The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-05

coming of a reaction ia this matter.
The time is not far distant When the
hood-tide shall set IN and sweep away
every refuge of hes, ana olu-rasnioned
religion snan again be at par! God
speed thu day.
Dr. Gloss had an intense and strong
personality. 10 see and hear him once
was to remember HIM forever. lie was
portly in form, but shgauy 9toop-shonid-
cred. Ills face, owing to some cause OF
malformation in has carrier years, was
shorter on one side than the Other; but
his eve was keen and steady, and when
animated in public discourse, shone with
a remarkable brilliancy. This facial
unevenness gave his cOuntenance a pc
cuIiar expression. 1t it related that 4
traveller in passing a place where Ir.
Gloss was preaching to large congre-
CATION unuer bush shelter, stopped
awhile and listened; then in passing on
he met a gen .leman going to the meet
ing. The traveller told the gentleman
that a man was preaching back there
whose name he learned was Gloss. and
that he was bringing heaven and earth
together, but had only opened one-half
his mouth; and then he exclaimed, what
will come to pass when he opens the
Other half!
His early struggles, doubtless, had
much to do with intensifying the per
sonal magnetism and developing the iii
teIlectual powers of DR.. Gloss. During
his young manhood High Schools and
Colleges were very scarce. But he had
thirst for knowledge, and patience and
perseverance, in its pursuit These are
the conditions very often out of which
are born great men. They constitute
the fire that pur;fes gold. And the trutD
is that all men who are made at all are
in an important sense, self-made In
deed. it is greatly TO he feared that in
this day the easy methods Of education
are lowering the standards OF scholar
ship. There seems to be an impression
sbrnad that all young man has to d"
is to go to some college. enter room
and press a button, and the college will
do the rest! All this is a fatal mistake.
There is no free and easy road to earu-
ing.
There was fullness enough in DIR
CLOSES character to say it was spherical,
but more descriptive word would be,
angular. 1t may be that all great men
are so. At any rate, the quality of his
mental force was salient and penetrat
ing. He was incisive in speech; and
while his dic.ion was at times superb,
such an orator seldom becomes a word
painter, and never loses himself in dis
connected verbage, nor tangles his au-
dience in scrappy discourse.
As debater he had but few equals
Bishop Geo. f. Pierce said that DR.
Gloss was the ablest debater in the
General conference. He had what law
yers know as the legal mind" The
late Hon. Geo. E. Badger, one of the
ablest lawyers North Carolina ever pro-
duced. after hearing DR. Gloss on one
occasion, expressed great surprise that
he had not heard and known him be-
fore; and remarked that if DIR. Gloss had
been a lawyer he would have stood in
the front rank Of that profession.
"A pebble in the brooklet scant.
Has turned the course Of many river"
And we can but regret the absence
of any data that might help us to fix
the time and place, where, by the rock
of ages, the river of his young life was
turned toward God and the ocean OF
undyng fame. The honorable profes-
sion Of the law would have secured to
DIR. Gloss worldly profit and worldly
honor; but he was wise to choose the
better part. His daughter, Mrs. Parker.
of Henderson, n. c., says her father
told her that for his first years work
in the ministry he received butter
nut suit of Clothes" and boarded
around" and for his second year he
received twenty-five dollars, and
boarded around" Some of us old
preachers know what that means. But
DIR. Gloss was building habitation from
to beyond the stars; Oh, what fields OF
glory await the old circuit rider when
God shall come to makeup His jewels
DR.. Gloss was a friend to Education.
He educated his household, including the
servants. His daughter says that even
her mothers colored house-maid was
pretty good grammarian. He was PROM
inent-and active in the founding of the
Female College at Goldsboro-an insti-
tuition that did much good in it's day
He also gave his influence and help to
the Female Colleges at Louisburg and
Greensboro 1t is well known that he
seemed to be in opposition to Trinity
College; but this opposition was not so
much to the college as to it's illustrious
founder, Dr. Craven. This is the only
point of Importance in which DR.. Gloss
and myself were in direct opposition.
With all his greatness, he was not
judge of men, and being honest himself,
tives in others; and / believe he was
led into error in this matter by few
men, who are not now with us, and
whose names it is not necessary to men,
ton.
And this shows the truth of the phil
osophy briefly outlined in the beginning
of this paper, that all great movements
and great things have their centre of
life in individuals and hence Won eff
fectually fight an institution when you
fight the individuals upon whom it rests.
1t is only within the last few years that
Trinity College has partially recovered
from the covert attacks of those men.
DR.. Gloss was regarded by strangers as
stern and austere; and this seemed to be
true at first sight. He seemed to be. I'M
social and unapproachable; and if he had
been of such figure as to make his cloth
ing look dressy upon him, he would have
been thought proud, as was Bishop Bas-