The times., 1898-05-24
EuLoeIEs OF GLADSTONE.
His Fame and Honor Rebearsed i'm
New York PuIpits.

His Fame and Honor Rebearsed i'm
New York PuIpits.
New York, May 23.-Gladstone's fame
and virtues were the subjects of numer-
Gus discourses in churches of this city
and Brooklyn yesterday.
His potency as leading statesman of
England during the Victorian era was the
subject of a sermon last night by the
Rev. Wilbert C. Wakeman. in the First
Methodist Episcopal Church. at Flat
bush, who remarked in the course of his
eulogy:
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 it 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 place in Westmin-
ster Abbey. and his name will ever re-
main in the niche of Engiand's unques-
toned great"
The Rev DIR. r. Heber Newton preach
ed an interesting sermon on the life OF
the late Mr.. Gladstone yesterday morn
Street and Madison Avenue. He said, in~
part:
1T is as statesman that Mr.. Glad
stone is known throughout the world
and honored wherever he is known. For
sixty years he has been in 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 a statesman, not
politician. He had very little aptitude in
managing men. His influences over hs
followers was almost boundless-but 1t
was the influence of his personality not
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 a 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 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 perquiste. It's 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 5. Tip
pie spoke on the Life and Character of
Gladstone" He said: The passing away
of that great soul aroused the interest
nf ~. t,nta ~ Ie 10
of him without being open 10 the charge
| of exaggeraton-his life was SO vast and
magnificent and so far-reaching in its
influence on men.
He was born in the golden year of 1903.
| the same year in which were born OAR
win. Holmes, Mendelssohn, Tennyson.
and Lincoln. He was in public life three
score years. He was fifty-three years in
| Parliament and for twenty-seven years
| the leader of his party; from 1s43 TO 1886
/ his name is on every page of English his
| tory"
The sermon of Rev. DIR. 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 religious portion of his life, let US look
| at the political side of It. 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-
! knowIedsed his error.
ITO the poor of England the name of
Gladstone is as the name of Lincoln to
| the negro in this country. 1t as the
| voice of the poor people that was his
| hope and his rock of ages He would
not accept a title although 1t 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 tha
| same as the Spaniard is being banished
| from the Western Hemisphere today"