The evening times., 1898-05-23
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His Fane and Honor Rebeafgea IN
new York Pulpfts.
New York, Nay. a -Gladstone's fame
and virtues were the subjects OF numer-
GUS discourses in churches Of this city
and Brooklyn yesterday
His potency as q leading. statesman Of
England during the Victorian era was the
subject OF q sermon last night by the
Rev. wilbert C. Wakeman, in the First
Methodist Episcopal Church. at Flat
bush. who remafised.in the courssi Of his
eulogy: ,s.es...
Three things have secured his earthly
immortality. First. his integrity: his Bit
terest enemies could only decry his pol
Icy. Second. his stand for liberty. Third,
his defense Of Christianity. -,
I'm debate Mr.. Gladstone was almost
irresistible, but 1t will always remain to
his glory that he was above the tricks
of the orator, and that his words came
out of a great, robust, honest heart. His
ashes are worthy Of a. place in Westmin-
ster Abbey. and his name will ever re-
main In the niche of England's unques-
toned great.
The Rev. DR.. r. Hebef Newton preaeh-
ed an interesting sermon on. the life Of
the late Mr.. Gladstone yesterday morn
ing In All Souls Church. Sixty-sixth
Street and Madison Avenue. He said. in
part: ~, 60 ssfi,i..~5 4 ~
1T II as statesman that Mr.. Glad
stone is known throughout the world
and honored wherever he is known. For
sixty years he has Seen III public life, the
observed of all observers. This long ca
reer in public life has Witnessed grow
ing recognition not merely Of, his ability.
but Of hs character.
Mr.. Gladstone was statesman, not q
politician. He had very little aptitude in
managing men. His Influences over hs
followers was almost boupdless-but. it
was the influence Of hfs personality. hot
of his manipulation. Men far inferior to
him surpassed him in their ability to
manage a party. He surpassed all his
contemporaries, and almost every pre-
decessor In English history, in his ability
to impress upon q party his own great
ideas and convictions. His power lay In
his thoughts and In his beliefs. He was
not In politics for money.
He was never rich. When he was at
one time prime minister he declined to
consent to an increase OF salary. On
leaving Office finally he made no attempt
to secure a pension. He was nobly above
the sordid considerations of public life
which mesh and enslave SO many of our
public men.
ITO him office was a public trust. and
not a private perqufsite. Its power was
to him something far more than an op-
portunity for creating patronage. 1t was
an opportunity for. serving man in the
promotion Of better conditions of life, OF
nobler laws and loftier Institutions
In the st. James Methodist Episcopal
Church. Madison Avenue and 10th Street.
yesterday morning the Rev. Ezra s. Tip
pie spoke on the Life and Character of
Gladstone" He said: THE passing away
of that great soul aroused the interest
Of the whole world. 1t Is difficult to speak
of him without being open to the charge
Of exaggeration-his life was SO vast and
magnificent and SO far-reaching in its
influence on men.
He was born In the golden year of 1909
the same year in which were born Dar-
win. Holmes. Mendelssohn. Tennyson.
and Lincoln He was in public life three
score years. He was ffty-three years in
Parliament and for twenty-seven years
the leader Of his party: from 1S43 to 1896
his name is on every page Of English his
tory"
The sermon of Rev. DR.. s. p. Cadman
in the Central Metropolitan Temple re-
ferred TO Mr.. Gladstone as the Lincoln OF
England. The preacher paid high tribute
to the Christian character of the departed
statesman, but he said. setting aside
the relg1ous portion OF his lie, let US look
at the political side OF II. OF course. as
a statesman and politician Gladstone was
open to criticism. but coming from the
mouth of any other than he the Home
Rule bill would have been an utter i'm
possibility. 1t was his personal magnet
ism, his devoutness to his God that en-
abled him. at the age OF eighty years. to
stand before the House of Commons and
for three long hours pour forth an elo-
quent appeal for justice.
Gladstone made one mistake in his life
when the acknowledged the Confederates
in the late civil war. but in his greatness
and nobleness of character he soon ac-
knowledged his error.
ITO the poor of England the name of
Gladstone is as the name OF Lincoln to
the negro in this country. 1t was thu
voice Of the poor people that was his
hope and his rock of ages. He would
not accept a title. although il was offered
to him time and again. He was proud of
the name that God gave him and he want
ed none other.
Had Gladstone had his way the Turk
would have been sent from Europe tho
same as the Spaniard is being banished
from the Western Hemisphere today