Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-09-30

| point plainly TO the divine estimate OF what
should form the truesi ground Tor human
admiration. Aud imtinctiycly both North
| and South had come 10 recognize the fact
| that much could reasonably he expected
from the administration Of II man whose
religious culture had been given by 70 dis-
tinguishcd u religious teacher IA Mark
| Hopkins, and, who himself, though unor.
daincd, had undertaken, ut times, the re.
| ligious improvement aud instruction Of his
fellow men, aud in all places lnd shown
| that he was not ashamed Of the gospel OF
| Christ.
In his life, he had taught Righteousness,
| and exercised that loving Kindness which
| he had learned was one Of the glorious
characteristics OF God.
lie had taken up the course of the op-
pressed under the banner of Fremont and
when war came he was found leading his
ncighbors TO the bnttle.fields where were to
he settled, by appeal TO arms mud TO the
God OF Righteousness, the great question
OF human rights.
From the battle field, he was sent by his
ncighbors to work on the floor of Congress
for the securing by law of that "judge
ment " for which he had impcriled his life
and endured the hnrdships of the tented
field. The work, whether at the hastings
or at the ballot box, at Chickamauga,n amid
the smoke OF battle, or on the floor of Con-
gress was one The bottom principle which
inspired the voters, the soldier and the
statesman, can be found in that knowledge
of God, which moved him on the death Of
| Lincoln, in the face of of n dismayed and
crazed pcople--crazed by the work of an
nssassin-lo stand before them in New
York City, and with the power of mn old
| Hebrew prophet to proclaim, Clouds and
darkness are round about Him. Right.
eousness and judgment are the hnbilalon
OF his throne.' God regns and the Gov
ernmcnt at Washington still lives.' This
was more than oratUry. IL was the outcome
of faith, oi a deep and abiding trust in the
| living God and the permancncy of his
government winch could not be destroyed
by any work of man.
As n Christian teacher, and resting his
hope for good to come to this world and
| to himself ns an individual, from the cru
cited Savior, he knew that, MS Of old death
had given life to the world, no even now,
| what Ind been done by wicked hands,
would not mar the purposes of God, nor
hinder in the least, the ultimate triumph
| of righteousness in the world.
Ii was the element of failh which lifted
the orator to the height of that great OPP
| portunity, and which gave to the world for
| the occasion OF his own death, the most fit
| ting words TO be spoken TO the heart of un
amazed and confoundcd people.
| When the words ran over the wires last
July, "Garfeld is shot-tle President is
dead "-then men remembered that it was
| Garfield himself who had said in similar
calamity, that 90 Clouds and darkness are
round about him. Righteousness and
| judgment are the habitati0n OF his throne
God reigns and the Government at Wash.
ington still lives"
That is the sublimity of faith, grandly
beautiful, and marking him as the Chris
tian Statesman.
We have watched MIN on his bed Of suf-
| fering: the whole world Inns looked into
that sick chamber and seen nothing but
patience and Christian fortitude under in
tensest suffering and longings Tor restora-
tion only that he might discharge the great
trust committed by the people into his
hands.
The dying man did not, like Addison,
tell others to come and see how Christian
could die. But sympathizing and adj
miring world has, in reverence, said
Mark the perfect man and behold the up.
right, for the end Of thar man is peace"
| <huu pSNSc biNSN thc W
that beauty which comes in the exercise OF
faith in soul, benevolence toward men
the moral beauty of the loving son, the 10y
nj citizen, and the humble, faithful Chris.
tinn. Well may the Nation to-day take up
the communion OF David over Saul and
Jonathan, who Inns poured out his grief in
the song OF the bard, exclniming IN admir-.
alton of the lost and regret for the people
"The beauty of Israel is slain on thy high
places"
| Is there not nlso just ground for adding
the refrain, How have the mighty fallen?"
In the brief limits to which such dis
course ns tins must be confined, n full de
velopment of this part of the subject can
not be expected. Yet it is proper TINT at
tention should be called to the fact that h,
WIS largely endowed by nature-made or
n pattern to be "the foremost man of al
the world "a large Drained and large
hearted man intellectually, and morally
und II large.chested man physically.
OF such the mighty are usually formed
DIR. Bushnell standing before the picurc
OF great historic Engishmcn in the Brit
ish Museum, and comparing Cromwell'
with them says: Here is the greatest o
them ALL"
Daniel Webster, with massive head ant
grand physique, bore everywhere and tt
everybody the impress of native might.
Among such il is now conceded, stoo,
naturally the man whose untimely deatl
has filled the land with "grevious
mourning.
BY educational training and mental hab
it's OF culture, he stood the foremost Of hi
class in college, and rose to he the lende
in the House Of Representatives Of the Re
publican party. Weak men do not sur
mount obstacles such M lay in the way u
young Garfield, and attain the highest ranl
in culture, and master, as II leader must
all the minutin OF the business Of grea
Nation.
His triumph over poverty, over compel
ing class mates, over political rivalry, dis
close the man Ui might.
The time has not yet come for gatherin
up all the speeches he made, but II il slil
in the memory Of most Of us, that from til
day Of his election to the Presidency, to hi
inaugu ration, he met every delegation
his fellow citizens >with such words nm
, thoughts M none but o master could hay
uttered. There was II fitness and beaut
and breadth to them nll, that denoted III
man OF might, equal to amy and ever
emergency.
, May we not truly say, with Anthony, {
, our more than Cesar, tint
:" His life wax gentle, and the elements
\ So mixed in him, that Nature might s,a nd mp
|. And sny to all the world, This is man."
! Comrades, the soldier who aided in dri'
! ing Humphrey Marshall from Faster
! Kentucky, who perilled his life to feed h
] men who, on his return, lived with h
men, on the corn wlcl, they found in II
fields; who won his promotion at Chick
I manga, who stood calm aud iull of fait
!, for the Republic in the dark day of Lii
u coins assassination, who showed by his Ii
y the possibility Of living purely and homes
i ly amid the corruptions Of the politics
4 world the man who could not harbor
o grudge, or live in enmity with any; Il
Il son proud OF u noble mother; the lusban
6 true aud loyal to II loving wife; the MAJ
II islrate anxious only 10 discharge well
. public trust the Scholar, the Soldier, Il
= Statesman, has fallen ON the high plains
e our Israel, and given to poet and people II
o melancholy duty of embodying their n
probation Of his merits and the Nation
j. luHa, in singing with the Psalm Of lara