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

As Bethany in the past was re-
cruiting station for the homo mission.
airy field, sending the followers OF the
cross into the wilds Of our western ter
ritories, so now under the guidance OF
your temporary president (whom by
the way hope soon will be your per
manent president) Bethany has ad-
vanced to the higher plane, and her
missionaries are now bearing the gospel
OF the Gallilean to the further known
confines OF civilization.
1t must be confessed, however, and
say it with reluctance, that Bethany
College is not keeping pace with the
worlds progress and filling the position
it should fiji. This through no fault OF
Bethany, or the men and women who
labor here, who make daily sacrifices
here, and who have died here, and left
their families in want, in order that
this old seat OF learning should not
perish, but live and hold her head up
among the institutions OF our land.
Seargent S. Preutiss, the Mississippi
orator, on one occasion asserted that
the Irish had fought well in all battles
but their own. So it can be snid OF
the six thousand students, and the
seven hundred alumni OF Bethany
College, they have gone from here,
and built up schools academies and
colleges, and aided all institutions OF
learning. except the one which in ar
intellectual sense gave them birth and
being. nor are the seven hundred
thousand commandments of what is
known rs the Christian church, or the
Disciples wholly blameless in the
matter.
ALEXANDER cAMPDELL's WORK.
Bethany College was founded by
Alexander Campbell, who found the
Christian world composed Of mass OF
discordant and divided elements, who
used the Bible merely to prove their
creeds and constitutions which thoy had
devised were sound and correct; by
Alexander Campbell, who successfully
met in debate Robert Owen, n Bishop
Purcell, and a Nathan Rice, and upon
whose brow posterity has placed the
. crown OF victor; by Alexander Camp
(. bell, who found men on their knees
rolling in the saw dust for hours at a
time, praying Tor an angry God to ap.
rease his wrath, and the doors OF the
church opened on the condition that q
man could relate that when going along
the road in tho fence corner or in some
other uninhabitable spot, the Holy
Spirit appeared and camo down and
converted him, the doors OF the
church being closed to the truth
iul men who could not recite such
balderdash; by Alexander Campbell,
who, finding pail over tho whole re-
ligious world, and who, by the destruc-
ton OF creeds, lot in for the first time
in eighteen centuries the daylight OF
Gods holy word, and the mighty work
Of whose mighty brain is still going on,
and can DO seen to-day in the crumbline
OF creeds all around US; by Alexander
Campbell, who travelled hundreds, aye,
thousands OF miles on foot, on horse
back, by the steamboat, on the cars and
/, across the mighty deep who risked the
dangers and perils OF land and seq, ut
his own expense, without obtaining a
dollar from single human being for
his services, in order that he could plant
the banner OF the cross, free of super.
stition, and FREQ Of tradition; and vet
Bethany College is in a starved and
stinted condition!
Now, most worthy president Of Beth
any College, say, tonight, speaking
for myself alone, speaking as layman,
speaking rs lawyer, speaking MS one
without authority, no to tho Chris.
tian church, or the body OF the people
known as the Disciples, that never in
5 the history OF tho world did reoplo
have SO great a leader, and never q
leader have SO ungra,eiul people. j
can only account for their treatment Of
Bethany College on this basis: As
Moses was taken up into Ncbo's lonely
mountain and buried, and no man
knew OF the sepuleher lest they might
come and worship him, SO to-day, the
people known as the Disciples have
such contempt for the term Campbell.
ism, or Campbellite, that they wish to
obliterate Bethany College for fear that
men will losc sight OF tho gospel Mr..
Campbell preached and worship Mr..
Campbell himself.
a few weeks since l attended near
Z my homclin St. Louis, n Presbyterian
church, small in number, and any,
thing else but rich in this worlds goods.