The New York herald., 1872-12-09
Moro Lessons from Greeley's Life.

Benjamin Disraeli.
Moro Lessons from Grecley's Life.
The pulpits are still vocal with the praises
of the dead journalist, Horace Greeley. Yes
terday DR.. Chaplin, Rev. w. F. Clarke. Rev.
Henry Asten, Rev. q. g, Swestser, Of this
city. and Rev. DR.. Chadwick. of Brooklyn.
laid their offerings ON the lately closed
grave Of the departed Philosopher. DIR.
Chaplin held up Christ as man who
was popular with the masses. But the
politicians wanted to make o leader
Of Him, and because he discouraged their
plans and defeated their schemes He aroused
their animosity and they in turn conspired
against Him and compassed His death. While
He lived men did not think so much of Him,
nor, indeed, as the Doctor declared, do we
appreciate the full worth of men until they are
dead And nothing illustrates this better
than the sad services which were held in the
Church of the Divine Paternity last
week. s'All through Mr.. Greeley's life.
and especially during the last six months
Of it, the clouds of misconception enshrouded
him, and people talked of his mistakes; but
with his death the clouds dropped away and
the inner central spirit of the man was re-
vealed-the spirit that loved human nature
and sympathized with tho slave and the op-
pressed" 1t was this that attracted the thou
sands who thronged the church and crowded
the streets last week. Though Mr.. Greeley's
form has gone from our midst the lessons of
his life remain. And the greatest lesson
is the broad sympathy with human
nature that Christ symbolized by his
death upon the cross. Rev. E. O. Sweet
ser considered t'patience in we'll doing
as the hidden motto of the great journalist
whose late death was SO universally felt"
Mr.. Sweetser examined some of the causes
which make men weary Of well-doing- namely,
increase of worldiness, frequency of disappoint-
ing causes the late lamented Horace Greeley
continued patient in Yell-doing. Every life
Of well-doing, Mr. Sweetser believes, is ''fully
rewarded with an abundant harvest" Such
was Horace Gresley's life from beginning
to end, and we ought not to let the signif-
canoe of such life escape our notice.
It is o providential opening through which we
can see, if we will, into heavenly realities. 'In
all that Mr.. Greeley undertook he aimed to
benefit humanity. His paper he made an
organ for good, or at least what he believed to
be good Hss Waae bQ his voice messenger
for good, bringing tidings of freedom to the
slave, of woe to tho oppressor, Of knowledge
to the ignorant of advice to the erring, of
piety to the penitent and Of reconciliation to
the long estranged. He never lost his faith
in God or in man. He has reaped his harvest
and is simmeasurably richer to-day than if he had
lived selfish life and were still on the earth
filling the throne of king. Even in his
death he triumphed. 1t was glorious death,
for out of the very gloom that surrounded it
there came o ray of heavenly light, which
was worth more than all the anguish, the
heart-breaks, the bitter disappointments, the
shattered nerves and the ruined system-I
know that my Redeemer iveth.' One would
be almost willing to die daily if he could
secure such eulogies as this. But it was the
useful life that made the death SO triumphant
Rev. Mr.. Clarke, of Harlem, could not well
talk about Journalism and Journalists with
out taking account Of the two great lights of
American journalism who have passed away
the late editors of the HERALD and Of the
Tribune. Tracing the origin of the newspaper
in America from the time that an enterprising
Yankee attempted to start single sheet daily
in Boston, in 1890, but was prevented by the
interference of the General Court, down to
our day, when the late Mr.. Bennett
"made the model American newspa-
per; lifted reporting to on art; devel-
oped the collection and arrangement Of in
telligence from oil parts of the world into
business and science" Mr.. Clarke could not
do less than exalt the genius and the enter
prise that could produce such results The
newspaper is as many-sided as the manifold
life out of which it springs and to which it
ministers. 'It lets daylight into the darkest
recesses Of our modern life and vice shrinks
from its blazing illumination. The enterprise
of the press is one of the marvels of our age
and the splendid achievement of the HERALD
in lifting the curtain that has con-
cealed the heart of o continent is the spirit of
tremendous organized energy which ransacks
the world for intelligence and turns the
globe into q whispering gallery. The HERALD
is the daily confessional of mankind. Mr.
Bennett made the newspaper an institution;
Mr.. Greeley made the American journal"
Rev. Mr.. Asten drew from the life of Horace
Greeley the lessons Of self-reliant energy
which made him one of the greatest in jour
nalstic fame, and covered him in death with
an honor greater than can be won hy the