Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-07

he was an honest man-which is said to
be the "noblest work of God" In NOR
al character, mental power, nobility of
conduct, measure of craftsmanship and
princely influence in congress, Garfield
truly was great man.
AS president of fifty millions of intel
ligent people, Garfield was prince and
great man. The four brief months of
his active administration gained him the
confidence, respect, sympathy and sup
port of the people, irrespective of'sect or
party, as no president has had in the
history of our country. The position he
sought not. God in His gracious Provi-
dence, in behalf of the people and
through the people. put him in nomina-
tion and made him the president of the
people. Being put in the presidential
chair by Providence and the people, he
a0aS and aooatld be president, in spite of
party faction, selfish scheming, spoils of
office or ambitious; and the people said,
amen Though prince and great
man among princely men, yet he was
simply one of the people-the chieftain
of fifty millions-whom he consider
ed his companions in tolls and his equals
| in rights. His four months of active
work in Office gave great promise of an
intelligent, upright. broad, pure, pro-
gressive, safe administration during his
presidency. He was human, and hence
not infallible. He may have erred in
Judgment and made mistakes in conclu-
sions; but in the light of history the
people will approve of his administra-
tion. He was a ruler who loved the
people, feared God and worked right
eousness. Of him it may be truly said:
"When the righteous are in authority
the people rejoice"
AS Christian believer, disciple of
the Lord Jesus Christ, james A. Gar
field was prince and great man. In
his youth, during his student days, he
remembered his Creator, gave his heart
to God, and his hand in fellowship with
the Christian church. While at Hiram
college he connected himself with that
branch of Chrlst's great catholic church,
called the "Church of the Disciples"
From that time his life in public and in
private has been regulated and ennobled
by vitalizing faith in the Gospel of
Christ and by an enlightened Christian
conscience. He confessed Christ before
men by words and works, by precept
and prayer. He often publicly preach
ed Christ in the house of the Lord on
his day. He was not ashamed of the
Gospel of Christ, or of the denomination
al church of his first choice. He identi-
fed himself with, aided and attended
his own church while in Washington as
we'll as while in Mentor. He showed
his princely mind and moral greatness
by standing by the honorable poor peo-
pie of his own sect in that city and wor-
Shipping God with them in the little
church round the corner, instead of tax
ing pew in the Metropolitan, or some
more fashionable church.
Socially, for time, he might have
gained aristocratic acquaintances and
gained fulsome applause by attending
other churches more wealthy, populous,
powerful and pretentlous in talents and
display; but all honor to the Christian
prince sufficiently great and manly to
openly show his own preference and to
stand by his own people. With them
he "took sweet counsel and walked unto
the house of God in company"
His home was house of prayer,
where, with his noble, Christian wife
and growing children, he remembered
God with thankful heart and sought his
guiding hand. 1t is we'll and truly
said: "Few men have been happier in
their domestic relations than Gen. Gar
field; and the spotless record of a blame
: less, beautiful private life is not the
least valuable legacy bequeathed by him
to this country"
), He lived to serve God and his gener.
alton. He was consecrated to Christ
and his country. He was one of the
Christian lights of the world. He did
great good in his life through his love
t of ''the truth" and his testimony in its
/ favor and of his faith in Christ. Hi:
: life has been an open contradiction Of
the claims and charge of Ingersoll thai
| the Christian religion was adapted only
to the weaknesses of children, enfeebled
f; old women and ignorant men: but thai
: intelligent minds and great men reject
r the Gospel is myth and lie. The
, learning. life and testimony of Garfield
: are a monument more enduring thar
s marble or granite, not alone to the mem
ory of prince and great man, bu
: also to the power of the Gospel of Jesus
: Christ and that the intelligent Chic
S Magistrate of this great nation confessed
his faith in Christ as the son of Goo
s and Saviour of men.
e His early example is an inspiration
b and promise of success to poor boy
J. and struggling young men seeking al