The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-03
WHEELING, WEST VA, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1866.

"Ne are of more value than many
sparrows." Everything but the spiri
of man has its price. It's value coulc
only be written in blood, and measured
by the divinity. When God couIC
swear by no greater, he sware by him
self; and when he could give no less, ht
gave himself, for the redemption of tht
soul, "for it is precious:" the Word wa.
made flesh and dwelt among us, auC
We have beheld his glory as the glory
OF the only-begotten of the Father, anC
he 1t Is whom the Divine love offers OF
the altar OF human redemption
Thanks be to God for the unspeakablt
gift!
Our departed friend had an eve fol
every beauty, mind for any business,
and an imagination for every sublimi.
ty. he could have won laurels upon
any field; but, while he traversed all
the arch of time abutting on two eter.
mites, the religious, not the secular
the spiritual rather than the material
We're the chosen theatres of his genius,
bis irrepressible generalizationgr grasped
the whole idea of spirit:-God, esSential
and central spirit, and every nature in
which he has breathed the breath OF
lives. Tracing every line of benevo-
lence from this spirit centre to circum-
ference, and every return line OF
obligation from the periphery of being
Spirit, his soul left the earth for higher
realms. But understand me. 1 am
not painting an enthusiastic recluse, an
inmate of San Saba, nor a mystic of
any school. The mind we contemplate,
knew well the mountain was an aggre-
CATION of atoms, and therefore he stu
died the atom. There have been feWmore
accurate observers or close definers,
II was not that he could not, but that he
would not, make specially of the
earthly; but laying manly grasp on
everything he contemplated, as a crea-
tnre In the presence of the Creator, or
as subject before the Lord of all, he
subordiuated matter to mind, earth to
heaven. Nor were these contempla-
uons in the uncertain light of tradition
or fancy; they were the direct impress
slonS made upon his mind by 1.-The
written voice of God" Well do l re-
member his remark to me as we were
being ferried across the Ohio, at Gin
clnnatl, in a Skitf, in lS26-''I have but
one object in this world, and that is, to
know and enjoy the meaning of that
book, pointing to a Testament. The
writer or writers of Ps. cxiN, could not
have possessed n more superlative love
for the Word of God.
But whence came this reverence for
the Bible. The answer IS found in one
OF Solomon's aPhorisms, Train up a
ShitA III tue W dN ueSuOulu 70, anu w Deu
he Is old he will not depart from it,"
Alexander Campbell had an eminently
Christian father and mother. He was
made acquainted with Gsd with his
earliest knowledge of language, and
learned TO love him when he first
learned to love. He might have ap-
propriated the words of solomon, and
said: For was my fathers son, ten
der and only beloved in the sight of
my mother. He taught me also, and
said unto me, Let thy heart retain my
words; keep my commandments and
live Get wisdom, get uudersta nding:
forget it not; neither decline from the
words of my mouth. Forsake her not,
and she shall preserve thee; love her
and she shall Keep thee. Wisdom is the
principal thing: therefore get wisdom;
and with all thy getting get under
standing. Exalt her, and she shall
promote thee; she shall bring thee to
honor, when thou doSt embrace her
She shall give to thy head an ornament
Gofgrace; a crown of glory shall she de-
liver 10 thee
Thomas Campbell, the father of Pres
ldent Campbell, was one of the most re-
markable men of the class which over
Tapped the last and the present centur-
les. He was pre-eminently a good
man, a learned Presbyterian divine,
and preacher of views outgrowing
was head and shoulders above those
who preceded him in efforts to reform
Popery and Protestanism. There was
no enthusiasm, not TO name fauaticiSm,
in his plan, or in his operations
Indeed, union of christians, rather
than reformation of sects, seemed to be
the purpose OF his declaration and ad-
dress" issued in 1SO9, in Washington
county, Pa. Luther, in the 10th centu-
~, contended for the Bible against the
Pope behind battalions and princes.
but Thomas Campbell, kindly as a
spring morning, and as radiant with
divine light, fraternally approached
ChristendOm with flag oftruce, rest
ing on the almighty arm. Knowing
little more than his better informed
contemporaries, except this, that the
union of Christians is the crowning
moral miracle which is to convert the
world, with no other support than
faith in our common humanity and
our common Father in heaven,
he issued his proposals for this
gigantic enterprise of the COM
posing of all differences, and the Union
of Christians, especially the better in
formed and more pious, on the Word
of God.
September 18th, 11Ss, his son Alexan.
der, the subject of this eulogium, was
born in County Antrim, Ireland, and
=
ure of this man of God and devoted
pastor. Circumstances throwing son
and father together until the former
entered the University of Glasgow, the
whole soul of the latter seemed to be
absorbed in the literary and religious
education of the future reformer. Not
a waking moment was permitted to be
wasted. The memory, reason and the
heart were Severally and severely
taxed by guiding mind, which seem
ed 10 have prophetic expectations of an
abundant harvest from this plentiful
seeding of truth. To ensure a compe-
tent knowledge of the copious Language
consecrated to the gospel, two Greek
grammarS, one In a dead tongue, were
committed to memory, and abundant
lore of English, French, Latin and
Greek prose and poetry were slowed
away in the same spacious thesaurus
for future use, apples ofgold in baskets
of silver. SCOTS huge Commentary,
and similar works, We're read through;
but the crowning glory of his youth
was, that like Timothy, he was the de-
pository Ofuufeigned faith, ancestral
and pure, because derived from the
truest source; Tor from a child he had
known the Holy Scriptures, which are
able TO make wise unto salvation,
through faith that is in Jesus Christ,
To quote from my Baltimore "Memo-
swore the child Hannibal at the altar
to alife-loug enmity to Rome, and made
the name of his god BaaI part of his
sons name, so Thomas Campbell train
ed Alexander to perpetual war
against the papal, and all other corrup-
tions of the Word.''
The father was remarkable teacher,
and was himself a model of proprietv
and devotion; living exemPlitication
of his doctrine. In Ireland he had
large pecuniary ind 1cements laid be-
fore him by a nobleman, but he declin-
ed the situation for fnnr his child ron