The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-04
GLIDER PRAISES
CLEVELAND At
!. NJ. c. A. DINNER
Magazine Editor Lauds Late
Presidents Devotion to Duty.
East Watching West.

Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century Magazine, made the principal
address last night at the annual ban
ouet of the Orange Y. NJ. c. A, in the
gymnasium of the association.
Samuel w. Beldon, president of the
association, was POSTMASTER. Other
speakers included Laurence l.. Doggett,
president of the International y. M. c.
A. Training School at Springfield, Mass,
II E. C. Carter. of the international
committee of the Y. NJ. C. A., New
York city.
Mr.. elders theme was Cleveland as
a Citizen
Towards the latter end of the last
term of Mr.. Cleveland said Mr.. Gill
der, 81 had occasion to address a body
OF college students. during which I
~eulogized Mr.. Cleveland, and later l
was panied to learn that n of my best
friends had written a letter to the New
York Tribune, condemning me for abus-
ing the hospitality of the institution by
prsising and unfolding Mr.. Cleveland
before the students Of that college.
Times have changed. as l have had for
the past few weeks letters from all over
the country expressing qualification for
Whit they COIlelutT Tic lTuc ICNCldtiOAi
of the character of Grover Cleveland.
Lincoln, when he was alive, was op-
posed. as was Mr.. Cleveland. I recall
a picture in a New York paper of Mr..
Lincoln Keeling about in a barroom, and
yet Lincoln never replied to his many
calumniators, n so Mr.. Cleveland's
life was much belled. 1t is strange, too,
because Mr.. Cleveland was one of the
most conscientious men l ever
known. 1 have never known a man
whose life was so dominated with such
a sense of duty, l could almost say,
morbidly so.
This intense consciousness of Mr..
Cleveland was a part of his nature n
was born in him. He looked on every
thing from a conscientious n a reli-
gious point of view. His many vetoes
showed plainly that he was always TAX
ing risks on the side of duty. | never
knew a man so anxious to do his duty
and as little anxious to have it known
Through all his public life Mr.. Cleve-
land never had anything to do with the
dirty things in politics, ant Ii Is his
kind of moral bravery in this light that
we want. I recall very wildly the last
words of Cleveland. and | doubt that
many of you do, also: 1 nave always
tried to do my duty"
Mr.. Doggett, in his talk on 1.-THE
Newer Things in Association T.ork,"
Impressed upon the minds of his hear
ers that the most important New
Thing was the aim of the Young Mems
Association TO equip each of its men,
bers with a sturdy nature, to develop in
fulness his every power to enable him
to give the best that is in him for
Christian work.
f. C. Carter, speaking IN the "Asso-
cations Obligations to Men in Other
Lands" gave a review of the field of
foreign work, and emphasized the ne
eessity of a Christian example being set
for the hordes of non-Christians in the
East.
1.-The people of the East are infu-
snced by the acts Of Christian countries
and any bad examples set by a repre-
sentative Of a Christian country would
undo the work of a thousand mission
aries of Christianity" said the speaker.
1.-THE East is judging Jesus Christ as
we live here today, and they are just
az ready to establish non-Christianity
in the Christian West as we are to es-
tablish Christianity in the non-Chris-
tan East. Are we to be weighed In the
balance and found wanting. or shall you
Christians be such hat Christianity
should be p~ropagated to the ends Of the
world?"