The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-06

the line of progress are hushed
for two hundred miles, and new sec
ton of railroad is built to let him pass
over. Added to the medical skill of the
Capital is the skill of Philadelphia and
New York. All the ingenuity of the
last three hundred years flashes its cleo
tric light upon the wound. Paris and
London and Edinburgh applaud the
treatment. He had all the courage that
sure he would get well. He had physi-
clans who did not stand with cold, sci
entific calculation studying the case,
but splendid men, whose hearts grew
strong or faint, as the Presidents pulse
was strong or faint, and they were as
geOns. But the doctors could not keep
him. His wife could not keep him. All
the arms of his five children hung
around his neck could not keep him.
His great spirit pushes them all back
from the gate of life and toars away in
to the infinities. My Lord and my GOdl
SOlemnize us with this consideration.
My hearer, if you and 1 were sick l am
sure we will have good medical attend
ance and good nursing, plenty of watch
ers and plenty of attendants. The world
is naturally very kind to the sick. We
who have good homes would have SYM
pathetic, though trembling, hands to
hold ours in the last exigency. We all
have those who love us as we love them,
and when the time fixed by the merci-
full God arrives we must be off, There
is no need of our getting nervous
about it or fretting about it. All we
have to do is to keep our hearts right
with God and do our best, and then be
as unfluttered as was our dying Presi-
dent. After the mightiest surgery of
America and the world had to surrender
on Monday night at the stroke of the
Death Angel, surely we can not resist
it. In the emphasizing of all these
great truths, James A. Garfield is might
ier lying in his catafalque at Cleveland,
than in the White House receiving the
hOnOrs of foreign embassage. Who
knows but that this death will save
millions of people for this world and
the next? Fifty millions of people
nay, North and South America and Eu-
rope and parts of Asia-called to
thoughts of mortality and the great fu
ture Who knows but it may awaken
whole nations from the death of sin to
the life of the Gospel? When last week
l saw one line of mourning from De-
trOit, Michigan, to Brooklyn, Wondered
if God would not use this great grief
for the publication of the nation. "Oh,
Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of
the nation" Enough of the Sabbath
breakings, and the impurity, and the
blasphemy, and the official corruption,
in this country ! By the scOwl of this
terrific event let these dogs of hell all
be driven back to their fiery kennels.
Against all these evils the Presidential
giant is mightier dead than when alive.
But while the nation has this com
fort there are three words that will leap
to our lips, and they have been reiter-
ated Oftener than any other words for
the past few days. Poor Mrs. Gar
fieldP' More pathetic words were never
read than those in the Friday news
papers, which sBid that with two of her
children she had gone over to the White
House to get the property of her family
and have it sent to her home in Ohio.
Can you imagine any thing more full
oil torture than to walk through the
rooms filled with associations of her
husbands kindnesses, of her husbands
anXieties and of her husbands long
continued physical anguish. She had
with her wOmanly arms fought by his
side all the way up the steep hill of life.
She had helped him in their economies
when they were very poor; with her
own needle clothing their family, with
her own hands making him bread.
When the world frOwned upon him in
the days of scandalOus assault, she
never fOrsOOk his side. They had to-
gether won the battle, and had seated
themselves at the very top to enjoy the
victory. Then the blow came. What
reverse of fortuneI From what midnoon
to what midnight 1t is said that this
will kill her. do not believe it. The
God who has helped her thus far will
help her all the way through. When
the broken circle gathers in the future
days at the old home at Mentor, the
mighty God who protected James A..
Garfield at Chickamauga and in the fiery
hell of many battles will protect his
wife, his children and his old mother
Upon all the seven broken hearts let the
grace descend What consultations they
have! 1t was great thing to have had
such son! 1t was a great thing to
have been the wife of such man! 1t
was great thing to have been the chill
dren Of such a fatherI While theirs and
ours is the grief, l am glad on his ac-
count that he has gone. He had suffered
enough. Enough the cut of the lancets
and the thrusts of the catheter, and the
pangs of head and side and feet and
back Ascend, o disenthralled spirit,
and take thy place with those who came
out Of great tribulation and had their
heads made white in the blood of the
Lamb. This Samson of intellectual