The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-03

: of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Thus star by star declines.
I'LL all are passed away :
As morning high and higher shines,
Nor sink those Stars in empty night
But hide themselves in heaven : own light. 'f
Your late President was a reader and
a student in his boyhood, his manhood
and his old age. When Lyman Beech
er, D. D., in 1887, asked him how he
possessed himself of such stores OF
methodiZed knowledge, he replied, ''By
Studying sixteen hours per day." These
habits he maintained. when possible,
till late in life. But the secret OF his
triumphant success, was his faniliari-
" with the Bible. Students, the future
Is born of the past. Follow the light
OF this brilliant example till YOU aC-
complish similar glorious destiny!
. Alumni of Bethany College! l nd
dress You, for If the College is Your
Iona Mater, the late President ha.
been to you father, a father of warm
affection and wise counsels. You have
known him, some of you, in the day oI
his prime. You felt his value and the
value OF his religion. l would scorn 10
ask YOU, and Won would spurn the re-
quest, to be blind follower OF a man,
living or dead, but l do ask you, in
following Mr.. Campbell where science.
and religion led. to emulate las viriures.
carry ont and perfect his plans, and
vltalize into a methodiZed and general
success, his faVorite measure of making
the Bible college classic. Upon YOU,
gentlemen, Mr., Campbell has devolvci
solemn responsibility.
To the Trustees and Faculty, 1 have
only to say, in the dying words of VIM.
II. Harrison, You know my will.
Administer the government upon pune
constitutional principles" The found
er of Bethany College has committed
its destiny TO You. l doubt not YOU
will preserve the trust inviolate, dis
/ charge the duty faithfully. and make
the crowuing labor OF his life his hitting
memorial, and perpetual monument.
/ Members OF the house of Bethany, and
I bereaved Relatives!
/ Messiah was anointed Ito comfort all
that mourn, 10 appoint unto them that
/ mourn in Zion, to give unto them
I beauty for ashes, the oil of iov for
/ mourning, the garment OF praise for
the spirit ol heavine>s that they may
be called trees OF righteousness, the
planting of the Lord, that he may bc
glorifed." The Lord of hosts hath
taken away from you the stay and the
staff, mourning relict, after Thirty
eight years of intimacy. The Lord
is now thy husband" He who was
thy husband has gone to join eleven,
] having left but five. to mourn. Th-
twelve are with Christ which is far
. better If ever - family had high
z reason of serene resignation. YOU now
/ have. The tender husband and alice
( tlonate father came to his grave in Il
/ full age like as a shock OF corn asCen-
/ deth the altar among the nTst fruits.
{ ''in his season." Following his exam
: pie Is the sinceIest sorrow for the dead
and the purest hope for the future
/ Divide among yourselves, children. III"
falling mantle, and see that each wear
his part we'll. The old hero's maxim
was, FTGHgdS, non Hccfc,. So say you,
to the powers of evil. "No on NAV break
you shall not bend me-" The stern in
( tegrIty of Alexander ampbcll was the
chief glory of his life. Thirty-three
years since, before many OF YOU Were
/ born, traversed these hills with him.
preaching on both sides OF the river,
I while the cholera was decImaIing
Z Wheeling and some Ohio villages.
/ Never shall forget the self-posseS>iou
Z exhibited by him in those weeks Of
/ peril. He was as firm before the pesti-
. lencc as he was before his foes. Tho
/ night of November 18th, of the same
year. he shared my pillow in Rich
/ mond, Va. Before midnight, The cap
tam OF the city watch called me up 10
see ''thc heavens falling Upon Ti--
ing, we found the negroes and many
I whites had already shared the excite
ment of this official. Your fnther,
/ then,and departed sister, witnessed the
grandest sight recorded since the delurp
/ tile great storm OF meteors-the snow
storm of fire. He alone stood TRANQUIL.
and dealt out in encouraging strains
/ his philosophy of the phenomena.
I Long after the day broke these flakes
of fire seemed to touch the earth.
These hills, every rood of which h..
/ loved, Will answer to his trend no more.
DE has gone TO the upper level OF
/ Christianity, "the heavenly Jerusalem,
and the iunumerabIe company of an
gels, TO the general assembly and church
, of the tirst-bOrn.'
H '.Can STORED rrD or aDgr,a.s5 b,,z.
I BacK to Its mansion call the tlceuuE breatns
/ Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust e.
Z 1t remains for you. then, but to aim
/ for the same blest abode by a life of de-
I votion to the cause of God ! Heaven
gran; You all the needful help!
Men, brethren, and fathers Shall
the voice of the dead speak here and
/ now lesson? Methiuks I hear it,
BE united; "be of one mind live in
peace, and the God of peace shall be
with you" Too often have modern
times realized the painful illustration
. of one poet, as given by another:
/ should such man be fond to rule alone,
Bear, Ike The Turk no brother neas the
| View him with scorufuI yet with Jealous eyes.
Ana hate for arts that caused himself to T.s-
Damn with iaint praise, assent with civil er.
And without Sneering. teach he res. to .rIe..rs
. wiling 10 wound, and vet afraid to strike,
Just hint fault and hesitate dislike.
Who would not weep. il Atticus were ne"
I would found here, upon this spot,
an argument for ministerial ethics and
the warnest and strongest fraternity.
. Were ''the great gulf' bridged. and the
spirit Of our departed bro, her once more
on this platform, would he not. by The
( solemnities Of the grave. condemn all
aSpeTlues and diSCOnrtesies among the
! friends of Jesus? Would he MOI. by-
the. joys of the higher life upon which
he has entered, beseech US here to fnll
[ not out by the way. bnt pray MS to
t fulfill his joy" that we ..be likeinfnd-
ed, having the same love, being of one
accord, of one miud,' having the mind
that was in Christ Jesus!
DR. n I K1SNER