The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-06
GROVER CLEVELAND
Rev. Arthur Goodenough Deliv- CTS Excellent Address on
 Ex- President.
CHAUTAu0uAMS
Splendid Tribute to Dead Man--Held Up as Object of Study for
 Young Men.

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 At the session of the Connecticut assembly which was held recently very splendid address was made on the passing of -President,I Grover Cleveland by the Rev, Dr. Arthur H. Goodenough. formerly pas tor of the East Pearl Street M. D. church. The address in full follows:
 l am to speak to you of man. My theme Is great. A man! Tho greatest thing on earth is man. In that monosylable we have personality, character, service. All progress and all history are here, A manl nm to speak to you of a particular man. He Is dead and gone. But he has left his impress on our republic. .he age and the world. He was a citizen of the United States. He was twice chosen president of the greatest re- public on the planet. He was no or dinary man. For what he was, be- cause of the place he filled. on ac- count of the work he did, we speak of him here to-day.
 Grover Cleveland was born March IS, 1887. He was elected president in 1884, He died June -, 1908. His passing has been ittingly noticed by the secular and religious Press The pulpit should not be silent The sub ject Is worthy of a minister of the gospel on the Lords Day. The man Is big enough and good enough for
 ~, 1 see neither grace nor sense in demonlzlng men while they live and canonizing them when they arc dead. l am not In that business. All men have faults--the faults are to be corrected and not magnified All men have their weaknesses--they are to be sympathzed with and helped, and not published upon the housetop All men have some virtues and redeemlng qualities. They are to be kept in the limelight. encouraged and developed, Never be eager to scent the bad In people Don't be in too much hurry in sending men to hell. God gave Ills Son to pain and death that He might draw men to heaven. We ought to be more like God In our treatment of each other Men are often too severe with men. God Is a righteous Judge because His judgment Is based on perfect knowledge. If we knew men better We should love them more.
 Mir. Cleveland was not our greatest president. but he was a great presi- dent. He was not our cleverest man. but he did many, clever things He was not a saint. Saints are rare. That is not what we are after in this coun- try. What we want Is men To raise men is our mission, and we are doing pretty well. William Mckinley was n good man Most people are ,slad to believe that IL is only few of the smallest brand who would do that. Mir Mckinley was a godly man. Per | haps the most truly religious man we have ever had in the White House. But he was not a saint. The age does not call for saints, the call is for men,
 Give us men!
 Men--from every rank.
 Fresh and free and frank;
 Men of thought and reading,
 Men of light and leading,
 Men of loyal breeding.
 The Nations welfare speeding;
 Men of faith and not of fiction,
 Men of lofty aim in action,
 Give us men I say again,
 Give us men.
 Grover Cleveland was a man. and he did the work of man. We homo, him for 1t. And we now wish to see what lessons we may learn from a \ study of his personality, his charac. ter and his work
 The men at the top are Tn honor yet they are the servants Of the peo pie. We have had, on the whole. q very commendable succession of mer in the presidency They have been z credit to the high office, and have rendered faithful service to the coun try Knowing something of tn, greatness of the office, and the deli cacy and difficulty of their work WI should cultivate appreciation of wha they have done, and fttinely homo, their memories What of the future is great question Every electio, period Is 8 serious time to the coun st try and our people. Where million, of votes are cast, nothing is eertaif until the votes are counted. Tho mex few months, therefore, we mus preach caution, carefulness, thought fitness, study, and on election day vote as In the sight of God, fo country, home and plenty.
 William J. Bryan is a man of un questioned ability He has com manded q great political party l. nominate him at three different con ventions, and the third time after tN signal defeats He has strong relle } iious tendencies II Is said, he woul make a popular preacher He ha his friends, but many of his ow, ! party will not vote for him. { William H. Taft is a man of erea personality, of superb ability. an, Ndst eApelielce. lie seems 10 com bine the best traits of Mckinley , Cleveland, Roosevelt. A combnatio, ,, hard to match and difficult to beat , The people will choose between tn : two May God grant that they nak no mistake. Too much is at stake | . the country to trifle with the matte or to be governed in our action b . prejudice.
 . MT. Cleveland was a great mar Not great like Gladstone and Bis Z mark; not great like Washington an Lincoln, but great. He has grow . greater and better every year that h ! has been in the public eye Only great man could do that That !. greatness. There is no man in tn long catalogue of our great men wh has done that more conspIcuousl