The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-03-01

An Eloquent Memorial Ser
mon Preached by d..
Talmage.
He Reviews the Life of the
Great Orator and
Editor.
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon WINS
1.-THE Life and Death OF Henry w. Grady, the
Editor and Orator" He took for his text
Isaiah viii, /: Take thee d great roll, and
write in 1t with q mani pen" The preacher
said:
To Isaiah, with royal blood in his veins and
q habitant Of palaces, does this devine order
ome. He is to take a roll, q great roll, and
write on it with q pen, not nm angels pen, but
q mans pen. SO God honorcd the pen, and
80 he honored manuscript. In our day the
mightiest roll is in thu religious and secular
newspaper, and the mightiest pen is the edi-
tors pen, whether for good or evil. And God
says now to every literaryman, and especial
" to every journalist: "Take q great roll
and write in it with a man s pen"
Within a few weeks one of the strongest,
most vivid and most brilliant Of those pens
laid down or the editorial desk in At
lanta, never again to be resumed. / was fur
away at the time. We had been sailing up
from the Mediterranean SEQ, through the
Dardanelles, which region is unlike anything
ever saw for beauty. There is not any other
water scenery on earth where God has done
so many picturesque things with islands.
They are somewhat like the Thousand ISL
ands of our American st. Lawrence. but
more like heaven. Indeed, we had just passed
Patmos, the place from which John had his
apocalyptic vision. Constantinople had
seemed to come out to greet us, for your APP
proach to that city ia different from any
other city. Other cities as you approach
them seem to retire, but this city, with it's
glittering minarets and pinnacles, seem al
most to step into the water to greet you.
But my landing there, that would have been
to me an exhilaration, was suddenly stunned
with the tidings of the death Of my intimate
lieve the tidings, for ] had left on my study
table at home letters and kilograms from
him, those letters n kilograms having a
warmth and geniality and o WIT such as he
only could express. The departure Of no
public man for so many years has SO affected
me. % days | walked about as in adream,
and ] resolved that, getting home, / would
for the sake of his bereaved household, and
for the sake of his bereaved profession, and
for the sake of what he had been to me and
shall continue to be as long s memory lasts,
! would speak o word in appreciation of him,
the most promising Of Americans, and learn
some of the salient lessons Of his departure.
/ have no doubt that he had enemies. for
no man canliye such an active life as he lived
or be go 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 rising
sun. But I shall tell you how he appeared to
me, and ! am glad that / told him while he
was in full health what I thought of him.
Memorial orations and gravestone 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 gar
land for a living brow is worth more than q
monument of japonicas and Gala lilies heaped
on o funeral casket. By a little black volume
of so pages containing the sulogiums and
poems uttered and written at the demise OF
Clay and Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln
and Sumner, the world tried to pay for the
40 years of obloquy it heaped upon those
living giants. 1t say nothing in praise of q
man while he lives / will keep silent when he
is dead. Myrtle and weeping willow can new
er do what ought to lave been lone by anna
FafIn anu PAIN urdncl. NO amount OF
dead March in Saul" rumhling from big
organs at the o%bsequies can atone for ION
appreciation of the man before he fell CD
sleep. The hearse cannot do what ought to
have been done by chariot. But there are
important things that need to be said about
our friend, who was a prophet in American
journalism and who only a few years ago
q great roll, and write in it with a mans
pen
His father dead, Henry w. Grady, boy Il
years of age, took up the battle Of life. It
would require q long chapter to record the
naines Of orphans who have come Il the top.
When God takes away the head OF the house
household . special o~ualiacation. = ch br :
remembers how that his own father died
early, leaving him to support himself md
his mother and his brothers I'M the carpenters
shop at Nazareth, and he is insympathy With
all boys and all young men in the struggle.
Yon say: ''Oh, If my father had only lived
/ would have a better education and l would
have had q more promising start, and there
are som wrinkles on my brow that would
not have been there But / have noticed
that God makes a special way tor orphans.
You would not have been half the man Won
are if you had not been obliged from your
early days to fight your " battles. What
other boys got out of Yale and Harvard 8
among successful merchants, lawyers, ply
sicans and men of all occupations and pro-
LESSONS, and there are many OF them who
will tell you: Sat 10. or IL. or 15 wears of
aye / started for myself; father . sick. or
father Was dead But somehow they rot
through and got up. / account for It hyy the
God for orphans. Ain hail. The fatherless
and motheriessI The Lord Almighty will
nee Won through. Early obstacles TOR Mr.