Memories of a Great Schoolmaster (Dr. Henry A. Coit)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... living friend writes to me, A more devoted, godly man never lived. It was an inspiration to be near him... a patent of nobility to be called his friend. It would go far beyond the scope of this book to do more than to touch upon the public and private manifestations of feeling that were called forth by the Doctor's death. For us lovers of the man and his work, no more fit conclusion can be drawn than that of the Kev. George William Douglas, D. D., in the Evening Post of February 10,1895: It rests with us to follow or to repudiate the 'secret of Jesus' for which he lived and died. This, I think, is the final impression which every St. Paul's boy, whether of the older time or to-day, has derived from intercourse with that great schoolmaster whose earthly remains were laid to rest last Friday, in the pure Hampshire snows. At the memorial service in Calvary Church, New York, it was estimated that at least five hundred men were present. The old hymns were sung with old-time heartiness; the service was such a spontaneous and overwhelming testimony to the man, that a lady in the throng was heard to say: I was in doubt where to send my boys; now I have not a shadow of a doubt. Bishop Potter preached on the text, And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain, striking most felicitously a wellknown keynote in the Doctor's character, which had its echo in every heart in the church. The bishop again alluded to this exalted aloofness in an address before the boys at the following school anniversary; speaking among other things of his home near Newport as the house on the hill. I was then reminded of his love for a solitary rock high up on the edge of the cliff, where he was wont to sit and meditate. As we sailed the waters below, we often saw his fi...