THE OR9AN0FTHE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTSDEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIQIQN, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL LNTZLLIQLXC2.
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Funeral SerriceB of Dr. Wm. Royall at Wake
Forest College, Jan. 6th, 1893.
After devotional exercises conducted by
' Elders N. B. Cobb, J. B. Boone, and Colum
i bos Durham, and the reading of selections
of Scriptures by the pastor, Elder W. R.
Gwaltney, the latter said in substance:
,, Bow the life that is now closed could have
- been better or more faithfully spent, those
of us who have known Dr Boyall for more
than thirty years cannot possibly see. Noth
ing but circumstances entirely beyond his
control could keep him from the perform
t anoe of any doty, great or small. In Board
meetings, in committee meetings, in faculty
meetings, in meetings with the young
preachers on Saturday nights and Sunday
afternoons, giving them instruction, in the
word of God, in church meetings, in prayer
meetings, and in all the Sunday services, he
was present, ready to do earnestly his part '
The weather and other causes of absence to
many who are young and Btronger were no
causes of absence to him. His presence and
help could always be relied on, t: I never
knew one who seemed to have so much rel
ish for his Work and for all his work.- Ever
since I came to this place, it has been a mys
tery to me to see the amount of work he
could do. How he could do so much and be
always promptly at . the place and time for
its performance, I could not understand.
How he could have spent a day or an hour
more faithfully or more usefully, I cannot
Boo It would seem impossible for an ob
server of his daily life to idle away his time
or to waste his opportunities. 1 His life was
a standing rebuke to any one recreant to
doty. He ever set the Lord before him, and
in everything he sought the approbation of
his eye. Last spring, when we were hold-;
ing the funeral services of Mr. Lowery, he
said, "If I knew that the Lord would come
this evepiog, I would not change my course,
bnt would go on with my work as I am do
ing it to day." And in Savannah, last Sun-
. day, he said to Mrs. Landrum, "If. I knew
that the judgment would come this evening
I should not change my course." He said
on Monday evening, the day before his
death, MIt has always been a mystery tome
that there should be in the Episcopal Prayer
Book a prayer to be delivered from udden
death, for if it should be the Lord's will, no
manner of death could be so desirable." I
never knew one , who Beemed to be so ripe
for heaven. . I never came into his presence
without feeling a desire to be a meeker and
a better man. .When I heard of bis death, I
t thought of the twenty-fourth verse of the
fifth chapter of Genesis, "Enoch walked
with God and was not, for God took him.1
Oar loss in this death is great, is irreparable,
bnt our earnest prayer is that the death of
him whose life has been such a benediction
may be greatly blessed to us all, and we are
persuaded that our prayer is not without
faith.. . , ' ( , ' t
f, Dr. John Mitchell said ; , - - j. . t
The dear brother whose remains lie before
ns, was one of the purest and best men I
have ever known. He was my friend, and
, I thank God for such a friend.. I
I had the pleasure of meeting him for the
. first time in Greenville, S. C, in 1854. Was
Intimately associated with him in Fnrman
University, and learned to love him as a
friend and brother, and to, esteem him very
highly for his work's sake. He. was a fine
teacher, popular, cultivated, wise, winning,
and apt to teach. His scholarship was ao
cnrate and extensive. He was a born
teacher, , ; , s . i. H W ,v' 'Z: ' - ' A
His gentleness made him great He was
a christian philosopher. To me be was an
unusually fine preacher. In November,
1855, he was with me in a meeting of days
at Ebenezer church, in Greenville, 8. 0.j
and for two weeks, day and night, preached
the word with great earnestness and power,
- and with great acceptance. The people
flocked to hear him, and many souls were
eon verted. The little church of twenty
three members a little more than trebled its
membership, having received forty-seven
sew members. M'.. - :'vrrV,:'X
Dr. Royall was a devout christian, a man
f large faith, and zealous for the troth. ,
Like Enoch "he walked with God; and was
not, for God took him," ; , .. , , ,. V
PROP. MILLS SPOKE OF HIS CAREEB AT WAKE
Dr. William Royall came to Wake Forest
in January, ioo, as professor of Latin and
German. At that time the methods of in
struction in our colleges eenerallv were mar
chanical and unphilosophical to an extent
hard to conceive of at this day. y And this
was especially true in the department of an
cient languages, Dr. Koy all's method of
teaching was analytical, logical and philo
sophical, and created great enthusiasm in
his own department' Its stimulating and
quickening influence was felt by the entire
College. V i'l;: vtfclJ.Uti! -Sn'iSS-';fy:v.;;'sy,
When he came to Wake Forest, the class
or 1801 had -read the course of Latin laid
down in the catalogue, but by special ar
rangement we read under him the Satires of
Juvenal, Perseus, and Horace's Art of Po
etry. Under his guidance, Latin became a
"new thing and the reading-of Latin poetry
a delightful and profitable exercise. Stimu
lated by his teaching, I tead with much
pleasure Ovid and the Odes of Horace while
in the Confederate army in 1862 and '63.
