Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-03-07

nine yel&gsagn lie put down his pen and
closed his lips to- the perpetual silence he
had done 4 work which many man whC
lives ON tn sixty and seventy and eighty
years never acsonp.Isn-S. IGe"" /, great
deal nf s.u.".e,s praise of longevity, n
though It wpra wunncrfui achievement to
liyea cool while All, my friends, 1t is not
how long we live. but how well we live and
how uSefully We live A m29 who lives to
eighty wears and a"Nomplishrs nothing for
God or humanity NIGH better have never
lived a all. M"thu>aI"iI hvei mn" hundred
and siNty-nin" vCar'. and wnat Uld II
smguut to, IN all those more than iH1t
centuries hc did not accomplish anyth.Al
which seemed worth record Paul lved
only little mora than sixty, tut bow many
Methusl.cas would 1t take To make one idu!3
Who would not rather have PaulS sixty
years than Methu,alehS ; nine hundred and
sINty-nuuc1 Robert M"C Cheyne died nj thirty
years OF age and JOAN Summpvtied st
twenty seven wears OF age but neither earth
nor heaven viii ever hear the eal Of th"il
usefulness. Longevity Why, an elephant
can beat YOU IL: that for it lives a hundred
and tiny aud two hundred YEARS. Gray
hairs are the blossoms of the tree Of life II
found III the way ~ righteousness, but the
froStS Of the secOnl death II found IN the
way OF sin.
One Of our able New York Journals last
hhlUk flu'NlA'lil anu hHlll u u lilu ~
people and among others - myself: Gar
,he editor of a secu}Sr journal be Chris
tain Some @. the new Spapers answered:
No. answered YES: Rui lest YOU may
not understand me l say: Yes again Sum
mr. ne. ora last, riding WITH Mr. Grady rom
N religious meeting III Georgia on sunday
night, he said IL me some things which now
revea. for tic tirat time because il is apprt
pirate now that reveal then. He expressed
llS Ctmplatp faith the tiD-D4t and .
pressed ms astonlshment and ms grief that
In our day So many young men were re
jeCtiBg Christianity. From the earnest
ness and III" tenderness and the con.
fideIce with winch he spoSe on these
things | ,ln"iuded that wGeu Henry
". Grady made puu.ic profession OF his attn
in CHRIS. aud TOOK h.s piac, at the holy com
muuInn IN ths Methodist Church. he WAS
honest and truly Christian. That converse
ton thai SUNDAY night, first n the carriage
and then resume N tn hO-e.. IMPRESSED me
IN SUcn way IA. Wh"n | Sio""iS heard o;
his departure wltaOu. anv uI rns IsrtlCu-
lars. ! concluded tnat he was ready 30 E'. |
warrant there was NJ fright III Jh" las, e1i-
genrv, but taat hs found what is com
monty called "th" las enemy good
friend and from his homa on eartA rs
won't to home IN heaven. Yes, Mr..
Grady not oply demonstrated that al editor
may be IA Christian, hut that very great IN
tcllrct may be guSpeLEel. His mental capa-
city WAS SO wonderful It was almost start
ing. | have been with him in active corver.
sNtion while at the 65ul" time ne was dICta-
ting 10 n Stenusrapher his editorials Tor the
Atlanta Constitution. But that intellect was
not ashamed to bow 10 Christ. Among MS
last dying utterances was a request for the
PRAYERS OF the churches in his heGalt.
There was that particular quality in HIM
that you donot find in moro than one person
ont Ot hundreds Of thnuSandS-namelv. Dar.
sOnaI magnetism. People have tried 10 dc-
fine that quality, and always failed, vet We
have all felt its power. There are some per
sons who have only to enter room or step
upon platform or into pulpit and YOU are
thrilled by their presence, and when they
speak your nature responds and YOU cannot
help 1t. What is the peculiar influence with
which such a magnetic person takes hold OF
social groups ana audienCesy Without at
tempting 10 denne this which il inds-
Unable, | will say IL seems 10 correspond 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 spirit
ual vibration which rolls out from the
soul of what We call magnetic person.
As there may he a cord or rope binding bod.
les together, there may be an invisible cord
binding souls. A magnetic man throws it
over Others as a hunter throws n lasSo. Mr..
urady was surcharged with this Influence
and 1t was employed for patriotism and
Christianity and elevated purposes.
Gou may not know why, in the conversa-
ton which had with Mr.. Gladstone a few
weeks ago, he uttered these memorable
words about Christianity, some of which
were cabled to America. He was speaking
in reply to this remark: | said, "Mr Glad.
stone 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 stronger minded men
but when we mention you, Of such large in.
tellectuality, as being pronounced friend
OF religion, we silence their batteries" Then
Mr.. Gladstone stopped on ths hillside
where we were exercising and said:
THE older grow, the more confirmed am
in my faith in religion" "Sirn said he with
flashing eye and upifted hand talk about
the questions or tho day there Is but ons
question, and that is the Gospel That can
and will correct everything. Do you have
ca" Having told him we had, he went on
to say: 81 am profoundly thankful that
none of my children or kindred have been
blasted byit / am glad to say that about all
the men at the top in Great Britain are
Christians. Why, sir" he said, II have
been in public position fifty-eight years.
aud forty-seven years in the Cabinet OF the
British Government, and during those forty
seven years | have been associated with
sixty OF the master minds OF the century,
and all but five Of the sixty we're Christians"
He then named the four leading physicians
and surgeons of his country, calling them by
name and remarking upon the high qualities
Of each Of them and added: They are all
thoroughly Christian My friends, think
IL will be quite respectable for little longer
to be the. friends Of religion. William q.