Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-14
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This letter 80 elegant in its =,
tender in H. memories, and rio 49,
treasures. conveyed in such genial
guagr. that we take great pleasure il.
PUBLISHING it as among the choicest gar
Land of Alma Mater, at the reunion of 1870.
LETTER FROM MRS. JEANNE C. CARR.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, }
OAKLAND, June 23d, 1870.
Mn Dear Brother :-Yeur circular and
invitation to say word at the coming re-
union of the old pupils and graduates of
Castleton Seminary, found me just start
ing for the summit of the Sierra Nevada,
to meet company of eastern horticulture
alists, led by such names as Marshall
Wilder, and Downing, and Ellwanger
and Barry, of the famed Rochester nur-
series, who were coming to visit their
plant children under kindlier sky. We
did meet them at break of day, on the
summit of the mountains with offerings
of fruits and wines, of wonderful flowers
which grow only in these high solitudes,
and eve OF the farthest west, aud they OF
the eastern shores felt at that moment,
that Time and Space, and Distance, are
terms of little meaning to the all conquer
ing human spirit. How gladly and cheer
fully would each and all the Children of
Castleton Seminary leave the paths of
care and toll, and go up to the hills
.fwhere our life rose," to exchange greet
inga, the fruits of past experiences and to
pledge one another in the old wine of
memory T. Indeed we are with you in
spirit, though absent in the flesh, and not
ourselves only, but of the "viewless ones
great number, who have gone from
widely scattered earthly homes, to fill the
habitations Of eternity. ..
No words can express the tenderness
and sweetness which fill our souls with
the music of their names-we cannot even
in our thoughts reach the stature of their
attainment. We can only see through a
glass darkly the immortal beauty that is
theirs, and feel in some small measure
their delight in endless studies and an
endless growth in knowledge and in
power. .r .
1t ia the glory of the teachers calling
and the reoompense of the teachers other
wise unrewarded life that the impression,
le upon the young minds under hi
ma, zee deepen with time, anc
infuel the ever widening circle
widen Ill -perience, until in the halo O
of human eA. as almost divine. As i,
memory he seel old masters the saint
the pictures of tn. 'ar faces transigure
and angels were fami.. face of Luoius 7
by art, so the spiritual ,red by memo
Clark has become transfig. : ~ Tboma
nv. / never open the pages that +,
Arnold's life without a feeling wbe
cius Clark was his true peer. Ano ali
l think of Oberlin, and what thst u. =
Institution has done for the West, ~
always with regret that Mr.. Clark coui
not have lived to realize his purpose
build up kindred college in the State
Tennessee. What he did for the semini
~, what manner of young men and w
men went out from his instruction d
serves to be written by some worthie.- us
than mine. And this is also true of tn,
most excellent teacher and modest scho
ar who succeeded him for brief seaso
ReY. E. Mack, and filled the full measu