In those days we began college work at
daylight and continued it through the fore
noon, and, with a brief Interval at noon,
through the afternoon to about four o'clock.
This did- not give Dr. -Royall enongh..time
for work. He taught German at night Be
sides, he gave his Saturdays and Sundays to
E rescuing, tie was in toe prime of man
ood and was the most enthusiastic and per
sistent worker I have ever known. , " In la
bors more abundant" v h ; ' (
' In 1861 he published a valuable book of
about one hundred pages, " Analysis of the
Latin Cases. " After it came from tne press,
be found that the same ground was about
covered by a larger and fuller work on the
same subject published about tne same time.
Hence he made no effort to push the circu
lation of his own book. '
In January, 1867, the work of the College
was resumed by Drs. W. Al. wmgate, wm.
Royall, and Professors W. G. Simmons, W.
B. Royall, and L. R. Mills. To Dr. Royall
more than to any other man is due the or-
J'anization of the course of study into schools
n-tead of the curriculum. ; ;
He left Wake Forest in 1870 and organ
ized the Raleigh Female Seminary. A few
years afterwards he moved to Louisburg,
and thence on account of failing health, he
went to Texas. His. health was restored,
and he returned to Wake Forest as Professor
of Modern Languages in June, 1880,
bevabks or nor. lannkau.
We think of the man who animated and
glorified the now cold body within tbis cas
ket My acquaintance with him was begun
thirty-six years ago in South Carolina, his
native. State, and mine. .
A stripling, just graduated from the Cit
adel in Charleston, I was invited to Fnrman
University to serve as tutor of mathematics.
Among the noble men of the faculty who
kindly welcomed and encouraged me in my
untried work' was Prof. Royall.
In onr frequent faculty meetings his gen
tle firmness and wise views were always in
spiring and strengthening. He was then in
the vigor of early manhood, and had already
developed his rare power of masterful analy
sis, so essentiat to the true teacher.
-' uit give a single suggestive incident : To
supplement my own training, wnich had
been mainly scientific, I took a private course
in Greek under the incomparable teacher of
that most perfect language, Prof. P. C. Ed
wards, whose mantle seems to have fallen
on his then eager pupil who now so ably
fills the Chair of Greek in this College.
While pursuing my studies under the la
mented Edwards, I was wonderfully assisted
by a compact, thoroughly digested epitome
of the essentials of Greek gram ma v which
had been skilfully wrought out by Professor
Royall, and published for the use of his own
academio classes. It threw a flood of light
on Kuhner, the standard authority then.
' Towards the close of our three years' asso
ciation in the University, the Southern Bap-;
tist Theological Seminary was founded in
.Greenville. Then came the days of Green
ville's phenomenal pulpit power, when men
were moved by John A. Broadus and William
Williamsthe Apollos, and Jas. C. Furman,
who was to South Carolina what the persua
sive Wingate was to this State. At such a
time even, and in such ' association, Doctor,
Royall commanded admiration as a preacher
of great power. . . .
