The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-01


than BY the warmth Of our hearts but oh dod open
our hs arts, that we may embrsce In pure patriotism
that love Of country which includes tbs love Of every
virtue We desire to humble ourselves In deep abase-
ment and humility before Thee
The reverend gentleman then proceeded to say, that
there but thought the hearts and tongues Of
since they last left this house OF prayer and that
the passing away Of that majestic spirit that lately
the stately hasAmericas greatest boast aud
her most hcnored statesman No funeral pageant how
splendid, could equal the mournful service which
the whole country has been performing from the moment
1t learnt It's mighty Bereavement nation has stood
about his bier and the press has been universal pail
Conendng parties have Joined hands to bear his remns
TO the tomb Courts colleges ch ambers OF commerce.
states cities and embassies had forgotten their
ties 10 honor his ahes There must have been intrinsic
qualities of the and precious order to cause
and justify such Of berea cement nothing
but true greatness could produce this and
qualified homage A great man sucn as the Almighty
rely creates not saint but great mau-such an
perhaps, sge has not known in all the world,
and such as our country after time knew be-
We have measured his height with our admiration and
tribute these many years but It only when he tell
that we fully knew how high he had towered and by
what interval he left others below him 1t IL no.
chiefly for what he has donefor the service his
red oufor the policies he established the principles
he upheld. that the nation Is now pouring the sin
cerest homage upon his grave IL is for what
be vas aVd what he would have been anywhere in any
party connected with any policy, perhaps living in
any country-his splendid powers. his weighty name,
his commanding character aud his grand and wing
person Daniel Webster That Is a tie which no cir.
cumstances or descriptive epithets dguify
nance lie was far greater in himself as God ade him
snd he had claim upon the admiration and respect
Of the world asa man as a sample Of humanity than
as statesman an orator or patriot; and II IL TO God
that we bow in gratitude and reyerencs when he
0escenos TO come TO us In this and partial
image Of himself which is shown in the capacity the
msndpg and inspiring souls of the truly great Daniel
Webster wi all HE faults adorned his nature Every
proud OF him. All that national grief and professional
ready rendered anu gratefully said And. now. religion
must take the theme aud draw her lessons from such
event Our first lesson Christian citizens in view Of
this national bereavement is OF gratitude to Al
mighty God-whose benefits disclose their true
proportions until they have taken their fghttha
young country he has blessed with such leaders and
educators so wise. good, great displaying the
grandeur Of his designs towards nation by the mag
nifcenee of her shapers and the endowments OF her
ster that he lent aud borrowed bis countrys great
ness made and shared its progress; shaped and
was shaped by its destinybut above all men Webster
was inspired with the idea of America God gave him
the Imagination and the sensblity of poet, that his
expansive soul might anticipate the quickening pulse OF
his country and conserve the grandeur Of its throbs
How sincere how passionate how Enthusiastically
he devoted to the preservation OF the Union Nothing
but the majestic image of his whole undivided country
could satisfy his colossal imagination 0ne by one he
could have SURRENDERED bis limbs ampua.ion to
il from destruction. l suppose my brethren, that his
political and what to be accounted his poll
teal mistakes sprapg from his unqualified devotion to
the Union Let US now turn to what he was-from his
political and national principles to his mature and
his character. He at superior to any
obstacle he encountered, and to any adversely
an effort, by the specific gra witty of his being he
came men and circumstances and settled into his central
ana commanding place and as a lawyer and orator, his
personality seemed to give prepon ierance his words
think this was proved when he was received in the
large public building in Boston and presented with
magnificent vase for his public services thank you,r
meant more than the most elaborate compliments from
smother The Rev gentleman then proceeded to discuss
the faiings OF Mr. Webster ard included follows
Weep oh my native tate and natal city that your
glory is departed-that your has fallen
Come clouds and vapors and the granite hills
from the ocean, to shroud New England for the days
grsre. Our pride and our power is in his grave
But yet rejcce that immortal fame belongs TO your
Iecoids Rejoice oh Freedom that the mobiles. intel.
ee Of the age born and died within your territory
Rejoice religion that the mghtiet wisdom has bowed
most reyerentisly to your affairs Rejoice finally you
he has descended at good old relea from
and pains to his made grave at last with the kings
and councillors of the earth.
The Sermon OF the Rev. MFR. GrinnelI.
TIE death of Daniel Webster made the subject of
sermon, yesterday evening by the Rev. Mr. GrinnelL
al the Congregational church, Fourth street
The Rev gentleman took his text I'd Samuel, l4th
chapter and 14h and observed-That 1t is great
truth that everything has beginning and everything
except God viii have end There is mystery in the
exercise Of that power which all of aud Jesus
has said that not stone standing another at pre-
sent shall remain. We water says the proverb
ed up and 50 with man, for gone he
be recovered, can he again appear till the last
day. In disease in the rapids and In old age
eternity seems not fa1 distant and ultimately the
j sc river we launch out into immortality We have
seen that men die without rule and hope clingeth
TO the consumptiye that death will be long averted.
Death moves rapidly amongst us but We see him not.
child has diseases which art cannot There Is cho
ieIa, ana the slow wasting teVers: and these and SINH
lar diseases are the dread Of fer millions swept
away. Life passes through fingers and grave
opened. and followed by the solemn procession
IL indeed serious thing 10 die and how terrible
be our feelings then. Nature shudders the sight The
death Of Daniel Webster has sugges these thoughts for
IN him that there is exception the unalerabe
DEGREES Of Providence II is but little conscl alton that the
nation his less and honor bis memory for the e
gsate the bar and the Senate hath not similar orna.
ment. He was. indeed the Collie. He came forth
fiom the Forth east and his instructors seem TO have
been sell ehosenchosen as it by that Providence
which had endowed him with that vast mental pc
which placed him in rank next to Washington. All that
was nblime made available in the various situations
faith ourselves and though he changed his religious
opinions, yet in his original faith be died lie in
for every one would say of him, 'there is man.
Take him all in all he was the richest endowment Of
all bis contemporaries. We come to inquire how
he used these gifts! All the gifts Of language viii
be employed 10 eulogise his merits bat how
few Of the; next generation will know in what
II was he failed Great as he he too far sacrificed
eternity TO the presentor he forgot religion lie did
not combine that which made Washington and Adams IL
i1us be had reverence certainly but piety. His
nearest friends knew he a victim to his passions If
be had been elevated to the Presidency would have
been said that no will debsr from reaching
the highest horrors Of the state He kept the Sabbath
and mpugned the gospel declared the necessity Of
religious instruction bat still he lacked piety and
morality But two years ago he opposed the extension Of
slavery and for the speech that he delivered
that occasion. and the strong arguments that he
brought forward. he must be hoaored The
rerend gentleman then went On to make few OBJ
vStions with regard the duty which each voter
would have to perform in the Presidential election and
remarked that they had religious well political
duty to perform. They would have to take that
should be at home and abroad coDquets
deprecated. and liberty conserved. Those the
objects which Doniel Webster had in view, and every
would do well 20 take that those objects be full
filed. The reverend gentleman few observations
as to the deathbed at Marshfeld. read Gray's
Eegy as pertinent to- and illustrative Of the tabsau
there presented and carrying the subject further he
showed how apt Illustration the Elegy was to the
life and death Of men generally.