Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-10-08

land his best years in incessant toll for the]
lpublic good. In our money loving, self /
seeking age, how refreshing it is TO fndY
[such devoted unselfsh life. But thank
God he did not labor without reward. mol
man working with such spirit ever does /
GLADLY walking in the pathway Of service,
Rseeking not his own but others good
4that pathway led him steadily upward till
' he became the greatest among NationE
Rof fifty millions Of people.
z. His was a pure, noble, Christian life.D
He was SO great because he was so Christ /
: like. In the language of his grief-strickenI
i Pastor, as he stood few days ago in theI
great throng in Washington looking intoi
4 the loved dead face:
: 1.-THE glory OF this man, as we think of
= him now, was his discipline in the school
of Christ. His attainments as scholar,2
land statesman will be the theme of ora
etors and historians, and they must bel
aworthy men to speak praiseworthy. Butt
Wit is as Christians that we love to think of
khim now. 1t was that which made his lifeI
gto man an invaluable boon, and his DEATH
ITO us an unspeakable loss. He was no sect
arian. His religion was as broad as thoI
religion of Christ He was simple Chris
titan, bound by no sectarian ties, and|
wholly in fellowship with all pure spirits.
&He was Christologist rather than a theo-
logist."
His was that answering, heroic type of
IChristianity, SO rarely seen in earth's hight
#places. Principle, not policy, ruled hisl
I3life. He valued his manhood more thanI
party--right more than success. He never|
6sold his birth-right as Christian for thc|
pottage" OF place or power. Just after
This unsought election to the United StatesI
n patn trh r. fhn,, he Co. hot u, <Y
i Legislature, he said:
~ have represented for many years al
Bdistrict in Congress, whose appreciation 1!
Egreatly desired but, though it may seem|
Eegotistical to say it, l yet desired still moreI
the appreciation of one person, and his
& name s-GARrIELD. And if / should be sol
Eunfortunate as to lose the confidence OIL
q this larger constituency, must do what
Hevery other fair minded man has to do
Ncarry his political life in his hand and take
&the consequences. But l must follow
0what seems to me the only safe rule of my
|life-my conscience"
There we feel the handspring of this
Hgrand life-a conscience enlightened by the
Holy Spirit, trained in the school of
kChrist, and followed unfinchingly at all
atimes, and at all hazards.
n 3. There comes to every thinking man
8to-day Il new and deeper meaning to the
3words son." husband" father"
81" mother" home"
= How wondrously sweet, and beautiful,
Wand touching, and tender, and heroic was
Hthe GARFIELD family and home life Glance
lat only few points in the picture.
- 1t is 1888. A little mother" stands
alone in her grief and poverty. With
energy, faith and courage she resolves
Athat the four fatherless little ones shall
Hnot be separated that they shall still have
Ia home. The battle was hard one, but she
0won it. With her needle she earned money!
Ito provide for the scanty home, and to pay
(5her children's tuition. few years later,
Xwhen James, the youngest, resolves to OBJ
~ tain an education, this little mother'
saputs in his hands small sum of money
Nevery cent of it coined by hard work and
isself- denial and with her blessing he goes
Eout from that humble home. Thirty-three
|ayears later, when that boy, now strong,
Oman, stands in front of the Capitol at
"a Washington with barred head and uplifted
Mhand to take the oath of his high Office as
MChief Magistrate, is it any wonder that he
Nturns away from all the great men, and
gEfat hGqR With to Tx KISS sesfs EeE
ORGANIZATIONS first of all! That day the Son,
twas greater than the Chief Magistrate |,
2And that otha~ I...~v womun--the turner's
6daughter, the pupil, the teacher in the
Spublic school, the loving wife of a poor,
oman, growing with her husbands growth,
STRENGTHENING with his strength, always a
n help, never hindrance this faithful wife
Hand mother, LUcRETIA A. GARFIELD-how
&the strong man loved her, and how much
Cher only God and himself know If we
U St,p ,l,I
8devoted, noble wives, we should have more,
&such men rs JAMES A. GARFIELD
N AS husband and farther he was an ex J
Eample to his Nation and the world. Amid
Gall the temptations Of Washington life mo-
e3breath OF scandal ever touched his name
4 He was mot only pure but above suspi-
Ecion." He had great reverence for the
Nfamily relation. His love for his children|
i, was bountiful and generous just after
his nomination at Chicago, hundreds of
Stelegrams came pouring in upon him
Asuch as only Americans, in their rapid,
Ngood impulses pour upon lucky friend
3 With two volunteer clerks the great man
y sat In his room opening and reading them
81 His two boys, little fellows at school, sent
& him one, He read it, tried to talk, but his
@voice choked, his eyes filled with tears
AIhe father triumphed over the statesman
4 He broke down and wept, rs one of those,
aboys would have done. And the clerks
S,wept too, and the people also when they,
Hheard it,
From scenes like these" sang Burns
i. old Scotia's grandeur springs" whether
Hin palace or a cottage, true love and
unity are the sources of national pros,
Mperity. II is on the virtues of private life
f3that all institutions rest. The sacred tics
8of family and home give strength to laws
4and nations" He who oxalts and cnnobles
1.-THE family and family life makes all the
8world his debtor.
4. AS our great Nation and the world
has watched by that bed Of pain, we have
learned, as never before, how close of KIM
1--WE are. Blood is thicker than water.
AMERIcAss; Our griefstricken Nation isl
knitted together us never before. Fifty
millions OF people have watched for,
months by that heroic bed. They have
sunk partyism in prayer for tho loved life.
In the language of Frank Pixley: "We]
mourned the murdered Lincoln with anger|
lin our hearts, but over the grave OF curl
1dead President all these mad passions are'
hushed, all angry resentments are buried, |,
9all unkind recollections are forgotten. InI
4 South and West, in North and East, in all
lands where civilization dwells. in all(