The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-12-15

last week Of his HE. tne ma 49, AZ
sarecF YOU know, often repeated the
whole hymn Of which the first stspEa IS;
SHOW pity, 1std, o lad isslTs D..
An not fhy InereIos lafge and teN -
NAY nj sinner trust In thSeE
MT mapy years ago, 1 sal, on Q howl.
inc winter night, at The fteside Of John
Tsyior In gnSrIed New Hampshire, and
hs aid 10 me: "Webster alwayAattended
the communion service when he was At
Fins Farm. Till his death he was a
member in good standing, with me sans
bury church, with which he united when
n Young man. GBut;p ssaid+l IAwas'that
cburch strong enough TO discipline q
S.S,sSmanT' "If Webster had shown"
Jobn Taylor replied, anything q. In
, ,on,nerapce, or evil ways, in New Hamp-
shire, he would have been di.ciplined by
That ehu,ch, What he did in Washing
ton. I know not. Here, among those VINO
knew him best, he was always ready 10
kpeol at the family altar. There was
one hymn that we always used % Ike 70
ling together" said John Taylor, with
his immense bass voice, and wholly IN
conscious OF the expression he WAS max
ing Of his massiyeness; we nke sa,s ~
sing together odd Hundred Il seemed NEE
10 ct usp The venerable Judge Nes.
NTH, whose guest I have sometimes eeen
At franklin, has told me things almost
too sacred to DO repeated here, concern.
inc Webster,s religious thoughtiulness
iHb la, vears HVere they the last
~ ,rords 7 have TO utter" said John Taylor
w V' me- AZ should say Webster died
Christian" and just this testimony nas
been given by the profound Judge, Mes
mi,h, who stands highest among AZ au'
tborities concerning. Webster's lie In
h;s native hauntI. Robert Q. Winthrop,
At New York, on Saturday, said he had
Lnelt with Webster at the table OF our
lord, and witnessed the feryor and ten
derness OF his deyotions.
But, gentlemen, a death.bed repentance
ia never 10 DO encouraged before the time,
or discouraged at the time. What ! wish
10 insist upon, face TO face with all the
small philosophers Of our time on both
sides Of the Atlantic, is the record o.
Webster's last speech, revised by himself
These sentences which Curtis caught are
tho last unreyised speech. But on Sab
bath evening, October 10, the last lorna
speech was written, and, on October 10
was revised aud signed by Websters owl
hand. These, his last revised words
stand upon the marble Of the tombstone
at Marshfeld. Plymoth Rock looks o.
them, and they look on Plymouth Rock
This Is the record Webster left Us as hi
last word to men in all ages; and ough
il not TO be copied in marble In SOM
spot more conspicuous than that BROW
Marshfeld shoreH-- s.t =,
Philosophical argument, especial:
that drawn from tho yastness Of tho uni
verse as compared with the apparen
insigniiicance OF this globe, has oite
9 shaken my reason for the faith that Is Il
|. me, but my heart has assured and rE
n assured me that the Gospel Of Jesu
n Christ mus. be u divine reality. Th
Il Sermon on the Mount can not be merel
n human production. This belief enter
h into the very depth Of my conscience
h The whole history Of man proves II.
4 At2 minutes Of 8 o'clock, on the SUI
n day morning following that saturda
+ which was Illuminated by the seriou
words on Immortality, Websttr passe
!. into the Unseen Holy into which all me
9 haste. Boston, since 1859, has bee
3 wringing her hands in secret and sayinl
8 not infrequently, as the plain man sal
d al the tomb in Marsh6eld: "Dani'
' Webster, without you the world seen
lonesome" Are We sure that We 81
without him? When Rufus Choate too
q ship for that port where he died, SON
d friend said: "You will be here . yea
. hence" "sir," said your great lawye
a ~ shall be here hundred years henc
j. and a thousand years hence"