The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-07

Ills lutHeT ueuu, ueHrN ". Orhuy n DOy +
years of age, took up lie battlo Of life. 1t
would require long chapter to record the
nnmes Of orphans who hnve come to the top
When God takes away the head OF the house.
hold lie very often gives to some Ind in that
household u special qualification. Christ
rcmen hcrs how that his own fnther died
curly. leaving him to support himself and
lis mother and his brotlers in the carp'ntcr,s
shop III Nazareth. aiid he nsympntlly with
NIL boys nn,l nii young men in tho struggle
You say: "Oh, il my father had only lived
| would have II better education and | would
hive hnd Il more promising stnrt, and there
n;o some wrinkles ON my brow tlint would
not have been there But huve noticed
that God makes II special why tor orphans.
are il you had not been Obliged from your
early Days TO fight your own bnttles. What
other boys got out Of Yale and Harvard you
got in the University of Hard Knocks. Go
among successful merchants lnwyers. ply
sicnns nnd men Of all occupations and pro
fessions. and there nre many of them WHO
will tell you: AT 10, or l2, or IL years Of
futller was dead But somehow they got
through and got mp. account for it by the
fact that there is special dspensation o
God for orphans. All lluil, the fatherless
and motherl"ss! The Lord Almighty will
see you through. Enrly obstacles for Mr.
Grady were only he means for development
Of his intellect and heart. And 10! when at
80 yenrs OF age lie put down his pen and
closed his lips for the perpetual silence. lie
hnd done IL work which many man who lives
on to 60 and 20 and 80 years never accom-.
plishes. There is u great denl of sensrlcsr
praise oflongcvity, as though it were a won
derful achievement to live n good while. All
my friends, it IL not how lo,ig weliyc, but how
we'll We live and how us"fully We live A man
trhn liyns n Sn n MI iuI,n +
ing for God or humanity might better have
never lived Mt nlI Mcthusnlell live u 9G!l
years. md what did it amount to? fu a.l
those more than nine centuries he did not nc.
aomplish anything that seemed warth record.
Paul lived only n little more than GO. but
how many M"tlusmleha would it take to
mike one Paul? Who would not rather
have Pauls 60 years han Methusalph's 900?
Robert Mcthcyne died at 30 years OF age,
md John Summrrfeld at 70 years of age.
but neither earth nor heaven will ever hear
the end of their usefulness. Longevity!
Why, nn elephant can heat you ut that, for
it lives 100 and 2uO years. Gray hairs are
way Of righteousness, but the frOsts of tho
second death if found in the way of sin.
One of our able NewYork Journals lu9s
spring printed question and sent it to many
people, and among others to myself Can
the editor of Il secular journal he u Chris.
tian?" Some Of the Newspapers answered,
No. answered, Yes; and lest you mny not
before last, riding with Mr.. Grady from n
religious meeting in Georgia one Sunday
night, he said to me some things which I
now reveal for the first time. because it is up
proprinte now that reveal them. lie ex.
pressed his complete faith ip the Gospel, and
expressed his astonshment and his grief hat
in our day no many young men wero reject
inc & n ~ i0nify Aha Il
the tenderness and tho confidence with which
he spoke on thess things. ! concluded that
whsn Henry W. Grady made public profps-
sion OF his faith In Christ and took his place
at the holy communion In tho Methodist
Church, lie was honestly and truly Christian.
That conversation that Sunday night. first
in the carriage and then resumed in the ho-
tel. impressed me in such IL way that when
simply heard OF his departure without my OF
tie particulars, concluded that he was ready
to go. warrant there was no fright in the
last exiyency, but that he found what il com.
monty called the lust enemy" good friend,
and from his home on earth he went to a
home in heaven. Yes, Mr.. Grady not only
demonstrated that an editor may Ia a
may he gospolizad. His mental capacity
was SO wonderful it was almost startling,
have been with him in active conversation
while at tho same time he was debating to a
stenOHrupher editorials for the Atlanta Con.
stitution. But that intellect was not
ashamed to bow TO Christ.
Am ong his last dying utterances was re-
quest for the prayers of the churches in his
behalf
There was that particular quality in him
thnt you do not find lin more than one person
out OF hundreds nf thausands--nnmely, per
sonal magnetism. People have tried to Dc
fine that quality, and always fniled. yet vi
have all felt it's power. There nre some per
sons who have only to enter IL room or stcI
upon platform or into IL pulpit and you arr
thrilled by their presence, and when the.
speak yonr nature responds and you canno
help it. What is the pecnlinr influence Will
which such magnetic person takes hold q
social groups and audiences' Without ut
tempting to define this, which is indetnahlc
!! will say it seems To correspondt to the wavt
bf air set in motion by the voice or til
movements OF the hois. just like tim
iee9ospksric vibration il thq mora
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