Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-23

journey, and while attending the Chicago Conven-
ton | was deeply panied to hear of his death.
He has large number OF relatives and friends In
Vermont and other eastern states to whom In all
his connections with them he has been faithful,
who will unite with me In saying IA applied to him
1.-THE memory Of the Just Is blessed" sBP
JACOB S. SrAULDING, Ii. d. The following ex-
tract is taken from an address OF the Rev. Aus
tin W. Hazen delivered before the alumni of
Barre Academy, June 9th, upon the theme, 10y
atty to Truth" You have almost anticipated me
in thinking of the late principal of Barre Acad-
envy as marked illustration of much have been
saying, and we will love to recall him az he passed
before us in other days Whatever else he was,
or was not, DR. spaulding was ever loyal to truth.
This indeed, in all respects to which alusion has
now been made. Nevertheless, in none more
truly than in this last-Truth in Being He was
in sympathy with truth wherever he found 1t, yet
he cared most of all for what has intimate rela-
tons to the training of the mind or the expansion
Of the heart. He, himself in his vigorous person
atty, was commanding embodiment Of what he
taught his classes. In the generation during
which he presided over this institution, what
growth in knowledge, what an advance in meth
DDS he made year by year. Teaching the same
branches, treadng familiar ground term after
term, his private study abated one iota, his
enthusiasm never tagged single moment.
Rather, his ardor and his freshness seemed to in
crease a. the years rolled by, and he was never
more devoted nor more efficient instructor than
when he heard his last recitation. However, he
was vastly more than the specific lessons he in
culcated He taught Cicero and Virgil and Keno
phon and Homer with skill, but behind the pol
ished speech Of these ancient masters back of the
imperishable thoughts and fancies they record,
was the stalwart form and the rpened character
of the teacher. The mans entire self was his
work, and that potent self impressed upon
all who came into contact with it. In his early
years, it used to be said, by way of friendly sd-
montion to .wful offenders, that this same self
was wildly impressed upon those who came into
conflict with it! Scholars here have had excel
lent textbooks, and have been taught their help
full use. But better than all others has been the
loved preceptor himself. They have sat at his
feet and have learned of him In the classroom,
in the general exercises Of the day. in the free in
tercourse out Of school, in the place of social wor
ship, and in the house of prayer the Lords day,
he was a book they scanned. In him truth was
transcribed upon the tablet of his heart Truth
was part and parcel of his being 1t was like the
tatto8 upon the body of the savage, stamped in
effaceably on his character 1t was the golden
thread of the texture, deity woven into its warp
and wool, so that, for not few pupils, there can
be no doubt that Dr. Spaulding did more by what
he UdS than by what he taught. All honor to
him, therefore, on this OCCASION and in the years
that are to be- He has left few products of his