yet he had elements that go to the making of the successful pastor. If a warm, genial heart and an intense human interest in people gave him power in the classroom, surely this same marked factor in his character would have become, in the sphere of the church, the "shepherd heart." He threw into his work as a teacher a zeal and enthusiasm and love that quickened in his students a kindred fire and a spirit of painstaking work. His appreciation of the true and the beautiful in literature was at once keen and accurate. He seemed to know almost as if by instinct what was really fine in prose and poetry, and those who followed his taste and leadership were sure to drink of the purest waters. Letters from many of his old students record his patient and kindly work with them, not only in their studies, but in the problems of their personal and religious life. At his death, one of these students wrote of him, in a Southern paper:

"Many old students are anxious to testify that he opened up to them vistas of things undreamed of before; that he helped them on in paths that have been so pleasant and so inspiring in after-life; that he interpreted the vision of the 'light that never was on sea or land' so that it has illumined many a dark hour; that he lifted them up and introduced them to the masters, who have inspired, cheered, and comforted, oh! so many hours since; that his outlines of the Great Plan are coming out largely as he sought to make plain to young, mobile, and impressionable minds; that he was nobly unselfish through it all, and their appreciation is unstinted."

Mr. E. K. Graham, formerly Professor of English, now President of the University of North Carolina, writing of his work, on his retirement, said, in part:

"When Dr. Hume came to the University, conditions surrounding teaching in the State were not so favorable

as they are now. They were especially unfavorable to the teaching of English Literature. In the face of the difficulties which confront every teacher of the æsthetic, and the peculiar difficulties that confronted him, Dr. Hume wrought at his task of teaching the masterpieces of literature with the zeal of a prophet. Literature (whenever he wrote the word he capitalized it) was to him not a chance profession; it was a religious faith. The beauty he found there was not the sentimentalism of a cult it was the gift of God, coequal with truth and goodness the heavenly light that was the consecration of the monotonous struggle to get on. During

most of the years in which he served the State, Dr. Hume, in his field, worked almost alone-alone, in what was by all odds the largest department in the University. He placed but one limit on the number of courses he taught, and that was the number of hours in the day. Day and night he gave himself to active instruction. In addition, he organized Shakespeare clubs out in the State, lectured in summer schools, preached in churches; in fact, put no reserve whatever upon his time or strength. It was a matter of everyday wonder how so frail a man had the burden-bearing power of a superman. But here was the simple secret to him it was not a burden, but a joy. It gave him the chance to teach!

"Besides the influence that Dr. Hume exerted on all his students, on the thousands of people with whom he came in contact in his extension work and through his preaching, he made other leaders of sweetness and light in whose work his influence is especially obvious. Many successful teachers-themselves makers of teachers— many successful preachers and lawyers, have added a grace to their lives that was kindled at the torch he bore. He was never a writer of books, but he was a maker of writers of books. A half-dozen books come to my mind

in which he was in this indirect way a joint author. As a teacher of men it was given him to subdue the petty tyranny of time and space. Is it not possible to say simply and with certitude about such a teacher, that life gives to him her greatest gift; that even while he lives immortality becomes to him a visible, a realized fact?"

At Glen Falls, N. Y., and at Knoxville, Tenn., he gave courses at summer schools, while he delivered series of lectures on Shakespeare, Tennyson, and the Literary Study of the Bible before schools and clubs and Bible assemblies in various parts of Virginia and North Carolina. He published many articles and addresses, and during the last months of his life was at work on a book on the development of the English Bible. In 1907 he was made Emeritus Professor on the Carnegie Foundation, being the first educator in North Carolina to receive this appointment.

Although he gave up regular preaching during this last twenty-odd years of his life, he did not give up his interest in his church. He was ever a most active and earnest member of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, the right-hand man of his pastor, active in the Sunday school and the B. Y. P. U., and Sunbeam Missionary Society, ever bearing on his heart and mind the welfare of the church and his pastor. One pastor writes thus: "It was my honor to be Dr. Hume's pastor for two years, when I had not been preaching long. The way he treated me, his young and inexperienced pastor, was characteristic of the man. He honored me as his pastor, and in scores of ways was courteous to me and considerate of my office, as well as of my comfort. He never forgot those little amenities which always help to tide over the rough places, especially when they mark the manner of a man, in distinguished place, towards one far less

advanced in age and achievement. If he made suggestions as to sermon structure, or as to the work of the church, it was done with marvelous tact." His interest in religious work was not limited to the local church, nor to his own denomination. He was in touch with what was being done by North Carolina and Southern Baptists, and as Superintendent of the Y. M. C. A. work in the colleges and towns of North Carolina, as well as in other ways, he made himself felt throughout all the State.

Towards the end he was a sufferer. On July 15, 1912, he passed away at his home in Chapel Hill. The funeral and burial were in Waynesboro, Va. His wife and three children, Thomas Hume, Annie Wilmer (now Mrs. William Reynolds Vance), and Miss May Gregory, survive him.

JOSEPH R. GARLICK

1825-1912

One of the delegates to the "Virginia Baptist Anniversaries" (as the general State gathering was then called), in Norfolk, 1852, was Joseph R. Garlick. In 1856 he was one of the life members of the General Association, and on through the years, until his death, he was closely connected with the work of the denomination in Virginia. He was born on December 30, 1825, in King William County, Virginia. After his early training in neighborhood schools he entered, in 1840, the Virginia Baptist Seminary (now Richmond College), where he continued till the fall of 1841, when he became a student at Columbian College, Washington. Here he graduated in 1843. For a season he now became a teacher, his first experience as a pedagogue being at Lancaster Court House. One of his pupils, a youth four years his junior, named Thomas S. Dunaway, still abides among us, in his venerable age, after a long and a most honored career of service among Virginia Baptists. Upon the death of his former schoolmaster, Dr. Dunaway wrote tender and loving words concerning him, describing him as “a man of fine literary taste and acquirements and broad scholarship," and recalling the fact that Dr. Jeter had once suggested to Dr. Garlick that he prepare a lexicon of the English language.

After studying theology under Rev. Dr. Andrew Broaddus, the elder, he was ordained, in December, 1847. His first charge was at Hampton, Va., and here he remained four years. After teaching for two years in the Chowan Female Institute, Murfreesboro, N. C., he