The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-10

The Grant Family-Rev. II. l.. Golfers Ad-
dress at Manhattan Beach.

The Grant Family-Rev. IL. l.. Golfers Ad-
dress at Manhattan Beach.
New YORK, Aug. 9.-Tbe members of the
Grant family renamed in their rooms at the
Fifth avenue Hotel all day. and received no
visitors They return to Mt. McGregor to-
morrow or Tuesday
Several clergymen spoke from their pulpits on
General Grant to-day. An audience of over
FIVE thousand people filed the amphitheater at
the Manhattan Beach Hotel this afternoon, and
listened with evident interest to q beautiful
and exhaustive biography of General
Grant delivered by the Rev. Robert Laird
Collier The address lasted nearly an hour and
a half. during which time the audience broke
into several bursts of applause. Glmores band
played d selection of sacred music including the
dead march from ''Sani." and Rossnis "March
Funebre" Madame Clementine Studwell sang
There Are Green Hills Not Far Away" A
marked feature of the services the great
audience rising to their feet and singing with
grand effect Nearer, My God to Thee" The
services closed with the benedction, after which
the audience slowly departed.
Dr. Collier reviewed many interesting points
in Grants military career, and at the close Of
his sermon, said: THE estimate of Ulysses s.
Grant, which dates his greatness with the vic
tory at Donelson. misses the golden thread of
sequence; for there is the same life running
through all his days through all his deeds.
The qualities which shone forth in such conspic
uous splendor at Vicksburg and Chattanooga were
other than those which marked his conduct
upon every field in Mexico This same force
was mighty and persistent throughout these
desperate days of his last encounter with suffer
ing and death. His character was greater than
all his victories, and more imperishable than all
renown. Before Grant was n soldier or states
man, he had the sense of justice, the sentiment
of generosity, the singleness of aim, the
industry of duty, which made him
| a man. His crown Of manhood
rather than the sword of the soldier or the
sceptre of the statesman, is the secret of his
conquests and the pledge of his fame His
| character was as transparent as the atmosphere.
He was never less than himself. If his speech
was restrainedit was never the reticence of con-
nothing to hide. He was silent when he
man is his charm and fascination
During Grants first term of Office as President
ne attended service in the church of which | was
the minister in Chicago. When the sermon was
| treating of the unity of the race, and the
brotherly obligations of man man, the Presi-
dent took occasion after the service to speak in
commendation of the end of the sermon,
and with beautiful SIMPLIFY said: Men
| giving Day, 1876, when the country was
under no little strain of civil apprehension. l
| was in Washington, and sitting with the Presi.
dert in his Office. He asked me if the people
| thought there would be any trouble about the
| Inauguration of the President-elect In reply,
said that the people naturally looked to hun.
| and asked what he would do, should there be
| any lawlessness or outbreak. The President
| looked amused, and pleasantly answered: 1
know what | would do, but don't mean to tell -
Memorial services were held to night in the
Italian church connected with the Five Points
mission. After prayer and the singing of hymns
| by the congregation. the Rev. Antonio Arriziio
| delivered an address on the life of America S
Greatest Hero" The speaker drew comparisons
between General Grant and Garbadi. Both,
he said were similar in many respects. They
cared only for the welfare of their people, and
sacrificed everything personal in order to benefit
their cOunLrYmen.