Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-03

lege will, we hope, soon be turned to good ad-
vantage, through the liberality already devel-
oped, and still being developed, to raise its tow
ers and bulwarks, and to furnish its libraries
and laboratories with all that is essential to the
increasing demands of the age-to place 1t IN
the front rank Of the beniicent, and potent
literary, scientific and moral institutions WIN
these aims and objects, and through the encouT-
agement already Youchsafcd by generous puo-
lic-the friends and patrons of Bethany College
and especially the Alumni of this institution,
we now proceed, this 3lst day of May, to lay
the cornerstone of the first cdifce OF the sec
ond edition of Bethany College, enlarged ana
improved -FIic jacet non lapis terminals, seq
apis singularis, COllegii Bethaniensis Literature
Scientie ct religiOni sacri; hoe die ITigesSimo
primo mai, Ammo Domini unum mile, octlnGeH-
ii qnin-quagnta octo.
ICEREMoNY OF DEPTosITING TnIN TOOK PLACE
in the box we noticed, were placed numoer
of rare fragments and specimens from the won
derful scenes of nature and art in the old woflu,
which had been gathered by the accomplished
Professor Pickett in his travels some years
since Among these were pieces of stone from
the Pyramid of CheOpS-a fragment from the
Areopagus ut Athens one from the Parthenoni
one from the temple wall of Jerusalem, ana one
from the palace of the Caesars. Also, we no
ticed coins of all natiOns-EngliSh, German
| French Turkish and one old Roman piece is
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a number of the prominent addresses, 'Thich
had been deliver ed from time to time, before the
College and lastly, but not least, your reporter
would eXegetically mention, that he noticed 4
COPY of the last ''Wheeling Weekly lntelligen-
cer."
REsrMING, the President said
In this corner stone we deposite copy of the
Holy Bible, not to be buried in the earth, bnt
rs n monumental symbol Of the fact, that this
Il, in
true and proper Foundation of every Literary,
Scientific, Moral and Religious institution-that
il is OF right Divine, intended TO be, and ought
to be- the basis the Sub-haSis of every public
and benevolent nstitution-eSsential to the per-
feet and complete development of man III ms
whole constitution as citizen of the Common
wealth, a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven,
and an heir of the universe through all the
| cycles of an eternal future. To whom be all
| glory aud honor, now, hereafter, and forever!
Is no: this in harmony with the all suggestive
and eloquent fact, that the whole universe was
| founded and intended 10 rest securely upon the
lr0rd If Ged-thc Everlasting Word. Hear
| John, the beloved Apostle, the most phllosophIc
and elevated in his conception OF the Original
| Twelve "In the beginning was THE WORD and
THE WORD was with God, and the WORD ', as
| Cod" All things were made for him, as we'll as
| by him Hence he is the ALPHA and the OMEGA
| of universal being nRd blessedness. 1t Is, IN
! our esteem opposite to the occasion, this solemn
and sublime occasion, of erecting monument
| in honor of the forward claims of Literature,
Science, Religion, and the Arts, both the useful
and the ornamental, to call upon the patriots,
DhilanthTOpistS and acknowledgements of
local or partizan teelings-pr0 or c0R, To co.Upe-
rate with us on the broad basis Of a common
| humanity-R common country common po-
| litical dcstiny-and common christianity
| We therefore, desire it TO be known and re-
allied, that we do not seliShly refuse the
/ Of .VNN
| fellow citizens, of every creed and OF every
| name to re-crect, furnish, and garnish Bethany
! College; which we doubt not will he an invest
ment on their part, as profitable TO themselves,
their heirs, and representatives as 1t VIII be ar-
! ceptable and gratifying to us. We here take
pleasure in assisting fell citizens in such like
benevolent insttutiOnS-and may 1t not be due
to them to extend to them, such opportunities
rs they have been pleased to vOuchSale to US.
But to conclude The legitimate position,
end and aim of all Colleges, properly so called,
| is, or ought TO be. the education or deveIopement
of the whole man-6odg, soul aud sptrtt-and
! this too, in harmony with the attributes and
! laws of God exhibited and developed in the
five cardinal dramas of the Universe: Creation,
! Legislation, Providence, Moral Government and
| Redemption.
The analytic and synthetic methods of inveS-
| tigation and developenent, already canonlZed,
! with the consent and concurrence OF the great
| Master of Science, truly so called, are those we
have judged supreme in the conduct and career
of all schools, adapted to the wants and cravings
of man in the world that now is, as also in re-
ference to that which is to come. Years of ex-
perience in Schools and Colleges, in the Old
World and in the New, have fully satisfied US
that this is the true philosophy of Educa-
ton, and that it has the approval of every we'll
informed man-indeed, of all who capable
of understanding the subject. We, therefore,
have no new positions to assume or defend III
the premises We consequently do no more
than to pledge ourselves to prosecute the same
course which at the commencement we adopted,
and have prosecuted till now. It's simply that
which cducationally meets and satisfies all the
wants of man, in reference to the present now
and the eternal future, of his being, relations
obligations and destiny.
Ir is noticed as a remarkable departure from
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