St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-27
SALTWATER NEWS.
Sermons in Honor of Gen. Grant at
Several Churches.
The Success of the Catholic Fair.
Miscellaneous Notes.
Grant Memorial Services.

The special feature of the religious ser
vices in this city yesterday were the memo
rial exercises at the Presbyterian, Baptist
and Congregational churches. At the
Presbyterian church the pulpit was appro-
priately draped in black, relieved with
white flowers, the effect being simple and
beautiful. DR.. Carroll, the pastor, took his
text from Hebrews Xi. 4: being dead he
yet speaketh." The life and death of Gen.
Grant, said the speaker, affords us many
lessons upon which we may mediate with
profit. They teach us first, the lesson of
friendship, anchoring with hooks of steel,
the traits of his friendships to himself and
endearing all to him by his many great and
noble qualities. Secondly, they teach us a
lesson of human sympathy, of kindness and
affection towards all. These are
he lessons taught us by the
man. As a soldier, he preserved for us
true courage, with all its noble attributes
and victory, tempered by mercy and kind
ness. But greatest of all in Grants career was
his death-the death of the true Christian
soldier battling against the powers of evil.
In this connection the doctor read letter
from Rev. DR.. Newman, Grants spiritual
adviser, written to Mr.. Carroll last April,
in which, with a prophetic foresight, he
writes that the doctors feel assured that
death is approaching, but that the dying
hero is yet spared little while to give no
bic testimony of Christ, 1T would do YOU
good, writes DR.. Newman, Ito hear his
hearty and fervent amen after PRAYERS -
In conclusion, the doctor pictured memory
love. faith and hope as overwhelming guards
at Grants tomb. The musical features
OF the service were the singing of the hymn
Am | Soldier of the Cross" by the choir
and the anthem, ''Rest, Dying Soldier,
Rest" Prof. Otto Werner then rendered
on the organ the dead March from Saul"
AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,
the pastor, Rev. d. B. Cheney, Jr., took
for his text III. Saul, 1:27, How are the
Mighty Fallen. and the Weapons of Woe
PeriShed?" The life of a great man in
great period is a subject to command the
attention of every Thoughtful mind. Alex
ander, Cesar, Charlemagne gave character
to the times in which they lived. The in
tereSt in great men is natural and inevita-
bic, even when we discern in their charac-
ter and work much evil mixed with the
good. But natural feelings of interest give
place to something higher and nObler, when
we recognize the fact that they were made
by God for the special accomplishment of
some great purpose. Such man, prepared
AOI Il Spccldl purpose. was the man we
mourn this evening, the hero of the might
lest war of our times. Circumstances make
men. 1t has been alleged that Grant would
have been of no importance without the
civil war. But this is true of all great his
tOrical characters. 1t is the circumstances
which surround their lives which brings
them forward and makes them prominent
and great. Grants great characteristics
were his spirit of perseverance, his personal
integrity and his tender-heartedneSS. In
conclusion the speaker referred to Grants
love of his family as evinced in the words
of his wife. ''in all his greatness he never
forgot me-" and also to his great joy at the
union of his country as one nation.
At the Congregational church the pastor
spoke at length of Gen. Grant, his career
and his Christian heroiSm, and paid the
dead hero 4 glowing eulogy.