The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-16
Letter from Rev. Frank RalI.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, August IS, 1877.
Editors IntSIISeucer.
For few days we have been the guests
Of DR.. W. II. Mccormick Of this city OF
about ten thousand inhabitants. The
Doctor is thorough Christian gentle.
man, and very skillful practitioner. He
was my first family physician after ! en-.
tered the ministry. By the by, ministers
and their families owe physicians a great
debt OF gratitude. They are ready, in
every community, 10 practice in our fam.
lilies without money and without price.
In thiS way they make very large contri.
buttons towards our support. Many min
listers, whose support Is meagre, and who
have considerable sickness in their fRmi.
lies, would become seriously embarrassed
il their doCtor's bills had 10 be paid.
Many thanks are due from ministers to
this class Of professional gentlemen.
From Cumberland We went West,
twenty-five miles, via the "Nationai
Road"to GrantSvillc. Along this great
thoroughfare, there are many very fine
farms. At this date august l3lh) the
farmers are in tho midst Of their oats
harvest. The heaviest oats | ever saw,
grow on the Allegheny mountains. For.
ty bushels per acre are gathered. Buck.
wheat yields abundantly. 1t is now in
full bloom, frequently appearing in sight,
in the distance, like fields Of snow nestled
amid the green mountain forests. We
had buckwheat cakes for breakfast this
morning, from an unusually early yield
ofgraln. Blackberrles are Just beginning
TO ripen on these mountains. Hay Is
fine and the cattle fatten well upon tho
grass in the mountains.
GrantHville is situated % miles west Of
Cumberland and is about 1890 feet above
tide water. Twenty years ago, while
travelling home from an appointment near
this place, the cold was intense. | was
frosted so that the skin peeled from my
ear aud nose few days aflerward, In
Grantsyille we buried two. of our chill.
dren. Yesterday morning We stood by
their graves, now covered with myrtle
and rose bush and towering almond. As
l looked upon their quiet resting place
and thought Of the safety and happiness
OF their spirits--with Jesus and the
angels--l said within myself"T would not
have it otherwise;' the Lord reigneth,
and he doeth all things well.
II it be Gods will, we may come forth
from the Empire State; our parents and
brothers and sisters from Virginia, and
our children from the Allegheny Nom.
tains Of Maryland, and meet when the
blast Of the last trumpet shall wake the
slumberlng dead; and We shall know each
other in the place Of reunions, which
shall never more be broken. What com.
fort We find in the doctrines Of the Bible
the resurrection Of the body and The
Immortality Of the soul!
A few miles over the Potomac, In front
OF Washington, a few weeks aso, we
stood in the old family burying grounds,
in the evening amid the gathering shad.
ows, by the graves Of my parents, three
brothers and two sisters. We read such
inscriptions as these: mark the perfect
man and behold the upright, for the end
Of that MN is peace" "The work Of
righteousness is peace, and the effect Of
righteousness quietness and assurance for.
ever" mo pain, no care, no want, no fear;
love every body, and l love God su.
premely." These sainted ones though
dead, yeat speak 10 the living. We sang,
I'm the sweet by and by, We shall meet
on that beautiful shorc-in the sweet by
and by, +. BALI.