The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-30
DISTINGUISHING MARK.

= ~<fhsN ~ ASAk 4AAS
DISTINGUISHING MARK.
Last evening at the Fourth street NJ.
E. church, q large congregation enjoyed
the sermon delivered by the pastor,
Rev. ]. L. sooy, D. D.. on civilian
Ewart Gladstonc--The, Man. the States.
man, the commoner. the Christian"
DR.. sooy took as his topic, know we
not that there Is q prince and great
man fallen this day In Israeli" from
II Samuel, 1893. The speaker paid a
glowing and eloquent tribute to the
great Engllshman. In part he said:
When Edmund. Burke died In 1907
Canning wrote: There IL but one event,
but IL is an event OF. the world; Burke Is
dead" Once more II may, be said, the
short announcement, william Ewart
Glandstone is dead" has filled the world
with sorrow. As soon as It was known
that the end had come, messages OF con-
ISOLATION and tributes OF admiration be-
gan to pour. into .Hawarden from ulI
parts Of the world and from every class
OF society. France and Russia do not
love England, but they. are to-day
mourning with her over the loss she has
sustained. The Gar telegraphed his
sympathies to the widow, and then add
ed: The whole civilized world will de-
plore the loss OF the great statesman,
whose political values were SO widely
human and peaceful" And as for this
country, even In our great and threat
en!ng danger, We find time to stop and
eulogizc his name. William Z. Glad
stone was pre.eminently England's
greatest statesman and the worlds
foremost citizen. For the past fifty
years he has perhaps done more to
mould the destiny OF nations than any
other man. The London Daily Chron-
icle assigns TO him the title 1.-THE Great
Nationalist Of the. Nineteenth Century"
Mr.. Gladstone was not an accident.
His was great ancestry. Through a
long line OF noble forefathers," says DR..
HILLS in his eulogy. mature and PROV
idence began to. make ready for this
giant 200 years before the child was
born" He was of Scotch blood and
English. birth. He was an Engishman
only by birth. in that his father ex-
changed Lclth for Liverpool He had
the Scotsman's physique; the Scots
mans thrift; the Scotsman's frankneSs
almost to the point Of b!untness at
times; and above all the Scotsman'S
conscience toward God. Nature had
endowed him with every gift that could
aid him in achieving great career.
English parliamentary history records
no greater doings OF any one man. In
different parts of political work other
men may have been as great as he
There may have been orators and de-
baters In parliament who were equal to
him. Probably Fox was his equal in
parliamentary debate. The elder Pitt
was probably as great an orator as he.
The younger Pitt was probably his
equal In the statlier FORMS OF declama-
, ton. Mr. .GlandstoRe's greatness con-
sists not so much In his pre-eminence
in any one quality as In the pre-enin-
: ert combination Of many great quail
ties. No man in English history has so
combined in one person the various
qualities OF orator, statesman, politi-
clan, reformer, scholar, essayist, and
theologian. II he had not been so IA
nous as an orator, his renown as an
author would be great. An indefatig-
able student for elghty-one years, he
left q library Of 5000 volumes. Old
age did not dull his enthusiasm as 4
student. At eighty-four he published
his TRANSACTIONS OF the poems OF Horace.
At eightv-Hve he wrote his remarkable
work, THE Impregnable Rock Of Holy
Scriptures" At eighry-siX he publish
ed reprint Of Burton's Analogy, with
copious notes and comments.
1t Is as q statesman that Mr.. Glad
stone IS best known throughout the
world. For sixty years he has been IN
public life, the observed OF all observ-
ers. During that time he has never
stopped TO the calling of the mere poll
ticlan. He had very little aptitude in
managing men. His influence over his
followers was almost boundless. but 1t
was the influence OF his personality, not
Of his manipulation. He, was not In
politics for money. He sought office,
but It was not for the sake, OF the office,
but for the opportunities of the office.
To him Office was "a public trust" and
not n private perquisite. With him
principle. and not expedlency, was the
rule of life In public affairs. AS an
other has wen described him: Ills was
not that ignoble craftsmanship which
considers merely temporary measures
AMI synptomaac treatment. but rather
that heroic craftsmanship which dag
noses the disease in the body polite.
and proceeds to deal with It." His con-
slant appeal was to the right.
AS .the great c0mmoner" Mr.. Glad
stone will be best and longest remeuI-
bered in his own country. The people
loved him. not because he was great.
but because he was perraded with the
spirit OF righteousness that led him for
more than half century to champion
the rights OF the masses. To the poor
OF England the name OF Gladstone Is as
the name OF Lincoln to the negro in
this country. In the front rank of
statesman, 4 great orator, q ripe schol-
ar he was, they were glad TO think.
actually one OF them. His homeiy do
nestle life was worth untold votes at n
general election. The people liked TO
think of him with his plain prefix
"Nr.!" OF his daughters who marry Gu
rates or work In schools; of his sons
who are Something In the city," and
do not marry duchesses. They like to
refer TO his stripping TO the shirt TO fell
tree, his putting his shoulder TO n
poor mans cart and helping him push It
up Mill Hill. his going to church on Sum-
days like other people. He was one of
them. to be trusted. fought for II need
be, always esteemed with q sort OF fam
lily affection. And when he drove
What is Scott's Emul-
cjon