The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-09-18
MT. sTERLING KENTUCKY, TUESDAY SEPT. Is 1894

solemn graves of our sacred dead, lei
us build an altar to God-the God OF
our fathers. 1t is the best place on
earth to do it. 1t is halowed by the
memory and dust of our fathers and
mothers. Here they met and wor-
shipped God amid the silence of the
wilderness. These hills and valleys
echoed their sacred songs and their
fervent prayers in the infancy of our
republic.
Here, many OF them were born into
the Kingdom of Heaven, and many of
them now sleep in Jesus waiting for
the morning of the resurrectionAw hen
they will come forth from their graves
into everlasting life. Here we have
seen the glory of God in his sanctuary.
Here we will worship Him while we
are living and sleep in His arms when
we are dead, and leave this trust to
our children that they "put their hope
in God and keep His command
ments."
"fes give me the land with grave in each spot,
And names in the graves that shall not be forgot
Yes give me the land of the wreck and the tomb,
There's grandeur in graves there's glory in
gloom,
For out of the gloom future brightness is born
AS after the night looms the sunrise of morn;
And the graves of the dead with the grass over
grown
May yet form the footstool of libertys throne.
And each single wreck in the warpath of might
Shall yet be rock in the temple Of right"
Now let us reverently study Gods
dealings with His people in the gener-
ations that are gone.
This church was organized in 1894
before any man in this house was born.
The commonwealth of Kentucky is
but two years older than this church.
Its first Governor (Gen. Isaac Shelby
was elected in 1892, and its first con-
stitution adopted in June of same
year.
The great State of Louisiana was
Spanish Province when this church
was organized. Then Mt. Sterling
was but two years old and contained
only few log cabins; and unbroken
forests waved over the hills where
Owingsville and Sharpsburg now
stand.
In April of the year before this
church was organized the Indians cap
tureds Morgan's Station, on Slate
Creek, taking prisoners, 10 women
and children. In November before
the first line Of fiat boats that ever ran
the Ohio, was established between
Cincinnati and Pittsburg. These
boats made but one trip month.
Cincinnati was then village of not
one hundred log cabins and less than
800 inhabitants.
In the year this church was organi-
zed, General Anthony Wayne, with
1000 Kentuckians and 1000
Regulars defeated the Indians at
the great battle of the "Fallen Tim.
bers." In the same year an expedi-
lion was organized in Kentucky by
General Rogers Clark to open the
navigation of the Mississippi river.
This church was organized two years
before Montgomery county was form
I'd out of Clark, and seventeen years
before Bath was formed out of Mont
This church has always
stood in this yard was first in Bour-
Don county then in Clark then in
and now in Bath.
When it was built there was not
newspaper, bank, college or pike in
he State of Kentucky.
The first settlement of any conse-
luence ever made in Bath county, was
It the mouth of MAYORS Branch on
Slate by three men, Sidwell. Clarke
md Ballard, in 1888, only eleven
ears before this church was organi-
ed. The first cabin ever built in the