In 1860 our paths parted ; widely separated
for thirty years, wnen, most gratefully to
me, they met again in our pleasant associa
tion here. So had be impressed me that in
all these years he stood ul prominently be
fore my mind's eye as a stimulus to doty.
Many 'men fade from one's recollection. But
who that once knew Dr. Royall will ever
forget him 1 wteH''
The gentle-voiced.' sweetly dignified man
as we all knew him in the golden autumn of
his life, such was he in the days when he
gathered bis friends in the pleasant home on
the bank of quiet needy river, wnen tnese
sorrowing sons and daughters were, for the
most part, prattling children. ; They must
needs mourn their measureless loss which is
his incomparable gain. : & i'.. iXp'Vt
He lived to serve. "Having served his
generation, by the will of God, he fell on
sleeps " '"' -1 'l,t '" ; ' K
DB, BOTALL AS A FBEACHKB. .
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Prof. W. L. Poteat spoke as follows :
Shortly before his death, ! the eminent
English historian,, --J. Green, said, "I
know what men will say of me-' be died
learning.'" Nothing now occurs to me more
characteristic of Dr. Royall. Next to his
love of Christ, his master, passion was love
of truth. Indeed,' I doubt whether in bis
own thought; he distinguished between the
two. ; He was deeply enamored of truth and
Eursued it with unabated teal to the day of
is death pursued it in health and in sick
ness, by all methods and Into every . hiding-
Jlace, , A year or so ago he said to metM I
eel the necessity of studyinow that I am old
more than ever before; for," said he with a
smile that already anticipated the joy of the
heavenly quest, , ' the more , I can find out
here, the higher up I shall start in the Uni
versity abover1'- K t -:
His mind was of the logical order, with a
power, of analysis and insight surpassing
that of any man whom it has been my priv
ilege to know. He remarked to me inciden
tally, not many weeks, since, -that he had
some trouble lu recalling names and dates
and Isolated, facts, but that he never forgot
a line of reasoning that- he had -once mas
tered. But there was nothing uncompro
mising and cold in his rational method. On
the contrary, overspreading the course of
the most exacting argument there was the
play of a generous glow of feeling .which
allured the less gifted and somehow seemed
to make them sharers in, the. investigation
and in the triumph of the conclusion. In
all mr association with him, the moments
most precious "in my memty"nosrBrethoser
, ' i i i .i i a
in wnicn in pnvaie couvef Mtnou ue aiiuweu
me to follow him as he moved cantiously
about the roots of being, or discussed pro
foundly and reverently - the "personality of
God and the conditions of the soul's untram
melled existence. Such deep themes seemed
ever in his thought. The freedom and the
confidence of these disclosures of his inmost
mind I shallalways treasure with gratitude.
It cooTd not be otherwise than that such a
combination of qualities and powers should
produce a greet preacher, ? Though not con
spicuous in some of the lighter accomplish
ments of the popular orator, which are of
small worth as compared with clearness and
grasp of intellect, he never failed to grapple
my attention, to instruct me profoundly, and
to stimulate me intellectually and spiritu
ally. Every text which4 he treated wears
for me now a new complexion, more satis
fying, more beautiful, more luminous. His
method was conversational ever the most
effective. With steps not too rapid, he went
straight to the heart of the text and laid it
open. -His illustrations, which always illus
trated, were drawn for the most part either
from his wonderfully jrich experience or
from' the realm of science.,. , He studied sci
ence sympathetically and unremittingly in
all its branches, and Mainly, I believe, for
the light it might throw on the truth of God.
No man was ever more loyal to the Bible,
but he was not shut op in a particular view
of it, inaccessible to new troth. He was on
the alert .for fresh light to break upon it
from the revelations of the physical universe.
