Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-11
oBsEQUIEs TO MIR. BATTELLE.

Rev. GORDON BATTELLE were conveyed 10
he Chnpline Street Church, where large |
congregation had assembled to pay their |
last tribute of respect to one we'll known to
them and universally beloved. One deep |
an d common emotion pervaded the entire |
Assem- blage The coffin was placed in front |
of the pulpit aud draped in the American
flag
Services were opened by Rev. Father
Brockuiner, who read aud lined an appro-
pirate hymn, and addressed the Throne Of
Grace in feeling and impressive suppl
cation.
Rev. Samuel Barnes, of the Fourth Street
NJ. f. Church, then proceeded 10 speak OF
| their deceased brother whom they were
called upon to mourn. He said it had
been expected that their excellent Governor
who was presently would address them,
gut be declining, the duty had been devol-
we'd on himself, at the last moment and
! without generalization.
| As he looked down before him this even
! ing, be felt like suying: Truly Il Prince
| has fallen in Israel" Here, said he, are
the earthly remains before US of one we
loved; one with whom most of you have
| oeen associated for years; one whose voice
IN Cody admouitiou you have heard again
and again from this sacred desk; one who,
| because of his rare Christian virtues, you
admired and loved. My acquaintance with
the departed was short. saw him for the
first time few weeks ago, when ne was at
nome temporarily for the purpose of re-
.ruiting his energies. called upon him.
We had never met before. | at once saw
that was in the presence of a cougeninl
| spirit; and sitting down in his own parlor.
spent couple of hours in most pleas
ant conversation, and one that l shall not
soon forget.
He was a man greatly devoted to his
work in the Christian Ministry and well
qualified for that work. His praise is in
all the churches and there are many liv-
, ing epistles of his which have been brought
to the Lord Jesus Christ through his n-
strumeutality. ! have often heard his name
| mentioned, and with affection III the church
where now labor.
He was not only nm able minister of Jesus
Christ, but he was man of true piety, true
christian pieiy, and a mau of Il high sense
of honor. l say this not so much from my
=, personal knowledge as from what l hear
on every hand. Ever since circumstance
related TO me few days ago, before knew
: of his death, be has bad deeper place in
:. my affections than he had before, not only
+ as christian minister, but as having in the
| lime of his country's need lett more partic-
ularIy the ranks of the ministry and as
II having gone into political matters, or mat
= tiers of a national character; for, my friends,
do not consider the troubles upon US now
is political matters. There is probably no
} question of politics now before the people.
+ Politics is but line of policy; and when
: there is election coming OF for Presi-
Y dent of the United States, different men
I, At this buf n ba OH
be the best one by which to govern the
u nation for the time, advocate different pol
y icies. They emhody such policy in plat
/. forms and each votes for the one he ap-
proves. These are different policies or poll
itics, in accordance with tue genius of our
institutions One or the other is selected
= by majority of the people, and when so
|, selected by a constitutional majority it be-
comes national principle aud loses its
character as politics. There is no issue
IT now before the people on which to VOTE
S, This is nota question ofpoliccs. The ma
" ton has elected its policy for the time be-
ing and now it has become Il question of
national life or national destruction. Now
= Ithas become bjectrecognized by God s
d Word aud treated of in it, and one in which
tie christian ministry has IL right to be in :
terested and to interfere. This man of
God, therefore, did not step aside from the
= line of duty into that of ordinary politics
when he lett the more immediate work of
q the ministry and went into the Convention
which was called by the loyal authorities
OF this state and there acted the noble and
q patriotic part he did act.
q l said ga Prince has fallen IN Israel" !
, may say that as statesman, one of our
greatest men, in my humble opinion, has
fallen. The part he acted in that Conven-
ton, according to the best information
have been able TO acquire of it, was a no.
S ble and worthy part.
I We shall lose hencetorth his services in
the Church, where he could be lily spared
His services will be lost to the State
= also; and to the army also, where he had
, gone to preach to the soldier the unsearch-
able riches of Christ, and TO urge him al
the same time that he was full of ardor for
the success of his country's cause, to grid
on the armor of righteousness, and to
point them, whether living or dying to "the
Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of
the world" And how many a one has he
comforted in the hospital, in the camp and
on the march, dismounting from his own
horse that soldiers who were worn out and
weary, might ride, while he himself plod-
ded his way under the broiling sun, expos
ing himself thus in order that he might
alleviate the lot of others.
Eternity alone will tell the good this man
has wrought. He hath gone, and who has
done this? would not ignore the Provi-
dence of God but yet, but for the present
unhoIy rebellion, this man might now be
living. The speaker adverted severely up
on the wickedness of the rebellion, and
said that if its enormity was to be measured
alone by the bloodsbed and the groans and
tears produced by the sacrifice of valuable
and noble lives. we might look in vain for
parallel in the annals of history. He
would not arraigu the Providence of God.
They might not be able to understand why
one SO noble, SO useful and beloved should |
be thus moved from them, but doubtless it |