The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-18
DIR. KINGSBURY WRITES
OF PETTIGREW'S BRIGADE
His Estimate of an Eminent Vrginian Rev. DR.. b.
M. Smith. A Sketch of the Late
MARQUIS of Salisbury.

farming, which has been mentioned, II
vClved.
''One answer is in the word, necessity.
The other is that they were real men as
well as gentlemen, and where duty called
they went. Hoeing corn, pulling fodder,
and similar occupations were the duty OF
the hour for them in 1865 when the labor
system had been suddenly broken up, ana
there was little money i'll their purses
With which they could have employed II
Il it had been available.
1.-TWO students of Theology will Away;
| remember Rotations to DR., Dabney in
the waning light of the evenings OF that
summer, when, after his days work IN
the field, he would sit with them on his
portico and examine them, without book,
on what they had learned during the day
in Hills Divinity, which he had given
them as the textbook for the time,
though Turretin was the regular text
book studied in the Seminary in connec-
tion with his lectures and reference
books. Though his hands had been weld
ing the hoe all day, he could not let them
be idle now; and while examining his
students he was generally engaged in
plating straw with which to make d
hat"
times, although Longfellow CAUTIONS
against it in saying LOOK not upon the
past" There is often good schooling in
past events and personal experiences.
There were heroes in the crucial times
OF the war and after, and they were not
confined to the army or theN civic life.
Those men who lived through the war
know of the shifts made to ''get along .
A IL, ba
properly. DR.. Flournoy gives this:
The writer remembers, as one of DR..
Smiths thrifty devices of the time, the
turning of envelopes inside out Wher
letter was received, the envelope was
opened by no means carelessly-steamed
possibly-and then turned, made over
with homemade mucilage and sent back
with the answer enclosed At this time,
especially, his correspondence was volum-
nous and envelopes were probably quite
dear"
1t was common in our war to rip up
old clothes and turn them wrong side out,
and then remake them. In 1888 an as
sistant was furnished DR.. Smith as he
was growing old, and had been sorely
taxed. 1t tell upon Rev. DR.. w. w.
Moore, a native of Charlotte, NJ c., and
is omitted in the printed sketch He is
now at the head of the new Seminary.
DR.. Smith was very able and conscien-
tious teacher and very able preacher
He was a ready speaker as well, and a
| mastery debater. He had the faculty of
thinking while on his legs" He was
| profoundly religious, and lived the life ne
| taught and protested. His mother, when
ne was leaving at fourteen for college,
| took him Into private room and SOL
EMMY dedicated and entrusted him to
! God" l make room for one more excerpt
| and one more scene OF solemn import:
Many who knew DR.. Smith in his
| family life will ever bear IN their memo
ries the scene at the time of family pray
ers, when his large circle was gathered.
each furnished with a hymnbook (and
| expected to sing); the reverent reading
| Of the Word of God, like that of Burns
| inimitable Cotter and the humble and
| earnest petitions at a throne of grace.
| To some it seems heavenly dream of
| the past.
Sweet dreamland faces
Passing to and fro.
| Bring back to memory
Days of long ago."
Although not a Presbyterian save in
church Polity, / am decided admirer Oh
| it, history for the most part, of its vast
| influence for good in the world, its learn
| ing, its many able and devout ministers
| OF the gospel, a few of whom l have
| known, and of many of whom / have
heard, and some of the productions of
whom / have read with much interest and
often with much satisfaction. 1t has
been a qualification to me to learn more
| of most pious, admirable, and learned
| minister about whom / had heard more
or less for more than a half century
The South will indeed be greatly blessed
| and enriched if it shall produce in the
decades many such noble, brave, devout
ccnsecrated men as DR.. B. M. Smith, long
since gone to his blessed reward where
the redeemed and glorified abideth for
ever.
The late Marquis of Salisbury so long
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.