St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-21
Rev. DR.. Lee, at the Peoples
Church, Delivers an Flo
quent Address
On the Character and Life of
the Late Editor, Henry 8
w. Grady. 4
A Sermon by a Southern Man
Touching on the Race &
Problem.
Sarcastic Reference to the
Business Idea Of the u
Northwest. y.

One of the most beautiful and touch
ing orations ever delivered in ST. Paul
was that which Rev. Or. Lee, of At
lanta, Ca, gave at the Peoples church
last night on Henry W. Grady. the late
editor of the Atlanta Constitution and
the eyangel Of the New South. Among
other things he said:
Henry w. Grady must be classed
with the artists. He looked from the,
side of the mind that borders the uni
was an idealiSt. He looked through the
Imagination into the kingdom OF light.
He saw truth and beauty and love bill
lowing away to infinity. He despised
not the world of hard limitation and
fact. But he found not his rest in it,
nor his inspiration. He slaked his
thirst from the waters which flow from
under the throne of God. ViOlets and
buttercupS which grew on the mount.
ain side did not waste their fragrance
as he passed by, but there they grew,
covering with their bloom and their
beauty the hills of day for him. Leaves
in autumn woods were not ignored by
him. but he cultivated the habit Of look
ing toward the cline where the leaves
never die. All sights and sounds and
seasons in the world of change and
death were loved by him. But a win
dow there was in his mind looking into
an illimitable realm where all sights
brought gladneSS. all sounds hope. aid
all seasons inspiration. That he was
by endowment an idealist, and by prac-
tice an artist, is proven by his work
as an editor, his achievements as
an orator and his lite as man.
With The passing years art has
made great progress. not in the direc-.
ton of form CT coloring or symmetry,
but toward wider distribution. In the
beginning it's ministry was to kings and
scholars. Its advance has been toward
extension, rather than perfection. The
pyramid of GiZeh, the most expensive
monument ever seen, was reared to per-
petuate the memory of great Egyptian
king. A country was drained Of revenue
and life tofegale the pride Of one man.
The ParthenOn miniStered to few
great men in Greece. The cathedrals
of the middle ages blest and helped
wider circle. But it was left to the,
time which is ours to build ehapels and
churches, as
Broad in Their Aims =
and ministry as the life of humanity.
The carry poetry concerned itself about
the wars of gods and the contentious OF
kings. As the SacredneSs of human life
came to be seen, more and more did it
tend to catch within the sweep of its
rhythm the incidents and traditions and
loves of the common people. 1t has
been the glory OF our day to give ideal
setting to the cold Oaken Bucket and
the "Village Blacksmith" Henry
| Grady had the order of genius that
makes the artist. The form in which
| that genius expressed itself was deter
mined by the time and the section in
which he lived. The correlation OF the
| fine arts is nearly as well accepted as the
correlation of forces. The persistent
| force may express itself in heat OF light;
or electricity or magnetism. they are all
| forms of the same thing, anG one may
pass to any of the others. Genius it is
which expresses itself in art. 1t may
take any one of it's forms. Music is
| genius in tone; painting is genius in
color; sculpture is genius in form;
poetry is genius in rhythm; architecture
| is genius in sublime combination.
Genius of the highest order is capable
of expressing itself in any or all OF these.
| Michael Angelo was by turns poet.
painter, sculptor and architect. The
genius of Henry w. Grady so far arose
above the plane of ordinary talent that
it was capable OF transmutation into
any of the fine arts. Had he lived in
| the thirteenth century he would have
been all architect. Had he lived in the
sixteenth and in Florence he would have
been painter. Had he lived in the sew
enteenth and in England he would
| have been poet. Living in the nine
Il 3r,t \, no 0rti
and an orator. In thought and spirit he
! lived in the boundless, the radiant, the
beautiful. He saw visions as beautiful
| as RubenS, and temples as perfect as
| that of Phidias. But his genius WAS con-
Jrolled by his heart. His sympathy for
| men was so constant and so universal
| that it denied his genius expression IN
| forms which only touched the few. His
love impelled his thought TO expression
as wide as the needs, as deep as the
! suffering and as complex as the interests
and relations of his fellow men. A
temple embodying his genius would
| not have given him so much pleasure as
A Poor Mans Heart
| made happy by it. Hence, without,
perhaps, thinking so, unconsciously he
selected that medium through which to
goodness which he saw that had the
the widest flow. What instrument
permitted him to touch most people? In
what way could he get into relation
with most human wants? What touched
man on most sides of his character and
stimulated most thought and provoked
most endeayor? 1t was the age of the
newspaper. 1t flew into every mans
home, and carried a message to every
mans thought. Into the newspaper he
would breathe his message. Through
the newspaper he would tell to men
the visions which he saw of hope and
help and inspiration. Not for
| money did he write-not for money
did he care, but through writing
| human veal. The newspaper became
| his brush, and letters became bis pig
! nents. Through these he determined
to make known what he felt for men.
| and what he wished for men. He had
| genius to embody: he had pictures to
1 paint. The South was his canvas.
| Upon this broad section he would ems
] body what he saw. By going to every
| mans home with message, stimnlat-
| ing and thoughtful. he would stir his
heart and move his will. fhus through
| men he would emoOdy all over.
1 the South the ideas which he saw
He would put them into fields
| of waving grain. He would put
| them into cattle upon every hill. He
would put them into home for every
family. Around every home he would
plant orchards and vineyards. Over
every door he would train vines and
flowers In the centers of population
he would put great cities, for distribu-
| ton and for help. Thus he would paint
a picture standing over men and under
! men and blessing men. A panorama
filled " it'll the actual things men need.
| rather than the representation of them
to hang in great museums. Before he
left college he delivered speech en-
| titled s'Castles of Fancy" He
painted an island beautiful for
situation, embraced by the mild
waters of friendly sea. This
was covered with residences handsome
and inviting. In these lived families
without care and without want. This
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