The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-03-02

There is hardly anything
vorse than this,-whether
as a question Of manners, Of
Justice, or of Christianity.
lTbe good name of the dead
lis a sacred trust, with which
the living are hOnOred, and
III is shameful to abuse it.
| Injurious reflections upon
their memory, needlessly
uttered. cannot be justified
even il well founded-and
LII unjust, they ought to be
severely sensured. The fol
lowing scrap is believed to
be of this class-the public
utterance of it so much tn e
worse, because made with
out the least show Of author
ity for its truth-whether
from a person. a book, or a
newspaper. 1t must be TAX
| en- for a stray slander, al
though a religious journal
puts II forth:
A HOME THRUsT.-Dr.
Samuel StanhOpe Smith,
President Of Princeton Col
lese, was considered one Of
the greatest preachers of his
times He was remarkable
for his dignity of .hanners,
amounting almost to bonn
bast. He had a brother, DIR.
John d. Smith, Of Union
College. The brothers met
in New York, and the Prince
ton Doctor preached. On
the way to their lodgings,
DR.. Samuel said to DIR. John:
Brother Jack, what did You
think of my sermon :" John
replied: 1T was very well,
perhaps, but l could net help
thinking you preachG@ In.
stead Of Jesus Chrisl and
him crueified, Sam Smith
and him dignified."
The story is every way
improbable, so totally unlike
these servants of God. The
terms of mutual respect and
affection which they main-
tanned, forbid the belief of
it. unless supported by the
clearest proof, especially in
the mature age to which il
is referred,-and the general
character of both, goes far
to make such a passage be-
tween them impossible. 1t
is hard to believe, concern
ing two persons of refine
mcnt and decOrum, that,
even in the freedom of the
closest intimacy, one could
fiippantly ask such a ques-
ton, and the other answer
it so cOarsely, as here stated.
Samuel StanhOpe Smith,
like his brother, John Blair
was one of the most
men of his day
among his brethren
and before the world, for
some of the finest qualities
Of a minister, a gentleman,
and a scholar. He had pre-
;isely such an ancestry and
such personal connections
md opportunities as would
end 10 draw out what was
N him, and lead TO all that
distinction which he reached |
Ong before he became an |
Did man. The son of Robert |
smith, a preacher and q
.eacher of the highest stand |
ng-On his mothers side |
loosely related to Samuel |
Blair, of hOnOred name and
,ver-blessed memOry,-call.
d In his early min istry to
Virginia, where his intimate
Intercourse, preaching and
eaching, was with the best
'eOple and most refined and
cultivated society of the Old
dominion; then called for
TO Princeton, where
he wns associated with John
Nitherspoon in the college,
md became his son-in-law
md his successor,-an ac-
and elegant
'chOlar, an eloquent and
earned preacher-hOw could
10 descend to the vulgarity
Iere ascribed to him { Not
person could be
Iamed of whom it would be
more unjust to say, that his
ignIfied manners ran hard
u bOmbast- barring the
OOlishness of the saying,
or no two things are further
part. We believe that this
) a made-up story, without
he smallest foundation In
act.