Connecticut western news., 1885-08-05
GENERAL GRANT,
Memorial Address Delivered fn the
 M. E. Church at MtlIcrtOn, N. Y., JuIy 36, 1885, by Rev N. H. ROya.

JuIy 26, 1885, by Rev N. H. ROys.
 Moses my servant is dead.-Joshua i, 2.
 This announcement was not made by telegraph nor telephone, nor messenger, but by God himself. The Life of Mos es had come to close. He had lived 120 years. The first 40 years he was an Egyptian; the next 40 an Arabian, and there for 40 years he was leader of the Children of Isreal. Born in obscurity, yet nurtured in the palace of king. A refugee in Arabia but recalled to be- come the leader of his people.
 Moses was 0 great man i; the central figure of the old dispensation; not with out his mistakes but with them the greatest man God had yet given to the world-a legislator and statesman, but above all 8 military leader. He had led the Children of Isreal within sight of the Promised Land and now his work was finished. He yielded up his life in obedience to the heavenly summons and God buried him with divine honors at the foot of Nebo's stately summit. No man has seen his sepulchre; it is not neces- sary. In life he reared a monu- ment more lasting than granite or bronze and to-day the inscription is read, not on tablets of stone but upon the institutions of God.
 Another Moses has died upon the mountain top. Last Thursday morning at 10 minutes past o'clock the tongue of lightning flashed this message over the world: ''Grant is dead" sAnother state ly cyprus has been planted in the will of God by the pathway of our nations des- tiny" Upon it's branches let us mute ly hang our funeral garlands and bow in meek submission to that which cannot be changed.
 The press has told the story of his suferings and death-his life is an open book. It is not my purpose in Sab bath mornings discourse to review his record as soldier or statesman, nor shall I repeat the newspaper articles which have been issuing from the press during the past few months. I can say nothing new, yet I have 8 desire this morning to add nay tribute of apprecia- tion to the memory of my old comman- der. well remember when General Grant began to be distinguished. I was at Alexandria, six miles below Washington. One morning plainly dressed soldier with the straps of a general stepped in to hotel in Washington and registered his name. The clerk glanced at the signature and few whispers were ex- changed in the room and it quickly fash ed over the city that Grant the hero of Vieksburg was stopping at Willard's. The capitol was wild with excitement. MultitHdss surrounded the hotel to catch glimpse of the man who had made the first real break in the rebel lion From this time the name of Grant was established and it is now for ever too late to be belittled. The man inAexible in peace, inVincible in war, magnanimous in victory, calm and brave in the presence of death-such man, say can never be belittled nor disgraced by "sharks and shsrpers of Wall street" His record is made and bis name is writ ten high in the temple of human great ness, where it will shine with resplen- dent lustre when the glare of many oth- CT names shall have faded away.
 I do not say that General Grant was the only man who could have crushed