Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-15

man exclaimed, CT will keep the rest myse1f.o be living in this folly which lhey illustrations of Mr. Faxnanes manner Of Riv- ing. which must besexcused for mentioning here, was the impression which he made up- on me one morning when T happened to be with him in his home while he answered one of the many calls upon his beneyolence. What noticed then, what fingers as pleas ant thought tn my, memory, was the smile which went with his money. He seemed in giving it to be doing favor to himself. Another memory abidess with me of another man not living nows not known here. of ample wealth, whose natural impulse of kindness had been narrowed and made hard
 by the false, erasping habit of his life. Ire member his look when asked hfmtfo ful- i'll Q promise which in an unguRraed moment
 of generous impulse he had made to me of small sum to help poor girl who was mak.
 ing heroic struggle for herself and others
 of her life. II femember the word about
 ttsome other time;H remember how aloWly
 from the unconverted pocket of, I trust. a
 converted man that single bill came to tho
 light; recall the thdndercloud supons the
 face as it passed from his hand away forever;
 followed, T acknowledge, by a look as of
 some gleam of long forgotten happiness,
 when, after the deed was done the first i'm pulse of generosity came for a moment to
 his face before he closed against further sp-
 peal his gloomy bank-vault of 8 heart. Do
 you wonder that the Lord loveth the cheerful sgiVer? Nor is it.well for any of us to put of
 until another world acquaintance with that
 happiness of true beneyolence which was the perfect joy of the master on earth, who for
 our sakes, though he was rich,s became poor; and which shall constitute so much of the
 final blessedness of the city of God that
 it is difficult to imagine how man who has
 not learned the secret of it here can feel at
 first in any way comfortable in heaven - Aa ir, hia
 memorial discourse to sketch the life or give an exhaustive analyais of the character of MT. Farnam, as | have not allowed myself to dwell upon the traits and habits of the man which had endeared him to those who
 had enjoyed fis hospitality, and which will
 form the more intimate and sacred memories of his home; I need not now, on the other | hand, seek to bring out the human fraiity
 or to find the faults in one for whom, as for us all Christ the righteous died. My l purpose has been to preach from the truth of B life sermon for our use and profit. To all young men, especially to such as have the will for work, may bring from this
 mans success friendly word of encourage
 ment. Grant that he grew up in times pecu- i liarly fitted for the achievement of success; | grant that he was fortunate in gaining early | the confidence of friends who helped him
 forward; still his successful life and honored age are proof of the power of certain right | principles which, if followed out, under any
 circumstances, can hardly fail to make in the end for any man friends and happiness. It is | encouraging to reflect that boy who went i in his eighteenth year from the 1 farm with only himself with which to win his | way, and who dutifully gave to his father a
 note for the remainder of his time until he
 should be twenty-one; who made up his mind what work he wanted to do. and when he applied for 8 position upon the corps of
 engineers on the Erie canal, upon being told that the only position vacant was that of cook, was not ashamed to say at once, stThen
 will take that ;" the youth who upon his
 first small salary Helped another young man to gain 8 start; and who, as opportunity widened and prosperity advanced, was care i less of his own comfort and ease, of where | he slept or what he ate, so long as he did the work which he was trusted by others to do :;
 he has been fortunate in his life permitted | by kind providence to live to enjoy with others the fruit of his toll, and to die in | peace, surrounded by friends, and with the goodwill of city at his door. His last ride, 1 the afternoon of that day when death stole through the evening shadows to lay it's hand upon his lips, and with gentle touch to take him in sleep away, his last look upon this I city of our homes was from that drive which | bears his name and not the cold | marble nor the words graven upon | stone shall be the monument of his benignant | age; rather the happiness of children and 1 youth let lOOS6 among those tfSe6; the pI6aS- ure of many who from the turns of that l almost Alpine path shall catch views of meadow and stream, and 0 city of homes among the elms; of the expanse of water | and the sky beyond; this delight of ours and
 of our children's children, in the freshness I of many springtimes and the colors of many autumns to come, shall be the true memorial
 of his life; that path itself reminds us who
 knew him of the life of him from whom it has it's uame,-a path rising easily from the
 public highway, nowhere abruptly broken or
 descending. yet having it's obstacles to turn and it's difficulties to be surmounted, a narrow l way at times shut in on either hand, yet ! steadily holding it's determined course and | going higher, with broad, fair prospect at 1 the summit, above the city's stir and nearer
 the peace above.
 Men and brethren, because this man has
 gone from us, ours is a greater work to do. His work is done; ours remains yet 8 little 1 while. From this pulpit built upon Puritan I principle let no man living or among the 1 dead be honored above his brethren, or 1 praised after he has gone hence, on account
 of his birth, or his wealth, or his prosperity. | As in the Masters presence, let the childlike
 spirit here be held greatest of all. And he ! that is greatest among you shall be your scr- I want. In this spirit may God help us all to use and to enjoy whatever we possess, and to
 do happily without whatever we have not.
 May our lives, following the example of the
 true men and women who are going from us,
 so far as they have followed Christ, and car.
 rying on to still larger uses whatever of good
 for their fellow men they have done on
 earth, abound more and more in every good l word and work until the Master comes.