. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. d why this many-sided and re-sourceful genius could not afterwards be enticed awayfrom Lebanon. The very roots of his life were imbed-ded in its soil. It mattered little that leaders in theChurch urged him to become professor in the ChicagoSeminary in 1894, or later its president upon the deathof Dr. Weidner, or president of Muhlenberg College uponthe death of Dr. Seip, or professor of Apologetics in theTheological Seminary at Mt. Airy; for he was rootedlike a tree to his
. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. d why this many-sided and re-sourceful genius could not afterwards be enticed awayfrom Lebanon. The very roots of his life were imbed-ded in its soil. It mattered little that leaders in theChurch urged him to become professor in the ChicagoSeminary in 1894, or later its president upon the deathof Dr. Weidner, or president of Muhlenberg College uponthe death of Dr. Seip, or professor of Apologetics in theTheological Seminary at Mt. Airy; for he was rootedlike a tree to his native soil, and he waived aside all sug-gestions of what others might have believed to be a pos-sible wider usefulness which meant separation from dearold Lebanon and especially from the active pastorate. He would have been ready to go anywhere, ready tomake any sacrifice, had he felt that it was Gods sentiment counted little with him. But what heneeded to make him useful to his Church in the largestpossible sense was home anchorage. In his uncertainstate of health, this he could not have had away from his. EARLY PASTORATE 41 parental home. There was his workshop from whichhe could reach out in all directions to serve in the manyspheres to which he became tied. That study on thethird floor, with a secretary and a stenographer at handto do his correspondence, read his proofs, keep the manythreads of his literary activities together, and arrange andassort and preserve for use material he was constantlygathering, became a veritable beehive of industry. Itwas his citadel or mountain fastness from which it wouldhave proved most painful for him to be dislodged. Mov-ing would have been a most distressing ordeal. Henotes in his diary on one occasion his utter discomfiturewhen house-cleaning invaded his sanctuary. To setthings in order exhausted him far more than days andweeks of the intensest mental work. Then, too, he had become deeply rooted in the historicenvironment of t
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