Not content with a superficial and mechan
ical harmony of the facts of science and the
Divine truth, he sought the true harmony,
which is fundamental and vital. And herein
lay the stimulating suggestiveness of Lis
preaching. Not long ago he told me he was
trying to discover what Jesus meat, when
he said, "I am theligM ot the World.". TFor
six months," said he, "I have been reading
all I can find in the Library on the subject
of light Tyndall's Lectures, Roscoe's Spec
trum Analysis, etc. but I an't preach on
that text yet" M'ji;
v The last sermon which I heard from him,
that of thanksgiving day, on the text "Bless
ed are they that dwell ; in thy; house; they
will be still praising thee,? was a typical
one. After briefly setting forth the delights
of public worship, he advanced to his main
E)int, which contemplated the kingdom of
odas a watch tower, a point of observa
tion, from which the facts of individual and
of universal experience might be seen in
their proper perspective and relation. In
this elevated position he was a cordial op
timist, and saw how the progress of science,
the discord of the industrial world, the sift
ing of Biblical criticism, and the ambitions
of evil men were but factors in the growing
good of ahe world, converging upon the con
summation of the kingdom of God.
I do not think of Dr. Royall as dead. I
think of him, in an unbroken life, with the
same tastes that controlled him here, pur
suing his studies of the Divine mysteries in
the University of God, where all is light
And in Gods own time I would fain follow
him there. . , . ,
THB STUDENT'S VIEW Ot DB. BOTALL. ?
' 1 Bro. )U T. Newton, In behalf of the stu
dents, spoke as follows: - 1 ',,
In sneakinff of Dr. Rovall. it remains for
me, as a student,, to speak of his life as we
(the students) saw it . (
- First, in his work in the class-room, he
never seemed to desire to make the impres
sion upon us j that he had a great store of
knowledge from which he would give us a
bit here and there as we were able to receive
it, but he seemed to come among os as our
brother, yea, if I! may say it, oar servant,
And here' his christian character seemed to
manifest itself as clearly as at any point;
for he seemed in this way to be seeking to
follow Christ, who said of himself. "The
Son of man came not to be ministered unto,'
but to minister, and to give his life a ransom
for many." As. has already been said of
him, he continued to seek after knowledge
himself, and at the same time helped us in ,
our efforts to higher attainments. If I may
so illustrate it, he seemed to be reaching out
with one hand; for more and yet more, and
with the otber to he taking hold of us to as
sist us to his own leveL. , '. r
Again, in bis government of the class, he
did not control by the exercise of his author
ity as a professor of the institution. Surely
he could have done this as well as any man,
and bis superior reputation and scholarship
would have given him a greater right to
have done so, but he did not rnle in this
way. ; " His great heart, full of love and in
terest to all, gave him control o those under
luscare. . , Ir-,-; Hi
. He also manifested a special interest .in
the young ministers. We all felt as free to go
to him and seek advice as to our own fathers.
There was a glow ? of sunshine ' always
about him which seemed to invite us near,
On Sunday evenings he met a class of young
ministers to which he gave instruction from
texts of Scrfpture; and otherwise looking to
their assistance in future work. A few days
before his departure he was heard to remark
that he enjoyed his Sunday evening class
jnore than all the other work of the week.
, I cannot help'thinking of this institution
as being a family in which there are larger
and smaller children. When the father of a
family is called away, the larger children,
realizing their responsibility, may bear it
better; but the little children do not see how
they will get along without him So we, as
the little children of this institution, do not
just now see how we can do without the in
fluence of this au.TivetJhsm aj6Mhs.l9,
whose influence over ns will be good, but all
men are not alike, and we will greatly miss
the special influence which his life had upon
us., It seems to me that, if I had been stand
ing by him when his spirit was called away,
I would have felt like saying, in the lan
guage of Elisha, "My father, my father, the
chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof .?
