Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1874-08-20

over these hills, discovered rocks and
thought there might be slate, and wore
out our shoes, digging and experiment
ing in trying its possibilities of revenue
though we never organized stock COM
many. for not one of US owned ducat
| in the world. Railroads now run where
once praying (O Jehus drove the
rumbling stage as we YEARLY rode to
the great rendezvous of students-the
T. G. A.
If the school could have kept pace
with all these improvements, how ii
would have grown in numbers and gam
ed in power! Our old associates are
scattered but few are with us to day
some are here, some there, in the grand
theater OF life, and some have fallen
asleep. Some went to college from these
halls and have divided affections. This
is my only alma mater. have no oil
vided affections-they all center here. !
have expected to hear excellent things OF
T. G.. A., but difficulties have arisen,
embarrassments have been met some
have been vanquished, others are before
us. If mountains rise before us too high
for climbing over, let us dig through
them, nor rest till they are left behind
us. Here I pledge my sympathy and
my support to the full extent OF my
powers and, whenever you have an
other reunion, count me in. Good bless
the old academy and all its friends
| (Cheers)
The chosen representative of Ripley
Female College was not present. Miss
Anna G. Allen, of North Ferrisburgh,
an aJatmn0, was to have replied to the
address of welcome in behalf of the
dlatnang of the r. F. c., but being in
Wisconsin at the time of receiving the
invitation, it was not possible for her to
be present and a letter of regret and
encouragement, read by DR.. Newman,
was her explanation and excuse.
BISHOP PECK's REMARKS.
After music by the band, Bishop Jes-
Sc T. Peck, in behalf of the old teach
ers, gave a telling address The follow
ing is an imperfect abstract
The strongest that ever occupied the
human mind, and the greatest fact that
ever occurred, required three thousand
years to gain attention The Greeks
called it a3ta8td8ig. }. we call it rGsstrres-
tjon Youmay call it theological dog
nal call it the strangest fact in the
history of our race. 1t is the great and
universal fact of nature and God in re
lation to nature. Resurrection is the
great potential thought of the ages. The
idea of the great discovery of the west
ern world was slow IN its progress it
was long before princes accepted it, and
the continent, when discovered, was not
new idea--it was but the reaEizationof
thought, the embodiment of an idea
that had long lain in the human mind.
The decay of spring flowers and sum
nler leaves. seem death, bat, after the
winters cold and Suns and showers of
spring, comes new life, a resurrection.
The idea of higher education dwGlt in
the Puritan mind, and the potential
thought found embodiment III the Am
erican college. The systems of eaGcar
ton that are abroad in the hand are not
q new creation they are a resurrection.
They are the new spring from the
fruits OF the former summer. | cali the
attention of the congregation to the past
and its relations to the-pTesent position
of the T. c. A. ..... e.
The old idea was, there ought to be au
institution Of learning ia connection
with en annual conference. Dr. Tobias
9picor, and his noble Christian COM
peers, had taken hold of this potonJial
Thought, ana embodied it ia the organ
lied board of trustees and in the brick
building that stands to-day. [ found
their Hberality everywhere manifest
when | came here as principal in 1940
The question of permanently had been
well considered wisely they butlded for
the future The building was erected of
brick, burned before men had learned to
cnca', OF tAat great SuPerStruc2 'tes
would stand without foundations. !
found its capital stock debt of $40, 600
and growing class Of scholarship
students. ......-..-
Well, the debt, like other things OF
earth, has gone to dust, IS dead and
buried-may it never have a resurrection.
For its burial l begged till begging be-
came my second nature, studied the
methods and discipline of this school
till / Teiaiced in its power and felt an
honorable pride in its position. 1 was
grieved when its growth and greatness
came to an uhtinIely end. Will it rise
again? VIII there be n resurrection?
| have asked -.-..... g..
Resurrection is ehaDge-not an eX-
change it is the same thing in changed
conditions; it is not a new creation, but
the old, changed. You students with
the purple badges (alumna of the r. T.
o. see changes. Bodies of the old T.
q. hova .rr0yrn. br1t tbayy arc tho