Telegram-herald., 1890-02-24

Il Aaste. lis 49, h9ors asc is s@o galleries
and platform aad al approSc1es q TIE p-lla-
~ 3erc. a. usual fhroczed 80 the fFvacllag
serstee of tle Rev 4 Ire VIII la-mzgs, u
u to1ay ManY hundreds ~ persons dl4
not gain aiuiittance After Al sIpositloa D.
Lr Talnags - passages of scripture de-
scI1ptife u tEe ilnleues = tie Isa, JAllss
M14ig goaaery . lya-n ~as sulg
Hto a. these lu oriSht array,
Fnis ilEsue~z1le tarouE
Ro4nd ll~ alraf aigat aal Jay
T,laluk oae t4L-nEh4a- sas-s
TIE subjsrt q Dr TalmAges serraon was.
~TLe LIE and Drath ct Henry W Grady
the Eiitor and Orator lie t0ok Tor his text
Isaiah VII I. Take thee great roll, and
write la Il altn mans pen The pfe@cner
sad.
Io Isaiah. with roYal blood in hl 3 ems aud
= hab.tant II palaces. does this dIslae order
come Re is 70 take a roll. large roll, and
write ga it wlth a pen. not au angel pen, but
a mans pen. 50 tiod hon0red the pen and 50
he hon0red manuscript In our day the
mishtlest ron : the religious and secular
newspaper aud toe mighriest pen is the ed-
TORS pen. whether FOR good or evil And
God SAYS nov 70 every literary man aud espe-
cially 20 every journalist. Take thee great
roll. AMI write in u with a mans pen.
Within a few weeks one II the strongest,
most vivid and most brilliant Of those pens
was laid down on the editorial desk IN ATTAIN
IA, never again q be resumed | was FAR
away a. the time We had been sailing up
from the Mediterranean sea, through the
Dardsnelles which region Is unlike anything
ever saw FOR beauty. There Is not any other
water scenery on earth where God has done
- many picturesque things with islands.
They are some y hat 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 apocaiyp-
nc vision Constaatinople had seemed 10
come out 10 greet Us, for your approach 10
that city IS different from any other city.
Other cities as YOU approach them seem 10
retire, but this city, with It's gllttering nina
Tets and pinnacles seems almost 10 step into
the water 10 greet YOU. But my landing
there, that would have been 10 me
an exhilarstion, was suddenly stunned
with the tidings of the death of
my intimate friend, Henry w. Grady.
| could hardly believe the tidings,
for had left on my study table at home let
ters aud kilograms from him. those letters
and telesrams having warmth and geniality
and wit such as he only could express. The
departure Of no public man for many years
has 50 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 70 be as long as
memory lasts, | would speak a word in ap-
probation OF him, the most promising OF
Americans, and le.ra some of the salient les
sons of bis departure.
SPEAK WELL OF TUE LIVING ALSO.
/ have 10 doubt that he had enemies, for
no man can live such an active life as he
lived or be so far in advance Of his time with
out making enemies-some because he defeat
ed their projects and some because he out
shone them Owls and bats never did like
the rising sun. But | shall tell YOU how be
appeared 10 me, and | am glad that | told
him while lie was in full health what
thought Of him. Memorial orations and
gravescone epijaphs are often mean enough.
for they say Of man after he is dead that
which ought 10 have been said Of him while
living. One garland for a living brow is
worth moro than mountain Of japonicas
By little black volume OF fifty pages. con
tanning the eulogiums and poems uttered and
written at toe demise Of Clay and Webster
aud Calhoun and Lincoln and Sumner, the
world tried - pay for the forty years Of oblo-
guy il heaped upon those living giants. II say
nothing in praise Of a man while he lives |
will keep silent when he is dead. Myrtle and
weeping willow can never do what ought 10
have been done by amaranth and palm
branch. No amount of Dead March in
Saul" rumbling from big organs at the obse-
quies can atone for non-appreciatiOn Of the
man before he fell on sleep The hearse can
not do what ought 10 have been done by
chariot But there are important things
that need 70 be said about our friend, who
was prophet in American journalism and
who only few years ago heard the com
mand Of my text: Take thee a great roll,
aud write in it with a mans pen"
His father dead, Henry W. Grady a boy
fourteen years Of age, took up the battle Of life
II would require a long chapter - record the
names of orphans who have come 10 the top.
Whom Col takes away the head Of the house
hold nc very often gives % some lad in that
household a special qualification. Christ
remembers how that bis own father died
early. leaving him TO support himself and
hrs mother and his brothers in the carpen-
ter's shop at Nazareth. and he Is in sympathy
with all boys aud all young men IN the
struggle You say. ooh. If nv father had
only lived would have had better educa-
tion. and I would have had a more prom
i,ing start, and there are some wrinkles on
nay brow that would not have been there
But have noticed that God makes a special
wav for orphans. You would not have
been half the man you are II you had not
been obliged from your early davs 70
fght your own battles. What other
boys ct out Of Yale OF Harvard
ron got 10 the University # Hard knocks
GO among successful merchants, lawyers.
physicians and men ~ all occupations and
professions. and there are many of them who
viii tell you. At ten OF twelve or fifteen
years 0f agc. started for myself. father was
sic's. or father was dead But somehow they
cot through AMI got up. account f1r u by
the fact that there IS a special dispeusaton u
God flr orphans All hail. the father iess and
the rotheriesst The Lord Almighty viii soe
son through Early obstacles for Mr. Grady
were only The means fo~ development II bis
inte lec- and heart. And D.. when AZ thirty
nine years Of age he put down his pen and
closej his lips f'r the perpetual silence. he
hsd done = work which many man Th0
lives on % sixty and seventy and eighty yesrs
never aC0omph shes
cREAT 1RE oF SHORT LIVED WY
There is great deal n senz@'ess praise ~
I-rEevitv. IS though it were a vondeTf q
49, .evsrnsnt - live = sDod vbTe Ah my
f-ienis IL IS uc- how ionS We i've. but a1H
vel ere live and nov useful sc i've nan
wh1 lives to sizht7 years A0d sc~3-op st-s
s0-n.oz for gcd or huusritr rign- better