. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . as Sears agency as Mr. Peabodys, for Mr. Peabodyhad never known Doctor Sears, I think, untilafter he had been made Secretary or GeneralAgent of that great Board of Trustees. Gov-ernor Clifford and myself knew him asSecretary of the Board of Education of Massa-chusetts, and Governor Clifford had knownhim as President of Brown University; butI know very well that from the day on which,by a unanimous vote of that great Board, wemade him its General Agent, from that timeto this we have gloried in that act. It hasbeen the crowning glory of
. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . as Sears agency as Mr. Peabodys, for Mr. Peabodyhad never known Doctor Sears, I think, untilafter he had been made Secretary or GeneralAgent of that great Board of Trustees. Gov-ernor Clifford and myself knew him asSecretary of the Board of Education of Massa-chusetts, and Governor Clifford had knownhim as President of Brown University; butI know very well that from the day on which,by a unanimous vote of that great Board, wemade him its General Agent, from that timeto this we have gloried in that act. It hasbeen the crowning glory of his own life. Wehave had as Trustees, with whom he wasassociated, such men as President Hayes,President Grant, Governor Fish, SecretaryEvarts, Bishop Mcllvaine of Ohio, BishopWhipple, the present Apostolic of Minnesota,and I think there is not one of them, andmany others, who would not enjoin uponme, utterly unprepared as I am, for I hadthe intimation only as I entered the door amoment ago that anything was expectedfrom me—^there is not one of them who. THE HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP A Christian Educator 133 would not hold me to account if I did notexpress in behalf of the whole Board, includ-ing especially the Southern members—, of South Carolina, Mr. Stuart, Gen-eral Jackson, of Georgia, and the Chief Jus-tice of Louisiana, who has recently beenadded to our Board in place of General Tay-lor—^there is not one of them who would nothold me to strict account if I did not expressin their behalf as well as my own the deepsense of the great public loss that has beensustained in the death of Doctor Sears, andof the great personal loss which we shall allfeel. But, as I said, he has finished the crown-ing glory of his life. Coming in just at theclose of the war, and when feelings betweenthe different parts of the country were embit-tered, when there was great jealousy, greatimpatience with anything that should seemlike interference with Southern institutions,he so conducted
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