The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-13
CANON FARRAR ON GRANT.

CANON FARRAR ON GRANT
~ The beautiful and eloquent eulogy o
- Grant by Canon Farrar in Westminlste
d Abbey has been SO warmly praised an
q pronounced upon so highly that "
y publish portion Of Il thinking our read
l. ers will be pleased to hear what the en-
d inent E;nglishman had TO say. The aud
II ience was immense and nearly ever!
II member was distinguished person AMI
If listened in GREATNESS silence.
= dispatch says: sThe effect Of this ser
J. mon, delivered by one of the most ex
T traordinary English ecclesiastics tina
Il ever lived, IN EngIGnd's peculiar ant
: most sacred temple, over the creates
L soldier produced by q former British
I colony, made by rebellion, independent
o and powerful among the countries of thu
{ world, and to-day the mothers country
greatest rival among nations, was simply
? understandable. Mr.. Gladstone remained
E standing throughout the delivery with
his hand to his ear, listening eagerly to
: the eulogy,"
His text was taken from the Acts,
| xiii, SO:
Eight years have not passed since the
late Dean Stanley, whom Americans 90
loved and honOred, was walking
around this abbey with General Grant,
explaining its wealth of great memen-
toes. Neither Of them had nearly at
tanned the allotted span of human life
Both might have hoped that many years
would elapse before descending to the
grave full of years and hUnors. This Is
only the fourth summer since Dean STAN
ley fell asleep. To-day we assemble at
the obseques of the great soldier whose
sun set while it was yet day and at
whose funeral service tens of thousands
are assembled at this moment to mourn
with the weeping family and friends.
desire to speak simply and directly,
with generous appreciation. but without
| idle t1ettery, of him whose death has
made nation mourn. His private life,
his faults or fallIngs of character, what
ever they may have been, belong in no
sense to the world. They are before the
judgment of Gods merciful forgiveness.
We Will touch only upon his public
actions and services. Upon q bluff
overlooking the Hudson his monument
4 va otoHub ANSoAAAnB W ROuCGhs
tons the dark page in the Nations his
tory which he did so much to close.
After eloquently tracing General
Grants bOyhood and manhood, the
speaker said:
1t the men who knew hun in GaIena,
| obscureiy silent, unprOsperous, unambI-
tious, hSd said. ii any one had predicted
that he would become twice president
| and one of the foremost men of the day,
| the prophecy would have seemed extraV-
| aganily ridiculous. But such careers
are the glory of the American continent;
they show that the people have a cover
eign insight into intrinsic force, IfI
Rome told with pride that her dictators |
came from the plOwtail, America may
record the answer of the president, who, |
when asked what would be his coat-Ot- |
arms, answered proudly, mindful of his |
early struggles, "a pair of shirt sleeves" |
The answer showed a noble sense of the |
dignity of labor, a noble superiority to |
the vanities of teudalIsm, a strong con- |
viction that men should be hOnored SIM |
ply as men, not according to the accident |
of birth.
America has had two martyred presiI |
dents, both sons of the people. One, q |
homely man, who was a farm lad at the |
oSO ia SCECIg q AdAA6p at ulucttCu, q |
Mississippi boatman at twenty eight, |
and who IN manhood proved one of the |
strongest, most honest and God-fearing
of modern rulers The other grew, from |
shoeleSs child, to a humble teacher in |
the Hiram Institute. With those presi- |
dents America need not blush to name |
the leather-seller of Galena. Every true
man derives patent OF nobleness direct !
from God. Was not the Lord for thirty |
years a carpenter in Nazareth? Lin
coins and Garfield's and Grants early, |
conscientious attention to humble duties |
fitted them to become kings of men.
The year 1861 saw the outbreak of the |
most terrible of modern wars. The hour
came and the man was needed. Within |
four years Grant commanded an army
vaster than had ever before been handled !
by man. 1t was not luck. but the result |
OF intiexible faithfulness, IndomItable |
resolution, sleepless energy, iron pur-
poses. persistent tenacity. He rose by
the upward gravitation OF natural 1T
ness. The very soldiers became impreg.
mated with his spirit. General Grant has
been grossly and unjustly called q butch
er. He loved peace and hated blood
shed. But it was his duty at all costs to
save the country. The struggle was not
for victory, but for existence; not tor
BAOA Oub 1AAC uCdLu. In his BIZ
ence, determination and cleaIness of IN
sight Grant resembIed Washington and
Wellington. In the hottest fury of bat
tie his speech never exceeded 'yea, yea"
and may, nay"
Gods light has shown for the future
destlnies OF mighty Nation that the
war of 1861 was necessary, blessed
work. The church has never refused to
honor the faithful soldier fighting for
the cause of country and his God. The
cause for which Grant fought-the unity
of great people, the freedom of q whole
race-was as great and noble as when at
Lexington the embattled farmers fred
the shot that IeSounded around the
world. The south accepted a bloody
arbitrament. But the rancOr and fury
of the past are buried in oblivion. The
names of Lee and Jackson will be
common heritage with those of Garfield
and Grant. Americans are no longer
northerners and sOutherners, but Amer.
leans. What verdict history will prO-
n0unce upon Grant as a politician and
a man know not, but here and now the
voice OF censure, deserved OF undeserved,
is silent, We leave his faults 10 the
mercy of the merciful.
Let US write his virtues on brass for
mems example. Let his faults, whatev-
water. Who can tell if his closing hours
! of torture and misery were not blessings
10 disguise-GOd pnrging the gold from
dross until the strong man was utterly
purified by his strong agony. Could we
be gathered In a more fitting place to
honor General Grant? There is no lack
of American memorials here. We add
another to-day. Whatever there be be-
tween the two nations TO forget and for
give is forgotten and forgiven. If the
two peoples which are one be true to
their duty who can doubt that the desti-
nies of the world are in their hands. Let
America and England march in the van
of freedom and progress, showing the
world not only a magnificent spectacle
OF human happiness, but a still more
magnificent spectacle of two people unit
ed, loving righteousness and hating mi
guilty, inflexibly faithful to the princi-
Piles of eternal justice which are the
unchanging law of God.