Rizal's Own Story of His Life / Edited By Austin Craig (Classic Reprint)
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Dr. W. W. Marquardt suggested this book. Miss Josephine Craig advised and assisted in the selections. Hon. C. E. Yeater read and criticised the original manuscript. Miss M. W. Sproull revised the translations. Dean Francisco Benitez acted as pedagogical adviser. Miss Gertrude Mc Venn simplified the language for primary school use. Mr. John C. Howe adapted and arranged the music. Mr. Frederic H. Stevens planned the make-up and, in spite of wartime difficulties, provided the materials needed. Mr. Chas. A. Kvist supervised the production. Mr. C. H. Noronha, who, in 1897, in his Hongkong magazine Odds and Ends, first published Riza Psfarewell poem My Last Thought ,was the careful and obliging proofreader. Assistant Insular A rchitect Juan A rellano, a colleague of the editor on the Dapitan Rizal national park com- mittee, designed the sampaguita decorations. Mr. A. Garcia achieved creditable illustrations out of poorly preserved photographs whose historical accuracy has not been impaired by the slightest embellishment. And the entire establishment of Messrs. E. C. Mc Cullough Company printers, pressmen and bookbinders labored zealously and enthusiastically to do credit to the imprint: Made in Manila The Work of Filipinos .
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Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot
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In writing a biography, the author, if he be discriminating, selects, with great care, the salient features of the life story of the one whom he deems worthy of being portrayed as a person possessed of preëminent qualities that make for a character and greatness. Indeed to write biography at all, one should have that nice sense of proportion that makes him instinctively seize upon only those points that do advance his theme. Boswell has given the world an example of biography that is often wearisome in the extreme, although he wrote about a man who occupied in his time a commanding position. Because Johnson was Johnson the world accepts Boswell, and loves to talk of the minuteness of Boswell’s portrayal, yet how many read him, or if they do read him, have the patience to read him to the end?
Austin Craig was an American clergyman and educator. He served as a president of Antioch College from 1862 to 1868 and as a president of the Christian Biblical Institute from 1869 to 1881.
Background
Austin Craig was born on July 14, 1824 in Peapack, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Moses and Rachel (Carhart) Craig, he was of Scotch-Irish and English descent. His father, formerly a teacher, was a successful merchant and farmer, and Austin was brought up in a home where both learning and religion were highly regarded.
Education
When Austin was sixteen he entered Lafayette College, but left during his third year, returning in 1846 for the study of Hebrew. He was extremely independent and individualistic, never disciplining himself to a harness of any kind. At college he and a classmate petitioned the faculty to permit the study of Christian writers instead of the usual Greek and Latin authors, and he left because, as he confessed, he would not study what the authorities offered, since they would not let him study what he desired. He had a most vigorous and retentive mind, however, and was always a thorough student of everything pertaining to the Bible.
Career
Austin Craig became one of the best New Testament Greek scholars in the country, and was invited to be one of the American revisers of the Bible. Though he declined because of other duties, he was repeatedly consulted when difficult problems arose. He began to preach while in college. In May 1844, he was licensed by the New Jersey Christian Conference, and was ordained in 1845.
For six years he was an itinerant preacher and supply, serving without pay, since, as he said, he was getting his ministerial education. His principal charge was at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, where he settled in 1851, and remained with the exception of two or three brief intervals until 1865. It was preceded by a short pastorate at Feltville, New Jersey, and in 1868-1869 he was pastor of the North Christian Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts. While in Feltville he became widely known because of an address delivered at a church conference held at Camptown (Irvington), New Jersey, May 18, 1850, arraigning sectarianism and setting forth in masterly fashion the basis for Christian union. Horace Greeley published it in the New York Tribune, and it was issued in pamphlet form. From this time on Craig was a constant writer of tracts and articles for religious periodicals, many of the former having extensive circulation here and in England.
He was the constant adviser of Horace Mann when the latter undertook the establishment of Antioch College, was supply professor of Greek in 1855, and, yielding to Mann’s entreaties, became college pastor and professor of logic and rhetoric in 1857, but returned to Blooming Grove in 1858. He was elected president in 1862, but did not take active charge, though he aided in the rehabilitation of the institution, until 1865, and then only for a year.
Prior to 1869 he also served for several years as non-resident professor of Christian Life and Experience at the Meadville Theological School. From 1869 until his death he was president of the Christian Biblical Institute, located first at Eddytown, New York, and later at Stanfordville, New York, established with the aim of helping its students “to search the Scriptures for themselves, with the aids and appliances of modern scholarship, and to qualify them for the free and untrammelled interpretation of the Holy Scriptures according to the individual conscience, without bias or prejudice, and to train them to be efficient ministers of the Gospel of Christ. ” This statement embodies the spirit and chief interest of Craig’s whole life.
Many of his productions may be found in Martyn Summerbell’s Writings and, Addresses of Austin Craig, 2 vols. (1911, 1913). O. O. Wright and Selah Howell published in 1885 A Memorial of the Reverend Austin Craig, D. D. , which contains phonographic reports of his lectures.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Henry Ward Beecher: “Whenever I have met that man I have felt like taking a stool and sitting at his feet and listening to his words as long as he would talk to me. "
Connections
Craig was twice married, first, August 12, 1858, to Adelaide Churchill, who died June 24, 1879; second, in 1880, to Sarah J. McCarn.