Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-24
REV. HENRY c. SPAULDING.

We have received from Rev. Henry G.
Spaulding a copy of his address upon
Charles Sumner delivered before the Me-
mortal Society of Harvard university, the
Newton Tuesday club and other societies
MIR Spauding's early home was in this
town, and he is well remembered by many
of citizens. His father was DR..
Rueben Spaulding and his mother Electa
Goodenough Clark. Mr.. Spauldng at
tended our high school and later Brattle-
boro academy when James NJ. Tyler and
William II. Rockwell. jr., We're students
there During his school days here he
was a frequent contributor to The
Phoenix and was at one time the writer
of its book reviews. After a years pre-
paratory study at Phillips academy in
Andover, Mass, he entered Harvard uni
versity from which institution he gradu-
ated in 1860, at the head of his class.
This was the famous Soldiers Class of
which Col Robert Gould Shaw was
member. Mr.. Spauldng's high rank in
college fulfilled the promise of his school
days for our town has produced few, If
any, young men of such fine scholarship
and refined literary tastes as he exhibit
ed In his bOyhood he was deeply i'm
bued with hatred of slavery and with
sympathy for the ensaved race and be-
ieved. with Phillips, Garrison and Sum-
ner, in the higher law" which would
have given that race freedom. After his
graduation he was for two years tutor in
southern family and then for year in
the service of the United States Sanitary
Commission. In 1866 he graduated from
the Harvard divinity school. His principal
pastorates have been over the Unitarian
churches in birmingham and Dorchester,
| Mass. His first course of lectures on
Rome. with stereopticon views, was Civ
| en- at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in
| 1874, and a second course in 1876. These
were the earliest lectures of the kind
| given in this country. so that he has been
! called the father of the illustrated lee
| ture."
From 1888 to 1891 Mr.. Spaulding was
| secretary of the Unitarian Sunday School
society, and since the latter date he has
travelled extensively at home and in for
| eign lands, in the intervals preaching and
! lecturing in many places throughout this
country He lives in Brookline, Mass. is
| a member of the St. Botolph and other
clubs and has written several books and
| numerous magazine articles. AS writer
| and preacher he holds high rank in his
| denomination.
For many years the personal relations
between Senator Sumner and Mr.. Spauld-
ing were intimate both by reason of their
| mutual love of literature and art and
| their radical views upon the curse OF
| slavery. Inspired by admiration and az
lection for his friend, Mr. Spaulding, In
| his address, has given very complete
| cha ra cter of this eminent scholar orator
and statesman From his pulpit in Dor
chester in March, 1874, he gave the hrs'
| funeral discourse that was delivered II
this country on the life and labors OF the
man whom Whittier called in his poem
White souled, clean-handed, pure OF
heart"
We cannot attempt a review OF TINS
able and eloquent tribute to Sumner Mr.
Standings estimate of him is expressed
in the words: 49, = mo one can deny
that by the verdict of history Charles
Sumner is rightly regarded as one OF oul
countries greatest men. He was great a.
an orator and as a statesman; greate
still as a leader in one of the most mo
mentous moral conflicts that the worl'
! has vet seen:-the conflict between slaV
ery and freedom in America; greatest o
ali as a cody man, of whom Ralph wal
. do Emerson could say, 1 never knew s.
| white a SOUL" The writer quotes word
| Of eulogy from many eminent men, ou
! no quoted words surpass his own.