Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-11-10

department with men of 'ell cultivated
genius, giving to the hnch, the bar,
the legislative halls antespecially the
pulpit their brightest onaments." In
short, this college has hen blessing
to every department oicivil and re.
ligious society,
Here such men as James Gallaher,
Gideon Blackburn, job w. and A. A q.
Doak, d.. j. G.. NJ Ramsey, John
Blair, William DulsneS L. c. Haynes,
John Netherland, Jams A. Lyon, N.
G. Taylor, j. d. Tadloci, who were gi-
ants in their day, were 'ducated
DR.. Doak left his tiner prints ON the
workers of every fleld. Men of princi.
Piles never die. They case from their
labors, but their work Ioes on.
Men with pufpoe are not drift
wood on the stream. Tley plant them =
selves along the shore md live on in
those who follow them.
AT the ripe age of Dur score years =,
DR.. Doak was TRANSLATED into the King
dom above. His by-y sleeps in old
Salem churchyard among those he
loved and taught.
Taking him for all n all,
We shall not look uponhis like again. y
1t was said at his funeral, and hun.
dred years will not change the verdict.
1T is believed that bis usefulness to
his country either as minister or as
teacher of letters and science has not
been surpassed by thst of any other
man the United States has produced. "
As DR.. Girardeau said of his old
friend and colaborer, DR.. Bachman,
of Charleston, s. G., so may we say ::
when Doak died, science and religion
walked arm in arm and laid their
blended wreaths of laurel upon his
honored grave"
DR.. DoAK S HELPMEETs.
In his great work Of preaching, teach.
ing and travelling, DR.. Doak had true
and noble helpmeets. His first wife
was Miss Esther II. Montgomery,
daughter of Presby teran minister in
Virginia. His second wife was Mrs.
Margaret McEwen, of Nashville, these
were, noble and self sacrificing women
and the church recognizes in them
faithful co laborers and well beloved
servants of Jesus Christ.
Good wives make great men. Their
husbands are known in the gates and
children rise up to call them blessed
because they have looked we'll to the
ways of their households and been will
ling servants of the church.
l would pause here moment TO have
you notice that a distinguishing fea
ture OF that early civilization was edu-
cation and education for it's own sake
not according to lhe modern utilita-
rian idea.
The idea with these early >teachers
was to make men. They caught God q
idea, II will make man more preci-
GUS than fine gold"
There was little artificial or decora-
tive in their work; solid foundations
and strong masonry all the way to
the top, Such education always lifts
man toward God and heaven.
So you find Doak and Balch and
Carrick and Anderson uniting the
school with the church. The home,
the school room and the pulpit have
always made men and women of whom
the State and the church have been
proud.
The education of that day linked
earth and heaven, God and man and
the product is such men as these.
We are sometimes disposed 10 at
tribute good deal to the pure air and
the mountain scenery of our land in
the formation of character. These have
their Influence, but it is ideas that lift
men heavenward, not mountains. The
reptile may crawl to the highest peak
but it is only the bird of strong wing
and dimless eye that can soar beyond
the lightning's play and thunder's e
roll.
DIR. DoAK's SUCCESSORS.
DR.. Doak had many worthy success
ors, Two sons and one grandson fol-
lowed his footsteps in the ministry and
the work of education. John w. and
Samuel W, Doak, his sons, became
presidents of Washington College; also
A. A. Doak, his grandson, filled the
presidents chair in 1874.
HE was then young, hand some, am
bilious, generous and noble. In classi.
ical learning he equaled, if not sur
passed, any scholar in the land His
whole mind and heart seemed in love
with the Greek.
Sometimes he would read passage
in the original and his rich, musical
voice and the glow of his countenance
made you almost imagine that you
were listening TO the blind bard of Scio