Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-30
a Literary CuriSsfey.

a Literary CuriSsfty.
Ane soiiovm8 ~ one of the most ra,nsrkstl.
'ompoatsSns We have ever met wrh. 1, -.
meeooify OF arrangement p.cu srly i,.ox,-
"Apen ssaon The initial ca, itals .r4ll M,
- ne glorious Cross of Chyist" The
Ueics, vhsn read from top 10 boatm.
ooteom to top, form The Loyds Pyov1r
ATRrLz Acnosrrr
AAxe 1own thy gospel truth, Our fa.hs, k,no
H'sld ~ thy grace, dear Flther. fror, go.
bleo a. with hearts mhich feel -nsly can sing
''Our life thou art for eoer, God Of Iove.'
Aasuage our grief, In 1--we for Christ, xeprav
sinoe the bright prince Of HeaUen and oLoyy
died,
Took all our sins and h1Llowed ne display,
Infant being, first a man and then was ssrucified.
stupendous God, Thy grace and gorer make
known;
In Jesus name Let all ne world rejoice.
New labor In 0iy heavenly kingdom own.
That blessed kingdom for thy SAINTS f6e choice
How vile To come 70 the Is all our CIV
Enemies Of My self and all that. mine,
Graceless our uiH, we hive for vanity,
Loashing thy wy being. eru in a-sipn,
o God, thy will be done from earth TO heaven:
Reclining ON the gospel 1t us live,
In earth from SIN deliuered and forgiven.
Oh , as thyself but teach us 10 forgive,
Unless IFS power temptation doth des;roy,
Sure Is our fan into the depth. Of woe,
Carnal In mind, we've not gim pse OF JOY
Raised against heaoen, IN us hope can fyw.
o giUe us grace and lead US on thy way,
Shine on as with thy love and give us Peace.
Self and this sin that rise against us sag,
Oh /! grant each day our trespasses may cease,
Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do,
Convince US daily Of them TO our shame,
Help us with heavenly Iread, foygiUe US. too,
SRecurrent lusts, and acell adore thy name.
In they forgiveness saints can die.
Since for and our frespness 70 high,
Thy Son, oar Saviour, bied On Calvary.
BEREA CoLLEGE.-This College, that
started its existence just before the dawn
of the rebellion, is like an oasis in desert
"a radical institution in the midst Of a
conservative and proslavery population.
Since its chartered birth, in 1859, it has,
amidst difficulties,land in spite.of all the
obstacles which intense hatred could in
vent, been spared, and is now blessing
to the State, and monument Of which its
founders may well feel proud.
Its founders, Rev. John G. Fee and Rev.
J. A. r. Rogers, were anti-slavery men
and abolition missionaries, and the result
of their lsbors, to-day. shadows forth more
the spirit Of the twentieth century than
that of Our own. The college is nov q
firmly established institution. owning
four hundred acres of valuable land: DOS.
sessing several buildings. rude and tenn
porary, indeed, but enough to constitute
q footbold the center Of a community
several hundred strong. and thoroughly
identified with il in interest and sympa-
thy. The days and danger # enforced
exile of its managers and all its support
ers are happily past. This college knows
NO distinction of class or color, tbeoreu-
calls or practically, having counted among
its three hundred students of this year
nearly equal numbers of white and black,
the former mainly from among the hardy
mountain yaliste, and the latter from
the "blue gras." lowlands. Ii lie just up
on the border line which separates the
former slave-bolding or lowland Ken
lucky from the hill country ahere there
were no slaves, blu. which produced the
daring and suffering Kentucky unionirts
of the war. Beneyolence never
reached them until Berea Col
lege offered them education. Thus
its doors are opened ON either hand
to those for whom it is especially design
ed and il has so m,lded and controlled
the sentiment of the WHOLE student com
munity that lao lack of harmony between
the two races in the pursuits of study can
~. I...a.a~a1 49, tha 20.
The only forces employed to sff-ct tbis
remarkable result are the complete ami
nation of all CLASSES of students with an
esger mastering, common desire and pur-
pose to SECURE an education, not attain
able else here by either and the prevail
ing presence of the spirit of Chrirtian
love among students and people, which
makes il also thoroughly disgraceful 70
do a thing that Is accounted by all I'M
christian.
That such an institution can exist and
grow in Kentucy, even though its friends
be few and scorn abnndanf.is d sign Of life
in the state that Is refreshing as rain in
drouth. Strong though Berea college il
in the truth of its foundation principles,
in the importance and necessity of it's
work, in the earnest faith of its workers.
and in the ripeness of it's oppOrfu mites, 1T
still will need for many years a. it needs
now, the sympathy and substantial help
of the benevolent and able az the North.
PROGRESS OF THE HoosAc Tunnel
The new contractors for excayating the
Hoosac Tunnel are pushing the work a
head quite rapidly. During the month of
month of June they drove the heading at
the east end In one hundred and sixty
feet, and it is now over mile and an
eighth. The first week in Jaly IN y
made thirty feet, and the next week forty
feet The fr-t and second enlarcements
are al-o being pushed ahead v;gor aslv.
They are also erecting buildings nesrte
mouth of the tunnel Tor four additional
compressor-. ~ a. 20 give them more
power. They will be- run by steam. Thee
have two hundred men ~ work at the
easteDd, divided in three gang, which
work night and day continuously, resting