Home life and reminiscences of Alexander Campbell (1882) (14596962927)

Identifier: homelifereminisc00camp (find matches)
Title: Home life and reminiscences of Alexander Campbell
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Campbell, Selina Huntington, 1803?-1897
Subjects: Campbell, Alexander, 1788-1866
Publisher: St. Louis, J. Burns
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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nnial Ilarhinger of July, 1858,and later in the volume of ^ Popular Lectures andAddresses, by A. Campbell. Address : THE CORNER STONE OF BETHANTT COLLEGE. Delivered )VLvy 31st, 1858. Circles have their centres, squares their rectangles,and all terrestrial edifices their corner-stones. Theseshould always rest upon the solid earth. The solidearth itself rests upon the heavens, and the heavensrest upon the omnipotent will of God. Such is thesplendid architecture of the present domicile of man.A practical recognition of these facts is honorable toman, to educated reason, and to the wisdom, power,and goodness of God, himself the supreme projectorand architect of the universe. lie weighed the moun-tains in scales, he placed the hills in a balance. Hemeasured the waters of oceans and seas, of lakes andrivers, in the hollow of his hand. He gave to theseoceans and seas, to these lakes and rivers, limits andboundaries which they cannot pass ; a decree that theirwaters shall not cover the earth.
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ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. 61 A man of good sense, of well developed mind, whois always a Christian, recognizes the hand of God, thepower, wisdom and goodness of God, in every work ofhis hand. He recognizes the Bible as the book of di-vine wisdom, the oracle of God, the volume of humanredemption, the charter of a future and an eternallife to man. He, therefore, delights to honor it, tobuild all his hopes of an eternal future upon it, and toregard and venerate it as the star of his own eternaldestiny in this magnificent creation. While a rock is the only reliable basis of terrestrialedifices, the Rock of Ages is the sub-basis of the en-tire empire of the universe. All that we truthfully and satisfactorily know of ourorigin, our destiny, and our eternal relations to thewhole creation, is contained in the holy Bible. It is,indeed, the true philosophy of divinity and the truescience of humanity. Bethany College—not the edifice so called, but theinstitution of which it is the domicile—was the