The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-07

that boyhood throughout his life, and crowned
him with the hOnOrs that were SO cheerfully
awarded to him from all hearts over this vast
land. There was another thing. He passed
all the conditions of virtuous life, between the
log-cabin in Cuyahoga and the White House,
and in that wonderful, rich and varied expert
ence, still moving up from high to higher, he
has touched every heart in all this land In
some point or other, and he became the rep
resentative of all hearts and lives in this land,
and not only the teacher but the Interpreter
of all virtues, for he knew their wants, and
he knew their condition, and he established
legitimately ties of brotherhood with every
man with whom he came in contact. 1 take it
that this law lying at the basis of his
character, this rock on which his whole life
rested, followed up by the perpetual and en-
during industry that marked his whole career,
made him at once the honest and the capable
man who invited in every act Of his life and
received the confidence and the love, the I'M
bounded confidence and trust, of all who
learned to know him. There is yet one other
thing that ought to mention here. There was
such an admirable harmony of all his powers;
there was such a beautiful adjustment of the
physical, intellectual and moral in his being;
there was such an equitable distribution of
physical, intellectual and moral forces, that
his nature looked out every way to get at
sympathy with everything, and found about
equal delight in all pursuits and studies;
so that he became, through his industry and
honest ambition, really an encyclopedia; there
was scarce any single word that you could
touch to which he would not respond in way
that made you know that his hands had swept
it skillfully long ago, and there was no topic
you could bring before him, there was no OBJ
jecr you could present to him, that you did
not wonoer at the richness and fullness of in
formation somehow gathered; for his eyes
were always open, and his heart was always
open; and his brain was ever busy, and equally
interested in everything-the minute and the
vast. the high and the low. In all classes and
creeds of men he gathered up that immense
store, and that immense variety of the most
valuable and practical knowledge, that made
him man. not in one department, but in all
rounds, everywhere his whole beautiful and
symmetrical life and character. The
great lesson to which desire to point you can
be expressed in q few words. James A. Garfield
went through his whole political life without
surrendering for moment his Christian in
tegrity, his moral character, or his love for
the spiritual Coming into the exciting con-
fiicts Of political life with q nature capable as
any of feeling the force of every temptation.
with temptations to unhOly ambition, with
unlawful prizes within his reach, with every
fnducement to surrender all his religious faith
and be known merely as a successful man of
the world-from first to last he has manfully
adhered to his religious convictions and found
more praise, and gathers to him in his death
all the pure inspirations Of the hope of ever
lasting life.
THE speaker here hastily reviewed the re-
markabie career of the illust.ious dead, as
he, step by step, ana without any placeseek-
ing on his part, gradually rose, from one de-
gree Of eminence to another, until he was.
unsolicited on his part, placed in the highest
position known to our country. Mr.. Errett
then added:l
Now. gentlemen. let me say to you all.
those of you occupying great places Of trust
who are hele to-day, and the mass Of those
who are called upon to discharge the respon-
sibilities Of citizenship, year by year, the most
invaluable lesson that we learn from the life
Of our beloved departed President is that not
only is it not incompatible with success, but
it Is the surest means Of success, to consecrate
heart and life to that which is true and right,