New-York tribune., 1873-05-12
pTV.plT TRIBUTES.

THE INHERENT POWER OF CHARACTER.
The subject of the Rev. o. B. FrOthingham's
sermon AT Lyric Hall yesterday morning The Bull
warf Of Character" Taking for his text the passage
therefore WhOsOever heareh these sayings Of mine
and doeth them will liken him unto wise man that
built his house upon a rock" he said in the OF
his sermon:
The great helps 10 character are first inherited good
tendencies for character could be transmitted though
not as yet with certany secOluy tal4ig' wv mniCh
few have the advantages OF real fuuln6 IOf such
and for all there far higher aid-wOTk. This was
the counselor and nprer in the attain
ment of all work Idleness had an altogether different
fTnt The idle man was Influenced by neither the
past, the present nor the future his life was
disointed and aimless as whole II was resutess
fourth great help the force OF usious examples
and few better instances could De found than In two
careers which had closed within the past week Ihis
% no, the time 10 review the life of the late Chief
tce Nor could his characteristics patriot, Imam
cier, jurist, and an acconpLsaer Oh gE AZ ehdS De
pointed Out this be the work OF specialists But
the sublime and Overshadowing thing about his life
which shOne through all its details ana nat
was impossible TO say too much. The language OF the
choicest eulOgy only the language OF truth The
man was the friend OF those whose only friends were the
noble ne was respected OF those who only respected
the upright and the pure. Probably no man living could
pOint TO single spot in his character Ills integrity
was uninpeachable while millions passing through
his hands. He wr0nged no man. The highest trusts
were committed 20 him. and in discharging them he did
his best When he left tneu the keenest critic could find
no flaw through which 70 force his blade And what he
was public he was III lrvate-ln the amly circle-ds
husband and father And the secret oI ~ was not lar 70
seek Toll was his heritage. Born TO IL, bred 10 H.
gwen opportunity winch he hdd not earned pui on
his metallic mace hie own way. How this could be
traced In his characterl He simple sincere, nde
pendent man who could bear looking dt tTOm all sides
no bas-relief, but statue. He never lost himself
In party or clique; he could be criticised, abused.
hui he could sell himself There perhaps mis-
takes In details of his e but from beginning 10 eEd t
was one or toll OF Independence, OF standing on one
SOLID thing which was Character
And the other was that of who had long etOOd
tho higher watchtOWcr Of thought, John Stuart MIL IL
was hard for thoughtful man % speak of him without
emotion. No man OF intellect cOuld hep Ieeung that
the world had with loss IN his death winch would
long go unretrcyed He was man OF great intellectual
power and activity, nara WORKER from me beginning
10 the end OF his life the OF hard thinking HIS
intellectual command great All sides OF thought
waited for utterances. He was great teacher,
powerful Instructor, one ot cas- OF Imperial minds
and this was cyinced by HIS capacity for serving. And
what gave him this power IL more than genius-it
was the amount Of character which he pat into ms work,
80 be linked himself 70 his age IS with hooks OF steel
Not exciting much Admiration In America . the late
Chief Justice and having moved into altogether on
ferent sphere, yet peers In the nigh peer
age OF character And the wonderful thing TO note
tls than religious matters Tie Two STOOD at opposite
exfremes one vas a deVOut aud reyerent ehurChInn,
the had long severed his connection with all re
ligOus creeds aud honest earnest thinker. This
M pointed strongly tOMurd the CONCLUSION that the
and inner things OF human e were not conditioned by
docrlnes Uut by that soil OF effort wherein
vhoe race must delge and, delving wel wherein
buldlng on rock from Wcn NO storm or Hood can dis
AN HONEST MAN IN POLITICS.
The Rev. II. ID. NorthrOp of the Presbyterian
church ia West Twenty tifd-st, his sermon, yestei
dav which was based upon the text, Howl hrtree Tor
the cedar Is falon" said that the spirit Of the words
as the mourning OF for kindred tree, the lesson
f the tail cedar to Of Lesser growth, 50 the mourn
inn now IN every city was mighty cedar fallen.
TIE grief OF the OCCASION be ADDED. wss an evidence