The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-03
CHARACTER OF GEN. GRANT
REV. DR. CHADWICK SPEAKS OF HIS
 NOBLE 0UALIT1ES.

Duty, Industry, Humility, Courage,
 Kindliness, Among His yirtues-A Great
 General and Able Statesman--Dr. Chad-
 wick Former Pastor of the General. A sermon of rare interest and value was preached by Rev. Dr. Chadwick at the Grace M. E. church last eve- ming on Lessons From the Life of General Ulysses s, Grant," In addition to great eloquence and power as a speaker, Dr. Chadwick brought to his subject knowledge of the man whose character he depicted. derived from personal acquaintanca with the general and his family. Dr. Chadwick was for three years the pastor of the church in which Gen. eral Grants parents and sisters were members in Covngton Ky, which Gen- eral Grant sometimes attended when on visits to his parents.
 Later Dr. Chadwick succeeded Dr. Newman, now Bishop Newman, as pas- tor of Union church, New York. Gen. eral Grant went with Dr. Newman to his new church.
 When pr. Newman left this church. General Grant returned to Union church, on invitation of Dr. Chadwick and the trustees, and occupied a seat in the center aisle till about the tirna of his last illness.
 Dr. Chadwick has in his home a handsome oil portrait of Grant when he was brigadier general, which he values very highly, as the gift of General Grants parents.
 | A large audience, many veterans among them, listened with deep interest 1 to the address
 Dr. Chadwick spoke, in part, as fol< | lows:
 Jeremiah 5a: Run ye to and fro | through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now. and know, and seek in the | broad places thereof if ye can find a l man.
 T desire to emphasize the last word | in this text-man. Diogenes onca stood in the market place and cried5 Hear me, men' and when a number gathered around and inquired what was l the matter, he replied: T called for men o1lu llOL lOl pi5lllCos IlcIOOOIuS WIOt6R 1 Human creatures very plentiful, but men very scarce.' Thomas Carlyle, that glorious sage, once described the population of his country as consisting of so many millions, mostly fools.' q come to speak to you this evening of the characteristics of a man of our I day, General Ulysses $. Grant, hoping and praying that by the review of this hour thoughts may be suggested and lessons inculcated that shall enable us all the more highly to appreciate true manhood and contribute in some meas- ure toward making our lives noble and pure and useful. Of General Grant one may say, he being dead, yet speaketh. General Grant was emphatically man of the people. He came into notice | from an humble birth and modest sur- roundings He early was used to toila hence in the dignity of subsequent life he had due regard and sincere sym- pathy for the toiling multitude of tha l land.
 Work is an element of power; ifs ] stimulates strength and develops thosa natural forces within which otherwisab would become enfeebled and die out prematurely. Many man of splendids natural abilities, born in wealth andk cradled in luxury, whose boyhood days have been spent in social heights, has in early manhood passed into povertys wretchedness and oblivion through per- sonal indolence.
 "On the other hand, men of humbla | origin, with ordinary natural endow- ments, yet with strong purpose and l diligent application, have by faith~ full use of limited means by earnest de- votion to some worthy calling devel- oped into men of marked strength of character, ascended by reason of thein own merit and pability the ladder ofs preferment and political prominence. or found an honored and trusted place among the industrious artizan of the age, and an influential leadership among the capitalists and merchant l princes of the world.
 t'The illustrious career of General | Grant began way back in his boyhood | days, when rather than be disobedient to his parents or disregard the wishes l of his hard working father, he applied himself for a time diligently and indus- triously to a pursuit for which he had neither taste nor inclination, and yet in after life having shar- ed in the campaign in ~ Mexico as true and worthy son of West Point he took up for a time the very business which the training of his ear- Her years had fitted him for. He was regarded at that time as a sound solid common sense man, with excellent judgment.
 That splendid quality in a soldier obedience to orders-Was displayed in General Grants boyhood, when he sum- mitted to his fathers command, say- ing, however, that he would work at | tanning until he was of age, but not a day after that time.
 His ambition led him in another di- | rection. He did not realize, however, that at that period he was building into his typical manhood the material which under divine providence contrib
 uted so largely towards making him
 the general that he was.
 'The one great lesson of submission
 to rightful authority served him and
 his nation grandly, whether you look at him in a insubordinate relation or as general of the army.
 He never gave an order but that
 he himself would willingly have obeyed
 had it come from his superior officer.