In the recent death of the president of Centre College, our State of Kentucky has lost one of its most distinguished scholars, the Presbyterian Church has lost one of its most useful men, and the cause of true Biblical criticism one of its most stalwart defenders. He took a [152] leading part in the prosecution of Professor Briggs before the General Assembly, and the friends of the Bible owe much to him for putting a serious check upon a heresy which would have spread much further and more rapidly had it been tolerated by that influential body. Only fifty-four years of age at the time of his death, with good health his usefulness might have been prolonged many years, but God has ordered it otherwise. To his will we bow.

[SEBC 152-153]