Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-09-19


that no nation oRn expect success in
life exoent as IL conforms to tho eternal
love OF the infinite Lord and passes
itself in individual and collective
activity according to that divine will.
1t was deerly ingrniEed In him that
righteousness was the perfection OF any
man and of any people.
Simplicity belonged to him. ! need
not dwell upon 1t, and close the state
ment Of these qualities by saying that
underlying all and overrenching all and
penetrating all there was q profound
loyalty to God, the great King OF the
universe, the author OF oil good, the
eternal hope of all that trust in Him.
And now may | say further that 1T
seemed to me that to whatever we may
attribute all the illustriousnesH OF this
mai, all the greatness Of his achieve
ments-- whatever OF that we mny Mt.
tribute TO his intellectual character and
quality, whatever of it wemay attribute
to the patient and thorough study
which he gave to the various questions
thrust upon him for attention, for all
his SUCCESSES as politician, as states
man, as q man OF this great county,
the successes were largely due to the
moral qualities of which have spoken.
They drew to him the hearts Of men
everywhere, and particularly OF those
who heat knew him. They called to his
| side helpers in every exigenoy OF his
career, 80 that whom his future was at
one time likely to have been imperilled
and utterly ruined by his financial con
ditions they who had resources, for the
snke of helping man who had in him
| such qualities, came to his side and put
| him on the high road Of additional and
larger successes.
His high qualities drew to him the
good will of his associates in political
| life in an eminent degree. They be-
lieved in him. felt his aindnass. con-
iidei in his honesty and in his honor.
| HIS qualities even associated with hiin
in kindly relations those who were his
political opponents They made Il
pussib.e for him to enter that land with
which he, as one OF the soldiers Of the
Union, had teen IN come sort at wal
aud to draw closer the tie that was &c
bind all the paits in one tirner anc
indissoluhle union. They commanded
the confidence of the great body Of CON
gress, so that they listened TO his pani
and accepted kindly and hopefully am
trusttully oil his declarations.
His qualities gave him reputation no
In this land alone. but throughout thu
world, and made it possible for him Il
minister in the style in which he hat
within the last two or three year
ministered to the welfare and peace o
human kind. IL was out of the pro
found depths of his moral and religiou
character that came the possibilities o
that usefulness which We are all glad h
attribute to him.
And will such "a man diel Is j
possible that lie who created, redeemed
transformed, uplifted, illumined sucl
man will permit him to fall int
oblivion.
, BThe instincts of morality are in al
good men. the divine word OF th
, Scripture leaves us no room for doubt
, 81, ~ said One Whom he trusted, "ar
the'resurrection and the life. He tina
belieyeth in Me, though no were dead
J yet shall he live, and whatsoever livet
and believeth in Me shull never die.
| Lost to us, but not to his God. Los
, from earth. hut entered heaven. Los
, from these labors and tolls and perils
but entered into the ,erlasting peac
and ever advancing progress. Blesse
. be God, Who gives us this hope III thi
, hour of our calamity and enables ua I
! triumph through Him Who hath re
3 deemed US.
, If there is a personal immortalit
3 before him, lot us also rejoice ths
there is an Immortality and memory !
r the hearts OF large and every CROWN
: people, who through the ages to CONT
{ the generations that are yet to be, wi
q look back upon this life. upon j
0 nobility and purity and service
humanity. and thank God for it. Tt
D years draw on when his name small /
: counted among the illustrlous OF til
b earth. William of Orange is not deaf
d Cromwell is not dead. Washingtc
n lives in the hearts and lives Of h
e countrymen. Lincoln, with his infini
d sorrow, lives TO teach us and lead ,
d on. And Mckinley shall summon a
9 statesmen and all his countrymen
n purer living, nobler aims, sweetei fat
10 and immortal blessedness.