The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-03-13

stand on. But there is lot OF old pollti.
clans erumbling allaround the sky who don't
want a new south, new north, new east or
a new west They have some old war.
speeches that they prepared in 1851, that IN
all our autumnal elections they feel called
upon to oinflict upon the country. They growl
louder and louder in proportion as they are
pushed back further and further and the
Henry w. Gradys come to the front. But
the mandate, think, has gone forth from
the throne OF God that new American ma
ton shall take the place of the old, and the
new has been baptized for God and liberty
and Justice and peace and morality and re-
igion.
And now our much lamented friend has
gone to give account Suddenly the 1aclle
and potent pen is laid down and the eloquent
tongue is silent What? Is there no safe
guard against fatal disease The impersona-
ton of stout health was Mr.. Grady. What
ompsctless of muscle, What ru1dy COM
rlexion! What flashing eye Standing with
aim in group OF twenty or thirty persons at
Piedmont he looked the healthiest as his
spirits were the blithest. Shall we never feel
again the hearty grasp OF his hand or be
magnetized with his eloquence? Men of the
great roll. men of the pen, men of wit, men
of power, if our friend had to go when the
call came 50 must you when your call
comes. When God asks you what have you
done with your pen or your eloquence or your
wealth or your social position, will you be able
to give satisfactory answer? What have we
been writing all these years? If mTtn, has
it been innocent mirtn, or that which tears
and stngs and laceratas? From our pen
have there come forth productions healthy
or poisonous? In the last great day when
the warrior must give account OF what he
has done with his sword, and the merchant
what he has done with his yard stick
and the mason what he has done with
his trowel, and the artist what he has
done with his pencil. we shall have to give
account of what we have done with our pen.
There are gold pens and diamond pens and
pens of exquisite manufacture, and every 1eW
weeks see some new kind of pen, each said
to be better than the other; but in the great
day of our arraignnent: before the Judge OF
quick and dead that will he the most bsautl-
full pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which
never wrote a profane or unclean or cruel
word. or which from the day it was carved,
or split at the nib, dropped from its point
kindness and encouragement and help and
gratitude to God and benediction for man.
Nav God comfort that torn up Southern
home and all the homes of this country and
of all the world which have been swept
by this plague OF. influenza, winch has
deepened sometimes into pneumonia, and
sometimes into typfus, and the victims OF
which are counted by the ten thousand! Sa-
tan, wno is the Prince of the Power Of the
Air" has been poisoning the atmosphere in all
nations. Though it is the first time IN our re-
membrauce. he has done the same thing be-
fore In 1896 the unwho tesome air Of Cairo,
Egypt. DESTROYED the life of ten thou
sand in one day, and in Constantnople IN
INA three hundred Thousand people Lied Of it.
am glad that by the better sanitation OF our
cities and wider understanding OF hygienlc
laws and the greater skill oil physicians these
Apollyonic assaults upon the human race are
being resisted, but pestileutial atmosphere is
still abroad. Hardlya family here but has
felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of
the best of my flock fell under its
power. and many homes here repre-
sented have been crushed. The fact Is
the biggest failure in the universe Is this
world Il there be no heaven beyond. But
there is, and the friends who have gone there
are many and very dear. o fearful eyes,
look up to the hills crimsoning with eternal
morn, That reunion kiss will more than
make ND for the parting kiss, and the WEI
come will obliterate the goodbye THE
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
Shall lead them to living fountains of water
and God shall wipe away all tears from
their ewes" Till then, o depamed
loved ones promise us that you will
remember us, as we promise to remember
YOU. And some of you gone up from this
city by the sea and others from under
southern skies, and others from the homes o.
the more rigorous north and some from the
cabins on the great western farms, we shall
meet again when our pen has written Its las
word and our arm has done its last days
work and our lips have spoken the last adieu.
And now, thou great and magnificent soul
of editor and orator under brighter skies
we shall meet again. From God thou camest,
and to God thou hast returned. Not broken
down. but assembled. Not collapsed, but IRA.
dated. Enthroncd one! Coroneted one
Sceptered onel Emparadised one! Hal
aad fareN ell!