Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24

newspapers answered, No. I answer
ed, Yes; and lest you may not under
stand me | say, Yes, again Summer
before last, riding with Mr.. Grady
from q religious meeting in Georgia
on Sunday night, he said to me some
things which [ now reveal for the first
time because it is appropriate now that
| reveal them. He expressed his com
plete faith in the Gospel and expressed
his establishment and his grief that in
our day SO many young men were re-
iecting Christianity. From the earnest
ness and the tenderness and the conf
dence with which he spoke on these
things / concluded that when Henry
w. Grady made public profession of his
faith in Christ and took his place al
the holy communion in the Methodist
church, he was honest and truly
Christian That conversation that
Sunday night, first in the carriage
and then resumed in the hotel, i'm
pressed me in such a way that when I
simply heard of his departure without
any of the particulars, [ concluded
that he was ready to go. [ warrant
there was no fright in the last ext
gency, but that he found what is COM
monty called 1.-The last enemy" a good
friend, and from his home on earth he
went to home in heaven. Yes, Mr..
Grady not only demonstrated that an
editor may be Christian, but that a
very great intellect may be gospelized.
His mental capacity was so wonderful
it was almost startling. I have been
with him in active conversation while
at the same time he was debating to a
stenographer editorials for The At
lanta Constitution. But that intellect
was not ashamed to bow to Christ.
Among his last dying utterances was
a request for the prayers of the
churches in his behalf.
There was that particular quality in
him that you do not find in more than
one person out of hundreds of thou
sands namely, personal magnetism.
People have tried to define that quail
ty, and always failed, yet we have all
felt its power. There are some persons
who have only to enter a room or step
upon q platform or into pulpit and
you are thrilled by their presence, and
when they speak your nature responds
and you cannot help it. What is the
peculiar influence with which such
magnetic person takes hold of social
groups and audiences? Without at
tempting to define this, which is indie
Unable, will say it seems to CORE
spOnd to the waves of air set in
motion by the voice or the
movements of the body. Just like
that atmospheric vibration is the moral
or spiritual vibration which rolls out
from the soul of what we call mag
netic person. AS there may be cord
or rope binding bodies together there
may be an invisible cord binding souls.
A magnetic man throws it over others
as a hunter throws a lasso. Mr.. Grady
was surcharged with this influence,
and it was employed for patriotism
and Christianity and elevated pur-
poses.
You may not know why, in the con-
versation which had with Mr.. Glad
stone few weeks ago, he uttered these
memorable words about Christianity,
some of which were cabled to Amer
lea. He was speaking in reply to this
remark: | said, Mr.. Gladstone, we
are told in America by some people
that Christianity does very well for
weak minded men and children in the
infant class, but it is not fit for strong
er minded men; but when we mention
you, of such large intellectually, as
being pronounced friend of religion,
we silence their batteries" Then Mr..
Gladstone stopped on the hillside
where we were exercising and said:
''The older grow, the more confirmed
I am in my faith in religion" Sir"
said he, with flashing eye and
uplitted hand, talk about the ques-
tons of the day, there is but one
question, and that is the Cos
pei. That can and will correct every
thing. Do you have any of that
dreadful agnosticism in American
Having told him we had, he went on
to say: Il am profoundly thankful
that none of my children or kindred
have been blasted By it. am glad to
say that about all the men at the top
n Great Britain are Christians. Why,
sir" he said, Il have been in public
position fifty-eight years, and forty
government, and during those forty
with sixty of the master minds of the
century, and all but five of the sixty
we're Christians"
THE GREATEST MINDS ARE CHRISTIAN.
He then named the four leading
and surgeons of his coun-
ny, calling them by name and re
upon the high qualities of
each of them and added: ''They are all
Christian" My friends,
think it will be quite respectable
sOr a little longer to be the friends
IF religion. William E. Gladstone, a
Christian; Henry w. Grady, Chris
ian. What the greatest of English
men said of England is true of America
and of all ChriStendOm. The men at
he top are the friends of God and be-
levers in the sanctities of religion, the
most eminent of the lawyers, the most
of the doctors, the most emin-
mt of the merchants and there are no
better men in all our land than some of
hose who sit in editorial chairs. And |
f that does not correspond with your
cquaintanceship, [ am sorry that you
nave fallen into bad company. In an
'wer to the question put last spring, |
Can a secular journalist be a Chris |
ian?" | not only answer in the affima- |
i've, but assert that SO great are the |
of that profession, so |
infinite and eternal the consequences |
IF their obedience or disObedience of |
he words of my text, ''Take thee a
great roll, and write in it with mans |
)en, )" and SO many are the surround |
ng temptations that the men of no |
other profession more deeply need the
licenses and the re-enfOrcements of the |
grace of God.
And then look at the opportunities |
If journalism. [ praise the pulpit and |
magnify my Office, but [ state a fact |
which you all know when [ say that |
where the pulpit touches one person
he press touches five hundred. The
7ast majority Of people do not go to
church, but all intelligent people |
cad the newspapers. While, there
ore, the responsibility of the minis
ers is great, the responsibility of edit
ors and reporters is greater. Come,
brother journalists, and get your ordi
lation, not by the laying on of hui
nan hands, but by the laying on of
he hands of the Almighty To you
S committed the precious reputation of
nen and the more precious reputation
If women Spread before our children
IN elevated literature Make sin APP
,ear disgusting and virtue admirable.
Believe good rather than evil. While
7ou show up the hypocrisies of the
;hurch, show up the stupendous by
,ocrisies outside the church. Be not,
IS some of you are, the mere echoes of
III hlic ODiniOn: make public ODiniOn