Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL. D

Excerpt from Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL. D : A Biographical Sketch, With Liberal Quotations From His Letters and Other Writings In presenting this portraiture of the remarkably resourceful, versatile and many-sided Dr. Schmauk, the author feels that very much of value has been left unsaid. Much of great interest and value in the form of sermons, addresses, excerpts and other biographical material was placed at his disposal, and it was not easy to decide what to select and what to reject. Dr. Schmauk explored so many fields of knowledge, touched so many spheres of usefulness and influence, and affixed the impress of his personality upon so many activities and movements as to make the task of presenting a well-proportioned sketch of his life and work difficult. An effort has been made, however, to picture him in as life-like and realistic a manner as possible. To do this, it was necessary to disregard in large measure the chronological sequence of events in his life and to defy logical order by thrusting in here and there, more or less wantonly, incidents and side-lights that might add to the truthfulness of the picture. The work of preparing this biography, in spite of the pressure of other tasks, proved to be most interesting and inspiring. The writer, though a classmate of Dr. Schmauk at the Seminary and associated with him in editorial and other work for twenty-five years, made many a discovery touching Dr. Schmauk's work and his real inner worth of which he had not been aware before. Dr. Schmauk's life was too busy to make intimate and frequent personal intercourse with him possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.