Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-14
For the Belmont Chronicle.
NEW ATHENS.
Meeting of thesAlumni OF Franklin Col

Meeting of hesAlumni OF Franklin Col
Iege.
The Alumni of franklin College, met
in New Athens, Ohio, June I'D, at the
Invitation of committee appointed by
The Board of Trustees, last September
sad was organized in the "Philo Hail."
by calling Rev. DIR. J. B. Johnston, of
st. Clairsville, to the chair (the oldest
AI,n,nus of the College living,) and
electing Il. r.. Crawford, of MoOrefieid,
Ohio, Secretary.
The roll OF the Alumni was called,
and some forty persons answered to their
names. Out Of 800, about the number
that graduated since the College charter
was procured, near the one-half arc no
more in this world; and the balance are
scattered, not only over the United
States, but in foreign lands.
Those present formed themselves into
a body. to be known III future as The
Association of the Alumni of Franklin
College"
The committee of arrangements re-
ported a programme for the occasion
which was adopted.
A special committee of three persons,
was appointed to revise and prepare for
modification. an edition of the College
Catalogue, from its organization in 1873,
to the present time. The following
were chosen for said committee; name
ly, T, R. Crawford, Robert Campbell,
and James NJ. McClain.
A committee consisting of Rev. X. b.
Ewing, Stewart Shotwell, ESQ.,, and s.
R. Watson, Esq, was appointed, to
make arrangements for another meeting
of the Alumni, to be held in the year
1871.
The Association then took recess, to
reassemble at the call of the Chairman.
We then repaired to the College Chapel,
to partake of sumptuous and magnifl-
cent dinner, furnished by the ladies of
New Athens and vicinity. When all
were seated at the tables, Rev. II. u.
Campbell, President ofthe College, well
coined the Alumni back to their alma
mater, in a neat and tasteful address,
which was responded to by Rev. Dr.
Grimes, of Cadiz, Ohio. in that happy
style and manner peculiarto the speaker.
The hour of feasting was marked by a
flow of social feelings and expressions,
whilst, at the same time, ample justice
was done to the abundant and delicious
refreshments that graced the occasion.
After recess, by order OF the President,
the Secretary called the roll, and all fell
into rank according to the year In Wnlch
each received his sheepskin, and march
ed to the grove, headed by the Wheeling
Cornet Band, which very eioquently
d;scoursed music at proper intervals for
tho entertainment, and to the satisfac-
tion of all.
Rev. Robert Armstrong offered prayer.
A spicy and able address was now de-
liyered by Rev. r. B. Ewing, Of Pitts
burgh. to a very large assembly. The
speaker gave a descriptive and interest
ing history of his introduction to col
Iege life, his class, and the power of the
pulpit in moulding the moral and relig-
ious character of the world. We give
some extracts from the speech of Mr..
Ewing. He said:
FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN COLLEGE:
When after many years of absence from
home, and of experience among stran
gers. one visits the scenes of boyhood
days, his heart is for time oppressed
with conflicting emotions. Gladness
and sadness alternately prevail. The
persons, and objects, and scenes that
still remain as they were, only mellowed
a little by time, kindle in his soul a
feeling of Joy. They revive pleasant
memories of the bright, happy days of
long ago. But the things that were and
are not, do by their absence, color the
thoughts and feelings with tinge of
melancholy sadness. So when the stu
dent after years of varied experience in
professional life, checkered with re-
verses and successes, defeats and vic
tories, comes back again to his alma
mater and looks upon the scenes of his
college days his feelings are varied and
confiictory; his emotions contradictory,
and he inclines to be silent till the
tumult within that Expresses him, has
time to subside, and the mental chaos
to develop into order, and shape itself
into intelligible and suitable words.
This occasion takes me back to a
period nearly twenty-five years earlier
In my life than to-day, and sets me
down at the knee of my foster mother,
a child of funmistakable verdapcy, rath-
er docile and willing to receive accord
ing to my capacity, the good things she