Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-06

language exceptit it be Burns Highland Mary.
! The following are the two last StanZaS OF
Jeanie Morrison:
I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
I've borne weary lot;
But in my wanderings far or near,
Ye never were forgot.
The fount that first burst frae this heart
Still travels on it's way;
And channels deeper as it runs
The love o life's young day.
! DEAR dear Jeane Morrison,
Since we were sundered young,
| I've never seen yor face nor heard
The music O. your tongue;
But could hug all wretchedness,
And happy could I die,
Did but ken your heart still dreamed
o. bygone days and me-"
In 4 SABBATH Summer Noon there are
some passages which for beauty of diction
and deep religious feeling are beyond all
praise. 1t is too long or would quote it
entire. This is not necessary since it is
contained in some of the school readers. 1
cannot, however, refrain from quoting few
stanzas near the close as follows:
"Dear Lord, thy shadow is forth spread
On all mine eye can see;
And filled at the pure fountain head
Of deepest piety,
My heart loves all created things,
And travels home to thee.
So, even now this hour hath sped
In rapturous thoughts DER me-
Feeling myself with nature we'd
A holy mystery
A part of earth part Of heaven,
A part, Great God, Of Thee"
MOtherWell was born in 1897 and died in
1885. He was buried in the metropolis Of
Glasgow near his bosom friend William
| Henderson.
Robert Pollock, the author of The Course
of Time, graduated in Glasgow in 1920. In
Glasgow he studied Theology under Rev.
John Dick, D. D., and in Glasgow he wrote
The Course of Time So weak was he that
often while writing that poem his friends
were obliged to take him up from his
seat at his table, and undress and lay him in
bed. Pollock was born in 1898 and died
in 1927. Rev. John Jameson, D. d.,
author of the History of the Caldees and
An chronological Dictionary of the Scottish
Language, was born in the city of Glasgow
and graduated from the University. DR..
Jameson was voluminous writer, but his
principal works are those mentioned. These
are authority on the subjects of which they
treat.
With a brief notice of John Dick 1 will
close this sketch. DR.. Dick was not born
in Glasgow, neither was he educated in
Glasgow, but he spent nearly thirty-tWo
years there both as pastor and professor OF
divinity in the Secession Theological Sem
mary. DIR. Dick was born at Aberdeen in
1854, was educated in Kings College, Aber-
deem, studied theology under Rev. John
Brown, of Haddington, and Waslicensed to
preach the gospel in 1885. In 1856 he settled
as pastor of the Secession congregation OF
Stateford. In 1901 he, having Identified the
Stateford congregation, was settled over
the Shuttle street (now Greyfriars) cOngre-
CATION in Glasgow. In 1920 he was, on the
death of DR.. Lawson, elected professor OF
theology in the Seminary of the Associate
Synod. 1888, after a short illness, death
brought his labors to close. In the Ne
cropolis there is beautiful monument erect
ed to his memory. 1t stands near the mon
ument of John Knox, the greal reformer,
and in close proximity to that of Macgav-
in, the author of The Protestant.
On the sides of DR.. Dicks monument are
engraved in Greek the following words:
'Say not the good ever die, he sleeps q
sacred Sleep" The reputation of DR.. Dick
was notconfined to Scotland. In 1915 Prince
ton College, New Jersey, conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor in Divinity. His
work on "the Inspiration of the Scripture"
was regarded long before his death as
standard work by English divines. During
the whole period that DIR. Dick was professor
of theology he was also pastor of one OF the
in the city of Glasgow. We can judge of
DIR. Dick as a preacher only by his publish
ed works and by the opinion of those who
heard him. The testimony of those who
heard him preach is uniformly favorable
His body has been in the grave more than
half century, but he is still remembered
in Glasgow as pre-eminently good man.
While living he was venerated by the peo-
pie of his charge, reverred by the students
of theology and honored and esteemed by
the inhabitants of the city. During his life
time DR.. Dick published a number of pam
phlets and small volumes. After his death
his Lectures on Theology were published,
by whom am not certain but think by one
of his sons, at the instigatiOn of others.
These have been frequently republished
both in Great Britain and America. They
were not prepared for publication, but for
the authors own use in instructing his class
es in theology. They consist of one hun
dred and five carefully prepared lectures on
theology, taking the Westminster Confess
sion of Faith as formula. The diction of
these lectures is equal to that of Macaulay.
In some respects the style of Or. Dick is
of the great English historian and essayist
are always smooth and round, but some
times his adiectives are so numerous and so
strong as to give the truth the appearance
and often the effect of fiction. The style Of
DIR. Dick is always as clear as crystal, as
smooth as oil, and has the dignity and state
illness of truth DIR. Dick, in his Theologic-
al Lectures, makes no effort either to 60 be-
hind or beyond the word of God, hence ne
has sometimes, and by certain theological
schools, been charged with wanting origi-
nality. While this close adherence of DIR.
Dick to the Bible deprives his lectures of
the startling, it is calculated to give us
confidence in the conclusions he reaches.
Turnbull who heard the lectures of DIR.
Dick delivered, thus describes their author:
"He is always lucid, always logical and
satisfactory, heis never profound or original.
His style glides in pellucid beauty, like a
rivulet through meadow, mirroring in its
calm depth the green foliage which adorns
its banks, and the blue heavens bending
abovei it, but never cutting itself a new chan
mel, or sweeping onward, with majestic
force, like torrent to the sea-" 1t is diff
cult to decide whether the first part or the
last part of this sentence is the more COM
plimentary to the memory of him on whose
monument it is engraved:
"Say not that the good ever die, he sleeps
a sacred Sleep"
He who cuts new channels in theology
generally cuts them into the sea of error in
to which he and his followers 90 sweeping
on todestructiOn.