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Title: General Armstrong's life and work
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carter, Franklin, 1837- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 1839-1893. (from old catalog) Hampton, Va
Publisher: (Hampton, Va., Press of the Hampton normal and agricultural institute)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nt straight to the heart of every problem. He was nodealer in fine phrases, no seeker after soft places, no lover of Lydianairs or delicate perfumes ; he was a man, an earnest, downright man ;and the image of God cut in ebony, as an old writer calls it, was tohim just as truly an image of God as the Phidian Zeus or the Venusof Melos. It was the divine that he cared for. For this reason theNegro was more attractive than the Greek, if he needed help. There-fore he was thus far fitted for this great work in which he mustgrapple with Southern prejudices ; bear patiently and sympatheticallythe criticisms and sneers of a high-tempered and just then naturallyexasperated people ; appeal unceasingly to cold,calculating Northern-ers for aid; bear courageously the stupidities and frivolities thatslavery had begotten and, worse than all, the lapses and relapses thatsudden liberty made inevitable. He aimed at broad results and if hewas sure that those results were coming, the fashions and manners.
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Samuel Chapman Armstrong at Tliirty-tliree the sneers and criticisms of onlookers, nay, the trivialities and miscon-ceptions and ingratitudes of those for whom he was working, did notgreatly disturb him. Nevertheless, what faith was required to be surethat the results were coming! What a heroism, in those conditions, to bate no jot of heart or hope but steer right onward ! Endurance is the crowning quality.And patience all the passion of great hearts ;These are their stay,- and when the leaden worldSets its hard face against their fateful thought.And brute strength, like a scornful conqueror.Clangs his huge mace down in the other scale.The inspired soul but flings his patience in.And slowly that outweighs the ponderous globe,—One faith against a whole earths unbelief,One soul against the flesh of all mankind. 12 There was an inexhaustible fund of fun in Armstrongs mind.He saw the comica) side of every situation, and the humor of the sharpcontrasts between the ideal and the real help

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