The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-02-13

sutuuonal, and therefore null and void
alb i1itio. He was an old Virginia Stat,
Rights man, and he applied the State
rights doctrine to the church question
before them.
love to think OF this beloved saint
Though greatly my senior in years. en-
loyed his confidence and friendship, and
| am glad of this oppoI tunity to place ou
record some memorial of this great and
good man.
Professors Goodrich, Stephen D. Tay
Tor, and Ballantine were connected with
the Seminary in 1898 But they re-
tired in 1888, their position as New
School men not being in harmony with
the opinions prevailing in the seminary.
DR.. Samuel L. Graham and DR.. Sampson
became professors.
The Rev. Mr. Stanton was the pastor OF
the College church, his time being divided
between it and the church in Fsrmville.
He was marked man, an able preacher,
with great eeeentricities-at times aus
tere and severe-but at heart as tender
as d woman. He always took strong
views on all points involving principle,
and was a decided Old School man. The
intelligence that the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania rendered a decision ad
verse to the claims of the Old
School, whio1 -ader this decision was de.
prived not only of it's property but of it's
name, reached Hampden Sidney by the
Saturday nights mail. The Sunday fol-
lowing was communion Sunday at the
College church A large congregation
| a. f,lal Ill L. L
the important news received by the last
mail Mr.. Stanton was not the man to
allow even so solemn an occasion to in.
| terfere with the expression of his views
on the outrage, as he regarded the decis.
ion of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl.
vania. BristliDg with intensest feeling,
he commented on it with his usual sever.
ity, and closed with the ringing quota
tion
WHO steals my purse, steals trash, tits some
thing, nothing;
Twas mine, It's his, and has been slave to
thousands;
But he that flehes from me my good name,
Robs me of that, which not enrlches him,
And makes me poor indeed"
could expand this article if I might
dwell upon memories associated with the
distinguished gentlemen living in the
neighborhood of Hampden Sidney fifty
years ago, all OF whom 1 knew and val
ued for their friendship. Among these
might name the venerable Richard Ven.
able, who was member of the Virginia
Constitutional Convention of 1929 80
and his son Henry; the brothers, Nathan
isl E. and Samuel Venable; the courte.
Gus gentleman Henry E. Watkins and
his brother-in-law, my dearest friend
James D. Wood of Poplar Hill; the Re
evolutionary hero, Major Morton; Samuel
Q: Anderson, 7 e.; the Flournoys; the
distinguished Physician and surgeon, DR.
John z. MeitaUer, and Drs. Terry and
Berkeley; the Tredways, and the we'll
known old Captain Stevens who lived to
his 9th year. How 1 should like to say
something of those sanity women who
have made their households happy, such
as my dearly loved friend and almost
mother, Mrs. Frances Wlnuifred Wood,
of Poplar Hill, aud Mrs. Rice, the be-
loved and honored widow of the Rev. Dr.
j. 81. Rice. But 1 forbear. 1t may be
that what l have written may suffice, and
make us both say :
Hoe OHM U'eminisSe juUa5it"
January 18th, 1889. F. HIS.