The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-19

obedience to the behests of duty: or meet
ing the high responsibilities Of official po-
sltlon beyond the battle won, we find in
him intuition conquering circumstances.
and his escutcheon of public and private
life as umblemished as that life was I'M
spoiled.
When Michael Angelo finished his statue
of Moses in all its magnificent lines, re-
vealing the seer and the leader, the ar
tlst stood back to say Now speak!' Nor
did the marble lips speak. They could
speak only in the silent oracle which
Keeps the man who saw God on Sinai, the
prophet 81 the world. so that everything
from Lycurgus to Blackstone or Web
ster holds something like this: '"Thus
saith the Lord through Moses, the law
Gods Man Speaks.
When God makes a living man after
the divine pattern of a divine intention
and breathes into his nostrils the breath
of divine inspiration he does not say in
vain to him what Michael Angelo said to
his creation in marble. The living man
speaks while living men hear; and one
the general have yet heard is voiced in
this: He felt the sacredness of law, and
he wanted others to tremble before its
majesty as he trembled'' His was the
integrity Of the viriie type which always
puts conscience into what he did. He
was for this reason absolutely trusted, be-
lie1y WI relied upon, by other men.
The intrepid Grant, with an eye that
saw to the heart of difficulty and a
courage that followed did say one day
what the world has since quoted: I'VE
VIII hight 1t out along this line if it takes
all summer; and he said that in a prophecy
throbbing with the early notes of triumph,
because such men as our worthy soldier
were quick to say amen and laugh at
the steep steps of struggle that Law be-
tween that crisis-hour of history and
glorious victory.
Greeks felt the sharpness Of the death
wound he turned to his armor-b bearer and
said: go tell the gods I am coming"
whereupon the standard bearer fell on his
sword and went forth to the gods And
when the cruel arbitrament of war seemed
the only way to the achievement of peace
with honor. Minnesota was first to catch
the far-sounding cry of advance, and
Minnesota is not slow to honor her sons
Ramsey. Bishop. Marshall, Hubbard Col
vile, Sanborn. They rest from their la
bors and their works do follow Them
His Memory Will Endure.
AS private citizen his memory will
endure to be a revered memory. The new
creation Of which in Christian thought
we speak is always character creation.
Genuine religion is not something that
is the awakening of truth inside the life.
1t IS truth made vital in unselfish thought
and beautiful deed. And when, this morn
ing, on my way. to my study a good
woman told me how a workman in her
nome one morning, looking up to the face
Of the general, bearing in its gentleness
ness, from the portrait over the mantle
piece, said: Yes. | know him we'll; he
is noble man. | felt that something new
had come into the meaning of the word
something that official title cannot put
into it. Noble man! I felt that L could
conscientiously add, Gods man for Gods
work, in Gods way, and in Gods time.
When Venetian monk died at the ripe
age of eighty these words were on his
lips: II must go to st. Marks, for it is
already late and have much to do And
1~lQ f411rN ff(r1r rz.S-
life was the impotence born Of sincere
desire to sanctify home life by his assid-
uous care for it's comfort. and to leave
society in which he mingled happier and
holier because he was in it. Therefore
1t is that today thousands rise I'D with
uncovered heads to say in tribute to the
YORK york Of the private citizen: Servant of
His Love for the Church.
His name in the memory of the church
is enrolled with the sacred names HaY-
ing life vocation is something very diff
ferent from having life career. TO the
Is the realization Of the Sacredness Of a
definite work and an acceptance of the
duties incident to it. All this I think
was peculiarly significant of the generals
relation to the church he loved and in
whose management he faithfully assisted
for many years. The worker for God may
never pc encouraged by the visible re-
suits he desires. But what Of that? La
Dor says Thomas Carlyle lis wide as
the earth. and it has its summit in
heaven. =
The sage counsel of this man. the SEN
tence with conviction in it, the kindly en-
couragement, the optimistic view, as well
as the action in which the actor consults
heaven, are today caught up by the forces
of inf1nity and pass into the spiritual
currency of the stars.
A pew back there draped today with
f1led while its owners strength permitted
it, and the quick testimony of scores of
good men who planned for the work of
the kingdom with him whose coronation
day has come, may all be written into this
beautitude of the scripture: Blessed are
the dead that die in the Lord from hence
forth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may
rest from their labor, and their works do
follow them
1t is in the obscurity Of Hfes sacred
workshop that the conscious eye Of him
workshop to the vision of completion A
great tomorrow must needs have behind
it a great yesterday; but it~is in the
Sanctified purposes of lifes today that any
man makes destiny
LAS the marble of the world-life wastes,
The image Of the godlife grows
There is an infinite stretch Of mystery
beyond us today which we cannot see,
but there is an edge which by faith we
can see. The height of the great ideal
life OF our Master must ever distance our
noblest efforts, as the inaccessible heights
of the Jungfrau, clad in the purity Of I'M
the traveller approaches it. Prayer be-
comes the practice of the soul that as
pireS,
"A breath, that fleets beyond this iron
world
And touches him who made it,
. And with the resolute soul who Is miss
ing today from the roll call of the COM
rades on earth and who hears the ttWell
done" of heaven for well doing my last
experience was fellowship of prayer
AS his trusted and beloved physician
stepped within the room he turned to me
and said: Now. minister, you will lead
us at the throne of grace" and as
fervently we prayed faith laid hold upon
the highest, and / knew that he Fen
dured as seeing Him that is invisible"
Gen. Sanborn's Last Words.
When a good and great Southern states
man was making an exchange of worlds
he said to one by his side: II have little
to do now with praying. The solemn mo-
mentS In which / am passing are not half
so solemn, so significant before God as
the sober years that have passed before.
They shall stand for what they are worth
they must stand-they do stand" And
these were Gen. Sanborns last words to
his minister: II have not shadow of
fear; know that this sickness is nv last
sickness; / know in Whom I have be-
lieved. My hope for the future has never
been under a cloud, and it is clear now"
Death for the brave soul so full of faith
and hope, was not death. The curtain
dropped on the stage for a moment and
was lifted to let in the unending light
1t was not death. Death for the Chris
tan is only a circumstance of life; it is
the sign Of the continuance of it.