The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03

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Ladies' and Gentlemen
.Weighed in the balance hero dust Is vile a.
vulgar clay.":
But If Tell Of Switzerland and Bruce ol
Bannockburn were heroes, or, If the man
who simply causes two blades OF grass u
grow where only one had grown before, Is
called benefactor; then by what name shall
. we call those men who give origin TO institu'
tons which have for their object GLORY To
God in the highest, In earth, peace and good
will TO men," They are more than benefnc'
tors-grander than heroes. Call them Chris
tiapS.
Such men dig out little springs of influence
on the mountain side, whose streams at thelr
mouths are white with the commerce OF Chris
tian civilization and human happiness.
Such man standing on Mars Hill propound-
ed that new Philosophy which In q short time
pelago, and carried the light OF hope deep into
the charnel house.
Such man at Worms cut the swaddling
band OF infant Professionalism, sent her on To
Geneva for matriculation and thence TO wake
up the world from moral slumber OF thous.
and years.
Such a man in Scotland, by the blasts OF his
trumpet forced Boody mary 70 eXGalm pnora a
than all the armies Of Europe. For he formu-
lated the Divine Pauline system of doctrine
for Scotland, which has made her from lhal
day the gem Of the ocean."
cIOul luCu llh0 hliii oiu hoS0tld . 6AohNSei
These make her loved at home, ,revered abroad,
Princes and mobiles are but the breath OF
kings,
Such men might be laughed at as "old fash.
ioned" but not as Puritans. Thank God for
Paritanism. They might be ready at mo.
ment's warning, as Macauly puts 1t, for eth
er prayer meeting or bloody battle. They
did trust in God, but they kept their powder
dry. Their motto was w. ii. l. G., ,.and You
might laugh at the peculiar "nasal twang'
with which they pronounced it. But no one
religious liberty was at stake. No Philoso
+ pher has beenable yet to build birds nest
But old Hezekiah Balch did build hornets
nest at Charlotte.
Their Confederate yeu" as they went into
action might be short meter Psalm sung to
the tune Old Hundred. Actuated by that .per'
Ier,Elzstm i,,genium Scotdru,a" which would al
ways lead them to the martyrs stake TO de-
fend the orthodox difference between twee
deldum and tweedledee, they were the men
WHO on the field Of Naseby proved the differ.
ence between Cavalier and Roundhead and
; gut the Keystone In that Protestant arch
which to-day spans the continents, and Is
linking with them the islands OF the sea: ;,
, kThat same stern, uncouth, round head
which grew up around Knox, Cromwell and
their compeers was both prophecy and pro.
mise, OF this great intellectual civil and moral
revolution which from that day has swept
homes for wild lairs, the engine for the OK
cart, the Bible for Pandects, and-and all
these beautiful sweet ladies, for Witches OF
Wexford. That same sentiment formed the
character OF the first European settlers Of this
country-the Puritans north, the German
refugees In the center, land the French Hugue-
nots south, with enough Of the pure Scotch
irish everywhere TO season and give tone to
scciety and form. not Its ice cream blanc mango
and sherbet but its beef, bacon and Bann ocks
THE MEN WHO GAVE ORIGIN TO ERsKINE
coLLEGE-FoURTEEN IMMORTAL NAMES
THAT WILL NEVER DIE.
These were the sires and this the type o
character OF those fourteen men. who fifty
years ago, gave origin to this institution. II
Is true that the evil that men do lives after
them. But these walls, and this array of gen
erous hearts and educated minds, is proof that
the good that men do is not inferred with
them, but lives forever. Those fourteen men
are with as to-day, not as they were, but ir
their works which do follow them as "greer
promise OF a golden harvest which yieldett
angels food"
Their names are already stereotyped in his
tory. But il seems meet that we sound them
here again to-day, not to ask O tear TO theil
foemory or to Jay one petal on their graves
Their shrines are already fragrant with i'm
snortelles. But. that worthy sons may learr
80 initiate noble Sires, and appreciate the
memory Of those who taught them to be JUS
and fear not, TO let all the ends at which they
aim be their Gods, their country's and truths
luelI u2UleS were.
Isaac Grier,
James Renwick,
Thomas ketchan,
Ebenezer Harris,
Joseph Lowry,
James Lowry,
EbeAezer Pressly,
James PreSsIy,
Robert Galloway,
Jonathan Galloway,
STenry Bryson.
John WitberspOOn,
Warren FIenekin,
James BOyce,
These all, save one. have long since gone OF
to their reward.
One, the venerable President Of the Sem
fnary. is still left among US.
Like Il rose in the wilderness left on it,
stalk
TO tell where q garden had BEEN"
Still wearing fresh and green his we'll earn
ell honors and patiently waiting the invita-
tion. "Friend, come up higher"
And may all we who have sat at his feet, o
approached with him the margin Of th'
river, be ready to watch his triumphan
flight, catch his falling mantle and cry afte
him. "My Father, My Father. The char
riots of Israel and the horsemen thereof
His work will survive him and sing with
rivulet-
Men may come and men may go.
But 60 on forever"
These were all men of great learning anS
piety. But they were mostly old men. wnrr
ont with long missionary labor in compar
atively new and wild country. They were
poor men with no facilities for travel, exceA|
on horseback.