New-York tribune., 1884-01-14
GEORGE W. LANE EULOGIZED.
A SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. C. H. PARK.
HURST.

Mr. LANES WORTH AS A MAN AND CHRISIIAT-
THE LESSON OF HIS LIFE.
The Rev. Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst delivered
a memorial sermon on the late George ". Lane, at tns
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. yesterday morning
taking for his text Rev xiv. l3 "And heard voice
from heaven saying unto me- write Blessed the dead
whodie in the Lord" He said in part:
"Mr Lane was a good man. There is who has
known him in any of the varied relations Of busy
Fe who will not echo and indorse this Characterization
without hesitation and without BY nature hs
was endowed with a sturdy intellect, sound Judgment
high and strong will whatever enlisted
his energies he took hold OF with vigorous grasp and
held with unmching tcnacity. He had quick in
sieht into practical affairs. His word his bond and
his innexble sense OF Justice only equaed by tho
tenderness or his heart These qualities made him lead
in spite Of himself for his native mOdesy him
to avoid the cOnspcuousness into which he inevitably
forced in community like this Such needed,
appreciated and appropriated until his strength sudden
y way under the multiplied burdens from which he
never had shrunk and he fen at last on that very
pathway OF service in which his foot had faered
But whatever Mr.. Lane might have been by natural
endowment he above all and dstinctiyely Chris
tian. His efficiency Christian worker never
weakened by any OF those speculative doubts and diff
culties by which less practical minds disturbed
To speak adequately and with particularly OF his spe
cia relations TO church would be TO write the
history OF the church itself One of its original men,
bers he was from the actively identified with all is
interests. When, in the now haf-forgotten days OF
early struggle and unlooked-for embar-
rassment the new enterprise was
threatened with rremediable disaster Mr. Lane the
efficient instrument Gods hand for turning failure into
success The work OF the building committee was es
sentally his work and the edce In which whole gener
alton OF church has wOrshpped stands as lasting
memorial OF his energy his courage and his seeyouon
"u were to venture upon it, and were to
uhozn
combination in Mr. Lane forms the most
perfect circle OF human character that ! have
ever known should say Will. love. sense and fdely
neither Of them in its scparativenes but all of them IN
conjunction and mutual interfusiOn. The religious ee
mont not in him an aftN, an addendum IL was
ngraned matter, coexenSiye with nm present and
apparent In him Puncture the live tree az any
place and you nd that IL alive Just al that place I0ch
NJ Lane az any p'nt I'M @na ycn IG ntn b @ m n
divide between its secular and ts Christian threads
ling the citys money, presiding at the dinner or the
tribmng bread and wine he was felt to his element
there was nothing incOnguOus with him. the visible aud
the invisible pleasantly interpenetrated each other a.
ness of the made 1t easy for him to ind the
| truth, and in short and simple way to state It
He was recognized have what David calls truth In the
inward parts This singleness OF eye In him genius
for deciding cases on their merits TO lifelong and
intimate friend he said: Il would decide case against
you lust as against anybody else Mr.. Lane
| illustrates the fact that a man can 1--we q
and keeps his and tender and h conscience
undetlcd He handled gold without his miud becoming
yeower ny his affections meallize Ilo was Ike
the sunshine which brghtens the soil without being soel
! by IL. The ship is not wrecked by getting irto
the water but by the water getting into the ship.
He illustrates the fact that single manhood unre'0n-
mcnded by high LINEAGE material Inheritance schol
arly endowment will win its way and create for itself
place. place that it is not in the scope OF birth TO
! arogate culture to reach, money 10 buy
The protOunest tribute yet offered 10 Mr. Lanes mcm-
ory far i'm advance OF all enOges spoken spedkabe
| was tho aud ience gathered in this church on the
| DAY Of his funeral, a solid phalanx OF strong
| heads and snowy hairs, a silent confession 70
the kinginess goodness Here then Is more added
argument for the truth Of the Gospel. The Gospel Is
worth wha 1t will produce. tree is known by It's
traits Grandeur il not the child Of delusion. Men do
not gather grapes OF thOrns, figs of istes. When
atheism acnosticism, infdey, either one OF them,
will produce George W. Lane, then will pause and
review nv creed; but till shall consider IL wiser
philanthropy 10 20 reading and preaching the word.
of the acred Scripture whichsaith Blessed the doa
which die In the Lord