The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-29

doubts, may its leader through the
gloom and the surrounding sorrow,
hear that still small voice as of old,
"speak to the people that they go for
ward"
| I would speak a word as to our de-
parted brothers. masonic relations. He
WAS Master Mason, q Royal Arch
Mason, n member of the Scottish Rite
and knight Templar, and while add
ing luster 10 the same was rounded and
finished by its noble precepts.
Sir Knights, let US emulate his exam
pie and so live that when it is ours to
die we may be prepared and meet the
dread messen ger death and in the final
struggle be not vanquished, but vic
torious.
Judge Buck was succeeded by
HON. w. W. SCOTT,
who delivered the following able adj
dress:
| "Hark to the tolling bells
| In echoes deep and slow,
While ON the breeze our banner floats
| Draped in the weeds of voc"
Our President is deadi and at his
open grave with fearful hearts and in
tender reverence we gather to do honor
TO his memory. And not we of Ameri-
/ ca alone, but throughout the civilized
1 nO1lAs S1C PCOPAC UAOASH
regard to creed or nationality, who re-
cognize sterling integrity, manhood,
worth, q noble life and Christian faith
and conduct, join with us in our me-
mortal service.
In the full flush and vigor of his noble
manhood, he was stricken down by the
assassin's bullet to linger on for long
and weary weeks; and while the people
feared and hoped and:prayed as people
never feared, hoped or prayed before, he
battled for his life so full of great
promise, SO dear to wife and children,
| so precious to the nation, and never once
during those weary weeks of patient and
heroic sufferings, did there come from
that brave heart a murmur or CON-
plant.
He died beside the sea, with the
music of the oceans waters IN his ears,
and in his mind the sweetest thoughts
and memories of his old home at Men
| tor.
From beyond the waters; from old
England and the continent of Europe;
from stately palaces and humble cot.
tages q continued strain of sympathetic
words that touch the heart has flowed to
| the stricken widow and children, TO be-
reaved America. The President is dead!
And as the mournfully thrilling words
swept over the land, and passed with
| li0htning speed beneath the waters to
| the older nations of Europe, the great
| deeps of the human heart were touched
and stirred as in the history Of our hu-
man race they are seldom reached or
stirred; and grandly and broadly, like
the movement Of earth's mighty rivers,
sympathy, love and tenderness have been
| flowing TO the bereaved and loved ones
of his honored household, TO the mourn
| ing nation, which he loved and served so
| well and faithfully, and which was so
Justly proud of his noble life and grand
achievements.
How touchingly and eloquently has
the true nobility of civilized and en-
lightened human nature expressed
itself during the saddened week that has
passed since our Garfield'S heroic spirit
took its flight; and what q wonderful
exhibition have we seen of that univer-
sal brotherhood of man, which has been
the inspiration of poets and the dream
of philosophers since creations dawn.
The solemn tOlling of the bells of hum
BILE parish churches and grand old
cathedrals across the waters in harmony
with the sad music of our. own, 'in
echoes deep and slow" have attested
their profound sense of loss and bereave-
ment which could only be called forth
by the departure of one pre-eminent in
IQ6S SiulpicuCSS duu % CsioEdC
ter; those manly virtues, intellectual
and moral qualities and Christian
graces, which the universal brotherhood
of man is so quick to perceive and ready
and willing to recognize. How shall
we approach the contemplation of his
character? Could we combine the ma
ture reflections of old age with the
simple thoughts Of guileless children,
and give them expression in the sweetest
and loftiest eloquence, the task might
be properly performed and that charac-
ter justly delineated. The simple
story of his life is full of
grandeur-is eloQuence itself; for
elOquence is but the vivid expression OF
pure thoughts, deep feelings and noble
aspirations.
We know the full story OF his COM
paratively short, eventful and noble life
, Romantic as q tale of fiction-not
merely its broad outlines and prominent
landmarks, but its minutest details; and
, that story attests in fullest measure his
preeminent manhood He died at less
! than fifty years but in the fullness OF
his glory. He lived in the broad glare
, of public scrutiny, and never fell below
; the most enlightened public estimation
We live in deeds, not years, In thoughts
not breaths, in feeling, not in figures on
r | dial. He most lives
: who thinks most, feels the noblest, actl
} the best" In this view what a splendid
: example his eventful career presents fol
the profit of the living. Poverty and
: toll his birthFIght; the glorious POSSIBLE
: titles of free America his future How
D grandly and by what patient toll an6
4 1aborious struggles, he took advantage
of those possibilities how, step by steI
, he climbed the rugged pathway, from
the log cabin in Ohio TO the presiden
tial mansion. Student, teacher, soldier
lawyer, Congressman, senator, president
:, He took no backward step, but his pro
, gress was upward and onward, even dis
playing q conscientious devotion d
duty, true regard for the rights and cor
q viciions of others, perfect self poise i
{, every trying position, an IndOmitab,I
a will, cheerful disposition, rare hopeful
ness and unfalteTing courage for th
right as God had given him to see i
e, He was born among the nations poo
+ and by his own endeayOfs attained con
a pleted manhood; full of that rounde
completeness that marks the self mad
u cultured, broad guaged, Christian ger
re tieman. he was born
q. the backwoods; he die
- the nations President, filing with hoI
or TO himself and to the universal sasi
faction Of his countrynen the loftiea
Va / G68slOu III Tue E1IS Vi men.
H. What an interesting study Is the hist'
M ry of the gradual unfolding s41 mAtu
ing Of such character! 70 zee The gel
&c erous impulses of the opeE-hearse
d, youth tempered by experiences Of Il
sturdy conflicts Of active life, becomir
settled pFinciplesrof action in the mal
the intellectual powers, by continued a.
fe laborous study and application, CROWN
so and expanding with increasing year
"a the moral qualities, in spite Of ruggt
conflicts and demands OF private n
e public life with their full measure
lis temptations and sad and bitter experie
OIL ces, ripening day by day, developing n
a. bier traits and rareE loYeliness untti
last he stands forth crowned with q
ny highest successes OF honest ambitio
lol and in all his gloEY-a mani
OIL Such q man was Garfield, and as suI
the world regards him and with
mourns his untimely loss. We ling
ret over the story of bis tOIlsOme you
Ca and fondiy cherish every incide
OF his laborous struggles In pl
suit Of that culture 50 essentl
not only to the attainment but 20 {
ny adoFu1ent Of the several positions
The was striving for. We find him gea
ar. GUS and right principled; and rs
IN. touches manhood, We ind the gtorio
promise Of his b0yhoOd amply fulhn'
vas In his character, simplicity and gr'
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