The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25

For The BdHetia.
Our Fathers, Where are They? And the
PrOphe ts,sDo they Live Forever?
These questions, SAYS celebrated divine,
are answered by the mournful record of the
church, and our own observation. We live
to die, and there is no exemption from the
common lot. The most distinguished char
acters and the most useful lives have in their
successive generation passed away, for our
holy religion which saves us from so much
does not shield us from the stroke of NOR
tality; it blunts the point, but does not avert
the dart of death. The honorable, the WISE
and the good mingle viii the base and i'm
pious in the house of earth and silence. The
sentence of death As it respects the body has
not yet been repealed, and there is the most
important reason for this state of things !;
exemption from death as the reward Of
picty would be offering too tempting boon
to those who are wandering from God TO
induce them to return, and it would present
an earthly motive to prepare for a holy and
spiritual world. Indeed, if We were left to
ourselves We might and surely would reverse
the appointment we would be unwilling to
see infant innocence subject to disease, and
opening youth blightcd by premature death
or the strong man bow his head and die; We
would surely wish to retain in our midst
/ those who by their wisdom, pictv and learn
/ ing are able to instruct us, bun this option Is
not granted. Therefore, all nations have
had to build tombs for their patriots, all
! churches mourn the departure of faithful
I pastors, and all men dig graves for their
( fellow man. To this fearful fiat the best,
/ the hottest, the purest and the wiscst men
have been subject These feelings come
over me like the shadows of the coming eve,
when rchoc1ing upon the untimely death OF
the celebrated james 4. Duncan, ID. d.,
surely great, good, and wise man in Qua
Israel has fallen, Il bright star has set to rise
III another sphere, and his sun went down at
noon, when thousands of intelligent gazes
were turned toward him for light, AZ he died
at Il time when we in our short sightednes.
thought we were unprcParcd to part with
I him, for early and late, by night aud noon
4 in health and sickness, he was forming plan,
for the benefit of the youth Of his country
rs his great Iifc-work was TO prepare ai1d
/ polish young men to go out IN the world
and scatter the light of tEic knowledge OF
4 the glory of God. But aIasl his work i,
done, his purposes frustrated, and his plan,
I left for others to execute, for the angel that
guarded his path that Led him everywhere
/ to victory whispered in lIis ear as he did tc
one of old, 60 thy way till the end be fol
/ thou shalt rest, and stand IN thy lot at tho
end of the days" And sell has DR. Win
field said ooh, what a blow; what 4 loss
one OF our greatest pDlpit orators, and one
of the greatest American preachers Is gone
he had few cquals-no suleriOrs." Oh
how we Will miss him here; but our conso
lation is, he has gone to Join the genera
assembly and church Of the first born, annie
the blis>ful immunitics Of that better world
| suggest, in conclusion, that every yOun!
man who has entered college since eighte,l
hundred and sixtv-eight, contribute as Go,
has prozpercd them TO the erection OF mag
nilicent monument to the memory of Dr
Duncan. FIDUs.