Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-02-06
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The following delightful piecc isl ,,or.
dium OF a discourse rccendy detha hx
Bishop Dome, before The Hs,orisl 49,.
OF New Jersey. and issued FROM ,hc)k al
Mr.. Z. Morris. Burlington.
never shall forget with what a s,nS.- .
startled JOY stopped. and stood, andfs ~ u
upon a lew black letters, ON a plainsNI'
board, at the corner of a street, In ,h~
English town OF Lincoln. l had been mi. |,
ing beneath the Roman srchway, called III
.,ewpoH tate, OF the eser-changing stream
OF I'ic. which had not ceased to roll through
u TOT twice ten centuries; and buised with
NY 'noagh's. had wandered of alone. When,
town Is built. lifting INV ewes nm from ,he
ground, near the Danes Gate ,bex 49, =.
rested by the words New Jersey.s II scare.
" Il a figure 10 say, that. in an instant. "mv
heart was in my mouth" Romans H..
English. all we've gone. l doubted ~ nv
very sense of sight. | seemed somc m;rgs
OF the mind. Country. and friends and nom
were all before me. My
"eyes
Were with my "heart, and that wasfar away
stood, a Jerseyman, and in New Jersey.
| do not speak of this a. ii were at alt Pc
culiar. l know that il is not. The Swiss
guards, IN a foreign land. who dared all dan
& T., and bore al privations. were melted 10
desertion. ifthey heard the simple native song
with which the cows were brought from pas,
turc.
The intrepid Swiss. who guards a f re q
shore,
Condemned to climb his mountain cliffs n,
more,
IL chance he hears that song. 20 swce,ly Wild
Which on those cliffs his infant h us beeuiI
NJ Its at the long lost scenes that round hi,
rise,
And sinks, a martyr 10 c3cnicni signs"
Mott is not peculiar. l cite il as a fact !,
nature. IL Is u part OF our humanity. A toucI
oil that which makes the world all Kin: 80 tina,
the man who felt Il not, would scarce be own
ed OF human kind. And I cite il now. becaus,
IL indicates. as no elab Jrate dissertation could
the ground ON which | stand TODAY. and the
feelings with which stand on il: the feeling.
and the ground, which. ii our coming here /,
not To be IN vain, YOU must shane with me. as
Jerseymen, and ia New Jersey. Let me not
ior one moment, DC misunderstood. Weld
TO no man IN the Catholic comprehension
which takes i'm the world. I te,ch mo tuil
more earnestly. than that which filled and
bred the iervent soul of Paul: that. in the plsr
OF God, for human good. there should BE- ND
w, no Greek, no Scy,hian, no Barbarian, buI
all one In Jesus Christ. But | rcmemhs.
David 20 longing for the water of that ancient
wei, by the town gate, where he had hathet
his boyhood's brow. / remember how Pau
yearncd Tor his brethren. his "kinsmen accord.
ing 10 The flesh" and il need were, would
even be accused for them. And | remembcl
and speak 1T with proioundest reverence
how that blessed one, who .'gave Himself [,
ransom tor all, when He was come near Jer
usalem, beholding il. "wept over it," Tol low,
our neighbor as ourseli. is not 10 sink The bro
ther or The child. Jesus had one discipl,
whom He loved" The house will soon Do
sniiied, III which The hearth-fires IRE gone out.
There we've no Niles 60 -fatten Erynt' II IA
fountains were not full. Trust not TO his nb;i.
suelropy, who is not flisl as a son, and faith
tutS ~ friend. He can be no American. who
i&npomore q Jerseyman. ""