New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-06

compared his life with that OF the evangelist Bss VINO
persisted in the Ashtabula disaster He said substan-
TALLY:
In the scale by which we measure men, rank lowest
those who work In matter for the purpose OF mold
Ing IT into useful FORM IL IL useful and b3nor
bic thing 70 be a husbandmcn mechanic merchant !;
bnt such men are not generally conscious that they
working for their fellow men, and their Is
81 he n @o% who deal in dsasSinIers
TRUTH aud philosophers Next IN the scale are those mat
ali Rs Po r as ali those
the heart w Il Ss Workers asd in 'h aspo
ton 'o Cornelius ims Vanderbilt died yesterday
one Of the most remarkable men that New-Y3rk mas
ever produced: one the clearest heads one who had
the art OF turning thoughts To things; man OF great
sasacy man Of intense foresight capable OF on @
of clear executive processes who took fey backward
ssd s0 s%s
on through long series OF years ana reached an en
clear and crisp and radiant to the very last lie was
man thht did great deal OF good man tnat deserves
The commercial forces that been his equal perhaps
none his superior Yet there 1t stops tere u st9s'
DAYS. thanks to the Christian woman whom God gave
him for companion and good guide, he endowed UNI,
oast all the other successes OF his me-
But speaking of the mans intentions his Tego 9
wide field and scope and certainly as mere business
man he must be spoken Of honorably l.. IT..
Another man has died within a few days, rot III MS
home surrounded by Borrowing friends. with phys'
clans OF skill about his bedside; not with the thermo-
the newspapers He died death Ia the midst OF unu.
terablc horrors for in that terrific plunge made through
tine broken bridge at Ashtabula 10 would seem AS II All
the horrors OF tearing and rend1g and burning ana
decorating there combined. There Mr. BLISS
died not great man, but one whose whoe
life was devoted wholly and sweetly TO ennobling the
di,positions of men, His hymns will not live long as
Wattss Weseys but they were written iOr our time
and they have moved whole generation OF Christians
and thinkers They have mad silent influence, genus
"a the dew In Summer and have nourised ten times ten
thousand tender roots. His life suddenly ceased anu
few papers noticed It, He held no such place IN tne
world Commodore Vanderbilt. IL Is not right tnat
should compare them except that the latter was
vastly strong IN mind aud possessed VI more *
pansve character But Mr. Bliss has done Tar grander
work. made the heavens not brass but transparent
LIE has brough something of the heavenly chants down
To earth. He has the tongue OF the Lord III was
glorious career II lies not WITHIN tne circuit Oh every
ones imitation In the way; but each one can 40
the duty stands against us. TO us THESE accl-
dents terrible but to the most OF those who met
their death at Ashtabua 1t was no more than falling
asleep. The soul or BrOther bliss WlnScu tS az
once into the presence OF Eod'
At the conclusion Of Mr. Beecher's talk, the Rev. Ly-
man Abbott spoke Of conversation between himself and
Dr. Deems on Thursday, which the religious disposi-
ton Of Comm Vanderbilt was spoken OF as shown
by his fondness for Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress ana
some hyrnns-those which were sung about his death
bed. Mr. Beecher said theoretically, when Mr. Abbott
sat down:
am very glad he liked those hymns when he died but
II he had sung them 80 years IL would nave been
good himself and many others III Is wen
10 think that when old man dies he has turned to
spiritual things before going but there are plenty 10 say
as long Commodore Vanderbilt could get ABOUT ne
didn't care for hymns. We are glad when anyone Is
saved AS by fire. but what want is men IN the fu
strength Of power and life and not the fag end
At the conclusion Of the prayermeetng the adjourned
annual meeting Of the church held at which AS
stant Pastor Hadays annual report was read aud ac-
cepted.