Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-24

Who shall come forth for the new East and
who for the new West? Let old political
issues be buried, let old grudges die. Let
new theories be launched. With the COM
ing IN OF a new nation at the gates Of Castle
Garden every year, and the wheat bin and
corncrib of our land enlarged with every
harvest, and vast multitude of our popu-
lation sill plunged in illiteracy to be edu-
Gated, and moral questions abroad involving
the very existence of our Republic, let the
old political platforms that are worm eaten
be dropped and platforms that shall be
made of two planks, the one the
Ten Commandments and the other the
Sermon on the Mount, lifted for all of us
to stand on. But there is a lot OF old
politicians grumbling all around the sky
who don't want a new South, q new North,
new East or q new West. They have
some old war speeches that they prepared in
1861, that in all our autumnal elections
they feel called upon to infict upon the
country. They growl louder and louder in Pro
portion as they are pushed back further and
further and the Henry w. Gradys come TO the
front. But the mandate l think, has gone
forth from the throne of God that a new Amer
ican nation shall take the place of the old and
the new has been baptized for God and liberty
and justice and peace and morality and religion.
THE CALL COMES TO ALL
And now our much lamented friend has gone
to give account. Suddenly the facile and po-
tent pen is Iald down and the eloquent tongue
Is silent. What? Isthereno safeguard against
fatal disease? The impersonation of stout
health was Mr.. Grady. What compactness OF
ing eyei Standing with him in group of 20 or
80 persons at Piedmont, he looked the health
lest, as his spirits were the blithest. Shall we
never feel again the hearty grasp OF his hand
or be magnetiZed with his eloquence? Men of
the great roll, men of The pen men of wit, men
of power, if our friend had to go when the call
came, so must you when your call comes.
When God asks you what have you done with
your pen or your eloquence or your wealth or
your social position. will you be able to give
satisfactory answer? What have we been
writing all these years? If mirth, has
it been innocent mirth, or thar
From our pen have there come forth pro-
ductions healthy or poisonous? In the last
great day when the warrior must give account
OF what he has done with his sword, and the
merchant what he has done with his yard
stick, and the mason what he has done with
his trowel, and the artist what he has done
with his pencil we shall have 70 give account
of what we have done with our pen. There are
gold pens and diamond pens and pens Of
exquisite manufacture, and every few weeks
see some new kind of pen, each said to be
better than the other: but in the great day Of
our arraignment before the Judge Of quick
ana Qea0 tnaC Will De the most DeauLlIul pen,
whether gold or steel or quill, which never
wrote prOfane or unclean or cruel word, or
which from the day it was carved, or split at
the nib, dropped from its point kindness and
encouragement and help and gratitude to God
and benediction for man.
SATAN POISONING THE AIR.
May God comfort that torn up Southern
home and all the homes of this country and of
all the world which have been swept by this
plague of influenza, which has deepened some
times into pneumonia and sometimes into
typhus, and the victims of which are counted
by the ten thousand! Satan, who is the
prince of the Power of the Air" has been
poisoning the atmosphere in all nations.
Though it is the first time in our remembrance,
he has done the same thing before. In 1896 the
unwholesome air of Cairo. Egypt. destroyed
the life of 10000 in one day, and in CONSTANT
nople, in IVA, 100000 people died of it. am
glad that by the better sanitation of our cities
and wider understanding Of hygienic laws
and the greater skill Of physicians
these Apollyonic assaults upon the
human race are being resisted, but pestilential
atmosphere is still abroad. Hardly a family
here but has felt its lighter or heavier touch.
Some of the best of my flock fell under its
power and many homes here represented have
been crushed. The fact is the biggest failure
in the universe is this world if there be no
heaven beyond. But there is, and the friends
who have gone there are many and very dear.
o fearful eyes, look up to the hills crimsoning
with eternal morn! That reunion kiss will more
than make up for the parting kiss, and the well
come will oblIterate the goodby. THE Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne shall
lead them to living fountains of water
and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes" Til then, o departed
loved ones promise us that you will
remember us, as we promise to remember you.
And some Of you gone up from this city by the
sea and others from under southern Skies and
others from the homes of the more rigorous
North and some from the cabins on great
Western farms, we shall meet again when our
pen has written its last word and our arm has
done its last days work and our lips have
spoken the last adieu.
And now, thou great and magnificent soul of
editor and oratori'under brighter skies we shall
meet again. From God thou camest, and to
God thou hast returned. Not broken down,
but assembled. Not collapsed, but irradiated
Enthroned OneI Coroneted onel Sceptered
onel Emparadlsed onei Hail and FAREWELL