I esteem it a privilege to pay this tribute to
the memory of him whom we not only re
spected and honored, but whom, In our . in
most hearts, we sincerely loved. '
The subject allotted . to President Taylor
, , ; : DOtTOB BOTALL AS A TEACHEB. '' f
: , He spoke as follows vxi:'vB '
: How can one speak briefly, as I must; and
yet adequately, of the great educator who is
gone from among us! . That be was 'a great
educator, no one can question , If a libt of
the foremost teachers that the South has
produced should be made, his name would
stand very high upon the roll. Long before
I had ever met him, I had come to associate
together the names of Hooper and Royall
and Curtis, a triumvirate of scholars who
ennobled especially among Southern Bap .
tists, the calling and work of a true teacher.
Time is allowed meld do little more than
mention just a few of the reasons of , this
pre-eminence. - $frz-iJ'r':yi
1. H was thoroughly equipped for hu
ivork. Few, I imagine, have any idea how
broad and accurateWere bis attainments. In
his early life in Charleston, as I have reason
to know, he memorized many of the Odes
of Horace and passages from other Latin
and Greek authors." His college training
was received under the great and good Dr.
Thorn well, who was in the South what Dr.
Wayiand was in the North. Those who
knew Dr. Royall not only saw in him a type
of an Old fashioned Southern gentleman, but
also a representative of the best liberal cul
ture of a time when learning had not be
come so specialized as jit is now. - . - , , , i
q Tn ail hia vnrk aa a tflAoher. Tie never
forgot that Tie was a preacher qf the gospel.;
I well remember that at a time when my
twn mind was agitated by the question of
going into tne paswraH or oi wvupjiiug
professor's, chair, he presented with clear
ness and force the considerations which had
led him; while a preacher, to give so much
of his life to the instruction of the young.1
And those who know how he impressed
himself, or rather, the Christ that was in
him, upon others, and what large service he
rendered in helping to . prepare others to
preach more effectively, can never donbt the
wisdom of his course. :. :xJ. v,'-'"- ""v-' 1
V.. 8. Jfis faithfulness. ' ne was at all times
ready to undertake even more than hia just
share to be done, and when he had under
taken it. he did it, not perfunctorily, but
with all his heart , ,Not infrequenUy have I
seen him on his way to his recitation room
when I did not believe that he was well
enough to leave his fireside. . V -ft , -y 1 1
-, 4. He commanded the respect of all who
studied under htm. No one could take liberties
with him. He was always easy of approach
to those who heeded his counsel or assist-;
ance, but there was a dignity in his bearing
arhfoh ranellpil nnwnrrAntfld intrusion. He
t.nnA h onnial. bnt was never fliDDant I
never knew a word or anecdote to pass his
lips wnicn wouia onng a omm w uiovuw
V UIVUVBVT I 'W MWW J - o r '.
commanded respect, and while never sought
for popularity, ne was one ot ne most oo-;
loved of all the teachers in the State. 1 't
5. ffe grew to the last. He never ceasea
tn ha a BMiditnt. Few men of his acre have
kept their minds as fresh as he did. His
kvai anrl AAra TArA : ftlwnVS OnftH. and his
mind and heart receptive, for new truth or
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new pnases oi oia irum. xaia is uce icaauu
vrhv h wm mi anGoififul a teacher, for when
any man ceases to be a student and a learn
er, it is high time that he quit teaching. No
man, as ivrnom vi xvuguy uaou iu oj, vau
get a refreshing draught from a stagnant
pool, i Dr. Royall brought into his lecture
room and into the pulpit a mind freshened
kv onnatnnt antlvitv and laden with the
Spoils of recent acquisition! Such men never
grow oia: tney never wear out. -
it is witn saaness not zor nim out tor
ourselves that I. contemplate the vacancy
that has been made in our number. Whither
shall we go to find such another man I Ye
might possibly find one of as deep piety,
though that were hard to do, ...We may tied
some specialist who can carry as well the
work of. hia School. Z There maybe others
who can preach with as much freshness and
fullness and unction as be. But where shall
we find one. man who as a icholar, a student,,
a teacher, a preacher, a christian, and a man,
can take his place ! . ; . . .
