The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-05
TALMAGE ON GRADY.
TIE BROOKLYN PREACHER EULO
GIZES TIE DEAD EDITOR.

sermon was: The Life and Death Of
Henry W. Grady, the Editor and Orator"
he took for his text Isaiah viii, /: "Tske
thee great roll, and write in it with
mans pen." The preacher said:
To Isaiah, with loyal blood in his
veins and habisant of palaces, does this
divine order come. He 10 to take roll
large roll, and write on it with q pens
not sn angels gen, but mans pen. 50
God henored the pen aad so Ee hou-
ored manuscript. In our day the
mishtiest roll is the religious and
secnlar newspaper, and the mightiess
pen is the editors pen; whether for good
or evil. And God says now to every
literary man, and especially to every
journalist: Take thse ag-ea: rcll and
write in it wi.s-&@a1s pen"
Within STEW weeks one of the strong
ess, mossvivid and most brilliant Of
Sens was laid down On the editor
ial desk in Atlanta, never again to be
resumed. Twas far away at the time.
We had been sailing up from the Gedl-
ter7auesn sea through the Dardaceiies,
which region is unlike anything l ever
saw for beauty. There is not any other
water sceassy on earth where God has
dons 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 apocalyptlc
vision. Constsntinople had seemed to
come out to greet us, for your approach
70 that city is different from any other
city. Other cities, SIS you approached
them, seem to retire, but this city, with
It's slis.ering minarets and pinnacles,
seems almost to step into the wster to
greet you. But my landing there, that
would have been to me an e1hilaraslon,
was suddenly stunned with the tidings
of the death OF my intimate friend, Hen
y W. Grady. I could hardly believe
she tidings, for had left on. my study
table at home letters and kilograms from
hin-shose letters and kilograms having
q warmth and senislity, and Wit such
IS be only could express. The de-
parsnre of no pnblic man for many years
has 90 affected me. For days I wsikeo
about so in dream, and resolved that,
getting home, I would, for the sake OF
his be5eaved profession, and for the sake
of what he had been to me and shall con-
tinus to be as long ss memory lasts, !
would speak word in appreciation OF
him, the mos. promising of Americans,
and learn some of the salient lessons OF
his departure.
have no doubt thst be had enemies.
for ne man can live such an active life
Is he lived, or be so far in advance OF
his siae, without making enemies, some
because he defeated their projects, and
some because he outshone them. Owls
and bats never did Ike the rising sun.
But I shall tell you how he ap-
pesred to me, and am glad
giad that I told him while he was in full
health what thought Of him. Memorial
ozssions and gssvestone epitaphs are Of
ten 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 mountain of iaponicss and calls
lilies heaped On funeral casket. By
little black volume of fifty pages con-
tanning the eulogiums and poems utter.
: ed snd written at the demise OF Clay and
Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln aud
gunner, the world tried to pay for the
forty years of obloeuy it heaped upoI
shose living giants. IT, say nothing II
praise Of man while he lives I viii
Keep silent when he is dead. Myrtle
and weeping willow can never do wha
ought to have been done By snara ntE
and palm branch.-No amount Of 'sDeac
March Saul" runbling f.om big ergsn
at the o5sequies can stone for non-ap
probation Of the man before he fell on
sleep. The hearse cannot do what ough
TO have been done by chariot. But there
are important things that need to b.
said about our friend, who was prophe
in American journalism and who osly
few years ago heard the command of N!
text: ssTske thee great roll, and write
IN it with mans pen"
His father dead, Henry W. Grady, :
boy Il years of age, lookup the battle
of life. It wonld require = long chapse'
to record the names of orphans who have
come to the top. When God takes ava,
thehead of the household he very otter
gives TO some lad in that household :
special qualification. Christ remember
how that bis own father died early, leay
ing him to support himself and his moth
er and his brothers in the carpenter
shop at Nazareth, and he is in synpath.
with all boys and all young men IN The
struggle. You say: ooh, II my fathe'
had only lived would have had bet
tor education and I would have had :
more promising start, and there are some
wrinkles on my brow that would no
have been there" But ! have noticed
that God makes Especial way fo- orphans
You would not have been half tae mar
yon are if you had not been obliged from
= your early days to fight your own bat
Ties. Whss other boys got out Of Yale
orHarv.rd you got in the university O
Hard Knocks 60 among successful
merchants, lawyers, physicians aoo nel
of all occupations and professions, ans
there are many of them who will tel
YOU: cat ten, OF twelve, or fifteen year:
of sge I started fox myaelf; father wa'
nick. or father was dead" But some
how they got through and got up.
account for it by the fact tha. there is ;
special dispensation of God for orphans
kll hail, thefstherless and the mother
less! The Lord Almighty will see 20.
through. Early obstacles for hr. Grad!
were only the means for Development O.
his intellect and heart. And 10! whsr
at SO years of age he put down his PEI
and closed bis lips for the perpetual 81
lence, be had done work which nany
man who lives on to sixty and seventy
and eighty years never accom- plishcs
There is great deal of senseless praise
OF longevity, as though it were won
derful achievement to live good while
Ah, ny friends, it is not how long We
live, but how well We live, aud now use
fully we live 4 man who lives to 81