LINDSAY HUGHES BLANTON.



    Born in Cumberland County, Virginia, January 29, 1832.
Graduated   Hampden-Sidney   College,  1853.  Same   college  con-
ferred D. D. 1878; LL. D. 1901. Student in Union The-
ological Seminary, Virginia. Graduated from Theological Seminary,
at Danville, Ky., 1857. Pastor of church at Versailles, Ky., 1857-61;
at Salem, Va., 1861-68; at Paris, Ky., 1868-1880. Chancellor of
Central University, Richmond, Ky., 1880-1901; Vice President of
Central University (Danville) 1901-07. Chaplain in Confederate
army 1863-4. Stated Clerk of Synod of Virginia 1866-68; of Synod
of Kentucky since 1874. Trustee of the Confederate Home, Pewee
Valley, Ky. Four times commissioner to the General Assembly of
Presbyterian Church, U. S.
    During his twenty-one years' work as Chancellor, 300 young
men graduated, many of whom are now filling the highest places of
useful service in the church and state.  He was also instrumental in
building up the Lees Institute (Jackson, Ky.), Hardin Collegiate In-
stitute (Elizabethtown, Ky.), Matthew T. Scott, Jr., Institute (West
Liberty, Ky.),
    His energy, activity, enterprise, courage, self-sacrifice are empha-
sized in the letters which are herewith submitted.  The kaleidoscopic
character and versatility of a life-work are better told by many than ex-
pressed in the words of the editor.
    He needs no eulogy, for his praise is in the lives of several thousand
people whom he served as pastor or helped during their school days.
As one who loves him much, may the writer be pardoned if he ex-
presses his opinion of some leading elements that have contributed to
his monumental work
    First-He is essentially a man of large view-not contracted or
narrow. The man of optimistic hope sees beyond the present into the
future, looking at the invisible, reckoning upon the final supremacy of
the good, the true, the beautiful, striving ever to attain the ideal of per-
fection, and not content with the imperfect attainment of the ephemeral
present. The man of such view to the ordinary man may seem vision-
ary, impracticable, daring, but every great work always has had its
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