New-York tribune., 1885-01-15
DIR. NEWMANS FUTURE.
WHAT SOME OF HIS NEw-YoRK FRIENDS sAf-i"f
PRESIDENCY OF PALo ALTO UNiVERsiif
The friends of the Rev. DR.. }. y. Newman, not

WHAT SOME OF HIS NEw-YoRK FRIENDS sAY-rHE
PRESIDENCY OF pALo ALTO UNIVERSITY
The friends of the Rev. Dr. }. p. Newman, not
connected with the Madison AveDue Congreeatlphai
Church. express some surprise at the enor's '"a'
have been made by his party in the church
TO retain him as their nominal pastor anu "sci''o
II to natural desire not to he defeated For mas peen
well understood by many of the preachers acquaintance
that when he and Nrs Newman went TO California they
had made all arrangements for long stay there anu
that they had no thought of returning TO the Essl' VIVA"
ever might be the result of the Madison Avenue Chcn
controversy ,o
II il stated that DR. Newman received from the graed
father 81 900 for preaching the sermon In memory OF
young Leland stanford 1t has already been announced
that Mr. stanford purposes building and richly endo"
ing a university PaO Alto. the place whero inc re-
mains of his rest which shall be splendid ana per
petua memorial 1t is said by friends OF Dr. Newman
that he expects to appointed president Of this uniVer
sty that his Office will probably begin soon anu
that the buildings will be planned and erected III
n great degree in accordance with his advice
II was Of this unworthy that Dr. Newman spoke thus
In his memorial sermon:
Evil has its ministry Of good Great thoughts M are porn
Of great sorrows What must have been the agony OF
tins stricken father the night Of the day on which lie
land died 1t was the hour Of his Ge'n,eane oSp
WAS clean gone lie had sounded the last depths OF his
grief II was the supreme 1hnrs a.bcd across his
mind great benefcent thought on the iavoTitc falo
Alto there before MIN university
nou,mcuts n ali It's details in all its benefits 10 untold
Generations II oated ike vision through his imagi-
pso1 a d IT. Sn T1s he fsa the shrine of Earning It shall
lands University. oh. the relief. Love revived Hope
grand purpose before him. and Leland shall not
| have lived in vain nor died TO be forgotten.
prominent feature OF this projected university Is
said to have forcshsdOwed in another part OF Dr
Newman'- sermon as fOllows
His young Imagination dreamed OF museum OF
art and of Antiquities to illustrate 'ho PtHUgrrS'
/ Ind
lie had commenced the collection and the youthiuI an
tquaran had planned Tor museum whlGh @ ,v ana
what museum his genius and wealth would nave Gre
a,cd for san Francisco wherein he would bring the
scTIp,rcd marbles from Athens and Rome the Obe
lislS and mummy sarcophagi from Egypt the human,
headed lions and cunform tablets from Babylon ana
Nincvch; and whatever illustrative OF the social:
pOca and rel giuus life Of Jerusalem, OF Continental
Europe and our own National history. ,..,,,o ,,..
What an educational force OF immense value that
would have been 70 the coming gcnera"n' madc iali-
lar with antiquity by the works or pOd ana man pouEn
together by hS careful hand and public spirit ne had
selected cataogucd and described for MS projected m
seum seventeen cases 81 antique gas. va's' nrVto ,
work. and terra Gotta statnettes dating Tar back nlo
the centuries, and which Illustrate the creaVe genius
Of those early ages 0i our race Huth was te ouI' @
pose OF this remarkable yOnih which Is another PROOF
that liie worth Living ana hat human nSrs NV is W%i e
| rciceming Alas. that his young ne was IntfI-
| rupted il il the high mission Of those who survive
him 10 gather up the golden threads OF his life aud weave
them into beautiful garment OF love to cover thcrewth
! the wants OF humanity.
be Inscribed " Leland" That Tainc shall be read by
future age, and shall inspire coming generations with
Will his w0rcst memorial, more expressive OF your
| love for him than splendid mausoleyDs or colossal
monuments When the marble shall Crumhe, when The
bronze shall melt. whcu the canvas shall fade ts shall
live in the and lives OF many thing OF beauty
and a ioy forever Wih what uncrasing dehght win
he look down uuon this realization Of the dream OF his
Young manhood. what new triumph this ehail he TO
his harry spirit death that sought 70 rob him OF
the pleasure and mankind OF the benefit of such bene
faction.
Some OF Dr. Ncwmau's admirers say that
there are few men better nttcd than he.
both by natural taste aud by study and
travel 10 make such collection as he described In his
sermons and that should Inc be selected IA the head or
proposed university the that must Of necessity
elase before the buildings ready for occupancy can
hardly be better employed By him than la this work