The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

in his early maIhocd as a journalist
and was aggressive, bright,
full. He is also a man Of letters, has
the true literary touch, is familiar
with books, has lived in northern CEN
has many acquaintance among the liv-
ing writer's in the north who dominate
there and even furnish thought and
diversion for thousands of south
ern readers. He is a writer Of enter
tanning articles, is one of the most
successful OF magazine editors in this
country, is a lecturer OF most agreea-
BILE and sparkling qualities-suggestive,
%affluent, felicitous in phrasing-and
much excels, as we have heard said,
in extemporizing literary addresses or
lectures. He is indeed n Of the gift
ed living sons of North Carolina
Rev. DIR. Moore, professor in Hamp-
den-Sidney. is a preacher of exceeding
charm and rarest simplicity. We once
heard him with unrepressed delight.
We never heard ar able mar who was
so charmingly simple, easy, and yet
impressive withal, scholarly and pure
in style. He is a profound scholar.
among the foremost Of his own age in
the south or in the United States, we
doubt not. He is 2 thinker as we'll as
a man of genuine Earning, a very sue
cessful and greatly esteemed teacher
in theology, a writer Of much purity,
p~erspicacity. ability and simplicity; a
man of most engaging character, and
we are not at all sure, that taking him
all and in all he is not the foremost ma
tive North Carolinian in so years in
original and cultivated powers, and he
was born close to The Observer office
in Charlotte. We have not conscious
ly exaggerated in the slightest his
most admirable gifts. We do not doubt
that scores of educated ministers in the
Presbyterian church will indorse all
we have said and claim more in his be-
half. We believe DR.. Moore has writ
ten a good deal in bulk. of a learned,
reflective quality, in monthlies and 9TH
err media, but the varied productions
have not been gathered into book form
as yet, we think.
We have had occasion several times
to write of President Alderman. He is
undoubtedly accomplished, versatile,
with rich stores of acquisition upon
which to draw at will, with a mind
of unusual symmetry and beauty-not
poetical that we know. but artistic,
graceful, a~ppreciative, productive. He
is rarely gifted as a lecturer. and his
numerous addresses for some years in
this and other states have given him
fame and made him many admirers.
A scholarly gentleman who heard hin
deliver an address some years ago in
a southern city to a large crowd of ed
ucators. when very distinguished men,
famous as speakers. were among those
who "held forth"-a very gifted pro-
fessor from Cornell name not recalled)
and DR.. J. L. M. Curry, a master on
the platform. told us thai DR.. Alder
body with him, and when the address
ended. many men n ladies rushed to
the platform to congratulate him n
lake him by the hand He is a writer
of such e~xcellence-so finished. so full
of grace and felicities of expression
that we have ventured before to say
that we did not know his peer as to
style among living North Carolinians'
of any age. and wherever born. We
merely gave our own conviction and
we still hold it. He is a gentleman of
education, Of scholarship, of fortunate
reading in bellies %lettres, and is of gent
al and engaging manners. His presi-
dency of the University of North Car
DINA has been strikingly successful,
and he commands the high respect
and confidence of all the friends Of the
venerable and distinguished seat of
it's usefulness and influence. We do
not admit now that it is second to any
other southern university.
DR.. Winston is a teacher Of much
experience and unQuestioned success.
He is a scholarly man of large oppor-
tunities. His training has been excel
lent, with abundant advantages for
the acquisition of learning. He is dis
tinguished particularly as a progress
sive, aggressive educator who has the
art of building up an institution OF
learning by intense zeal. vigor of our
suit and grasp of the surroundings. He
is better as a builder perhaps han as
a holder. He is a North Carolinian of
much success, and deserves a place
among the ablest men of his state in
so years, whether it be limited to five
Or ten in number. He is president Of
the University of Texas and has great
ly enlarged it's usefulness and it's pat
ronage.
There is still another man we
would name of very fine natural mind.
for whom the trump of fame has Meth
err blown so loud nor so repeatedly. He
is a modest man not Of any Of the pro-
fessions of which the others are men,
bers, and his name may be quite IN
known to many who may read this. He
has a superior mind and if Fortune had