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he the fact but 1t generally is SUCH Ill these arts be-

day, and whose creative business closed with thei1
ancestors and which, like the Chinese, find their best
religion to be worship Of ancestral bones can
Lotus Land like that OF Tennyson, where It seemed
did swoonn It is the conception Of great work to be
done for age that seems to the mind an inspra
ton and to the heart an impulse. No one can reach
But come now to another fact in this busy life
worthy Of remembrance, fact TINT digned all those
did Ar. Greeley turn the liberty Of his times and the
art creative Of his brain2 The freedom OF many is
exhausted aust upon games and pleasures Of upon
fnsurrectaon and war. The grand privileges and pow
Of this poor and humble citizen all d.
slaves, the elevation Of the black race North and
South tho rights Of all the humber GLASS; were the
When the Tribune first began to get out Of the East
and touch tho Middle States, its appeals for universal
liberty seemed to many churches to be inadelty and
logans the paper indel, to the politicians 1t WIS
nonsense. The Bible opposed II, The Constitution
groaning under the Scriptures the other under the
Constitution this single mind and heart bated along,
creating beautiful world ont Of nothing but dust.
Thus IN the scope and soul Of his work, Mr.. Greeley
into the domain Of Christianity and is worthy oY
study in that he made the humanity Of Christianity
While in score Of ideas the Church has always sur
eau.lty Of man ana TIE dreadful wrong Of slavery,
and tenderness Of Tie church It helped us see our
own divine treasures. God seems to have faVorite
methods by which truth stan come into the world
much of French and German benayolence and tender
ness came By the x: lndels v0'air md md Ros
whom ve eli 1nadsl to spend is lie in seoar-
Thus politicians and editors and poets, in ages when
the Church aleeps mistakes its mission, up and
han a e the 9 rs
GUS and special source. It must be confessed that the
happiness Of slave beyond his humble tomb is the
grandest object Of Church life. For this the slave
sings his plaintive strain. But when to this liberty Of
the sky the great editors and add freedom in
this vale ana precede the grave By educated and
free ife this salvation seems complete, having
joy TINT begins at the cradle instead Of a the tomb
What may have been the whole Christian belief Of
crystalized into definite form. To lawyer pub
Lie man. perpetual student the details Of Christian
lent sea,. md deatR IN old. aga VIII leave
70 perfect photograph Of the spirits
tsP t mini II ,na this t Of a oT was II
know TINT my Redeemer lreth," ne cannot do aught
else than behold that close contact with Christianity,
Of the poor Of any name. II the Sermon the Mount
and the Life Of Christ have any significance, it is
PIE pursuit when one is n erclfnl cir aad teaches men to
is forgvng toward all and teaches that lesson to man.
Kind II unable to see ali our creed, let us behold
the Savior into the world. God SO loved the world
that he gaTe bis Son for it. The world is vast
pfeSs10n including III 1t8 sound tho 6NnTIu Of life
Spreading Aais and Africa, and IN the sugar md
cotton fields Of our land. The world is broad like
Gods love; and as earth has fruits and flowers and
rains and suns and summer and winter for all, so
Gods bosom is 4 refuge for Ill souls. a powerful
press, powerful nswspapes created in behalf OF hu-
forth fu Of love and tears 10 Tor e slave. embazons
such noble Christian doctrine before the sight OF God
that should feel false to my office if did not ask you
to see, not this au but this enlblazonent Of Chris
tanity springing up from his career
If that broad sympathy which marked this editor
pu and pes f fhe euSeh the Of tba
single life Will weigh against the immediate and fu-
The influence Of 1Ir. Greeley with the most educated
classes vas, indeed not destroyed, hut diminished by
his eccentricity Of mannerB The eccentric character
eannot be deeply eved BY thoae who perceive the trait
the commonplace As it is the duty Of musician to
avoid discard 30 1t is the duty Of public and private
lie TO move along IN gentle harmony with mankind.
Eccentrcity, therefore, ia sad blow to lover. When
we can laugh at one lore is impossible. But while
the most cultivated and most sensitive it not only left
him some love here, but it left untouched
the lovo Of al the xast millions OF common
people, free and slye with whom not only do idios5n-
cracies weigh little but with whom the sympathy Of
man Transformed him into brother, father, .
friend The millions are not critics; they are souls
Hence, this life rolled onward for generation,
Ing tbs heart Of s7es pleading Goneessen %
developing all forms Of industry and always teaching
the g5sa and
become silent exhausted its eloquence upon honesty
and industry. We have sesmed now to draw several
valuable differences frvn this conspicuous career:
!. How valuable is ihe country whose spiritual Hber-
ty always producing characters Of breadth Of Study
Of purpose, and Of love.
9. How powerful is the mind when It marks out
new, frea work for itself, and reads the crying wants
Of to-day rather than coutemptes the dead issues Of
former generations.
s. Providence, in the spread OF religious ideas, will
not confne Himself to the human limitations OF church
and pulpit, but will permit Wlberforce Coblen,
statesman editor, to trace out for man some
golden thread moving through the New Testament
and on the very vesturo Of CHRIST.
4 If the espouEal Of humanity, tears slaves
and over the poor, and kind words to them and
for them, mcde SO powerful and iIlustrious an
humble printer, carried him in advance Of Kings
in influence, why may not the Church, by q half
forgefulness Of the rich, and by e1oquence and
love devoted to the poor weave for itself richer
crown, and secure for the human broader and
deeper salvation
The philosophy Of this editor, carried into the |
Church, would enable it at to its reform at
hearts that are lowest ahed it's Light to minds that
darkest.
Over the grave Of him, brought to his grave by
toll, by anxiety, and By mistake OF ambition which
took away his faithful newspaper and substituted /!
Governors chair must Say he taught honesty and
Industry, and carried liberty to where there the
most bondage, poured out lore where there had been
the most neglect and offered happiness to the deepest
sorrow. |