Connecticut western news., 1912-06-20
MIR. GODDARD's ADDRESS.


 Rev. John Calvin Goddard's address on "Dr. Hiram Eddy and the Christian Preacher" was doubly attractive fea- ture, by reason of the cherished memory which abides in this community, of the departed man of God, and the eminence of the speaker as an eloquent and schol- arly orator. In part MT. Goddard said; referring to Dr. Eddy:
 "In form and bearing he was fitted for pillar, an Atlas for holding up a world; a massive man, his body Alpine, his head Mt. Blanc
 "'When, as the Palmer came in hall,
 No lord nor knight was there more tall,
 Or had a steadier step withal,
 Or looked more high and keen
 "He was the kind we should expect King David. to muster Tn his roll of mighty men, like Benaiah, who went down and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow His handwriting was Titanic, and if there be signs of character therein, as some contend, future antiquarians will hold according. ly, there were giants in those days. He had 8 certain Anakim-Gke way of disposing of things also, tossing them aside as Sampson the withes of the Phil istiues. When he was among us in his imperial, but never imperious, way, we instinctiyely gave him the homage due his birthright. It was rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesars. For I hold that when God makes q lordly nature, He makes a loyalty in others cor responding to It. So that we read when the anointed of the Lord set.forth upon His mission, And there went with him band of men, whose hearts God had touched.' God is ever touching the heart. when His chieftains are heading the column.
 "But although he was Herculean, he was not strength alone. It was with him, as with those pillars in the temple, named 'Jachin' and 'Boaz,' CStability') and CStrength,O ) of which it is recorded, and upon the tops of the pillars was lily work His whitened hair was sig nifcant of the grace and delicasy that was native to him He combined the two arts of that other Hiram, the wid. ow's son, of the tribe of NaphtaIi,' that Solomon sent for to make the temples masonry and ornamentation, whereof the Psalmist afterward declared, Strength and beauty are in His sanctu- ary.' Strong things and beautiful go together in Gods architecture, as in the oak, the mountain, the North Star. So was it in his speech.
 "He loved all things beautiful and fair. He loved to look at the Christian life itself from that point of view. Music he made 8 welcome guest. Poetry, scenery. character-all delighted , the man of God. He had delicious lacking in his makeup. In his college days he attended an abolition meeting, which, as usual, broke ur in confusion. An egg was hurled at the speaker, Garri- son, and Hiram Eddy, next to the plat form, as he was, and half turned around towards the disturber, was hit fairly and squarely by the missile. That egg said he, made an abolitionist of mel ~ AS a preacher Dr. Eddy held a con- manding place. He riveted attention from the moment of his appearance. His voice was wide of compass and deep of volume. He could, upon occasion, roar like lion robbed of its prey, and again the tones could sink to the power that is not of whirlwind nor of thunder, but of still, small voice.
 His tread was martial; he could not, like Ahab, go softly before the Lord; he tramped the platform like an armed man-the armed man he was. Some thing perhaps of his soldierly bearing was gained from active participation in those four years of fire and blood. It gave a sense of blessed propriety; it brought the heart anew Into the throat, when I saw about the preacher borne to burial, the thin, blue line of comrades in arms, and his resurrection dust wrap ped in Old Glory"