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Excerpt from Oration of Rev. J. Dewitt Burkhead, Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of Carmel Church, Saturday, the 17th of August, 1889, and Oration of Hon. Jno, S. Verner, Delivered Before the Alumni of Thalian Academy, on the Life and Labors of Rev. J. L
The bugle call that has summoned this vast throng of worthy descend ants of noble Sires to this sacred spot this morning, we recognize as God's trumpet blowing the blast of a century of blessing. These mar ble shafts which whiten your City of the dead, speak of God, of grace, of immortality, and of Heaven. And while the bosom heaves a sigh. And the eye drops a tear of affection on the sacred mound beneath which more sacred ashes lie, the great soul leaps upward and onward to commune with the free and glorified spirits, harvested from the fields we now cultivate, and garnered on high in the temple of God. Ensoul these trees and grass, and rocks and sands, and they will repeat to you the prayers and praises, joys and anthems, anxieties and faith of the mighty hosts who have gone to God from this lovely spot in the last one hundred years. They will tell you how to live, how to act, and how to die. They will gild your pathway with light; brighten your spiritual firma ment; lighten your pilgrim burdens, and make you wiser and better men.
There is not a tree, nor pebble, nor foot of soil on this (to you) Holy Hill but has chronicled a thousand facts of spiritual faith and rapture, which if they should articulate in your ear, would thrill your being, and elevate your thought, your sentiment, and your feeling.
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