The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18

abroad and was not ashamed. He could In
paragraph express what, as Ordinarily s worded
think OF "Licbigs extract OF beef'-of pemmical
put up for an Arctic voyage. He wrote as
words were precious. as they are. HIS criticism
poor lunatic, deaf mute, blind or pauper. viii b.
remembered. He advised. II economy was tn
chief thing; that these poor people "be knocked
While was writing these words. gentleman
called TO tell me that he had just returned from
Paris. ILL.,. and 70 repeat to me a conversation h
had with a physician there, with whom Mr.
Harding read medicine. While he was thus
student the cholera year came, and all who knew
anything about the disease fled, except the Doc
tor and his student and they remained, to nurs'
and 10 save or TO bury, as II should happen
We are all acquainted with this "ieariessness o
danger and of death which was nearly absolute
while, think that he would cheerfully have laic
down his life. For friend, or country, or g00C
cause. should have expected him to go at oncs
You have looked at his head, massive as II GU
from granite bOwlder. And at his face, at The
craven lines of thought and pain. do not re
written a history as of a rock brought down by
an old glacier II Is history OF tumult and strife
and grinds of flint against flint.
typhoid passes by the invalid. There are passive
ly good people-g00d by defect OF strength. They
are inoffensive and innocent. and can not help 1t
doubled Cape Horn. Her masts are broken short
off, the waves have swep. the docks, but she has
made it.
Half under water and close on the rocks yet
she moyes-forges ahead. That suggests the life
that is done.
His last eight months have been his smoothest
est He has had in these months less OF the desert
Ishmael in him, and more OF IshmaePs gentle
shepherd brother.
In these months 1 have noticed in him more
confidence in the motives of men and tacit ac
KIN wledgment that his old judgments had been
too sudden and too crude and too severe. Also, q
70 n II had 81 he's SeeT S c%
throws TO hit, and whose snowballs had been
made Of soft material and then laid out over night
to freeze
In all these eight months he has been, with one
exception. aud for that l excuse him. on the up
grade. He came back from Minnesota with a pur-
pose 70 redeem the time: Hewas met here with a
friendIness and an encouragement that surprised
him, and that made him as happy as a child.
am glad that he came back. and glad that last
saw him with his face set as though he would 20
10 the top of the hill. He had not given up. He
had not, except by an eddy, turned back; the
main purpose and will were TO go on and up. He
had rougher road TO travel than you OF I-there
Is no doubt of it. There was, for instance, the
wrench OF one tragedy that OF a common
man would make maniac. By the clock he was
hfty-one years old. By that experience he was as
old as Jacob when he said: Few and evil have
all the days of the years OF my life BEEN"
Judge not" says Christ. Over the little child
cast up from a wreck and buried on the coast of
Ireland there is plank, and on 1t craven. God
knows" AS ignorant as he who cut those words
are we. AS wise are we when refer the whole
matter TO God, whether he is In port or gone down
like the City of Boston. One thing Is sure, that
he has had no fair wind; nothing Zephyr-like
since childhood. 1t has been monsoon and tor
nado. / liken him to mass silver-some copper,
some sulphur. some quartz and some mud, but
still silver enough to astonish the assayer III his
his flaws had all been ground down and ground
out, he would still remain a rare diamond. And
faults were of a kind that 1 think make us
sorry and not angry. He was not what he ought
to have been, but when you.told him so it was no
news to him; it was thought familiar enough
Some men need logical argument TO convince
them that they are sinners. They are so prudent
aud sly in concealing their sin that they forget
where il is themselves George Harding not
of that kindred. He confessed judgment. There
was sin and sin. We must distinguish between
the sin of impulse and temperament, the out
ward stain and the deliberate, self-sought and
loved for its own sake sin. We make the dlstinc-
ton, for 1t is wise. Senator Yates, In his last
speech, in abiding to the way sundry Christian
statesmen" once had of using him and his infirm-
ity TO point moral, and then calling attention TO
rem in 1.-THE little memorandum book of Cakes
Ames," said: my friends aud neighbors, want
you TO remember that, if my hand does tremble,
Ii is clean"
There is a choice in sinners. / prefer the prod
igal son for a neighbOr to his elder brother. Let
us look at one another at our best and trust that
so we shall appear at our last. OF course, ladies
aS am by nature rsye To nU5
lyze friend-to take him apart and collate his
faults and his excellence When think OF George
Harding and his enemies within and without
the good that was ever before him, the evil that
was ever present with him, the endless contradic-
tiLn of impulse and reason, of aspiration and en-
yironment, the contrast OF the mood OF the even
ing and morning, the tenderness and the harsh
ness, i give il up. II Is q skein too tangled for
me. We must consider the physical basis-the
possible and probable disease, the sweet bells
tangled and out of tune" The powerful engine
with sand in the joints and possibly an inch or
off the track. VINO knows? God knows" He
rated as his enemies some men who are my
friends, and who would have been glad 70 have
been his friends 1 think that time, thought,
success and genial association would have done
wonderful things for this free lance" have
no doubt that he would have recalled many OF his
biting words. He would have melted many of
his etchings. the work of steel and acid. He
would have continued to be generous, and would
have attained to be just-a thing very difhcult
but possible.
1t is possible, but difficult, to have sympathy
with the poor and also with the rich, and so be
generous and also just Perfect charity goes
down and uB and so includes all classes and
conditions of mankind. But the warfare is &C
complished. II is very peaceful out In God
acre" now-peaceful and pleasant, green on the
leaves and the grass, by the power of the sun and
the rain; and our friend whose body we commit
TO the 'open hand of Time was not sorry nor
afraid to go. He is out of the combat And for
his sake / am not sorry. but sorry for my own.
He had the thought that he had come to the
second best" that, as he expressed ii, he had
lost his grip" do not think so. have seen no
and he dreaded old age If it meant loss of faculty
more than he did death. Knowing what life
may be, do not wish any child, or woman, or
man back to this battle, but shall miss him, and
you will miss him.
Every abuser of money or official power, every
pretender, every masked man, every man who
writes anonymous letters, will sleep more peace
fully tonight because George Harding is dead.
One had but to mention the trouble of an OPP
pressed human being, and glitter came into his
eye and word from his mouth, and a little later
a word from his pen, and his action was as swift
as HIS word. Some of us knew him, and we bury
his mortal part with reasonable tears and with a
hope that perhaps we do not care TO analyze. At
any rate, when God lays his hand on man. we
take ours off, ''Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right?" He knows the temptations, He
measures the SIN. "And the thoughts OF God are
wider than the measure of mems minds, and the
heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind"
To the great unchangtng Justice and mercy we
commit him. Do not think of him too curiously,
friends; think of yourselves who, with fatrer
winds and genial skies, are making 80 little head
way.
Perhaps we complain of burdens that were
light to him, and stumble on plain and level
road.
II any one of us avoid his errors and his pains
IL will be because of the peculiar grace OF God.
IL will be because the elements are kindlier
mixed In us and our lot in life more happily
cast. Indeed. your path is carpeted. Thank
God, and be kind 10 those who in hinty uphill
ways are barefooted-who are called u walk
among the abysses and along the cliffs of hell
help them
have seen the sagiency River, with its capes
Trinity and Eternity" and its savage shores
a handful of the little plant called live forever
The SCARED mountains are clothed with the i'm
mortelle"
At the close of the services of the Church
the cortege moved, headed by Beissenherz'