The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-15
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
LEXINGTON, VA, 9 o'clock 2. NJ,
YIN N,IIbOr0'. Oct. ID 1870.

Our town still wears the babilimerts of
constantly-mcreasipg grief. The people
from the county are here to-day in large
and features of the honored dead us he lies
in state in the college chapel.
Numbers Of the students guard Of honor
keep watch over the body.
Gen. Curtis Lee, il behalf Of the family,
has replied to the Legislature Of Virginia,
who telegraphed for permission to bury
Gen. Lee in Hollywood, thut the remains
have been committed to the authorities Of
Washington College.
Governor Walker and the committee Of
the Legislature are expected here tonight.
General ". 81. F. Lee and Captain Robt.
Lee arrived this morning.
The Virginia flag-not the Confederate
battle flag, but the flag tho great Eirginian
has pororet in peace as We'll as in war-
floats ut hulf-nlast from the college, appro-
priatcly draped, AL of the public and
most of the private buildings have been
draped in mourning.
A mass meeting of citizens adopted suta.
bic resolutions, and invited the people OF
the state and country generally to attend
the funeral; and by action of the authori-
tics all visitors will be the guests Of the
; town.
! The college chapel WITS crowded this
! morning at o'clock by solemn congrega-
! ton Of students, cadets, and citizens, all of
whom seemed deeply affected by the SIM
! pie exercises.
Rev. Dr.. Pendleton read from Psalm
xxXyii., verses TO II inclusive, and 90 to
20 likeWise, and with deep feeling applied
nently illustrated in the life, death, and eter.
nal blcssedness Of his illustrious friend. He
remarked that this Psalm consists CT series
Of aphorisuis pointedly expressing the char
acter and end of the righteous in contrast
with the doin9s and destiny of the often
prosperous and ungoGly, and selected for
this sadly. solemn occasion because its teach
iuGs were 50 si2nally exempitied i'll the
career of the departed. He dwelt on verse
IL: "Thc meek shall inherit the earth,
and shall delight themselves of the abun.
dance of peace" %: The steps Of o
rood man. are ordered by the Lord, and Tie
delightcth in his way" 80: "The law OF
his good in his heart, none of his steps shall
slide" 81: "Mark the perfect man and
behold the upright, for the end OF that man
is peace" SO and 40: "The salvation OF the
righteous is of the Lord. He shall save
them, because they trust in Him." These
Expressions fully realized in their highest
sense solely the great Captain Of our saliva.
ton, but secondarily more remarkably LII
this Virginia hero and noble exemp!ar oil
the true Christian than in any other human
being we have ever known.
An old writer defines meekneSS as the
disposition which, under personal adverse.
ties and the prosperity OF enemies, Is free
from envy, anger, and complaint: whom
in this Just sense have we ever known 50
meek rs hef A great soul so wholly mac
cessibc to envy, SO calmly superior to irri'
tatiun and complaining under trial unsur.
passed of the kind mentioned was never
! known in this world, and rs we remember
him in this relation we recall those pres
! uaut words or authority, BLESSED are the
meek. Tor they shall inherit the earth.
Here is one Of the great secrets OF that
marvellous influence for good throughout
the civilized world which accompanies tDe
name Of this renowned soldlerand Virginia
citizen. ,
GA good man" indeets his "steps :,
were surely "ordered by the Lord" wei
nigh unerringly we're they taken in every
relation of lite and of him may 1t reye
rently be said, partaken, as he was, of oul
common fallen humanity, yet faithfully i'm
proving blessings Of Providence M; and grace 1a
vellous favor of Heaven! A child OF dust
az is each of us, yet nobly endowed, wisely
trained in a Virginia home, impressed from
early life with Bible teachings, in infancy
dedicated to the Lord, and visited by un
seen agencies Of grace, SO grows up II
Youthful virtue, natures into manly fidelity
and wisdom, and achieves grand career
of duty to the last, as that we may. conf
IDENTIFY believe He who beholdeth NO
| iniouiry delighted in bis way.
Dear friends, what q Lesson for us-Wha
q call and incentive to you, oh, dear younG
men, who were so near to his heart-ant
here was the secret of it !: - The law of hi
God was in his heart" therefore dit
"none Of his steps Slide" During nearl!
forty-fiye years has 1t been my privilege t!
be more or less ultimately associated witt
this great and good man, and all the Whii
has he been the same. Though In thos'
early days of student companionship b,
was not, I believe, In the full communion
or the Church, the law Of his God was,
i doubt moi. from the singular reetltude, dis