The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-11

IT was intended. No other gilt could have
been more appropriate, or no other orna.
ment greater Rdorn the spot upon whichit
is located. Here in the heart OF our city,
at the front OF our Capitol, Il site as well
suited to the fountain as the fountain to
the location.
"But / have said that OF all other gifts,
none would have been more appropriate
than the n presented. There is some
thing even in the name OF fountain, and its
association carries back the mind to the
remOtest past. Beginning with the Crea-
tor We recognize in him the fountain OF
living waters. and when on earth the
Church OF God was founded it was known
as a spring shut up and a fountain sealed,
but when the Church and its mission fail
ed and the Creator was Knocked by the
created, the fountains OF heaven were
broken up and the sin OF the flesh fell a
victim to the waters Of the deluge. But
there came a day when the Christian era
dawned, and the repentant soul sought
Christ as the fountain OF Great Truth, be-
lieved in Him and lived forever. Truly
there is a history in the word found record
ed in the Book that left its authorship in
heaven. Purity must be its meaning, be-
cause it had His name and origin in Him.
Fountain is the source. The source is the
beginning. l am the beginning, and the
beginning is in God.
"The material and artistic fountain is BY
no means the invention of modern times,
but finds its origin in the days wherein
the profane historian has failed to venture,
and IRON that remote period to this it has
existed as q resort or an ornament, and by
successive ages has been preserved as leg
acy OF the earliest antiquity. Far back in
that buried past there existed q city to
whose opulence the world contributed,
whose streets were paved with gold and
whose every monument shone lustre upon
the magniticence OF its superb grandeur,
but with all this it was not complete until
from the fountain OF Gihon came the
waters that supplied the city Of the Great
King. And when the immortal bard in
his verse did sing OF a Paradise lost and a
Paradise regained; when this city, its walls
and gates and temple, he, in his poetry,
adored, all would have been imperfect In
the verse and distateful to his muse had
he failed to speak Of the fountain OF En-
rogel rs 'SilOam's brook that flowed fast
by the oracle OF God
Coming to a Interpreted, we see the re-
fined taste OF the Greek chiseled in the
sculptured work OF the worlds most ex-
quiSite art; works that have withstood the
test Of competing skill and challenged the
conception OF more modern times to equal
their perfection. Upon their monuments
and temples and their greatest works Of
genius they gazedin pride and admiration,
but at the shrine OF their fountains they
worshipped and imbibed its holy waters
as the gift Of their heather deity. So with
the Roman, who, clothed in the pride OF
his country, knclt before the splendor Of
her great magniiccncc. And now, whilst
others sing her praise and historians her
greatest deeds record whilst other tongues
OF her temples speak. and other pens her
monuments and ediiices portray, it was
Horace, the writer OF Roman ode, who
called in verse upon every praise, and in
song sung only of the fountain OF Bandu-
cia.
at is true that whilst many Of the lost
arts lie buried, there is still left a skill, a
taste and enterprise that marks the pres
ent and challenges in comparison the past.
In England, in Germany and in France,
each and all upon their beauty brag; each
city, town and dale their hands OF enter
prise have made and their taste OF sculp-
tured art adorned. The chase, the garden
and the park alike, each government pro-
tects, and from hill to dale, from the low
land to the mountain top, wherever the
villa, the town or city stands, mark the
spot, for there it streams-the fountain.
ave are standing now before the temple
~ nt,r Stotn u,itbin uhnunu ,olta Tho % oral
power OF government resides, n power
that may for good exist or to an evil ten
dency pOrtend. 1t is there each citizen
his homage pays, the rich and poor alike
all equities invoke. 1t is there each pa
triot his loyalty declares, and swears his
country to protect. May it like yonder
water clear, onward with the stream OF
time, its purity maintain. May it like
sparkling ain-drops in the sun, the sign
ofthe holy promise keep, with honor fairits
purity retain, a temple and a fountain!
"By the one presented to-day there is
lesson taught. At its base are 'Reveries'
with heads inclined and energies subdued
in pensive thought and dreamy mood, sit
ting waiting, waiting sitting, whilst world
and time pass on together. The flowers Of
spring may come and in the fall be with.
cred by the frost; the summer storm her
thunderbolts may hurl, and winter, in his
frigid blast destroy, but reverie is reverie
forever. At the head OF the fountain il
the Goddess OF Love and Beauty, who
wears the magic girdle, and in her radi.
ance lights the skies. Behold! as she in
her magniticencc arises, the majesty OF
form and the queen OF all graces-away!
with her magic wand, the jealousy Of
Juno to provoke, and Cupid's darts, the
warlike heart OF Jupiter to conquer. A
beauty worshipped by the world and court.
ed by the gods.
"Let not our city like melancholy Rev.
cries in Indifferent mood and exhausted
energy rcpose, but rather emulate that
goddess fair, who from the deep her beau.
ty and cleanliness obtained, and now, like
her, let us hereafter be a goddess Venus,
rising from the sea-"
THE DESEDicTIoS.
After music by the band, Rev. J.. R.
Thompson, President OF the State Univer.
sity, pronounced the benedictpn, the
closing act ofthe drama OF the day, and the
hundreds Of waiting spectators slowly de-
parted for their homes.
PERSONAL MExrtoN.-Mr. Charles O..
Rowe, Superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, is at the Nc.
Lure House.
President Thompson, and Maj. Thos. F.
Snyder, OF the State University, have
rooms at the Mcclure.
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