The Portland daily press., 1885-08-10

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Than any rank beneath the sum-
Or any princely dover.
Take thou a nations gratitude
| The land that gave thee birth,
Hath proud respect for honest blood,
And unassuming worth;
| And He who holds the endless years,
| With Heaven in His gift,
| Writes down our offering OF tears,
| As we thy name uplift.
Then take thy rest! Diviner life
| Is thine, o patient soul
Thy garments cleansed from earthly strife,
| Where living waters roll
| Welcomes they bring thee on that shore,
While earth repeats thy name,
| Linked with thy Country evermore,
! And sharing in its fame
DR.. S. C. Gordon then spoke as followsss
THE DEATH SCENE.
In the days of ancient Greece men were
| taught TO look upon death with a cool, calm,
unimpassioned philosophy. The doctrines
| taught by Socrates and so religiously practiced
| by Plato and his followers, led men to face
dangers, hardships and suffering and even
death itself with unfinching fortitude. Among
all the lessons to be learned from the varied
| life and fortunes of General Grant, none, l
| think, is more impressive than that to be
derived from the last days of his life.
We all to great degree recognize the truth
of Shakspeare's saying:
| So, in the world tits furnished well with men,
| And men are flesh and blood and apprehensive.
We shrink even from the thought of death
and few of us fully realize that to us the dread
| summons will ever come. We POSTPONE as
long as possible even the arrangement of orr
| temporal affairs, We instinctivelv shun
everything that can remind us of the fine
when the ties that bind us to earth shall be
severed. As much as we dread the suffering
| incident to disease, however prolonged, we
"rather bear the Ills we have than Ay to others
we know not Of" and so we lnqer on. even
when it requires more courage to live than
to die.
For nine long months General Grant suffered
| the most indescribable torture-how much.
| none, unless he witnessed if. can imaoine
torture by day and disturbed and broken
| slumber at night-a slow. lingering. nainfnI
starvation, and added to all this a full con
seriousness that it was suffering without anv
| hope-but one ending to all these long months
| of agony.-and that endino death And y,ot
| through it all we hear no mIlr1nur of COMPLAINT
| The same quiet calm. stoical nhilosonhv ahides
| with him from day to day. that characterized
his whole military life from the beginning TO
| the end of his remarkable career.
| 1t is said that at the battle of Shiloh he was
| urged to make provision for CROSSING moro
| than thirty thousand troops TO the other side
| of the river. in case of defeat. "Tf am IN he
defeated" said he 81 shall NOT have more than
| ten thousand troops to cross" IF Won call
| this heroic and brave. when honor orat;fed
ambition and glory were to he the rewards of
success 1 call it greater heroism and more
unAinching bravery. TO calmly endure nhvs;cal
SUFFERING. such as Ills. and face snnroaeb;na
| death. with no reward excent the hone that by
natient endurance i would soon ond Il
| you say that it was great patience that
besieged Vicksburg and waited with hope
| Tor the result which his genius knew must
come. say tnat 1t was nobler patience that
satWaltlng without nope Tor the grim mes
senger' aeatn. Ii you clam that 1t was pro-
| touno WISDOM that so planned the campaign
OF she wilderness ana so disposed the forces
Inat tne eno OF tne heDellon was reached
can point you 10 superior wisdom, when
quletiy ana earnestly 1rom day to day, as his
nagglng energies would permit, amidst all his
sunerlnss' ne modestly wrote OF his part IN
tne nauoh trial
Inc seronS anu tenuer sympathy winch per-
Vaoeu the breasts OF the entire nation, both
'oiue ana gray, ana FOUND such warm and
| nonle expression IN kindly messages to the
patient sufferer, who calmly and resignedly
awaited the summons to JON the nnumerable
caravan ana lake MS pace IN the silent cham
Der OF oeatn' was tribute to his herolsm
ana 1ortltude IN bearing his suffering as well
o. - - SSNNAS4-
10 my MIND TINS is the grandest triumph OF
ms whole tnumphal life. he went not "like
tne gaiiey siave' scoarged to his dungeon, but
sootheo ana sustained by an untalterlng trust,
nke one VINO wraps the drapery OF his couch
ABOUT nun ana hes down TO pleasant dreams,
WIN the sweet Deneolcuon OF united country.
test IN peace
Dr. Gordon was followed by Rev. DR.. Asa
Dalton, as follows:
AN AMERICAN cLEoN.
II is with men as with hooks We all bo,,a
our fayorite authors. hut he must he accented
as the greatest whom +ho ,,onoral ,,o;oo ~
| nounces sueh. So If is with Inventions Tho
credit Is dine and tba a,yard l. o;1,on ~ ~
the man who claims the convention Int n tho
man who embodies tbe concent;o, and +ro,,s
lates thought into action. and fins makes q
practical success And This is tho test Of on
periority among soldiers as we'll. The victor,s
wreath Is conferred NOT on tbe LIDO ~
claims the credit of orioina inc examinations and
strategical movements. Int 70 him who ave-
cutes them. Some rule we must have and tb;e
is the plainest and SIMPLEST. Anv other would
lead TO endless disputes and comnl;ca+ons
Judged by this rule Cram Is clearly fret
among the soldiers of orr contrv tn +be
West. he was without $ rival unless sbarn' 'ao
be considered sucb and Sherman b;msolf1 ro-1d
readily and sincerely accord tha frs+ ,looo ~
Grant. In the Fast. Grant alone achieved
complete success and received the s1rreoder Of
the Confederate' hosts Thns bo doos ond
ever must rank ali o,r oaneyalS No. of
them did nohlv from McCleIiao 70 Moada H.
Grant surpassed them eli AhIo os tho, ,,,o,o
thew all lacked Something which Grant nos
sessed. and which made him tbe man bo Tvas
What is that somethinop verv ;no1,orto,,+
INQUIRY. seeing that the successful
conclusion of t6e war was and tbe s,,ccoss-
full prosec ution of other wars NAV he defer
mined by II. Men NAV call # Nv d;fforon+
names. but the thing itself Is a most vital
factor in war. Perhaps no one word will de-
fine or describe r. i. ,,a+ +bo o,,ol;+ :; - -
+bo ,'n.o, 49, ~ ',1e qual'y - one ailo
sa,f SbalI Vii :; tiI nIsesTr SHOWS IT.
sbe host We uam - ptoh lna' rs perhaps
49, ous y - not suinclensly
na,,ob rooro T. l. ~ spean l VI niciuoes
81 doo;a; 70 i e onay pluoA, pu' power
~ l1Ssa,is ueolslon ioi goou reasons quickly
IL p+tao1r 1e.oaa'y =! movement. auoaclty
~ IN ao!lon anu tenaelty or
seS ord &c u dof festu',on winch SHOWS no
toId Ri t s u ieel1'' az Mhen Grant
tbo,,so,,d f AZ. noe oe iioie 1llan Ten
e he 40 .e| 'iansppi.s 10 1ahe away
doaeed thot T,,;na e az o onllo Les IT IS
alroost 49,, 49," 80, Il i0' every eiie surely