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j A Aeminiscanos of Hav. i«*|. Jonvi by ■ Former Pupil., How true that to the sentinel that hour is regal when he mounts . on guard P*i-. l**« ^paciotwOdd Fellows’ Hall in Port Gibson, Miss., was garlanded, was fragrant,was occupied to tbc utmost extent by the beauty and chivalry of aristocratic Claiborne oounty, and presented a scene of loveliness which i was indelibly Impressed upon the J minds of tl.e six young girls who read their graduating essays and received their degree that night. Thirty-fonr years ago tonight! What we have experienced, what changes have beeu wrought, can never be fully told. The muttering thunder of war wns then heard iu the distance by gray.haired patriots ; yet they felt no fear concern-I ing the result. They rather hailed the oncoming contest with pleasure, feeling confident that the struggle Would be si «rt( that vexed questions would be icided, and our lovely I Southland ,ou!d make for herself j a glorious place among the nations. We heasjf nothing but strains of sweetest music, Mt nothing but poetry. II our faces could have been photographed, and our feelings and aspirations phonographed that night how startling (lie contrast would appear between the then ahd the now! Five of the girls are actively engaged in the battle of life, at times some of us being consoled only by the thought that we’JI soon beat home over there,” where the peerless one went to meet her reward in 1878.Rev. Benjamin Jones, who, three years before, had succeeded the gifted, genial Dr. Thomas H. Capers, was our honored president. He and his cultured wife,RaphellaWia-son Bangs, daughter of the distin-guished Dr. Bangs, of Brooklyn N. Y., after ten years of faithful school work at Jackson, La., had infused new life into the Port Gibson Collegiate Aewderay.'’Mr. Jones'faith was strong, his language chaste, bis life pure. The telegram from Long Bench on June ^0, To-dnv Rev. Benjamin Jones sweetly fell on sleep, describes the beautiful departure of one of God’s noble workmen. May the seed sown by Ins faithful hand yield an a-bnndaut harvest, end may the stare in his crown of rejoicing be many I — One of the Six, iu N. O. Christian Advocate.
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The Port Gibson Reveille
Port Gibson, Mississippi, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1893
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