The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-06
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Old Fires of Hatred
Will Find Little Fuel and No Sulphur
GUS Match.
Sermon Preached in Brooklyn Tabernacle
on Sunday, September 25, 1881, by
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage.

NEW YORK. September 25.-At the
opening of the service DR.. Talmage read
the story of NaOmi's return after the
death of her husband to Bethlehem, her
early home, her desOlation wonderfully
descriptive of the return of our late
Presidents wife to her country home
after her great affliction.
SUBJECT: ''MIGHTIER DEAD THAN ALIVE" "
TExT.-Judges xvi, 80; $50 the dead
which he slew at his death were more
than they which he slew in his life"
Sampson in the text was deified, and
became the Hercules of Greece. He was
a giant warrior, born to be a leader,
and Paul applauds him as man who
Through faith subdued Kingdoms"
He was friend of God and an enemy
of unrighteOusness. But the most
memorable scene in his life was the
death scene. The Philistines, his enc
mics, gathered round him in great
building to mock him. With super
natural strength he laid hold of the
pillars and flung everything into ruin,
destroying the lives of the three thous-
and scOffers, among them the Lords OF
Philistia. He had slain many of the
enemies of God during his life, but my
text says his last achievement was the
mightiest. $50 the dead which he slew
at his death were more than they which
he slew in his life" 1t is sometimes
hot Of Gt
useful and eminent life the last hours
are more potent than the long years
that went before. In the Overshadow
ing event of this day we find illustra-
tiOn of my text. President Garfield, as
many orators will say, was all his life
the enemy of sin, the enemy of section
alism, the enemy of every thing small
hearted, impure and debasing, and he
made many crushing blow against
those moral and political Philistines;
but in his death he made mightier con-
quest. ...
The eleven weeks of dying have made
more illustriOus record than the fifty
years of living. $50 the dead which
he slew at his death were more than
they which he slew in his life" As a
matter of inspiration and comfort,
propose to show you that President Gar
fields expiration is a mightier good
than a prolonged life time possibly
could be. Mind you, there was no time
at which his death-bed could have been
so emphatic. If he had died few years
before, his departure would not have
been so conspicuous. If he had died
would not have been fairly launched.
If he had died six months later his ad-
Vanced policy of reform would have cut
the friendship of great multitude;
and if he had died years after he wrlld
have been out of office and in the de-
cline of life. But he died at the time
when all parties had turned to him with
unparalleled expectation. There has
not been time in all the fifty years of
his past life when his death could have
been so effective, and in the next fifty
years there could not have been time
when his death-bed would have been so
impressive. .-....
First, our Presidents death more than
his life eulOgizes the Christian religion.
We all talk about the hope of the Chris
tian and the courage of the Christian
and the patience of the Christian. Put
all the sermons on these subjects for
the last twenty years together and they
would not make such an impression as
the magnificent demeanOr of this dying
Chief Magistrate. He was no more
afraid to die, than you are tC go home
this morning. without one word of
complaint he endures an anguish that
his autopsy alone could reveal to the
astOnished world. For eighty days in
inquisitiOn of pain, yet often smiling,
often facetiOus, always calm. Civ
ing military salute to soldier who hap
pened to look in at the window, talking
with Cabinet officers about the affairs Of
State, reading the public bulletins in
regard to his condition, watching his
own pulse, and so undisturbed of soul
that l warrant you if it had not been
for his dependent family and the nation
whom he wanted to serve he would have
been glad to depart any time. oh, sirs
all he ever did in confirmation of reli.
gion in days of health was nothing com.
pared with what he did for it in this
last crisis. James A. Garfield learned
his religion from his mother in the day
when she was trying in widow,hOod anC
poverty to bring up her boys Alright
from that same old mother that sat will
her Bible in her lap in her bedroom las
Tuesday morning when the dreadfu
news came that her son was dead
James A. Garfield had no new religion
to experiment with in his last hours
1t was the same Gospel into the faith o
which, he was baptized when in earl.
manhood he was immerced in the rive
in the name of the Father and of th
Son and of the Holy Ghost. That reli
gion has stood the test through all tn
buffetings and prosecutions throug