The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-03
IN M MoRIAM.
The late Alexander Campbell.
BY D. 5. BURSET, a. NJ.

lage of Bethany has sat down i'm sacl-
/ clOth; and million mourn. around
our land, in sad sympathy: for a great
man hath fallen in Israel! True. Since
then the bare forests and the blacken-
+ ed hills have been clad in green; the
sun has photographed his varied hues
on the maiden cheek of the fair Corolla:
[ the beauty of the bloom has begun to
redden into fruitfulnesS: the harvester
Is watching the golden bronze as it
creepS DER the green of the gladdened
he!dS, and soon you'll hear his merry
song as the yellow ranks fall before
MS victorious Scythe. The storm must
IulI, and the leaden wave of grief must
mlngle with the purer water of iovous
life. The sorrows of to-day must Weld
20 Inc a4leviating power of the scenes
OF tomorrow, and the mingled emo
tons which crest every wave of the tide
OF life. The shock that thrilled the social
heart when Alexander Campbell died.
has subsidized; and gentle grief and sad
Tememhrances have tilled the bosoms
lately convulsed. The green sod arch
ing the narrow abode of his manly
form, speaks the freshness of the pc
rennlal life, in fairer cline. Like the
bow of God,
1t = sweetly bent over the gloom,
tomb" - ''-e
How beneicent the law that :the cloudv
sorrow of the night should melt into
the light of life, and the winter of our
woe brighten into the tranquil iov of
vernal bloom!
The pulpit and the press have spoken
one tone OF admiration for the recent
living, and of sorrow and reSpeCt for
the more recent dead. Even the rrovyI-
lngs OF discomfort, abashed, have hush
ed into silence. Friend and foe have
spoken, but the child of Mr.. Camp
bell manhood, the pride of his life
and the hope of his old age-Bethany
Colleges yet to speak, and to-day is
speaking. What more worthy this in
stitution than a fitting recognition of
the lie, character and services of its
founder, and for quarter century its
President and patron, and whose blood
and bones might be said to be built in
its walls? II is not probable that a
superb mausoleum will ever raise its
proud form over his clay-built house
or that holy Mecca will tell weary
pilgrims where he was buried. Rather
let this splendid pile, with its oriels
and It's towering Spire, be visited as one
of the scenes of his more recent labors
in literature and religion. Let every
good student be his epistIe, written in
his immortalized heart, known and
read of all men who can appreciate
sound learning and religious training;
for he wrought not in marble, nor did
he care to have the marble work for
2 A1AAAA- AOA IL " ASIEO every Young man
of the college and every hearer of his
public preachings and private discours-
Ings, "manifesSly declared to be the
epistles of Christ, ministered by him.
written not with ink, but with the Spir-
/ II of the living God, uoti in tables of
stone. but in fieshly tai ables ofthe heart"
Genius has the historic honor of orig
. mating what is permanent. The pyra-
mIds of GiZeh and Cheops, the ruins of
the Carnac and Luxor, of Babylon and
Nineveh, of Persepolis and PALMYRA.
of Greece and Rome, whether statuary,
architecture or road ways, all stand in
the estimation of historians and of the
literary world, upon the sole foundation
of Genius. Which do you prefer to
contemplate, Respected Auditors, the
bust of DemoStheneS or his orations 1?
Cicero in marble or Cicero in his match
less Latin? the broad-fronted Plato in
sculpture or in broad and deep-fiowing
thoughts and mellifiuent Greek p
Much honor to Phidias, Alcamenes,
[ Myron, and PraXitiles; but more to
those who wrought upon thoughts and
thinkers; the highest honor to those
who have winged the fancy, balanced
! the imagination, and cultured and in
2 vigorated the reason; and double su-
[ perlative gratitude 10 him who has
guided erring feet to the high places of
I God, and has plumed weak faith, like
the king of birds, to dash through the
cloudy pavilion of the Father of Lights,
and fold its piniOns in alteration among
cherubS and seraphs, while gazing up
on the beatific vision!
The venerable President of this in
| stitution wrought in the quarry of
mind, for, in this marble, he saw men
linen of whom are made poets, ora
I tors, historians, editors, critics, teach
| ers, harbingers of Christ in lands where
4 there is no light and pastor-preachers
who shall initiate the good Shepherd
/ the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls.
In the rough rock of stormy
/ emotion, perverted affections, undevel-
/ oped intellect and almost indistfn-
\ guishable spiritual nature, his pene-
| trating glance could discover jewels to
| be cut and chased, such as Jehovah
l said. in Malachi, should he his, when
he made up his special treasure"
! Full many gem OF purest ray serene,
I The dark, unIathomd q caves of ocean bear:
| Full many Hover Is born to blush unseen,
| And waste its sweetness on the desert air
Some mute, ingloEious Milton, here may
some Cromwell, guiluess Of his country's
! blood"
Educated mind rules the world, and
! is to more fully rule it, hereafter. To
/ guide the mind, therefore, by the laws
( of philosophy and religion, is to rule
I the ruler-tO conquer the cOnqueror.
\ And, it adds not little to the value of
this victory, to know, that the mind has
/ a double immortality:-it lives in itself
and lives in its works. What see you
in the sphynx, the pyramid and the
I CycIopian colonades of the Nile, where
4 a bunch of moss or a sprig ofivy cannot
I live, but sempervirent mind? What
see YOU in the winged lions and fresh
paintings, recently eXhumed from the
I ruins of the imperial cities of the Eu-
pbrates, but immortal mind? What
reads the student in Greek and Latin.
hut Aristotle and Plato, Caesar and
[ Cicero? They being dead, yet speak to
Y the educated ear, but speak not so
sweetly and effectively as the shepherd
king and sweet singer of Israel, and the
all-mind- apostle of the Gentiles. Faith
outspeaks philosophy, and its voice is
art. Did / consider it lawful, and did
occasion offer. / could spend hours
daily among breathing marbles and
speaking canvass; but love the works
of God with greater ardor. If find In
my path beauty which neither Solo
mon nor his Egyptian spouse, in all
their glory could rival, know that my
Father in heaven has SO clothed, in
more than royal robes, sun-dyed and
crowned with diamond dew, this ira.
gile plant, that my eye, as well as his
"the wings of the dove with silver and
her feathers with yellow gold, !" my eye
Joins my ear, when am charmed with
her COO of love to her beloved mate; Il
he have transcribed inanimate and
animate nature in the bud and flower
of lovely woman, adding sentiment x
beauty and life; If he have placed iL
this casket of associated beauties Rnt