Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-02
Rev. DR.. Buffers Sermon.

Among the many beautiful passages in the dis
course Of the Rev. DR.. Butler over the remains
of HENRY CLAY, the following may well be COM
mended to the reader
Il feel, as man. the grandeur of this career.
But MS an immortal, with this broken wreck Of
mortality before me, with this scene as the end
ar of human glory, feel that no career is truly
great bat that Of him who, whether he be illus
trous or obscure, lives to the future in the pres
ent, and, linking himself to the spiritual world,
draws from God the life, the rule, the motive,
and the reward of all his labor. So would that
great spirit which has departed say to us could
he address US now. So did he realize in the calm
aud meditatve close of life. | feel that but
utter the lessons which, living, were his last and
4 best convictions and which, dead, could he speak
to US, would be his solemn admonitions, when
say that craftsmanship is then only glorious when
it is Christian, and that man is then only safe and
tyue to his duty and his soul when the life which
he lives in the flesh is the life of faith in the Son
of God.
Great, indeed, is the privilege, and most
honorable and useful is the career Of Christian
American statesman.
He perceives that civil liberty came from the
freedom wherewith Christ made its earliest martyr
| and defender free. He recognises it as one OF
| the twelve manner of fruits on the tree of life,
which, while its lower branches furnish the best
nutrment of earth, hangs on it's topmost boughs,
which wave in heaven, fruits that exhilirate the
immortals Recognising the state as Gods in
stitution, he will perceive that his own ministry
| is divine. Living consciously under the eye and
| in the love and fear of God redeemed by the
blood of Jesus sanctiied by His spirit, loving
His law, he viii give himself in private and in
public, to the service Of his Saviour He will
not admit that he may act on less lofty principles
in public than in private life, and that he must
be careful of his moral influence in the small
sphere of home and neighborhood, but need take
no heed of it when it stretches over continents
and crosses seas. He will know that his moral
responsibility cannot be divided and distributed
among others.
"When he is told that adherence to the strict
est moral and religious principle is incompatible
with n successful and eminent career, he will
denounce the assertion libel on the venerated
father of the republic-a libel on the honored
| living and the illustrous dead-a libel against
great and Christian nation-a libel agant God
| himself who has declared and made 'godliness
profitable for the life that is He will strive to
make laws transcripts Of the character and instl-
| tutions, illustrations Of the providence Of God
| He will scan with admiration and awe the pur-
poses Of God in the future history OF the world,
! in throwing open this wide continent, from sea
| 10 sca ne the abode Of freedom, intelligence,
pIeuty. prosperity, and peace, and feel that in
| rivpr his energies with patriotic love to the
welfare Of his country, he is consecrating him
-cf with a Christians zeal to the extension and
establishment Of the Redeemer's kingdom. Com
pared with 4 career ike this, which is equally
open to those whose public sphere is large or
small, how paltry are the trade OF patriotism,
the tricks Of craftsmanship, the rewards of sue
cessful baseness. This hour, this scene, the
vcnerated dead the country, the world, the pres
| cnt, the future, God, duty, heaven, hell, speak
trumpet-tongued to all in the service Of their
country, to begare how they lay polluted or un-
hallowed hands