The New York herald., 1872-12-02

ITSELF shall never forget the independence the
days we look upon his career with sharper criti-
clsm yet you and all friends who rose and who
iought against slavery in the name OF the New Tes
lament and IN the name OF God cannot to-day critl-
else as we stand by his bier the man whose face
was always lifted up against the chains OF the over
seer ana the slave owner. Thank God for tnat
American manhood so full OF courage that 1t dares
stand alone and say an institution Is wrong and
must be given upl No one knows how much Of the
victory which freed the slaves was due to him.
Through thousand intricate ramincations that
persistent thought went, kindling minds and kind
and to hate slavery. lie was again loved
common man himself You and f'Hu; thought % Of him
with respect, even when most we differed from
his opinions. He had warm place In the great
american Amer heart, and twenty years nom now 1
getting his eccentricities forgetting his errors OF
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whose heart was always true, even when his brain
was wrong. / must speak just moment OF his
ambition. In his later iaya q new dream seems TO
wanted exceedingly to be President OF the United
Statea and have no doubt that he was willing TO
to attain the position, but believe also that he
wanted that high ONCE not so much for any per
sonal honor or emolument that might accrue
high Place he might heal ntRs The @ Ssed%ns % Wounds o.
his native land. You and I saw the neceasity for
sns IN 20 you ana t that @ the time had come when
in Our grsnder career. The war; with ali its blood,
has zone, and We. VINO wore the uniform. were
q sna ss Was ns ws as
his only wish, think; but was, be 1t said with
sorrow, entangled and enmeshed beyond any pos
siblity OF liberation. The Judgment OF the American
people was right ut the last and though they loved
and honored and respected the man, they would
and yet there IL no young man here who cannot
learn an exceedingly important lesson from that
life. You, my brethren, have been called to do
your work. No one knows what may lay before
you. You shall achieve your ambition II you labor
long and hard; but II you would achieve the high
the balance you shall not be found wanting-you
must live every day BY those eforte and by those
principles which the Lord Jesus Christ hos revealed
The Death OF mr.. Grecley-EIis Lifc-A
Lover Buried in the Coral Dcd OF the
Deep Ocean and . Father and Mother
Also Como Bcforc-AHecting Sermon
The Congregation OF tho Firth Avenue
Baptist Church I'm Tearx-Dfscourse by
tho Rev. DIR. Armitage.
The sermon preached at the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church by the Rev. Dr. Armitage yester-
day morning was one which win long be remem-
bered by those who heard It, The discourse was
based upon the loss by death OF Mr.. Horace Gree
ley, ana at Its conclusion there was scarcely one
among the congregation WHO had not been affected
to tears. An extemp0re prayer, however, which
the preacher delivered prefaratory to his sermon.
was perhaps the most touching and Affecting Of
alL During Its delivery he said they were there
tnat morning mingilng tears with their graft
tude and Offering with their thanksgiving many
or those deep feelings for the bereft which
nothing but the great omnipotencc OF God could
create In the bosoms Of mortals. He had taken
in His wisdom one much respected from among us.
Our great publicst slept in the image OF death the
whOm had w ma
innuence and power had been life among us was
stretched ont In the image OF death. Why He.only
knew; but out OF the anliction He would cause
rich and noble Efforts Of righteousness to grow
and they would see hereafter what they then knew
not Of this Divine medium. Those OF them who
had progressed into middle life felt that the aflc-
tion was personal. Some Of those In this city
began their career as public men or private cisl-
xens as men following certain
PROFESSIONS OF INTELLECT,
or might follow equally honorable positions OF
manual toll and commercial business, AMI they had
measured their terms Of activity alongside Of their
fellow citizen who had departed this lie and Gods
visitation upon him had struck home to all their
hearts. some OF them remembered when he came
to this great metropolis poverty y-stricken, unsur-
rounded by friends, lonely as stranger, yet trust
Ing as child. They remembered the struggles Of
great mind that seemed to shape Its own course
and destiny, and they remembered with thanksgv-
ing all the peculiar circumstances that gathered
about his life and made him what he was. They
thanked God for his poverty and his struggles, for
the bent Of his noble nature, for the power of his
intellectual mind, for the endurance OF his sens-
bities and for the purity Of his life They
thanked Him for the correcting lessons that he
gave them In the great structure OF their useful
government in the jurisprudence OF the people and
for. for the sweet and noble communion which he held
through which we drank kindred views and feel
ings, and he would hallow and sanctfy his life
that his truth should follow his name In genera
ti0ns to come, as being dead he would be unable to
speak. They stood that day silently before God,
for they found that the great, the venerable and
the wise were mortal like themselves. He had per-
mitted to come upon Mr.. Greeley, while he old,
series OF crushing calamities; and, within the
unbrOken, save as link that had been taken years
ago, and to bosom that was unwOunded save by
the scar OF old strokes which had been left there,
He had broken the family arch, broken down the
altar OF the house, and visited it with great
and apparent severty-an a1iliction by which
father and mother slept. together that day and a
lover lay at the bottom of the ocean sleeping in the
coral beds, an afcton by which the trinity OF the
link that bound and united them had been broken,
and the principals been taken away in a moment.
nobility and honor Of his lie, and Of lis parent,
that should be q treasure to encourage them, and,
above all. that the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
might uWcI tHelT UeuTtS, JHdU Tie nope Oh u
glorious resurrection should arrive when the be-
trothcd one, and the iather and mother should
come forth, when the sea should give up her dead
and the eartn no longer conceal her slain. Then
might these two fatherless and motherless girls be
reunited with the departed majority OF that house
who had gone so soon before them. They blessed
God for
THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH
well as for the means Of his life. His death had
been slow and comparatively painless with an OBJ
liviousness Of many OF the distressing phenomena
about it. They thanked Him that il had spared
him the wrnging OF the heart by the rending OF
the last ties and that He had taken him in insensi
biity of all the transactions of earth to Himself,
and yet they thanked Him that He did give that
great heart and mind lurd moments in passing
away and that he uttered the noblest truth that
ever told to the universe-'I know that my Re-
deemer liveth." Blessed be Gods name that the
publicis the journalist the statesman, the emperor
could trust In this precious declaration, and they
PRAYED Him to permit the loss OF their Grecleys,
their Stewards and their Lincons, the noble men
of all their spheres-make them better people,
The preacher then selected the text Of bis ser
mon the eighth verse Of the tnirty-second Psalm,