Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-24

fourteen years of age, took up the Obs.a
cles for Mr.. Grady we're only the means
for development OF his intellect and heart.
Aud lo when at thirty. nine years of age
he
PUT DOWN HIS PEN
and closed his lips for the perpetual ST
lenee, be mad done q work which many q
man who lives on to sixty and seventy
and eighty years never sccomplishes
There is a great deal Of senseless praise OF
longevity, as though ii we've wonderful
achievement TO live a good while. Alb,
my friends, il is not how long We live, bat
how we'll we live and how usefnlly we
live. A man who lives to eighty years
and aceomplishes nothing for God or hu-
msnity nigh. better have never lived al
all. Methusaleh lived nine hundred and
sixty-nine years, snd what did it amount
10? In all those more than nine centuries
be did not accomplish anything which
seemed worth record. Paul lived only q
little more than sixty, hu. how many Me-
thusalthS would it take to make one Paul?
Who wOuld not rather tsye Paups sixty
years than Methussleh's nine hundred aad
sixty-Dine? Robert McOhevDe died ST
thnty years OF age and John Summer6sld
at twenty seven years OF age, but neither
earth nor heaven will =
RVER HEAR THE END
of their usefulness. Longevity Why, an
elephant can beat you at that, for i. lives
a hundred and fifty and two hundred
years. Gray hairs are the blossoms Of the
tree of life If found in the way of riShte-
ousuess, but the froat' of the second death
if found in the way of sin.
Oae of our able New York journals last
spring printed q question and sent 1t 10
msDy people and among Olhsrs.io myself:
Can the editor of g secular journal be
Christian" Some of the newspapers an
swersd, No. l answered, Yes; and lest
you nav not understand me l say, Yes,
again. Summer before last, riding with
Mr.. Grady from a religious meeting 10
Georgia on Sunday night, he said to me
some things which l now reveal for the
first time bscsuse it is appropriate now
that l reveal them. He expressed his
complete filth in the Gospel and expressed
his astonishment and his grisf lst in ouT
dsy so may ycupg men were rejecting
Christianity. From the earnestness and
the tenderness and the confidence with
which ho spoke on these thir gs concluded
that when Henry W. Grady
MADE PUBLIC PROFESSION
of bis faith in Christ and took his place at
the holy communion in the Methodist
church, be was honest and truly Christian.
That conversation that Sunday night,
first in the carriage and then resumed in
the hotel, impressed me in such way
that when 1 simply heard of his departure
without any of the pstticulsrs, l con-
cluded that he was ready to so. l war
rant thsre was no fright in the last ext
gency, but that be found what is com
monty called "the last enemy" a good
friend, and from his home on earth he
went t. home in heaven. Yes, Mr..
Grady not only demonstrated that an edi'
tor may he 8 Christian, but that very
great intellect may he gOspelized. His
mental capacity was so wonderful 1t was
almost startling. have been with him
IN active conversation while at the same
time he was debating to a stenOgrspher
editorials for the Atlanta Constitution. But
that intellect VAS not ashamed to bow to
Christ. Among his last dying utterauces
was 8 Ttques. for the prayers OF the
churches in his behalf
There was that particular quality 10 him
that you do not find in more than one per-
son
OUT OF HUNDREDS
of thousands-namely, personal magnet
ism. People have tried to defre that
Quality, and always failed, yet we bave
all felts its power. There are come per-
sons who have only TO enter room or
step upon platform or into a pulpit and
YOU are thrilled by their presence, and
when they speak your nature responds
and Won cannot help it. What is the Pc
euliar influence with which such mag
net person takes hold of social groups and
AUDIENCES? Without attempting to define
ibis. which is inGefiasble, 1 will say /,
seems to correspond to the waves Of the
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 magnetic per-
son. As there may be a cord or rope
binding persons together, there msy be an
invisible cord binding souls. A magnetic
man throws it over others as honter
throws lasso Mr.. Grady was surchsrged
With this influence, and it was employed
for patriotism aud Christianity aad eleVa-
ted purposes.
WHAT the greatest of Z 1Rlishmen said OF
F1yland is true of America and OF all
Ohrissendom. The men at the top are
THE FRIENDS OF GOD
and believers in the eancsities OF religion,
most eminent Of the lawyers, the most
eminent Of the doctors, the most eminent
Of the merchants, a5d there are no better
men 10 ell our land thsn some OF those
who sit in editorial chsirs. Aud II that
does NOT correspond with your 0eq 1slot-
anoeship. I sm sorry that you have fallen
into bad company. In answer to the
question put last spring, "Can secnisr
journalist be Christisb?" / not only an
sTer in the affirmative, but sssest that
so great are the responsibilities OF that pro-
fsssiop. so infinite and eternal the conse-
ouencss Of their Obedisncs or disobsdiebce
Of tha words ofmy text, Take thee great
roll. and write in it with a mans per, ."
ard so msny are the surrounding tempia-
tions that the men Of no other profession
more deeply need the defenses and the re-
iniorcementso of the grace Of God.
And then look at the opportunities oi
journalism. IpTaise the pulpit and msg-
nify my Office but state q fact which
YOU all know when say that where the
pulpit touches one person the press touch
es Eve hundred. The vast
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
do 70. 20 to church. bat all intelligent
people read the newspapers. While, there
fore, the responsibility of the ministers is
great. thu responsibility Of editors and re-
portecs is greater. Come, brother journ-
slists. and get your ordination, not By the
lsvipe on OF human bands, but by the lay
inc on of the hands Of the Almighty. To
Won is committed the precious reputation
of men snd the more precious reputation
OF women. Spread before cur children an
elevated literature. Maze Gin appear DIS
Rust;ne and virtue admirable. Be
lieve good rather than evil. While
you show up the hypocrisies of the churcr,
show up the stupendous bypOcTisiss out
side the church But rot, as some Of yon
are, the mere echoes OF public opinion
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