The Nevada journal., 1858-06-25

haunt with yours, the hill where the
dead are crowding in. To them I have
said farewell but not to forget them.
My familiarity with death has not har-
dened me into insensibility; it warns
me, does it you2 But time fails me
brethren, to dwell longer on these de-
tails of sorrow-on the changes that
have come up SO quick and in such
throngs, breakin 3 up as it were the unity
of life, making it seem more like a
strange dream when one awaketh.
Yes, seven years ago came among
you with all the rawness, inexperience,
and unftness of a student, fresh from
the seminary. Though you had not
much confidence or much care as to the
work which brought me here, you were
willing that should have chance and
try the experiment. had fair warning,
that should have to toll pretty much
alone, and while you hoped or wished
me success, you were not willing to risk
your time or chances. DR.. Clark, him
self a right-hand man gave me hundred
dollars, to be released from a note of
a few hundred which had his name, in
connection with two or three others.
But you have in my case verified the
rule of helping those who help them
selves, and when l think of the many
enterprises have undertaken in your
name, and in none have been left finally
in the lurch, l cannot but feel pride in
people whose prompt and generous
impulses, have these many years justified
every expectation, and earned to them.
selves true and honorable name. Go
where you please and under the sun you
will not find a people, taking all the cir
cumstances together, more liberal, more
free hearted and generous than this, and
many places with ten times the ability
not one-tenth part the heart and will.
Your kindness to my family, that
night in which our little cottage on the
hill was burnt, the heartiness with which
you supplied the wants of my little
children, then totally destitute of raj
ment and food, and the fact that in about
"a hours you had subscribed enough to
erect over our heads, the spacious and
beautiful home = beautiful to me and
mine because the work and gift of your
true kindness, that now stands on the
ruins of the old. we never shall forget
it. In any time of future trouble and
calamity we may wish ourselves in it
again, in any time of future prosperity,
though it far surpasses the joys we have
known with you, our thoughts will often
revisit the home where SO many pleas
ant, friendly reunions with friends and
people were enjoyed.
l feel deeply also, the patience with
which you have borne with my blunders
the charity with which you have COW
cred my weaknesses and my faults, and
indeed bow in profound recognition,
admiration and gratitude, at the fortitude
with which you have stood my inces-
SAINT begging. From the first l have
been almost a professional beggar. My
face in the street has been equivalent to
a demand for more or less of your mon
ey, for some object or other. A long
time ago I voted myself bore, and
wondered the people did not drive me
off. Show me another minister who has
begged IN Propria persona, and by in
direct means, some $4,000 in the same
time from the same persons and l think
| will show you a man who has been
driven from the face of his fellows; but
you have endured me. Let me advise YOU
in mercy to future ministers to pass law
forbidding them to beg at all, it will be
better for him and better for you. AS
general rule t6e less minister has to do
with dYsning his people, the more he
wl(do for the people, both in and out of
the pulpit. To this part of my life Inow
most devoutly and conscientiously say
tareweu.
In bidding you farewell, I go with
conscience clear Of this-of ever having
tried to be popular. 1 have worked hard
to do my duty and set before you the
duty the example ofan upright Christian
life, but have never, not once trimmed
to catch the popular breeze. / have
made more of standing to my own con-
victions, than running after the praises
of men. have not Stunned to declare
the whole counsel of God. have felt
always the charge of souls. 1 have re-
cognized and advocated Gods claims to
your entire being-not excepting your