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| A Reminlscsnos of ftsv. fl«n|. Jo««i by ■ Fonnof' Pupil.m ^ow *TU® *'to wntinel that hour it regal when he mounU on guard !’*«fV1*/un® t^16 ,lMiwOdd Fellows’ Hall in Port Gibson, Miss., wu garlanded, was fragrant, n was occupied to (be utmost extent by the beauty and chivalry of aria-® tocratic Claiborne county, and pre-1 sen ted a scene of loveliness which l* i was indelibly impressed upon the ® minds of the six young girls who read their graduating essays and re-ueived Ihetr degree that night « Thirty-tonr years ago to-night!* What we have experienced, what0 change# have beeu wrought, can1 never be fully told The muttering 11 thunder of war was then heard iu ® I Hie distance by gray-haired patri-e ota; yet they felt no fear concerning the result. They rather hailed1 the oncoming contest with pleasure,‘- feeling confident that the struggle would beef irt, that vexed questions M would be; aided, and our lovely• Southlain/ otild make for herself J j a glorious place among the nations.We heard nothing hut straina of» sweetest music, Mt nothing but ' i poefry. If our faces could have beeu ' photographed, and our feelings and 1 aspirations phonographed that night how startling the contrast would appear between the then ahd the j now! Five of the girls n re actively engaged in the battle of 1 life, at times some of us being consoled only by the thought that we’.'l soon heat home overthere,” where the peerless one went to meet I her reward in 1878.Rev. Benjamin Jones, who, three years before, had succeeded the gifted, genial Dr. Thomas H. Capers, wus our honored president. He and his cultured wife.RaphellaWie-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 Academy.” tqf'jfcfiI Mr. Jones'faith was strong, hit language chaste, bis life pure. The telegram from Long Bench on June J iO, To-day Rev. Benjamin Jones sweetly fell on sleep, describes the beautiful departure of one of God's noble workmen. May the seed sown by his faithful hand yield an a-!»umlaut harvest, and may the stare in his crown of rejoicing be many ! —One of the Six, in N. O. Christian Advocate.
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The Port Gibson Reveille
Port Gibson, Mississippi, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1893
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