Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
'lTNAGE ON GRADY
ADDRESS ON THE HN,.
CEASED JOURNALIST.

r,,mare Tells When and Where He
learned of the Death of His Friend
". Grady-Appeal for a Reunited
,..-Grady's ab"rs for 1t.
oreot Academy of Music in
ne n. Y. was thronged at the
PohHn service of the Rev. I. De
lacr a1mooe. Sunday, Feb. %. Many
I1as of persons did not gain adj
ldrSn' After an exposition by DR..
tanre Of passages Of Scripture de-
iha2 of the influence of the pen,
w Nontsomery's hymn was sung:
are those in bright array,
~ his innumerable throng,
po,Ind the altar night and day
tuning one triumphant song?
s,,biect of DIR. Talmage's sermon
ne The Life and Death of Henry
ody. the Editor and Orator." He
ut sar lis text Isaiah viii, 1: Take
!" = Great roll, and write IN it with q
r. ben The preacher said:
+ isaiah, with royal blood in his
and a habitant of palaces, does
1;yine order come. He is to take a
. large roll, and write on it with a
nal an angels pen, but man S pen.
Enl bonorea the pen and SO he hon
manuscript. In II day the might
rnll is the religious and secular
,spaper, and the %mightiest pen is the
+ men,. whether for good or evil.
iGod says now to every literary man,
ssnecially to every journalist: Take
- treat roll and write in it with a
is pen
most vivid and most brilliant OF
- mems was laid down on the edi-
Fl desk i'll Atlanta, W again to be
rmcl. l was far away at the time.
had been sailing up from the Medi-
,aneDn Sea, through the Dardanelles,
irb region is unlike anything l ever
for beauty. There is not any other
lar scenery on earth where God has
T. 90 many picturesque things with
1nis. They are somewhat like the
nnsaud Islands of our American st.
urenee. but more like heaven. In
i. We lad just passed Patmos, the
ye from which John had his apo
yntie vision. Constantinople had
@el to come out to greet us, for your
Oroach to that city is different from
\ other city. Other cities as you mp
oocb them seem to retire, but this city,
h lis glittering minarets and pima
Is. seems almost to step into the water
rect YOU. But my landing there,
Il would have been to me an eXhilara-
n, was suddenly stunned with the
Inns of the death of my intimate
lend. Henry w. Grady. l could hardly
1--we the tldings. for / had left on my
1dy table at home letters and tele-
ans from him, those letters and tele-
ms having Il warmth and geniality
al wit such as he only could express.
E departure of no public man for
Inv years has so affected me. For DAYS
|alked about rs in a dream, and I re-
yel that, getting home, I would for
sake OF his bereaved household, and
the sake of his bereaved profession,
for the sake of what he had been to
and shah continue to be as long as
Fnory lasts, | would speak a word in
P~reei&tion of him, the most promis-
of Americans, and learn some of the
ent lessons of his departure.
have no doubt that he had enemies,
10 man can live such an active life
pc lived OF be so far in advance of
time without mixing enemies, some
EIse he defeated their projects and
lie becstSe he o%utshone them. Owls
bats Aeyer did like the rising sun.
lsdaIl tell YOU how he appeared to
and IN glad that I told him while
Was n !ull health what I thought of
elaor!al orations and gravestone cpl
Ms are often mean enough, for thew
OF a man after he is dead that which
gut 10 have been said of him while
ING. One garland for a living brow
worth more than a mountain of Jap
i9s and ealla lilies heaped on a flu
"a! casAet. by a little black volume
my pages containing the eulogiums
y poems uttered and written at the
MISE oil C!ey and Webster and CAL
un and Lincoln and Sumner, the
pa lfled to pay for the forty years of
o!"y II heaped upon those living
~, >, IL l say nothing in praise of a
n"-!i2 he lives | will keep silent
En- he IS dead. Myrtle and weeping
iOS can never do what ought to have
y oohe by amaranth ana palm
lsl' no amount of Dead March in
.''aotlng from big organs at the
3Ass can atone for non-apprecia-
W. Tue man before he fell on sleep.
nurse Nasse cannot do what ought to
"sea done by chariot. But there
Aposlaht things that need to be
nb ato4l our friend, who was a
onIr ~ american journalism and
[,na,A u lew years ago heard the
4 a"1 OF my text: Take theea great
i ".ta write III it with a mans pen"
|r amer dead. Henry w. Grady, a
Of iif ~ Years of age, took upthe bat
man, me- 1t would require a long
h., " record the Of orphans
1 an come to the top. When God
Tsr way The head of the household
safs' g5'en gives to some lad in that
i+ a special Qualification.
a !" remembers how that his own
ljmsalf eaiiy' leaving him to sup
hers 'gil ana his mother and his
aretb NE carpenters shop at
ovs an "l' ne Is IN sympathy with
Yor an young men in the strug-
Iyed 'n. Oh, Is my father had
eatin" = would have had Il better
taisim, "ao l would have had a more
EEleS o start and there are some
been' my brow that would not
God ban eie. But l have noticed
h. Irs made a special way for or
Ute If W. , would not be half the man
yonHr '0 mad hot been obliged !
o"'' early days to tieht
got battles. What other
sot o0t OF Yale or Harvard
els. G. 'ne University of Hard
Es, law, Wo among successful mer-
occnaSefs' physicians. and men of
{ ar sp ~ans and professions. and