The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-31
A GOOD MANS LIFE
Furnishes the Theme for DR.. o. w.
cushing's Sermon.
HON. c. D. HUBBlRD'S CAREER
Inspires DR.. Cushing to Say Some In
tcrcstIng ThInssto His Congregation
Concerning the Growing Glory of
Useful Mans Lire.--Slany Men
Have tho Virtue of righteousness,
but Fcwso Many other Attachments.

but Fewso Many Other Attachments.
Yesterday morning Rev. DR.. @. W.
Cushing, OF the Fourth Street NIetho-
dist church, preached a sermon, taking
for his theme, Goods estimate of life
OF righteousness.
The text was from Proverbs XVI:Sl,
and the discourse was made up of
thoughts suggested by the death OF
Hon. Chester D. Hubbard.
The church was well filed, the an
nouncement of the theme having awak-
ened the interest OF many members of
other congregations who knew and re-
spected Mr. Hubbard, and who desired
to hear the discourse upon him and his
character. Dir. Cushing opened the SER
vice with prayer and read parts OF the
fifteenth Psalm and the fourth chapter
Of second Timothy.
His discourse WIS in part rs follows:
40 walk in the way OF righteousness Is
to reach the highest pitch OF human ex-
cellence. There is nothing that ap-
proaches this plane OF purity and per-
lection, and nothing can take its place
or make up for its absence. No matter
what else one has, il he have not this
he is degraded and stands not forth in
the pure light OF human excellence.
a RIGHT LIFE.
ale may have all wealth, all intel
lectual greatness, all social position, the
highest political preferment, but if he
lack what is implied by righteousness,
by life that SO fur as possible is rigidiy
right, he has not attained the supreme.
position which it is the privilege OF
every man 10 reach.
"lil this, reference has been made
only to tho moral or spiritual ATTAIN
ments. This Is the most important of
all because, us has already been said, no
matter what else may he had, without
this all else will finally prove worthless.
at Is not rare for men 10 walk III the
way Of righteousness. But it Is COM
pafutiyely rare for men who havo been
much absorbed by worldly interests
men who have been in great commercial
and political observation-disclosures con-
stantiy in the swirl OF excitement which
COMES from great business enterprises.
For men who have been leaders OF
thought and directors OF affairs to be so
strictly righteous as TO be noticeable
especially, is somewhat rare.
mot only are the men who are fitted
for such positions capable OF reaching
the highest possible range of human in
huence, but it is rs true that the fact oil
their being in such positions lessons
the probability that they will continue
to walk in the way OF righteousness.
Such is history.
"rhere is MANY COOL man who
walks in the fear Of God every day
whose influence, though always good,
is necessarily circunscribed. Stinted
opportunities for education. limited
social or business relations limit his in
fluence.
THR IDEAL MAN.
'But while man is no purer in the
sight Of God, and has no clearer title to
heaven on account OF great response
bilities borhe with fidelity, yet he is
more exalted, is grauder type OF man.
hood, than Is otherwise possible.
"An ideal man Is one who has good
| natural endowment, who has had OPP
portunty or made it, for the highest
development OF his powers-with such
qualities us fit him for the great enter.
prises Of society, and who keeps himself
| nurp in all his relations,
"Or, palmer: A man, physically, in
tellectually, socially str0ng-highly ed
ucated, we'll poised, with strong business
tact-that kind OF enduement which
fits man to ead-underlying all these
granite integrity which keeps him
from compromise with wrong, and wins
the respect and confidence OF all who
know him. This is no ordinary man.
such a one is rare! We find some Of
these traits in many men, but tits rare
to find them all in one.
"Such, from all can gather, was Mr..
Chester d. Hubbard. He bore the test
of severest trials-trials under which
many have sunk.
Men recognized in him, fitness for inn
portant trusts and thrust them upon
him. He occupied important places in
the crises OF government, was promi-
nent in political life, had much to do
with railroad interests, was prominent
in manufacturing enterprise, long q
leader in banking interests, abreast OF
thought in educational schemes. 1t is
not rare for n man to he at the front in
any one of these great interests, but to
be in the lead in so many, is rare.
cast about ior parallel cases md find
them extremely rare.
AN INSPIRATION TO YOUNG MEN.
"But in nearly all, il not all, OF these
relations his ability and integrity were
such that he held these positions FOL
many years, most Of them until the end
OF life.
81 have not referred to these things
because he was Methodist. ] am glad
he was and was not ashamed OF It, But
above this, he was d Christian. Back
of all he was MANA Christian bust
ness man, one not to be ashamed OF
one whom no city could lose without
being poorer.
ain view OF these things, and from
the tact that for many years he wa.
prominent in this church, II seemed tit
ting, and TO mo important, that such {
life should he held IN as an inspiration
TO Young men specially, that they might
he urged to follow the path in which he
walked.
"The end Of such life, nay the whole
Of such life, is a crown Of glory fol
''Not a crown which is sign of poll
ticnl nower. or OF mere intellectna