After the conclusion of the exervUes ia
Memorial Hall,, the Jong procession weDded
its way to the cemetery, where Wingate and
Wait and Brooks and Walters and fcimmons
sleep. There by loving bands the remains,
were laid to rest " ' : -
' ' 1 ELIZABETH BAILEY BOTALL. 1
; Had my dear, father been called. upon to
name the human influence that had operated
most powerfully upon him, in stimulating
him to all noble endeavor, in inspiring him
with hopefulness and -conrage. and patience.
andchanty, those who know the estimate he
placed upon her who walked hand in hand
with him for well nigh half a century, need
not to be told what would have been his re
eponsa When sometimes in the course of
a sermon he would draw his most telling il
lustration from some Incident of real life,
any of' the family who might be present
JrftUldA40.PcOcogni2e In the principal
Character the cherished one, of "whom, witoin. "
the hallowed precinct of home, he was wont
to speak as the bravest and most self forget
ful of beings. ' ' ' - i . .
After her death; which occurred on Jnly
24th, 1892, the desire being expressed by
members of the family that some account of
her life should be prepared for publication,
he declared his purpose to do this himself so
Boon as he might venture to undertake it.
Two or three times, when reference was
made- to the subject he would simply re
mark that the time bad not yet come. So
interwoven had been their lives that the least
jar still caused to bleed afresh the wounds
their temporary severance had made.
. My mother was born at Mount Pleasant,,
near Charleston, S. C, Aug. 8, 1821, and
was the oldest child of Dr. Roberts. Bailey,
a well known and highly esteemed physician
in his day, having received his professional
education in London and being a contrib
utor to one or more of. the leading medical
Journals of this country. She was a sister of
)r. Thomas P. Bailey, late President of the
Medical Association of South Carolina.
. On Oct 12, 1843, she was married to my
father.. Into this union she entered with the
foil consent of her miud to be a preacher's
wife, and never was station more faithfully,,
more beroicdly filled. Forty years ago amid
the wilds of Florida, my father, often absent
for weeks on the frontier as a missionary,
bravely and lovingly she did her part as the
help mate of the Lord's servant Nor did
one of the little ones, over whom so tenderly
and faithfully and wisely she watched, ever
hear from her lips a whisper of discontent at
her lot in life. Her exalted conception of
the preacher's calling was such as to invest
that calling in the minds of her children.
with a wholesome sacredness and dignity,
while it left untrammelled the man of God,
who knew that all was well at home so far as
a heart loyal to his Master and his Master's
servant could make it so. Wherever duty -found
him,' whether in the pulpit the coun
try school, or the professor's chair, her un
wavering confidence in the integrity of hi
purpose rendered her an intelligent and
cheerful sympathiser with him in every de
tail of hia work; : When there was no token
of appreciation from others of ardnons task
performed, her "well done" was often to hi
soul as the prophecy of the Master's plaudit .
When she was taken from his side, though
the ambition to fulfil his mission teemed to
suffer no abatement, all desire simply to live
was gone ; to depart and be with Christ
seemed far better. v v V.-',.
' The last two years that my mother spent N
on earth were in some respects the sweetest
and brightest years of her life. Though par
alyzed and in a measure helpless, her pres
ence was to ns all a well spring of gladness.
, " The King hath called her higher
Into his royal dome.
'" The trumpet tone hath sounded,:
' 1 Her willing voice replied; '
f Now with encircled glory,1
, She sitteth at his side.. .
. Christ's perfect ; 'blood tht clcanseth'r
Was all her entrance plea;
That crimson stream which floweth
Hath set her spirit free.
j And, VI am trusting JeBus ,
Was the keynote of her life,
' ' She realized his power
! 1 ' Throughout her earthly strife."
' W. B. KOYiLL,
'A minister in the East recently sai l: " I ".
brethren, the collection will now l3t
for my expenses for a trip, fori r-i
away for my health. ; The rnoro I r
the longer I can stay." The Ixr; t (
tion ever, made in that church v. i t
and the question now bein cor. M
whether the size of the coilec" ::i
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