Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-11-19
In mEmoRgam.

We cannot offer more fitting trib-
ute to the memory and virtue OF the frte
jno. IL. WinrtOn, Jr., than what is
contained in the suijoined nddreas.
dsiiVored by President TsdIeck, on
tie occasion OF the funeral saryiees of
the deceased. YOusg WiHStoa va. a
student Ct ling College, aad sou of
Thomas S. Wineton CT Luisiana. He
died of Typnoid Fsver, at the residence
OF his uncle, JDo. II. Winston, on the
morning of Eov. 1st 1872, aged IG
years end i month.
The dead are those who are uncon-
cious of what is Transporting around
theRl. According to tbs definition, i
feel that we are dead. For one / do
not realize these exercises can not.
Is Johnny Winston dead ? Is it
dream :, Csn il be reality? / had
not missed him long enough TO learn
10 SKIP bis name in calling the roll. /
can not realize but that he will be in
his class still. We will again witness
insearnest feryor in defamation. We
VIII hear him read his racy and some
time sparkling compositions. We
will gee his genial face, and hear his
cheerful voice. He who was ALWAYS
there when duty called-will still be
there. i cast fly eye there. Facts
too stubborn tell too plainly that l am
deceived The pale horse and lis ri
der have been among re, Grim Death
that knocks all::nac at the doors of all
So1,1 10 he l.; L., I, \ Il.
mercjlrss sceptre has stood at our
threshold, he has waved his icy sceptre
over one Of oar number, and there he
is. The heart is still, the eye is glazed,
the tongue is silent, the brow is cold
as marble. He is dead, shrouded and
coffined for interment, and we are here
to pay our last honors to all that re-
mains to Us of Johnny Winston.
1t is our privilege and duty to bear
testimony to the virtues of our depar-
ted friend and companion. And in
doing this we should be careful not to
allow wounded affections to over color
even the virtues of the dead, any
more than to allow too severe a judg-
ment to eXagerate defects. "[
1t is no sickly cant of praise when
say that one of the brightest intellacts
has disappeared from the Halls OF
King College. His was a rare intel
lect. He thought, he reasoned be-
yond what is common to one of his
years. He was wont to manifest I'M
der circumstances that try the stu
dents calibre, stretch of thought and
of judgment, well cal
culated to fill teacher with pride and
to excite high hopes Of the future
He was fast attaining scholarship OF
the first order.
For Fidelity as q student but few
equaled him, and it was difficult for
any one to surpass him. He has left
4 record in College of which his friends
may all be proud. There are 70 black
marks stretch n out from his name on
he roll-book. Seldom indeed was his !
name called in the duties of College |
when he was not there to answer, and |
answer ready.
Again, we bear our testimony to |
his pure and spotless morality. None |
are better acquainted with each 9TH |
er's inward life than students, and yet |
[ will hazard the assertion before you |
all, that in morals he was model
The truth he always told, chaste in |
his thoughts and language, respectful
10 his equals, reverent to superiOrs |
and especially towards whatever was |
sacred or divine. The solemn rever-
ence with which he always demeaned |
during our religious exercises
n Chapel, was sometimes rebuke to
members of the church. He was I'M
in rectitude. Need l say he
vas Conscientious. ] hope he was re-
igiously so. 1 recollect the solemn
of the Gospel, Except |
/ man be born again, he can not see
he Kingdom of God.n A young man
nay embOdy the human virtues to
such an extent as to appear in some
sense, lovely, even to the Savior, and |
-et lack lone thing" May we not |
nope that one so upright i'll all his out
ward work and conversation, and so
in the performance of |
lis duties, so considerate and thought |
'ul, may have at some time in the |
privacy of his own experience. eXpe-
fenced the mighty power of God on
MS heart, and received the implanta-
ion of the germ of that wOnderOus |
life, which at first, is like the grain of
seed, but the beauty and pow
ar of which eternity must develOpe. |
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God, may not the soul from amid the |
darkness of the valley; or even from
roaring Waves of the river have |
cried and received the response, ITO |
day shalt thou be with me i'll Para |
disc" Blessed be God, I'VE sorrow
not as those who have no hODe.n And |
yet | warn you who are in health,
against postponing preparation, until
a sick bed comes. When scorched by
fever, racked by pain, and with reason
half dethroned, it is no time to do life's
great work. Young men, l know not
where along life's pathway you may
expect to hear louder or more sol
EN- call, There issues from that coffin,
q voice as solemn as death and Judge
ment, ye also ready. God grant
that this solemn dispensation of his
providence may be sanctified 20 us all,
and that we may realize, that in Gods
wondrous ways, it was good that we
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