Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-26
From the New York Independent
Oberlfn.

It is less than forty years ainos q space
was cleared in dense forest in the
Western Reserve for the planting OF q
colony, college, and a church-ou
three in One--under the reVored Swiss
name Of Oberliu a name which now
on both sides Of the sea, is g synonym
for Helf-denying zeal in the Masters
cause. The same tough hands which
in their br9wny prime cut down the
trees to make an opening FOR the new
settlement, now, in trembling age, bear
the sacranaentoA bread and wine 20 q
Thousand colmmuning souls under one
roof It is the greatest Of earthly re-
wards 10 live long enough 20 see ones
nfe-Work crowned with triumph in
ones life and such is the reward enc
jOyed by these old men. Stiu alive and
sprightly in his feebleness, iB Father
Keep, now drawing nigh his ninetIeth
year, and who, In 1895, as president OF
the Oberltn Trustees, decrGed by his
casting vote that the college, I'm admit
ting students, should thereafter make
no distinction of color or sex. TO was
that vote-thus early laying The ak al
the root or the tree-that brought upon
Ob0rlin its early and perennial glory
Except for that vote the WildGruesE .
might better have been LEFT 20 the
wolves. From that beginning the senl-
iEary has sent out nearly 10000 stu
dents, and now gives annually an Al
ma Matters parting blessing 20 about Al-
200. OF this great army many are
clergymen, many lawyers, many teach
ers, and many more heads OF Christian
families, in whose household burn uFe8
lighted from the solitary church-altnr
that forty years ago, was set ID IN enc
wild " oOds. "These men and women"
says President Fairchild, in his historic
address, tmay be relied on 20 take tile
right side Of every good cause. They
are for freedom and temperance and
all for practical christianity. lt an
Oberlin minister can be found MNo
smokes or chews tobacco, let him 70
caught as a specimen for the cabinet"
We believe that President Eairchllu la
justified in this statement--uGleag, iu-
deed, he refers to the cabinet Of Geuer-
al Grant.
Ex-President Fiuney-tho talking
oaks still in green leaf he pluugas
into a sermon as strong swimmer in-
to the sea. BE finds, now as ever ser-
enc delight ia terrifying human souls,
Few men in this country, atiho ago of
seventy-siN, have Ia them 30 much of
'tthe spirit Of '767 as Charles G.. Flnney,
Straight as an Indian and nery as en-
Arab, he eNCommunicntes like EUpA
and yet pleads Ike a child Notwlil-
standing his Intolerance or otnor mems
opiniOns produced by that unreient-
| ing theology which so unl0vingly in+
| terptels Gods love notWlthatandinE
the semisluCicrous familiarity with
which in his public prayers he InvoiEhs
against Andrew Johnson oa ga pieee 81
often ness under tho nose Of Gad iH
Notwithstanding the graceful inf0iCilV
with which ho blurts out a loud dirrc-
tiOu to the seStOn at q moment whom
tho colleague pastor iH on bis faei read
ing hymn-notWilhsiHnGi these,
and All other eEUemtriCttles of thought
aud mien, Mr.. Nlnney fWho diadnins l0
be Dr. As now, as he has been for fore
! " years, one Of che most earnest most
/ eloquent, and most useful OF Amcli-
| can preachers. one can not holp nrmly
disputiug with and yet warmly loving
such q disputatioua aud lovenblo man
I III he was more highly gifted win Wy
1 and fancy-the two qualities Az Whlgn
] he Is least masterful-he Wou41 ANNe
| been aa great an intollectu4 Ael4ll =
/ ever mado oloqueuce Wn4t Lyman
] Taeeeber called it-"logic on hras"
| ITha contrast between she szz-treaioant
/ and the President is striking. Elunoy
/ a tenn pestuoua, Fairchild calm. FlnneY
radical, Falrohild conservative Eiuney
/ a fighter, kairchiid q teacher kinney
a Froanel light, Fairohild g atudente
/ lamp. It fal 70 the lot OF few Qoll
/ magistrates 90 elliott nom their aluae-l
L mn much RrdeUf enthusiasm tae y
4 or "a much gent lIcction aa p Nal5
/ Then, too, Professor MoE n,
sembles General Lee, eNoaP- 1----r5
l White heard. like Sir Thoma4
| ttnever committed treason 49, -ruar
tbe l,est men On ''thiH side or tAa t4'-
Jordon'"