The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-25
EUL0GY OF MIR. GOODWIN.
THE REV. DR. LEON1RD WOOLSEY
 BiCON,S TRIBUT

Sketch Of MT. Goodwin's Early Caree,
 Ills Efforts in Postal Reforms
 Fares-Dramntic Story of the Man's
 Life.
 The eulogy upon the late Henry Lea
 witt Goodwin, delivered at the East
 Hartford Congregational church recent
 ly by the Rev. Dr. Leonard Woolsey
 Bacon, friend of the deceased for forty
 years, is aa follows:
 It was in the course of my first year
 as pastor of church, while I was deep
 ly engaged in the first ardent labors of a
 youthful minister of the gospel, and
 nnxiously burdened with the conscious
 ness of my youthful mistakes, that I be-
 came acquainted with MT. Goodwin.
 My parish was his native town of
 Litchfield and it so happened that his
 old home was my house for the time; so
 that when this returned Californian, af-
 ter very reliable career on the Pacific
 coast, came back among the friends of
 his childhood and to the old roof tree, it
 very naturally came about that I was thrown into somewhat intimate relations
 with him. He was about as much un- der your ideal Californian adventurer as could well be, with his spare, delicate frame, his low voice, his gentle ways
 and his diffident, reserved habit. It took one some time to discover the greatness of the manhood that was in him. h. deed we may all confess that it has taken us all his lifetime to know him al- together; it is only known, since his death in the midst of his unselfsh pub lie service has stayed for the time the current of sneering and detraction, and given us who loved him the occasion to compare the different things that we from our several points of view have of him, that we have begun to apprehend, in full the high dignity and the various loveliness of his character.
 He had certain requirements that were helpful to his effectiveness in the career that was before him. Let me mention three of them: 1. His ability as a mechanical engineer; ?. His eXtraordi- nary mastery of bookkeeping; 3. His ac- quaintance with the history, the law, the principles and the methods of postal service, in which he was equaled, I be- 1eve, by no man in America. How it had come about that at the very height of his manly vigor, at the age of thirty five, he should be found with such great qualities and such a peculiar equipment for effective activity and with no busi- ness of his own that should stand in the way of his giving himself mainly to the public service is a worthy subject of study for us who believe in the provi- dence of God.
 It came to him partly by hereditary right, through six generations of New England Puritans. That best stock of the Hartford colonists suffered no de- generation from being transplanted to Ltchfield Hill There he was born and there he passed his chidhood; and Litchfield town and church were his school-the New England town, in which every man had a direct responsi- bility for the conduct of public business, and the New England church, in which every member was priest. Connecti- cut had poor schools in those days, but she raised up great citizens. A boys best schooling was got out of school hours. The village was a busy hive buzzing with discussion of questions so- cial political and theological and with clever contrivance and invention It was in the line of this part of his educa- tion, that the ten-year-old child, with the help of the village tinker and car penter, contrived his electrical machine | and entertained the neighboring chill | dren with experiments in physics A | more important factor in his education | was the influence of two great preach | CTS, who abode at Litchfield long after | they had gone thence, I mean Lyman | Beecher and Laurens P. Hickok. The doctrines of personal responsibility and that a man can do whatever it is mans duty to do had impregnated the air and the soil. One could not even be little child in Ltchfield without bear ing some impress from those great minds. To the end of his nearly four score years Henry Goodwin did not cease to bear marks of it.
 An uncle in New York, man of high position in the financial world, felt sure that the little fellow had the qualities of which to make great business man. So instead of entering college, he en- tered a New York dry goods jobbing house, and graduated from that into the position of mechanical overseer and fac tory bookkeeper of great manufactur- ing concern. Before he was twenty years old, he had attained thus to high position with a large salary, and with ample opportunity for the exercise of some of his best abilities, as bookkeeper, organizer and engineer The business flourished and expanded under his man. agement, and he was in a fair way to become a rich man. But it gave scope also for the exercise of his moral quail ties. It gave him practical acquaint- ance with that curious psychological fact which We may call corporation mo- rality. The principles and the practice :. of a corporation will be something diff :, ferent from the sum or the resultant of the principles and the practice of the of the corporation. In the which he was serving, he be- came cognzant of practice which he judged to be illegal, dishonorable and wrong. He set his face like flint against the profitable inquity, and ap / pealed to the stockholders to set it right. ' The result of that appeal against poli- < ,v that WoS having pOOd dividends could | N