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

Circles have their centres squares their rec
tanglcs, and all terrestrial cdiices their corner
| stones These should always rest upon the
solid earth The soliu earth itself rests upon
! the heavens, and the heavens rest upon the ON
nipotent riU of God. Such is the splendid
architecture of the present domici'e OF man. y
| practical recognition of these facts is honorable
! to mnn-to educated reason and to the wisdom,
| power and goodness Of God--hInSelt the Su-
| preme Protector and Architect of the Universe.
! He "weighed the mountains III scales, lie pa
ced the hills in balance" He measured the
waters of oceans and Of seas, OF lakes and OF
rivers, in the hollow of his hand. Ao gave To
| these oceans and seas, these lakes and rivers,
! limits and boundaries, which they cannot pasS,-
( :, decree that their waters should not cover
| the earth.
man of rood sense, Of well developed mind,
I (who is always a Christan,) recognizes the
| hand of God-the power, wisdom, and goodness
| OF God in every work OF his hand. lie recoS-
nizes the Bible as the Book OF Divine "lSuom'
the oracle of God, the volume of human redemp-
! ton the charter of q future and an eternal lie
to man He, therefore, delights to honor 1t, TO
build all his hopes of an eternal future upon IT.,
and to regard it and venerate it as the star OF
his own eternal destiny IN this magnificent
creation.
While a rock is the only reliable basis of ter
restria editiccs, the Rock of Ages Is the SUB.
/ basis of the entire empire of the Universe All
that we truthfuily and satisfactorily know of our
origin our destiny, and 0ur eternal cations to
/ the whole creation, is contained ! the Holy
Bible 1t is, indeed the true philo Thy OF Di-
! vnity, and tine true science OF ''hanity.-
/ Bethany College mot the ediiice So ra'Icd, bnt
the Institution of which it was til dOmici!e)
was the first College in the Union, n"d the first
/ known to any history accessible to Ia, that was
/ founded upon the Holy Bible, rs ali ereJY d0y
lecture and an erery day study, as the only safe
and authoritative tcXt-booll OF humanity, Iheol-
! ogv and Chrstology-Of all true science upon
! the problems of divinity and humnnity-Of the
world worlds that preceded this, or that shall
succeed it. From the origin of Bethany Col
/ lege on the first Monday of November, 1911,
/ till this day-a period of over seventeen years
there has been Bible study aud Bible lecture
! for every College day in the College year. The
/ Bible is read as it was written, III chronological
order and lecture every reading is dciIv-
cred, exegetical of the Jtlcts and G0cWmehts-
historical, chronological, geographical wheth-
er they be natural, moral, OF religious IN refer
ence to the past, the present, and the future of
man. Theories, Specuations. sometimes called
! Doctrines faith, orthod05g, heter0dory, come
not within the legitimate area of collegiate, lite
rary, moral, or christian education.
/ In Natural Science we have the fdctS of ma
ture as its appropriate area of observation, com
parison and deduction.
| In Intellectual Science we have the powers,
facts and acts of the human understanding
!
son, deduction, abstraction, Imagination, ratio
cination and generalization.
| In Moral Science we have conscience, or moral
sense of personal and social right and wrong;
moral law, moral obligation, rewards and pun
| ishments &c.
In Religion or in Christianity, we have n D-
vine remedial interpoStion; mediatoral inst
tution-a Prophet, Priest and King, invested
with all Divinity and humanity, in one person
ality-himse!J the altar, sacrifice and priest all
forms of majesty, honor and glory eliminating
in him, the Alpha and the Omega" of all legiS.
lation, and interposition-of all judicial and
executive authority. Such is Christianity, sci
entitically conceived and exhibited in the Chris
tan OF Remedial Institutions. But Christianity
if actually enjoyed, is a new and spiritual life
Il life of communion and fellowship with God,