Homer guardian., 1890-03-07
HENRY W. GRADY.
Dr.. TaImage'S Tribute To The
Dead Orator.

Brooklyn, Feb, 23.-rhe great
Academy OF Music, its main floors
and its two galleries and platform
and all approaches to the build
ing were, as usual, thronged at
the preaching service of the Rev
I. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., to day.
Many hundreds OF persons did not
gain admlftance.
The subject of Dr.. Talmaee's
sermon was The Llfe and Death
Of Henry ". GtadY, the Editor
and Orator. lie took for his
leyt Isaiah viii, /: "Takc thee a
great roll, and write in it with q
mans pen" The preacher said:
To Isaiah, with royal blood in
his veins and q habitant of palaces,
does this divine order come. He
is to take roll, large roll, and
write on it with a pen, not an
angels pen, but 4 mans pen. So
God honored the pen and so He
honored manuscript. In our day
the mighticst roll is the religious
and scculsr newspaper, aud the
mlghticst pen Is the editors pen,
whether for good or evil. And
God says now to every literary
man, and especially to every jour
nalist: Take thee q great roll
and write in 1t with mans pen.
Within few weeks one Of the
strongest, most vivid and most
brilliant of those pens. was laid
down sn the editorial desk in AT
lanta, never again to be resumed.
was far awGy at The t'me. We
lGt been sailing u from the
! Mediterranean Sec, .brougn The
Dardanellcs, which region is un-
like anything | ever saw for beau
tv. There is not any other water
! scenery on earth where God has
done SO many picturesque things
with islands. They are somewhat
| like the ,IhouMnd Islands of our
American St, Lawrence, but more
like heaven. Indeed, we had just
passed Patmos, tie place from
which John had his apocalyptic
vision. Constantinople had seem
Ell to come out to greet us, for
your approach to that city Is
different from any other city.
Other cities as you approach them
seem to retire, bnt this city, with
its glittering minarets and pima
cles, seems almost to step into The
water to greet you. But mo luud-
ing there, that would haze been
to me al eShilaration, was sud
denly stunned with The sidlngs of
the death OF my intimate friend,
Henry W. Grady. l could hardly
believe the tidings, for l had left
on my study table al home letters
and kilograms from him, those
letters and kilograms having
warmth and geniality and q wit
such as he only could express.
The departure of no public man
for many years has SO affected me.
For many days l walked about as
in a dream, and | resolved that,
getting home, I would, for the sake
of his bereayed profession, and for
the sake Of what he had been to
me and shall continue to be as
long as memory lasts, / would
speak word in appreciation Of
him,
THE MOST PROMISING OF AMERICANS,
and learn some of the salient les
sons Of his departure.
| have no doubt that he had
enemies, for no man can live such
an active life as he lived or be so
far in advance Of his time without
making enemies, some because he
defeated their projects and some
because he outshone them. Owls |
and bats never did like the Using |
sun. But | shall tell you how lie
to me, and | am glad !
that | told him while he was in
full health what / thought ofhim.
Memorial orations and grayestone
epitaphs are often mean enough,
for they say of q man after he is
dead that which ought TO have
been said of him while living.
One garland for living brow is