The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-03-11


sense of personal honor and integrity ;
and the collisions that took place between
students were on points of honor in mo-
ments of excitement, and cast tempo
rary gloom over the whole College. The
highest excellence, and greatest follies of
youth, and of men, will sometimes unex-
pectedly contrast themselves.
DR.. Green knew better, than most men,
how to draw forth the excellencies of his
domestic circle to the greatest enjoyment
and advantage of the whole. Free from
those jealousies and envyings, and suspi-
cious fears that sometimes creep in and
destroy domestic peace, herejoiced in the
excellence obtained by any member. 1t
was easy to see that he considered every
member an essential part of his house,
and honored them as such; and as far as
in his power, gave every one opportunity
of manifesting, becomingly, the excellence
they possessed. He confded, to an un-
usual extent, in the prudential abilities of
his partner for life, and found the advan-
tage in redeeming time for his official pre-
parations, and in the economy of his
house and rejoiced whenever the eye of
a friend discovered that excellence. He
rejoiced in every member of his house
hold; and they gloried in him, conse-
quently his memory is held in the highest
reverence; increasing years but adding
to the experience of the singular excel
lence of the husband and the father.
3. The manner of his death. Accord
ing to the theory of Whitefeld, he bore
no public testimony for God in his dying
hours, having set his seal to Gods faith
fulness in his living duties. In the course
of the civil war, the College was deprived
of the services of the larger part of her
teachers and many of her pupils. DR..
Green judged wisely, in deciding that in
view of his personal and official condi-
ton, it was his duty to remain at his
post in Danville as pastor of the church
and President of the College; and in
doing so manifested abilities and endow-
ments that fitted him for any position,
civil or military, to which he might have
aspired, or to whose allurements he might
have listened.
Danville became a scene of suferings
of varied hue. After some bloody bat
ties in Kentucky and Tennessee, some
thousands of the wounded were congre-
gated in that place, in and around the
College and throughout the corporation.
Many fau,ilies had previously retired
thither for protection and sympathy
The kind heart OF DIR. Green was daily
exercised by applications for counsel, ad-
vice, and comfort. Every sort of per-
plexity was presented to his mind, with
the most entire confidence that ne was
the proper source of the aid the suffering
and the perplexed needed. To increase
the public distress, the fevers that harass
camp, broke out among the inhabitants.
The calls on DR.. Green for ministerial
services increased beyond the utmost en-
durance of his physical strength. He
went on cheerfully, boldly, we had al
most said recklessly, for how could such
man count danger at such time
To the remonstrances of his more init
mate friends he declared that his mind
acted with greater ease than at any pre-
vious period of his life. Thoughts, ideas,
great truths, and beautiful propositions
pressed upon him in his public exercises
and his difficulty was to stop the rapid
course, the rush for utterance, long
enough to permit him to pronounce the
words that crowded on him, in untold
abundance, begging to be the vehicle Of
some thought. He often ascended the
pulpit to address large assemblies; anc
as often left it, with clothes wet with per,
spiration, and his body exhausted. He
could not see that he was like star or
fire; that the light and heat was pur'
chased by his own confagration. In eff
forts exciting and joyous to himself, anc
fascinating to his hearers, whether in his
public exercises, or his family viSitations
he exhausted his life. His friends came
to be partakers of his enthusiasm of self
sacrificing and benevolence, and los
sight of his danger in his usefulness
He was wanted every where in Danville
and he went every where, and at al
hours, as if his body had become spiritu
al and immortal and impossible. Th'
blazing star suddenly went out in th'
midst of increasing splendors. The elo
quent tongue spoke not a word as HI
passed over Jordan.
A. G. NJ.
ALL GooD.-Rev. DIR. Hall, late o
Dublin, in an address before the Sunda.