The Gospel In Enoch: Or, Truth In The Concrete. A Doctrinal And Biographical Sketch...
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The Gospel In Enoch: Or, Truth In The Concrete. A Doctrinal And Biographical Sketch
Henry Holcombe Tucker
J. B. Lippincott & co., 1869
Religion; Christianity; Baptist; Religion / Christianity / Baptist
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Henry Holcombe Tucker was the chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1874 until his resignation in 1878.
Background
Tucker was born on May 10, 1819 near Camak, Georgia. He was the son of Germain Tucker (1794-1821) and his wife Frances Henrietta (born Holcombe). After the early death of Germain Tucker, his widow married a Mr. Hoff and spent many years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before returning to Georgia. Henry Holcombe Tucker's paternal grandfather, Isaiah Tucker, had been born in Amherst, Virginia, and was himself the grandson of Francis Tucker of St. George's, Bermuda, who had emigrated to, and married in, Virginia. The Tucker's of Bermuda are a prominent family in the British Overseas Territory, that date back to the 1616 appointment of Daniel Tucker as Governor of Bermuda, and the family included many other prominent Henry Tuckers. Henry Holcombe Tucker's maternal grandfather was the Reverend Henry Holcombe, D. D.
Education
The boy was prepared for college in the academic department of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1834 he entered the freshman class of the University. In his senior year he transferred to Columbian College (now George Washington University), Washington, D. C. , where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1838.
Returning to the South, he entered business in Charleston, S. C.
In 1842 he decided to study law and repaired to Forsyth, Ga. , where he was admitted to the bar in 1846.
The death of his fisrt wife seems to have turned his mind toward the ministry, for he soon gave up the practice of law, sold his library, was licensed to preach, and removed to Penfield in order to take private instruction in theology under John L. Dagg, then president of Mercer University.
The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by the Columbian College, Washington City, in 1860, and the degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Mercer University in 1876.
Career
Although he preferred to enter the pastorate, he was persuaded to undertake educational work and accepted a position with the Southern Female College at Lagrange, Ga. , where he was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1851.
For a short time subsequently he was professor in the Richmond Female Institute, Richmond, Va.
In 1853 he was offered the presidency of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C. , but since he had just accepted the pastorate of a church at Alexandria, Va. , he declined.
In 1856 he became professor of belles-lettres and metaphysics in Mercer University, a position which he held until the institution was closed by the Civil War in 1862.
He was opposed to secession and used his utmost influence against it, but when Georgia seceded he remained loyal to the South. Foreseeing a salt famine, he organized a company for the manufacture of salt, which was extremely helpful in the dark days of the war.
After the war he was elected editor of the Christian Index, Jan. 1, 1866, but resigned in July to accept the presidency of Mercer University, in which office he served until 1871. The period was one of extreme difficulty for all educational institutions of the South, but Mercer made progress.
In 1870 the institution was moved from Penfield to Macon. This removal, which was favored by Tucker, caused much resentment and friction, which probably was in part the cause of his resignation in 1871.
The following fourteen months he spent in Europe, chiefly at Rome and Paris. In Rome he assisted in establishing a Baptist Church and himself baptized in the Tiber the first candidate for membership. In Paris he preached for the American Church most of the winter.
On returning to America he became chancellor of the University of Georgia, at Athens, and served as such from 1874 to 1878.
In the latter year he became proprietor and editor of the Christian Index, which he conducted until his death in 1889. Under his control the paper attained a position of wide and commanding influence not only in Georgia but far beyond its borders.
Though he held but one pastorate, he did much preaching throughout his life. He published a volume of sermons in 1884 under the title The Old Theology Re-stated in Sermons, and in 1869, a small volume entitled The Gospel in Enoch, which occasioned much favorable comment. After his death, Select Writings by the Late Henry Holcombe Tucker (copr. 1902), edited by B. J. W. Graham, was issued.
He died at Atlanta, Ga.
Achievements
Henry Holcombe Tucker is remembered as the editor of the Christian Index, and perhaps the most brilliant Baptist Georgia has produced.
He was the author and founder of the "Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, " an institution which corresponded largely with the Northern Christian Commission, and which carried aid and comfort to tens of thousands of sick and wounded and dying Confederate soldiers. The institution was very popular with the Southern people, and enormous contributions to its support were made.
The community of Tucker, Georgia is named for him.
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Membership
He organized the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, a voluntary organization for the care of sick and wounded soldiers.
Personality
He was the most entertaining companion, he was a profound theologian, a well-informed man on all subjects, with a highly-cultured intellect.
Tucker was not a great scholar, but he was a logical and consistent thinker and an excellent teacher. As a speaker and writer he was master of a clear style characterized by conciseness and finish.
In his preaching he was ardent and earnest, and his discourses were enlivened by flashes of wit and humor.
Dr. Tucker's style of writing is polished and scholarly, racy, manly, pungent, and strongly Saxon, and, like his thoughts, logical and lucid. It never wearies, but always enchains and sparkles. His manner of speaking is bold, candid, and fearless. He is a logician by nature as well as by culture. His tone of mind is decidedly practical.
Connections
In 1848, he married Mary Catherine West, who lived but a few months after their marriage.
While in Alexandria, he married Sarah O. Stevens. They had two children.
