Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-02
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
FUNERAL OF THE DROWNED STU
DENTS.

DENTS.
The Auburn Journal gives an account
of the final recovery of the bodies of the
fourtheoIogiral students, who were drown
cd in the Owasco lake. They are inter
rcd side BY side in the village burial
ground, aud their funeral obsequies were
attended on Sabbath evening, July 2, bv a
crowd OF citizens. The services at the
ground were performed by the professors
Of the Institution Of which the deceased
were members, their fellow students as
mourners, paying the last sad tribute to
their remains. Rev. DR.. Cox addressed
the assembly, DR.. Mills prayed, and Dr.
Richards pronounced the benediction.-
The address, at the request of the friends,
has been furnished for Publication.-N Y,
Evangelist.
ADORE SS,
AZ The grave of the -Four Students, on oc-
cGsiOn of The iHterment of the bodies of
Messrs. Smith and Woodbridge, by the
side of those OF Messrs. T'LttLe + John
son, delirered, for the substance, to a
rery large and Gltersti1e auditory, Lords
day, July 2, 1897.
My respected friends and dear 6reth-
ren-This is a solemn day to us! 1t is q
solemn place where we meet! 1t is q
solemn event which we in common de
pIore When was the occasion paralleled
We do not dream it is indeed reality
We stand by the graves of four late STU
dents Of the junior class four late mem
bers OF our sacred Seminary; four young
lovely, promising brethren, ravished away
from US, as sin the twinkling of an eye
with the fullness of health, in the m orn'
ing of their days, from the bleeding af
fections Of the kindest relatives, and dur
ing the charm of the brig htest prospect:
for career of usefulness and honor IL
the present world. Since Auburn hac
, "a local habitation and a name" has nc
such prodigy, or rather tragedy, Of grle
, occurred. Nothing like it ever know
/ in the annals Of our Theological Sem1na
. nv before. And since the silver waters
Of the Owasco owned their present con
fines, lis deep bosom never held treas
, ure so valuable and so honored, as tia
which it has been coerced but recently t.
, resign. This spot is consecrated III tn
future history and tradition of our times
; Many pilgrimage OF tender and Chris
tian sentiment Of affecting and enIlghten
: ed sympathy, will hereafter be made to Il
= by the wise and the good Their memo
rial will live in the recollections and tn
Interests of future ages and CENTURIES
Their history will combine with that
t our village and our seminary; and man
{ an inquirer will direct his footsteps 10 tn
E graves of FUTILE & JOHNSON, Of SMITl
I and WOODBRIDGE, with a thrill profoun
G of ingenious feeling, and a CONSCIOUSNESS
= Of the incertitude Of all terrestrial thing
: instructed and salutary, cherished and dc
J. yotlonal. Here they rest, among the mrs.
Il fruits Of our contributions from The Sem
hurry to this MAcHPELAH of the departed
d where also are deposited the remains
IS the late venerable PERRINE, our Prc
t lessor, our Brother, and our Friend. An
e how soon others may be RENTED nea
d them, TO .repose so solemn and so sacred
r and who are to follow and accompan
a. those kindred sIeepers here, there is ON
: and only One, that knows. Our time
70 are in his hand, and may our hearts al
Z quiesce, with more than submission,
IS his own all perfect and wonderful ways
Is providence towards us, his unworthy an
"a dependent creatures!
osolemn indeed, is the place where "
., ssand, and sympathize, and weep, and wo
10 SNIP Farewell, We well remembers
ne and We tenderly beloved brethren, in Il
mr. faitn oil Jesus Farewell, We friends
IN once sweet affection, and now sunder'
d. endearmentl Your memory shall n
en- perish with your corruptible forms. Yo'
a signal and ever affecting history we w