The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-12-03
EULOGY.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE ON THE
LATE THOMAS A. HEN.
DRICKS.

LIZ eSROn6 fFO Om tine hLl1e Oh an ktOhest
Official-PrOof Against TemPta.
lions and Patient while Studi-
ousIy Lied dAbOut-The Vice Pres.
Ident as a Christian.
DIR. Talmage devoted his lecture on
Thursday evening to eulogy of Thos.
A, Hendricks. The late Vice Presi-
dent was a warm personal friend of
the Tabernacle Pastor. There was a
very large audience present. DR.. Tai
mage spoke as follows:
While the nation was assembling to
celebrate the incoming of the fruits of
the earth the Black Reaper, Death,
swung his sharp sickle and with keen
blade cut down the second of the high
officials of the land. In the sweet cup
of public rejoicings there was pressed
the wormwood of bereavement, and
the bright national wreath was inter-
twisted with cypress, and there was a
clash of Hallelujah Chorus and Dead
March. The sudden demise of Thos
A. Hendricks, our Vice President, has
saddened the nation. Great and mag
nificent soul, hast thou gone forever
beyond the worlds praise and blame?
IuT6 rs d aS u
yet mighty in the counsels of State
and nation and church From the
time when at an outdoor meeting in
the West L said in going upon the plat
form, Where is Governor Hen
dricks?" and he put his hand on my
shoulder and said," Here / am," until
1 met him in a glee of spirits at his
rooms in Washington at the close of
his last springs work as presid ,ng
officer of the United States Senate,
loved him more and more. Many did
not realize his greatness, because he
had such equipoise of character. such
rounding and symmetry of nature. no
one faculty projecting itself until it
became protuberance and out of pro
portion to other faculties. Great as a
lawyer great as a Governor: great as
Congressional representative: great
as Senator; great as Vice President,
he has suddenly assembled to higher
spheres, for he was Christian, and
about his destiny there can be no dis
pute. Our Vice President is with God.
The time of his going, if it had been
decided by anything else than Divine
Wisdom, would seem inopportune and
a mistake. Just after the jolt and jar
and irritation always felt at the going
out of one party and the assumption
by another party had passed away,
and public affairs seemed completely
settled for another four years, by this
startling providence agitating ques-
tiOns are aroused, and ON the 7th OF
next month we shall practically have
another Presidential election, the Sen.
ate called upon to do that which last
March the people had fixed as they
thought for years to come. President
Cieveland's continuance in life and
mental capacity is the only barrier
between US and complete revolution
! in the administration of public affairs
When there are so many malarias
floating up from the Potomac Flats
and so many Wilkes Booths and Gui
teaus and unreformable cranks, polit
ical and religious, who remain unsho
and unhanged, we do well, with more
emphasis than ever before, to pray
God to bless and protect the Presiden
of the United States, But that which
might seem the wrong time for such
decease is the right time, because tn,
Infinite God makes no mistakes, and
trusting the nation to His hands, W,
devoutly study the lessons of this lif,
that has now disappeared, leaving tn
| uatlOu III SIltl. rlTSb OI dll, u6 was
good man amid all the temptations O
political life. Any man that can liv
at Washington through two Congress
sional terms and term rs Commis
sioner of General Land Office, and
Senatorial term and part of Vic
Presidents term, as did this man, an,
have his morals undamaged, is fir
proof and hail proof and lightnin,
proof, The test is terrific and tremen
dOus beyond anything imagined b,
any one who has not either expert
enced it or had intimate friends de
scribe to him the perils through whicl
they passed in Washingtonian politi
cal life. The trouble is that so man
men of great talent have been great ii
their designations, and their misdeed
have been made the subject of jocosit
rather than of loathIng apprehension
Men honest at home have at the Can
ital one down under Credit Mobile
infamy, and mon pure at home hav
at Washington bowed to habits So
donnie. Two years in the House G
Representatives or six years in th
Senate have been the temporal an
eternal damnation of many of tn
gran dest men in this country. Th
Congressional Burying Ground q
Washington, and the city and villag
land neighborhood cemeteries, north