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Green, William M., Rt. Rev. Proceedings 1887, pages 19, 20, 21

St. Luke's Hall August 1, 1887

Report of Committee on Memorial

Your Committee appointed to prepare a Memorial of our late venerated
and beloved Chancellor, the Rt. Rev. Wm. M. Green, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of
Mississippi, beg leave to report that in the endeavor to perform the work
assigned, they have experienced a painful sense of the difficulty of expressing,
in the brief compass allowed, what they would fain do in presenting
a fitting tribute to one whose memory is cherished with profound respect
and tenderest affection. They realize but too well the task of
portraying in all its saintly elements that character which, through a
long and active life of labor for God and his fellow man, was marked by
traits so conspicuous in all that dignifies and adorns our nature. They
feel that only a detailed and discriminating record, such as ought hereafter
to be given to the Church, can adequately express what he was and
what he did--how he lived, and how he put his house in order as he felt
the end was inevitably drawing near, and how at length his sun went down
in the evening of his days with the peaceful and beautiful radiance which
only such a course as his could impart.

His early culture, and refined tastes as a teacher in the University
of his native State, his love of polite literature, and his peculiar aptitude
in forming like tastes in those committed to his care, and chiefly
his eminently catholic spirit, his love of the church, his deep conviction
of the importance of an education based upon Christian principle and training,
such as our people had not largely enjoyed,--all this combined to
assist in building up and advancing the work of our cherished University.