New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-05
IN MEMORY OF GEN. GRANT.
A TOUCHING CEREMONY AT LONG BRANCH.
MR. CHILDs's GIFT OF A MEMORIAL WINDOW IN
ST. LUKE's CHURCH UNVEILED.

MR.. CHILDs'S GIFT OF MEMORIAL WINDOW IN
ST. LUKE's CHURCH UNVEILED.
Long Branch, July 4-The namo and fame Of Cen
cral Grant were fttlngy remembered here to-day by
the unvclIng Of the memorial window erected In st.
Lukes Methodist Episcopal Church, where he often
worshippcd The window was tho gift OF hts friend,
George W. Childs, tho Philadelphia phanthropst.
The principal Grafton delivered by General Horace
Porter, who was on GRANTS stan during tho war The
listeners were for The most part those who Ind been
members Of the same congregation when the General
was among them and Of them. Tho pastor, the Rev.
George Reed, presided, and among those present on
the platform in the body of the church. besides Mr.
Childs and General Porter, were the Rev. Drs. w. C..
Steele, W. Reeves, W. g. Russell, n. A. Maemichol,
c. J. Young, H. H. Haskell, f. Cornct G.. +. Bishop
and l.. Green, General Winsow, tho widow of Bishop
simpson, Mrs. Moses Taylor, James Sellgman and
Thomas Murphy. The pretty little church presented
martial appearance and literally decorated With
American flags one of which placed IN the vacant
pew in which the hero Of Appomattox wont to Sit
The uniforms of veterans and OF veterans and Of
the members of Company d, 3D. New-Jersey National
Guard, and band of music lent additional color 10 the
The church filed to Its utmost capacity.
After brief religious exercises The large American
flag which concealed the memorial window was drawn
aside. The window Is Of heavy stained glass and
stands directly behind the pastors desk Tho prn-
cpal figure upon IL is portrait of General Grant In
uniform representing him he appeared in the first
year Of the war. on either side figures repre-
senting respectively Peace and war, and above 1t
hovers an angelic form with the words !" Let us have
peaccS written over 1t. Beneath the portrait is this
inscription:
GENERAL ULYSSES s. GRANT.
Erected BY his friend
GEORGE W. CIlILDS
as a token of affection.
The cost of the window was over 81 400
nh hap1 " IAN 10 t.,o of, urhi
congregation gszcd with odmlration upon tho rep
rsscntatlon OF the departed hero and the mourning
cmblcms. Then General Porter was introduced
lie began his address by recalling the mournful oc-
cason Of the funeral OF his chief whose fame. he
said was worldwide. and proceeded as follows:
AS the funeral cortcge passed through the streets
of the metropolis all the nations of the earth. as by
common consent, hung out cmblcms Of mourning. Tho
fame of Grant was International and universal, and
We listened to the mufied drums in own streets.
Westminster Abbey threw open It's wide portals as If
permit the sound to be conveyed to the great ones
inferred there. announcing that another great man
had Joined their number.
General Porter alluded In graceful terms to the pub
lic-spritcd acts OF Mr. Chds and declared that that
distinguished public citizen had placed the crown
upon all his phllanthropic work by erecting this mo
mortal window in honor of his great friend, to whom
so long tho Nation had looked for guidance in the
donor' The speaker referred to the of General
Grant, who had come before tho people with sudden
bound at Fort Donelson, and from the time Of that
baltic to the surrender at Appomatox was the central
figure of the Nation, and after that until his death the
central figure of tho world. He dwelt upon the sim
gar contrasts In the life OF the hero which surround
him with an interest attached to few In history.
One day he was a subatcrn at frontier post, and
another he directing the movements OF an army
of 900, 900 men. On one day ho was cutting and
drawing wood for his family and on another he was
presiding over the Nation. whose every IN
cnation for peace became the leader I'm mighty
conflict. man who could not bear the sight of
BLOOD even in the meat placed on his table, he was
compelled to wade through blood In battling for the
preservation OF the Nation. Although he had lived
the life OF an officer the frontier, in atmosphere
Of profanity, he had solcd his lips with oath
He seemed to possess the chief elements OF absolute
greatness. He seemed to have been created for the
great emergency which called forth his powers. In
ordinary matters he ordinary man, In great
affairs giant The orator drew contrast between
Grant q subordinate officer, farmer and as a
country storckcepcr with difficulty supporting his
family, and Grant as a commander and as President
who had undertaken and carried through the Alabama
Claims Negotiations, and proved himself master OF
finance when the credit OF the Nation attacked.
lie made for great and not for little things, said
the speaker.
The Rev. Dr. W. C., Steele paid glowing tribute
to the memory OF the departed chlefain and the prn
ciples for which he fought saying that the Bible in
which he believed commended such conduct HIS and
gave cOuntenance to the maintenance of republic
whose Constitution and Declaration Of independence
were charters OF human rights.