Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24
TALMAGE AND II. W. GRADY
TABERNACLE ADDRESS ON THE DE-
CEASED JOURNALIST.


Grady-AppeaI for Reunited Nation.
Grady's Labors for 1t.
BROOKLYN. Feb. %. The great
Academy of Music, its main floors and
its two galleries and platform and all
approaches to the building were, as
usual, thrOnged at the preaching SER
vice of the Rev T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D., today Many hundreds of per-
SONS did not gain admittance. After
an exposition by DR.. Talmage of pas
sages of Scripture descriptive of the in
fuence of the pen, James Montgom-
ery's hymn was sung:
Who are these in bright array,
This innumerable throng
Round the altar night and day
Tuning one triumphant song?
The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon
was: The Life and Death of Henry
w Grady, the Editor and Orator"
He took for his text Isaiah viii, L:
''Talze thee a great roll, and write in it
with a mans pen" The preacher said:
To Isaiah, with royal blood in his
veins and a habitant of palaces, does
this divine order come. He is to take
roll, a large roll, and write on it with
pen, not an angels pen, but mans
pen. So God honored the pen and so
he hOnOred manuscri pit. In our day
the mightiest roll is the religious and
secular newspaper, and the mightiest
pen IS the editors pen, whether for
! good or evil. And God says now to
every literary man, and especially to
every journalist: Take thee a great
roll and write in it with a mans pen"
! HOW THE NEWS REACHED DIR. TALMAGE.
Within q few weeks one of the
strongest, most vivid and most brill
liant Of those pens was laid down on
! the editorial desk in Atlanta, never
! again to be resumed. [ was far away
at the time We had been sailing up
| from 5he Mediterranean sea, through
the Dardanelles, which region is UNI
! like 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
| Islands of our American St. Lawrence,
| but mere like heagen. Indeed, we had
| just passed PatnlOS, the place from
| which John had his apocalyptic
vision. Constantinople had seemed to
come ont to 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 to
greet you. But my landing there,
that would have been to me an eXhil-
aration, was suddenly stunned with
the tidings of the death of my init
mate friend, Henry W. Grady. l
could hardly believe the tidings, for
had left on my study table at home
letters and kilograms from him, those
letters and kilograms having a warmth
and geniality and a wit such as he
only could express. The departure of
no public man for many years has SO
affected me. For DAYS walked about
as in a dream, 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 as
memory lasts, L would speak a word
in appreciation of him, the most prom
Using of Americans, and learn some
of the salient lessons of his departure.
| have no doubt that he had enc
mics. for no man can live such an ac-
tive life as he lived or be so far in adj
vance of his time without making
enemies, some because he defeated
their projects and some because he out
shOne them. Owls and bats never did
like the rising SUM- 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 gravestone cpl
taphs 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 liv-
ing brow is worth more than a noun
tain Of japonicas and Gala lilies
heaped on a funeral casket By a
little black volume of fifty pages
containing the eulogiums and
poems uttered and written at the
demise of Clay and Webster and Cal
hOun and Lincoln and Sumner, the
world tried to pay for the forty years
of OblOquy it heaped upon those living
giants. If l say nothing in praise of
a man while he lives viii keep silent
when he is dead. Myrtle and weep
ing willow can never do what ought
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 Oh sleep The hearse cannot do
what ought to have been done by
cUalIOI DuJ IDGfG are iii pOfIdl1l
things that need to be said about our
friend, who was a prophet in Ameri |
can journalism and who only a few
years ago heard the command of my |
text: Take thee great roll, and write
in it with a man S pen.
THE ORPHANS STRUGGLE INTO MANHOOD
His father dead, Henry W. Grady,
boy fourteen years of age, took up the |
battle of life. 1t would require long |
chapter to record the names of or
phans who have come to the top. When
God takes away the head of the house |
hold he very often gives to some lad |
in that household a special qualifica- |
ton. Christ remembers how that his |
own father died early, leaving him to |
support himself and his mother and |
his brothers in the carpenters shop at |
Nazareth, and he is in sympathy with |
all boys and all young men in the
struggle. You say: "Oh, if my father
had only lived | would have had
better education and would have had |
a more promising start, and there are
some wrinkles on my brow that would
not have been there. But [ have no
ticed that God makes a special way
for orphans. You would not have
been half the man you are if 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 mer-
chants, lawyers, physicians and men
of all occupations and professions, and
there are many of them who will tell
you: AT ten, or twelve, or fifteen
years Of age I started for myself; ia
ther was sick, or father was dead"
But somehow they got through and
got up. [ account for it by the fact
thu there is special dispensation of
God for orphans. All hail, the father
less and the motherless! The Lord Al
mighty will see you through. Early
obstacles for Mr.. Grady were only the
means for development of his intellect
and heart. And 10! when at thirty
nine years Of age he put down his pen
and closed his lips for the perpetual
silence he had done a work which
many a man who lives on to sixty and
seventy and eighty years never accom-
plishes. There is a great deal of sense
IF |