Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-04-25
MORGAN KEPT THE FAITH.

New York, April IS. | COM
nit my soul into the hands of
my Saviour, in full confidence
that having redeemed it and
washed it in His most precious
blood, He will present it fault
less before the throne of my
Heavenly Father; and | entreat
my children to maintain and
defend, at all hazard, and at
any cost of personal sacrifice,
the blessed doctrine of the COM
plete atonement for sin through
the blood of Jesus Christ, once
offered, and through that alone. 3"
This is the extraordinary and
striking utterance which begins
the last will and testament of
John Pierpont Morgan, who died
at Rome on March 81. last,
whose body, heaped over with
flowers from the crowned heads
of Europe was, a fortnight later,
brought back to his own land,
and last Monday borne to its
last resting place at Hartford.
Elk.
This confession of faith and
trust in the Redcemer of men
is beautiful and assuring.
Coming from the lips and pen
of j. Pierpont Morgan, it is
something of surprise. The
world had never associated Nor
gan's name with old-fashioned
experimental religion. Such men
as he appeared to the outside
world to be are not supposed, as
a rule to have respect for the
Bible, much less a firm, abiding
belief and trust in Jesus Christ.
j. Pierpont Morgan left his
millions of money, fortunes in
books and costly paintings, yet
his dying declaration is the most
valuable legacy of it all. Every
thing else he possessed he left
behind him. This, his faith and
eternal hope, the possession of
which assurance he left behind,
he carried with him into the
Great Beyond. The Roanoke
Times expresses what we wish
to say in the following editorial
After his death Mr.. j. Pier
pont Morgan introduces himself
to the public in a new character
that of a peculiarly devout,
pious and humble Christian with
perfect and beautiful faith.
He was not a superstitious or
an ignorant man. He was highly
educated, had travelled, observed
and studied much. Nobody
possibly can doubt his practical
sagacity or the soundness of his
judgment. Yet he believed in
the redemption and in the
salvation of his soul through the
Great Sacrifice as faithfully,
earnestly and simply as the most
trustful Christian child. This
man of ripe age. of uncomted
millions, of endless power and
distinction, who had seen the
whole world and its peoples,
whose range of knowledge was
vast and whose intellectual
grasp was boundless, said, as
his parting words what is said
daily by poor and ignorant peo-
pie who have had no opportun-
tiles, who have been nowhere
and have seen nothing, but who,
coming to die, draw their final
breath peacefully, believing that
Christ died to save them and
that their sins have been washed
away.
1t is a wonderful faith, teach
ing and doctrine that can bind
together in the same hope people
between whose conditions and
surroundings there is difference
and distance so wide. Mr.. Nor
gan, known and envied through
every part of the globe, whose
favor was sought by kings and
emperors, and the obscure old
man who died last week in a
lonely home in the mountains
and whose last words were
published in his county paper.
written out laboriously and sent
by an unlearned preacher, died
with the same confidence, from
the same cause, acknowledging
loyalty and gratitude to the
same Master. They will stand
before the same Judge on equal
terms. Let US hope and believe
that the rugged, humble and
illiterate mvuntaineer and the
polished, cultured banker prince
will taste equally the blessedness
promised to those who hold their
faith to the end, trusting their
souls to the mercy of God and
the atonement made upon the
Cross"