The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-12
A TAKING WAY.
The Rev. Granville Moody and Pres
ident Granddaughter OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.

The Rev. Granville Moody and Pres
ident GIant-SIaughter OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette:
notice in the Enquirer, Of the
25th inst, an unauthorized inference
from an illustration used by me in a
recent sermon on "The attractions
of the Church of the Living God" !"
delivered in my charge in this city
last Sabbath. One of said attrac-
tions, as stated, was that "There God
might be found" The church is the
earthly dwelling place of the Most
High;
That not the fair palaces,
To which the great resort,
Are ones TO be compared to this,
Where Jesus holds His Court.
"My house," saith the Lord of
Hosts, "shall be a house of prayer
for all people" contrasted the ac-
feasibility of God with the Difficult
ties of gaining access to the rulers
of the earth, and remarked that after
travelling far to see earth's poten-
tates, we might find they were absent
from their palaces; and should you
even journey to Washington City
and visit the White House, you might
learn that President Grant was alb
sent, and you must seek him on the
sea shore seeking recreation, while
the King of kings, and Ruler of ru-
lers, "fainteth not, neither is weary -
and has promised his constant pres
ence in the church, "the place where
his honor dwelleth.
And forsooth! The Enquirer ex-
tracts from this illustration a dam
aging reflection on General Grant
from me, his steadfast and devoted
friend, because the President seeks
temporary relief from the burden of
the most exciting and oppressive
office held by mortal man on the
footstool Of Almighty God. 1 am
glad that the President gives this
additional evidence of possessing
an uncommon quantity of that very
uncommon commodity called "com-
mon sense" by seeking, in tempora-
ry relaxation from the oppressive
cares of office, that recuperation of
his physical and mental forces Sc
cured by sojourn on the sea coast.
where the proverbially vivifying
ocean breezes and social intercourse
may the better prepare him for the
onerous duties of his high office.
Do not generals, judges, lawyers
physicians, statatesmen, merchants,
and mechanics need and seek relax
alton from the strain on their ma
ture? Aye! do not the preachers of
the gospel have their summer va
cations While appreciative and
cOnsiderate churches often vote such
vacations to their pastors, expecting
that they will return to their work
with restored or preserved health,
and bestoW their increased vigor in
the furtherance of the interests of
their mission.
The Indian maxim that "the bow
kept always strained loses all its
spring." indicates the necessity of
relaxation, in order to the most
effective eXertions.
Withal, with all the departments
of the executive in the hands of COM
petent and reliable secretaries and
their practical "aids," with instan-
taneous telegraphic communication
between Washington and 'sLong
and rapid intercommuni-
cation by rail, the President is in
virtual and actual communication
withthe body of which he is the
political head.
Hence, any inference from the IL
lustration that the preacher was in
antagOnism with the honored Presi
dent of the Republic, who does but
as his predecessors in office have of
ten done before him, is entirely gra-
tuitous; and l beg the use of your
columns to protest against such in
l am for Grant, first, last
and all the time.
Indeed, General Grant has ''a way
Of taking things" that is remarkable.
He took a thorough military and civ
il education at West Point, when he
stood the searching ordeal of four
examinations in q class
from which Seventytwo were
dropped. He took the rank of
twenty-one in a graduating class of
thirty-nine, distancing seventy-two
who entered the race, and "took the
prize" over eighteen, who finally
reached the goal, never having 'lost
position" or forfeited "class rank"
by demerits. We must admit that
be has taking way" with him.
You refer to gift taking. 1 sin
cerely hope and pray that the health
and life Of General Grant may be
DroVldentially prolonged to stake
.he highest gift in the Nations
power, again; and discharge in the
ensuing quadrenium the duties of
,he Office as President as faithfully
md efficiently as he has in the last,
md that by the integrity of the Re
publican party and the continued
idelity and efficiency of President
Grant the oneness of our Nationali-
,y,the declaration of liberty through
)ut all the land unto all the ''inhabi-
ants thereof" (Leviticus xxxv. 1O);
he suppression of lawless violence,
he payment Of the public debt, the |
civilization of the Indians the ex-
irpation of organized social barbar-
SIN, the Vindication of our National
lights with foreign powers, and the |
of the unparalleled
Of the country under |
General Grants administration may |
oe built into the history of the next |
our years under his Presidency.
AT West Point, also, he took ''high |
for duty in civil affairs"
n course as thorough and com
,lete as that of a student in our col |
eyes, or the lawyer in towns, for at |
Vest Point the science of war is
nterwoven with the science of gov
the science of of NOR
is which renOvates and restrains
he world; while chemistry, which
caches the fabrication of the materi- !
/ of war, and geopraDhy history /