Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-03-07
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOkLSN DININE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.
subject: "Hcnry w Grady, tho Ed
itOr and Orator"

1GIrk TAKE thc> u Jrrh roY and ,crite
ia il rtfl mans pen. - Isaiah vlii., /.
70 Isaiah. with royal blood in his veins
AMI a habitant Of palaces doa$ this divine
order come He Is t. take roll. large
roll. AMI write on II with pen, not an an
gels psn, but a mans pen. So God honOrei
the pen and ~ Il" honorel manuscript In
sur LAY the mightie>t roll IS the religious and
>e,Ilar newspaper, ant the mIghtl-st pen Is
the editors pen. whether for good or evil.
AMI God says now to every literary man.
and especially to every journalist: "TnKe
thee great roll, AMI write init witha mans
PEN
Within a few weeks on, of the strongest,
most vivid and lost brilliant Of those psnS
was laid down on the editorial desk in At
lautlt, never again to be resumed. was far
away at the time. We had been sailing up
from the Mediterranean Sea, through the
Oar lanecS which region is unlike anything
ever saw for beauty Their IS not any other
water scenery on earth where God has done
81 many picturesque things with islands
They are somewhat like the Thousand Islands
OF our American st Lawrence, but more
like heaven. Indeed, we had just passed
Parmos, the place from which John
hal his apOCalypic vision Con
stantinopls had seemed 10 come out tC
greet Us for your approach 10 that city is diff
you approach them seem TO retire. but this
city with its giitterinS minarcts and
plnnacies, seems almost to step into the
water TO greet you. But my landing there
that would have been to me an eXhi,aratipu,
was suddenly stunned with the tidIngS OF the
death of my intimate friend, Henry w
Grady. could hardly believe the tidingS
for | had left GA my study table at home
letters and kilograms from hun, those
Of nd fa1A lFttg hlA
aud gcniality and a wit such as h'
only could express. The departure OF
no public man for many ycuS has ~ affected
ne. For days walSel ABOUT as i'll u dream,
and resolved that, getting home, | would,
for the sake OF his bereav-i household, AMI
Tor the sake OF ms bereaved profession, and
for the sake Of what he hat been 10 me and
shall continue to he rs long as memory lasts,
| would speak word IN appreciation Of
him, the most promising of Americans aud
learn some OF the salient lessons OF his de
parture.
| have no doubt that he had enemies, for
no man eau live such an active lie as he
lived or be 80 far IN advance Of his time
without making enemies, some because h.
defeated their pro ieCtS and some because he
outshoae them Owls and bats never did
like the rising sun. Bn. | snall tell You now
he appeared to me, and | am glad that |
told him while he was in full health what |
thought of him Memorial orat!ous aud
-raveStone eptaphs are often mean cu"uga
for they say Of man after he is dead that
which ought tO have been said OF him
while living One garland for living
brow is worth more than mount
ain Of japonicaS and calla lilies
heaped on tGnPral CaSEet BY little black
volume of fifty pages containing the eulo-
gums and poems uttered and written at the
damien ,f (tl.u ,I IAal,gtav ai1l ('llhprIu
and Lincoln and Sumner, the world tried to
pay for the forty years of obloluy ii heapai
upon those living giants. II | say nothing in
praise vt man while he lives | will keep ST.
lent when hs is dead. Myrtle and weeping
willow can never do what ought to have beNu
done by amaranth and palm branch. No
amount Of Dead March in Saul rumbling
from big organs Mt the obSequies can atone
for misrepresentation Of the man before he fell
on sleep. The hearse cannot do what ought
to have been done by chariot But there are
important things that need tN he said about
our friend, who was a prophet in American
journalism and who only n few years ago
heard the command of my text: Take thes
"A great roll, and write IN it with a mans
pen.
His father dead, Henry W. Grady, boy
fourteen years of age, took up the battle OF
life. 1t would require long chapter TO re-
GOlu Jlt liltS VI Vi pldllN W nv dNb CJllb
TO the top. When God takes away the head
Of the household He very often gives to some
lad in that household a special qualification.
Christ remembers how that His own father
died early, leaving Him TO support Himself
and His motner and His brothers in
the carpenters snop ut Nazareth,
! and He is in sympathy with
all boys and all young men in the struggle.
You say: "Oh, il my father had only lived
would have had better education and
would have had a more promising start, and
there are some wrinkles on my brow that
would not have been there" But have no.
ticed that God makes a special way for or.
phsns You would not have been half the
mau you are if you had not been obliged
from your early days to fight your own bat
ties What other boys got out of Yale OF
Harvard you got in the University of Hard
Knocks. Go among successful merchants,
lawyers, physicians and men Of all occupa.
tions and professions, and there are many Of
them who will tell you: AT ten. or twelve, or
fifteen years Of age l started for myself
father was sick, or father was dead"
But somehow they got through and
got up. / account for It by the fact that
there is special dispensation OF God for
orphans. All hail, the fatherless and the
motherless Ths Lord Almighty will see
you through. Early obstacles for Mr.. Grady
were onlv the means for DEVELOPMENT of bis