Sandt, G: 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

What has deeply impressed the writer of this biog raphy is the absolute uniqueness of Dr. Schmauk's per sonality. His life and character defies all ordinary standards of measurement. It is as different from the lives of such leaders as Krauth, Seiss, Krotel and Spaeth as is a resistless mountain torrent, broadening out into many rivulets and cataracts, to the stately and majestic ¿ow of the Mississippi. There was a big-hear-tedness, a perennial ardor and enthusiasm, a tremendous serious ness and earnestness of purpose, a childlike simplicity and naturalness, and a sympathetic warmth and tender ness, that won for him a place in the life and affections of the Church occupied by few men. He touched the life of the Church at more points than any other Lutheran personality in America. He was a veritable storage battery, with innumerable connecting wires to transmit sparks of in¿uence and power far and wide throughout the Church, and beyond. He was the most ecumenical and inspirational Lutheran America has yet produced - length, breadth, height and depth combining to give him mass'iveness in body, mind and spirit. The author could do no other but write this biography under the spell of such an estimate of Dr. Schmauk's worth. Much as he tried, he found it impossible to bind him self to a purely objective method of treatment.

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