The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-02-26
IN MEMORY OF GRADY.
Rev. +. dewitt Taimage, D. b
Preachesa Memorial. Sermon.
A Glowing Tribute to the Memory a tho
Late Henry w. Grady-The Early
Struggles and Ultimate Success
In Life Of the Great Editor
and Orator.

MUSIC was: "Ine DlIe ana DeaJn OIL
Henry w. Grady, the Editor and Crater"
He took for his text Isaiah viii.
"Take thee q great roll, and write in II
with mans pen." The preacher said
To Isaiah, with royal blood in his
veins and habitant Of palaces, does
this divine order come. He is to take 0
roll, large roll, and write on it with
pen, not on angels pen, buta mans pen.
So God honored tse pen and so He hon.
ored manuscript In our day the might
lest roll Is the religions and secular
newspaper, and the Nigh test penis the
EDITORS pen, whether for good or evil.
And God says now to every literary
man, and especially every journalist.
'sTake thee great roll and write in II
with mans PEN"
Within few weeks one Of the strong.
est, most vivid and most brilliant Of
those pens was laid down on the editorial
desk in Atlanta, never again to be re.
sumed. Iwas far away at the time. We
had been sailiag up tho Mediterranean
Sea, through the Dardanelles, which re-
gion is unlike anything ever saw tor
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
Islands OF our American st. Lawrence,
but more like heaven. Indeed, we had
Just passed Patmos, the place from which
John had his apocalyptic vision. Con-
stantinople had seemed TO come out
10 greet us, for your approach to
that city is different from any
other city. Other cities as you approach
them seem to retire, but this city, With
its glittering minarets and pinnacles,
seems almost to step into the water tc
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 friend,
Henry w. Grady, Icould hardly believe
the tidings, for had left on my study
table at home letters and kilograms
from him, those letters and kilograms
having warmth and geniality and
wit such as he only could express. The
departure of no public man for many
years has so affected me. For days l
walked about as In dream, and / re.
solved that, getting home, 1 would, for
the sake of 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 as
memory lasts, would speak word in
appreciation Of him, tho most promising
OF Americans, and learn some Of the
salient lessons Of his departure.
have no doubt that he had enemies,
for no man can live such an active life
as he lived, or be so far in advance Of
bis time, without making enemies, some
because he defeated their projects nd
some because he outshone them. Owls
and bats never did like the rising sun.
But shall tell you how he appeared to
me, and am glad that told him while
he was in full health what / thought Of
him. Memorial orations and grayestone
epitaphs are often mean enough, for
they say OF man after he Is dead that
which ought TO have been said Of him
while living. One garland for living
brow is worth more than q mountain OF
japonicas and calla lilies heaped on
funeral casket. BY q little black
volume OF fifty pages containing
the eulogiums and poems uttered and
written at the demise Of Clay and Web
ster and Calhoun and Lincoln and Sum-
ner, the world tried to pay for the forty
years Of obloquy it heaped upon these
living giants. II SAY nothing in praise
Of man while he lives / will keep
silent when no is dead. Myrtle and
weeping willow can never do whatought
to have been done by amaranth and
palm branch. No amount OF "Dead
March in Saul" rumbling from big or
gans at the obsequies can atone for non
appreciation Of the man before he fell
on sleep. The hearse can not do what
ought to have been done by chariot.
But there are important things that
need to be said about our friend, who
was prophet in American journalism,
and who only few years ago heard the
command Of my text: Take thee a
great roll and write in 1t with mans
pen"
His father dead, Henry w. Grady, q
boy fourteen years Of age, took up the
battle Of life. II would require long
chapter TO record the names OF orphans
who have come TO the top. When God
takes away the head OF the household
He very often gives TO some lad in that
household Especial qualification. Christ
remembers how that His own father died
early, leaving Him 10 support Himself
and His mother and His brothers in the
carpenters shop at Nazareth, and He ID
in sympathy with all boys and young
men in the struggle. You say: 10, II
my father had only lived would have
had better education, and i would
have had more promising start,
md there are some wrinkles on
my brow that would not have
been there" But have noticed that
God makes special way for orphans.
You would not have been half the man
you arc II you had not been obliged
from your early days TO fight your own
battles. What other boys got out Of
Yale or Harvard you got in the
university Of hard knocks. Go among
successful merchants, lawyers, physi
clans, and men Of all occupations and
professions, and there are many o.
them who will tell you: "At ten, 'ol
twelve, or fifteen years Of age I started
for myself; father was sick, or father
was dead" But somehow they 60
through and got up Iaccount for II b.
the fact that there is q special dispense
tion OF God for orphans. All hail, thu
fatherless and motherlessl The Lori