The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-09

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membership rich and poor alike have
subscribed literally to their educational
institutions. In Presbyterian pulpit
can always be found q man OF brains, n
man OF intellect, n man OF education.
Bethany College will be properly en-.
dowod when its friends cease travelling
around after tho rich men, waiting, as
we have been, for fifty years for some
OF them to die and leave some OF their,
perhaps, ill.sotten gains ito Bethany;
and when the great brotherhood OF
Disciples set apart day on which We
intend to build monument to Aloxan.
dor Campbell; when the friends OF all
our many worthy colleges, and OF our
numerous one.horse institutions, put
aside for ono day all iea lousy, and on
that day put awny for tho time being
the cause OF our homo and foreign mis.
sionaries, and from all over the broad
land, in Australia, in Europe and in
every spot OF the world, where our pco.
pie have roof and habitation, assem-
bic on that day at given time, aud the
babies and the children bring the pen.
MICS, tho women their earrings and
ewclry. and tho mentheir pocketbooka,
and all for n monument TO Alexander
Campbell; then, and not ill .hcn, will
Bethany College be endowed.
BISHOP CAMPBELL EULoGizED.
For ono, lot me say, have never had
any antipathy for thcworl Campbellitc.
In fact, lam inoculated with Campbell.
ism from Skin to core and from core
buck to skin again"
DO you know what tho greatest mill.
tary hero OF either ancient or modern
times said OF Alexander Campbell?
Well, Twill tell you.
Do you know what one OF tho abest
editorial writers OF our age, Il man
whose prose and verso will last ms long
as language lasts, said OF Alexander
Campbell? Well, will toll you.
Do you know what the greatest orator
OF tho age, tho man upon whose lips
hung listening scnates, said Of Alexan.
der Campbell? Well, ! will tell you.
Do You know what the ablest states.
man and the most learned constitu.
tional writer ever produced in this coun-
try and any cline said OF Alexander
Campbell? Well, will tell you. Gen.
Robert h. Lee, mo matter what YOU
may think OF tho cause for which he
fought, the purity OF his character is
unquestioned and his name is linked
with immortality said OF Alexander
Campbell, that If he had been translated
to heaven the angels in associating with
him would form better opinion OF
poor frail humanity.
George D. Prentice, the gifted child OF
genius, in m editorial in the louisville
Journal, in 1855, said OF Alexander Camp
bell;
Alexander Campbell is unquestior-
ably one OF the most extraordinary men
OF our time, Putting wholly out OF
Wow his tenets, with which We, Of
course, have nothing to do, he Claims,
by virtue OF his intrinsic qualities, as
manifested in his achievements, a
place among the very foremost spirits
OF the age. His energy, self reliance
and sell fidelity, if we may use the ex-
preston, are OF the stamp which be-
longs only to the worlds first leaders in
thought or action. His personal ex-
cellence is certainly without a stain or
shadow. His intellect, it ia scarcely
too much to say, is among the clearest,
richest, protoundest ever vouchsafed to
man. Indeed, it seems to us that
in the faculty OF abstract thinking
in, so to say, the sphere
OF pure thought-he has few, ii anv.
rivals. Every cultivated person OF the
slightest metaphysical turn who has
heard Alexander Campbell, in the pull
pit or i'll the social circle, must lave
been especially impressed by the Won
derful facility with which his faculties
move in the highest plane OF thought.
Ultimate facts stand forth as boldly in
his consciousness as sensations do in
that OF most other men. He grasps and
handles the highest, subtlest, most COM
prehensiye principles as they were the
liveliest impressions Of the senses. No
poets soul is more crowded with i'm
agery than his is with the ripest forms
OF thought. Surely the life OF a man
thus excellent and gifted is part OF the
common treasure OF society. In his es-
sential character he belongs to no sect
or party, but to the world.n'
Henry Clay, the "Harry OF the west"
the mial boy OF the slashes, the idol OF
great political party, worshipped as no
man before or since has been worship
ped, was one OF the moderators OF the
Rice Campbell debate, in 1912, and for
got his position as moderator, in fact he
violated it by approvingly waving his
hand, SO carried away was he by the
eloquenco and genius of the great nun.
Five years later learning that Mr..
Campbell, was going to Europe, he vol
unfairly sent him the following letter:
"The Rev. DR.. A. Campbell, the bear
er hereof, citizen OF the United States
OF America, residing in the common
wealth OF Virginia, being about to make
q voyage to Europe and to travel par
ticularly in Great Britain, ireland and
France, take great satisfaction in
strongly recommending him to the kind
Offices and friendly reception and treat
mont ofall persons with whom ho may
meet wherever he may go. DR.. Camp
bell is among the most eminent citizens
Of the United States, distinguished Tor
his great learning and ability for his
successful devotion to tho education OF
youth, for his piety, and as the head
and founder of one OF the most impor-
tant and respectable religious COM
munitics in the United States.
Nor have his great talents been
exclusively confined to the religious and
literary walks in which he has princi-
pally moved; he was distinguished
member, about twenty years ago, OF the
convention called in tie State OF vir-
ginio to remodel its civil constitution,
in which, besides other eminent men,
were ex-Presidcnts Madison and Mon.
roe and John Marshall, Tie late Chief
I,,ts,a &c = h.. n