St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
STILL. WEEPING.
Services in Memory of the Dead Com.
mander Held in Many Cities
Yesterday.
Rev. Robert Laird Oollyer Pays Touch
ing Tribute to His Departed
Friend.
A Grand Army Demonstration In
the Great National Cemetery
at Gettysburg.
Similar Meetings in Chicago and
Elsewhere--Mrs. Grants Plans
for the Future.
The Day i'm New York.

remained in their rooms at the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel all day and received no visitors.
They will return to Mt. McGregOr probably
tomorrow or Tuesday. Several clergymen
spoke from their pulpits on Gen. Grant to-
day. An audience of over 5000 people
filled the amphitheater at the Manhatt an
Beach hotel this afternoon, and listened
with evident interest to beautiful and eX-
haustive biography of Gen. Grant, delivered
by the Rev. Robert Laird Collyer. During
the address, which lasted nearly one hour
and half, the audience several times broke
into bursts OF applause, which even the
efforts of the reverend gentleman could not
restrain. GilmOre's band played selection
of sacred music, including the dead
March from Saul" and ROssini's funeral
march. Nine. Clementse Studweu sang:
There are Green Hills not far Away"
A marked feature of the service was the
audience rising to their feet and singing
with grand effect: Nearer, My God, to
Thee"
DR.. Collyer reviewed many interesting
points in Gen. Grants military career, and
at the close of his sermon said: 1.-The esti-
mate of Ulysses S. Grant, which dates his
greatness with the victory at Donelson,
misses the golden thread of sequence. for
there is the same life running through all
hiSd ays as through all his deeds. The
qualities which shone forth in such con-
spicuOuS splendOr at Vicksburg and Chat
tanOoga were no other than those which
marked his conduct upon every field in
Mexico. This same force was mighty
and persistent through those desperate days
of his suffering and death. His character
was greater than all his victories, and more
imperishable than all renown. Before
Grant was a soldier or statesman he had
hoe Of &I,aC 4Offr
eroSity, the SinglenesS of aim, the industry
of duty, which made him man. His
crown of manhood rather than
the sword of the soldier or
sceptre of the statesman is the secret
of his eOnqueStS and the pledge of his fame.
His character was as transparent as the
atmosphere. He was never less
than himself. If his speech was re-
strained it was never the reticence of
concealmenT. If he had nothing to reveal he
had nothing to hide. He was silent when
he had nothing to say;, manliness in man,
his charm and fascination.
DURING GRANTS FIRST TERM
of Office as president he attended service in
the church, of which ] was the minister, in
Chicago where the sermon was treating
OF the unity of the race and the brOtherly
obligations of man as man. The president
cOmmendation of the aim of the sermon,
and, with beautiful simplicity, said in the
truest sentence, Men are more scarce than
heroes At the house of friend
in Chicago l was sitting alone
with him late into the night when he
closed long and thoughtful
discourse which seldom interrupted by re-
ferring to the irresponsible way in which
even friends would proffer advice, and ris-
ing from his chair, said: I have never
asked for people to give me advice On
Thanksgiving day, 1876, when this country
was under no little strain of evil apprehen-
sion, l was in Washington and sitting with
the president in his private Office. He asked
me if the people thought there would be
any trouble about the Inauguration of the
preSident-elect. In reply, said the people
generally looked to him and asked what he
would do should there be any lawlessness
or outbreak. The president looked amused
and pleasantly answered.: I know what
| would do, but l don't mean to tell.''
ESMemorial services were held tonight in
the Italian church connected with the Five
Points missions. After prayer and theising
ing of hymns by the congregation. theiRev.
AttOnio Arriglie delivered an address on. the
life of Americas Grearest Hero. The
speaker drew comparisons between Gen.
Grant and Garibaldi. Both, he said, were
similar in many respects. They caredsonly
for the welfare of their people, and sacri-
feed everything personal in order to benefit
their countrymen.