New-York tribune., 1885-07-27
A TRIBUTE FROM DIR. KING.
GRANT A SOLDIER, CHRISTIAN AND METHODIST

GRANT SOLDIER, CHRISTIAN AND METHODIST
LINcoLDs APPRECIATION OF GRANTS CHURCH.
At the Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church large congregation attended the evening ser
vices hold in memory Of General Grant The audience
room tastefully drapod In mourning and the music
was Of an appropriate and patriotic character The
pastor the Rev. James NJ. King. delivered the sermon
or addrsss. He ohose as the caption of his remarks
Deuteronomy. xxi. 1880: Get thee up into this
mountain. And die In the mount whittier thou
goest up, and be gathered unto thy people" Tho
preacher said no had design Of using this
text in its literal Interpretation and
application while at the time there interest
ing parallels that might be drawn between the relation
ship the God of Israel Moses and tho rea
tionshp Of the God Of the Republic to our Moses who
led ont OF our bondage. and who went up into the
mountain die. but until he had been permitted to
view tho promised land to which he had led our ma
tional Israel Continuing he said
In many respects General the most remark-
able citizen nation has ever possessed His place In
history will be tnat OF great general For extent OF
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Of battles fought. for the precison OF Tue
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prejudiced military critics TO DO without psos IN .n
ma.s no ei bs cSneodea By al when We
his xsneralship In tho .nterests Of civil liberty and
generous. unsasrsctng. faithful 70 friend. and for:
giving to enemies. He had his defects There
was born In Bethlehem Of Judea, and died upon Moun
Calvary. But righteous and grateful posterity VIII de-
spise the man who In the presence OF Grants massive
Lncoln the heart Stanton. the BRAIN Chase the man
cia genius and Grant, the Of the great contest
for national union and civil liberty are now all gone
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government and the hopes OF the oppressed Genera
Grant knew martha! %sn and h nsvsr Generals %ahs
He before Petersburg aud silently bore the un
kndcst and malignant CRITICISM while his chosen
generels In many fields moved with precision IN
in his brain. The same qualities which had nane
him and successful victor In the Affairs OF
the Nation remained with him In his last great
contest with the last unconquerable enemy OF hesn
disabling accident lost fortune. an insidious aud
fatal disease combined their forces against him But
the defeat commanded both intel
ect aud body to exert that he might finish
his memoirs for the worlds perusal ana lnrsh source
OF revenue for those dependent ON him for support
In education and In spirit General Grant wasa onrs
tisn. He gave opportunity for doubt as 10 ms
for and faith In the Christian religion An9
those who have been nearest to him In MS lao uiai
times tell he thought much and spoke sssuredy
OF his faith in tho risen Christ His forude not
that sold stoc, but that Of the humble believer
May be paroned In this for grateful dsnoin
this Nation. The gems of 1t OF the principal
factors In its growth and life and when tne Churcn
separated the slavery issue II ono OF the prihc
pal Of the war that liberated the bondman '
nut an end to what westley called the OF all VII
lauies And when the war came aud the armies were
red Lincoln said IL fault In others that
more 10 the hospitals, and more prayers 10
heaven than any God bless the Methodist Cnufch
bless all the churches and blessed be God who tn THIS
great trial gveth us the churches Ana the eteht
lead or whom mourn to-day the child OF Method
ist parenage and training and was always prouu 70
acknowledged We believe he died IN the mount trust
mount crucied on another and assembled to glory and
coronation from another