Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-14
The Council at shepherdstown, June, 1889
BY A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL.

How soon the future becomes the
past!
The meeting of the Council in Shep
herdstown to which we for SO long q
time looked forward with so much
pleasure, is now forever in the past.
Beautiful and glad as are the pleas
ures of hope, the pleasures of memo
ry are not TO be despised. That to
which we may not now look forward
We may remember and We shall re-
member Remember, aye, remember
and not forget!
Remember the beautiful town on
the stream so famous in history and
in song-reviving the times when the
poet sang "All quiet along the Poto-
mac tonight" Remember that the
fields of battle and of carnage are now
waving in green or adorned with ST.
lent statuary to mark the undying
glory of the AMERICAN SOLDIER"
Remember, if the murmur Of the
beautiful river whisper a plaintive
requiem over the noble dead who
sleep near her lovely shores, or mourn
the wrecks of more recent f1oods-yet
fed from the little rills in the hills and
rolling on to the sea, she still is typic-
al of human life. And yet, too, pro-
phetic, as we look upon the ever
changing water, and yet ever-endur-
ing stream-that men die, the world
survives: men die, the Church of God
lives on.
Remember her beautiful fields, her
hills and valleys, and her fairy Lee
land" where on single hillock the
eye beholds the grandeur and the
beauty which four States combine to
make.
Remember, aye, and with memories
more tender than those for hill or
plain or river-the most Astounding hos
pitahty" that welcomed strangers" to
the homes of her good citizens, who
with a touch of their magic wands
transmitted the stranger guest into
the grateful friend.
Remember the gentle graces of the
Christian life that portray in her good
citizens the work of the great Faith
er's loving tender mercy" binding
them in one communion fold and fell
lowship-revealing the truth that ''he
being dead yet speaketh," who here
for some three and thirty years lived
and loved and labored and stamped
his noble character on his people who
were his children, on the town and on
the church of his love in the Ameri-
can continent. So may the shadow
of the mighty and the sanity and the
now sainted "ANDREwSn seem yet to
fall in blessing on his people, and his
mantle to rest upon his most worthy
successor.
Peace and rest and gladness and
gratitude for one and for all, on kind
hosts and hostesses in particular, and
0, how many these have been. a
special blessing on our "home, where
we so happily sojourned.
The resolutions appended but i'm
perfectly show the gratitude Of the
Council and the pleasure received
Resolred, That the cordial thanks Of
this Council be and are hereby ten
dered to the citizens of Shepherds
town and particularly to the officers
and Vestry of Trinity Church and to
the Committee of Reception for their
attention and most Astounding hOspi-
tally.
Resolred, That the thanks of the
Council be and are hereby rendered
to the railroad companies who have
given to the members of the Council
the courtesy of reduced rates to Coun-
Gil
Resolved, That the grateful thanks
Of the Council be and are hereby ten
dered to the Secretary for his most
faithful and efficient services.
May time deal gently, dear friends,
with you, and may Fathers wisdom
instruct, His power defend, His mercy
accept, His spirit sanctify, His Provi-
dence lead safely and tenderly all of
''life's dangerous ways and His
Astounding love gather at last into
the Fold Eternal All for Jesus sake
Amen. II. II. l..