The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-02
LRTTER FROM ENGLAND


LONDONs
MY DEAR B:-My time is so much ta-
sight tSeeing-that little of it seems at the
disposal of my friends. This may ac-
count for my not writing to you before.
You have been something OF traveller
and can understand my situation.
Thine is money" to me now, both
figuratively and literally, lie. every
minute of time IS taking out of my
pocket, and there remains much land
yet to be possessed by my eyel Our
plan is to see as much i,i a day as pos
Sible; to tDrite d minute OF what we see
each day in our diaries, (which occu.
pies our evenings). and as soon as we
have "done" n place, to quit it and
move on to new places, just as grazing
cattle go on to fresh pastures from
those they have cropped. Thus We
have been on the go ever since our ar
rival, on the sixth of August. Four
weeks from to-day we went out from
London to visit the realm over which
she sits Queen; and this morning we re-
turned, having gone through the length
and breadth OF the land, and seen many
things old and new-foul and fa1rt Our
course has been in this wise to Oxford,
where the greatest University of the
world is located, composed of nineteen
colleges, some of them dating back six
and seven hundred years. In these
was much interested; but when l stood
upon the spot marked (thus II bya sim
pie cross, horizontal with the ground,
in the middle of a travelled street,
where Ridez, Latimer and Cranmer
were bnrnt at the stake for His names
sake, who loved us even unto death
that spot seemed to give the place more
renown than all the University-that
spot spoke to my soul as none other
did, made precious by the blood of those
lfvaa tho
death-''of whom the world was not
worthy"-and over the place of whose
martyrdom felt myself unworthy to
stand, unless thereby 1 might receive
portion of their spirit.
From Oxford we went to Blenheim-
palace occupied by the Duke OF Mari
boro'-then to the ruins of KenilwOrth
Castle, made famous by Walter
Scott; then to Warwick Castle, still in
good condition, and occupied, where 1
saw some of the balls and spikes thrown
at the place by CrOmwell's army
Thence to Stratford-on-Avon, the era
die and tomb of the immortal Bard
And so we have been going among pal
aces and TIiiIls-lookiug at the remains
of greatness, that ICdS, at greatness that
is, but of which twill soon be written
that 1t tVas, meditatiug over the dust of
inustrious men and the dust of their
I former dwellings, in while between
the past and the present.
Amidst it all comes the blessed
| thought that God is, and is always the
same, "ilfiIlite IN HIS lDiSdOm, being,
goodness, holiness, justice and truth
and the rewarder of them that dill
gently seek Him.
We have seen mans works and Gods
works; realizing most torcibly that
while "every house is builded by some
man." yet, "He that built all things is
God.n I love to see nature far more
| than art. Let me to tie hills, to the hills
away-not despising the valleys that
run among them, and are covered over
with corni "AU Thy trorks do praise
thee, o God, and thy saints bless thee!'
| But from both art and nature let me
| turn, and on the hill of Zion study
| Grace!
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