesses he measured up tc his other qualities. A greater than he in spiritual attain ments and moral beauties has not arisen among us. He was a believer in God and th'* verities of the Christian religion. Doubt was foreigi to him. While smaller ca'- ibered minds questioned certain of the teachings of the Bible Dr. Car lisle belie* them as the child be lieves. The Bible contained nothing that his grea. mind did not accept And w-hat he believed he lived. He was as guileless as Nathaniel and as conseera ed as the apostle Paul. He searched the Scriptures and knew them as few men did. Chapters and oooks were at his tongue’s end/ The last time 1 saw him he was read ing McLaurin’s Commentary of the Bible with all the relish wuh which a man of the world would read the most engrossing romance. And how he loved the church! He was never absent from his pew at the preach ing service, at the prayer-meeting:, at the Sunday school. He heard the bumbleat preacher with all the Patancewith which he heard the fleetest preacher. His duties to God and the church were his first Notice, and nothing interfered with b as *l«r- kUncys and MaS- TORPID UVER. Tutt’sPills have a specific affect on tbeacorgan** stimulating the bowels.causing them to perform their natural functlona as In youth and IMPARTING Mona - tn the kldiwy,. Madder an4 LIVER. They are adapted to old mad young. theiiw wa.a not a minister, but he preached faithfully to individual and congregation as op|M*rtunity offerer;. N<» man has gone into the pre-ence of hi' Maker with cleaner hands and whiter garments than •Jas. II. Carlisle last Thursday morn ing. But 1 want to deal with him as a teacher an<t friend of young men. That was his es|>ecial field; that he regarded as his Divine calling. He could have shone in the calling of the ministry; and worn the robes of the bishopric. He could have been a star of the first magnitude at the bar; and been the chief of judges. He could have ranked with Webster and Calhoun and Clay in the nation’s forum, for he was a great orator. But he chose none of these with their superior rewards, hut rather chose to take the young men of South Carolina by the hand and lead them from the darkness into the light. Not only was he under conviction as to his calling as a teacher, but he felt that his field had been indicated by the Divine hand. On many oc casions strong financial inducement was offered to go to large universi ties in different parts of the country, and the South Carolina University, his alma mater, insisted on his ser vices as its president, but nothing could move him from the college to which he had consecrated his life. Money was no inducement. He was greater than money. As a tea -her On Carlisle was in terested in making four-square men. He w-as not satisfied with the developement of the body at the expense of the body and the soul. He looked after all of these. And he did not teach en masse, but in dividually. No boy ever went to Wofford college who did not meet Dr. Carlisle personally and privately. It was his unvarying rule to talk jrivately with every boy. It was lis custom after each recitation to lave one of the members of a class to remain in the room for private interview. 1 shall never forget the feeling that possessed me when, for the first time he stated that he would like to see Mr. Cauthen after the class. I tried to recall what I might have done that would have displeas ed the Doctor. But I was soon put at ease. I was not called back for censure, but for encouragement and uplift. Before the class you were addressed by the surname with a Mister before it, but in the privacy of the room you were called by the given name, and in tender and affec tionate tones. "What have you been reading?” And here w’ould come suggestions from the master as to reaumg and exhortations to read at iea.'t one good book a week. How many men have been started in ngnt roads in these private inter- | views! , ‘‘How are you getting on with your studies?” And here many a discouraged boy was stimulat d by words oi cneer and instruction. “Do you visit the young ladies?” Thenrame a ieeture on the uplifting influences of pure womanhood. No man honored noble womanhood more than the great Doctor.. He was preeminently a man of chivalry. ‘‘Do>ou take interest in athle tics?” He would lecture on the benefits that accrue from physical exercise, and w arn against extremes in athletic sports. “How is mother’s boy getting on in religious matters?” Here was the great climax to which all the while he had been working. In these moments the heart was tender, and the great moulder could shape it as he wished—for the Master’s use. And how many hearts were shaped m the large class room to the left of the cnapel! Upon his now sainted head there rests a crown studded with many hundreds of shining stars earned in the quiet of the big class room. But these regular recitation hours were not the only working hours of the great man. He had no idle hours. In the afternoons, on the days when his declining years would not permit his going to his classes the boys were summoned to his library in his residence, and there in the midst of thousands of volumes and many classic busts, these private interviews were continued. And what a fuff volume that could be that told of difficulties overcome and victories won. Mayby the boy was troubled with spiritual doubts. How patiently the symapthetic Doctor would Hood his mind with light and set up his faith again. Maybe a special study discouraged him. With a father’s patience and sym- E athy the master mind would lead im out of the dark and put his feet upon the rock. Maybe the poor boy working his way through col lege was disheartened by financial discrepancies. The pane of the unselfish Doctor was opened and the way made clear. No one but God will know how many of Dr. Car lisle’s dollars were adten to poor strugling students. 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