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CAPITAL Cl'lY COURIER, SATURDAY JULY 4, 1891.
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ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED
OR. TALMAQE PnEACHES ON THE
NECESSITY OF A REDEEMED.
eMitty, lthna ml Cum fort t'nmiil In
tlir Flflythlnl Clinitrr uf linlnli llor
anil Whjr Mm nml Alirrp On A.trnjr.
I WlioMirtrr Will, 11 Him Conir.
1
JlKOOKLYN, Jiiiiu 28, Dr. TaltiMKo' wr
mon today I of mi decidedly ovmiikoIIchI u
diameter oa to prove conclusively Mint
while mi many eminent preacher of tlio
day nro drifting awny from tlio old fmli
toned (Impel lio remain firm In tint pittlm
el orthodoxy. HI miliject In "Antray, tint
Recovered," nml liU text, Iimlnti llll, tl:
"Allwoukonliw'iihiivoKiiiioiiiitrnyi
ami tlio IaihI luitli lnld on him tlio Iniquity
of tu nil."
Within ninety yenrs nt tho ItuiKent nil
who hear orreml tliln ftcrmon will Ihi In
eternity. During thu next fifty yean you
will nenrly nil I hi koiio. Tho uoxt ton wnta
will out n wide nwiitli iiiiioiik thu coplo.
Tlio year 18K1 will to mime lw tho llnnllty.
Buch connlilorntloiiH tniiku tliloccimloii ufo
orliliiK and nioiunntotm. Tliu first half of
my text In nn Indictment, "All wu llku
tieep hnvo itouo nxtnty." Some ouo Miyni
"Cnn you not drop tlio II mt wonlr Tlmt U
too Ki'iiurult tlmt Hwct'ii.H too Kront n circle."
6inv innii rlxci In tlui niiilluucti nml ho
lookn over on t ho ootlto ndlo of tlio homo,
and lio Hnym "Them It a liliinplieiner, nml I
andomtnnd how ho lint none nitrny. And
tliort) in another part of tho liouxe I u do
frnudrr, nml ho hat untie nut ray. Ami
tltoro In nn Impure pcrion,aud ho has none
Mtrny."
Bit down, my brother, nml look at homo.
Uy text taken iim all In. It Mart behind
tho pulpit, nw'eepi the circuit of tho room
ml come back to thu point wheru It
Urtcd, whon It nays i "All wo Itko ulieep
lutvo koiio iwtrny." I can very cosily untler
Und why Martin Luther throw up IiIh
bands after ho had found tho Illblo nnd
cried out, "Ohl my sins, my slim," nnd why
the publican, according to tho custom to
this day In the oast, whou thoy hnvo any
great grief, beiiaii to hunt hlinxolf nnd cry
aa hoimote Ukii his breast, "Ood bo morel
ful to me a sinner."
OXUSTHATION ritOM TIIK BlIKI'llKtlD'fl MFIC.
I nn, like ninny of you, brouRht up In tho
country, aud 1 know some of tho hnblu of
beep and how thoy got astray, nnd what
y text means when It say, "All wo like
sheep have jjono astray." Sheep got astray
la two ways, cither by trying to got Into
other pasture, or from being Beared by tlio
dogs. In tho former way some of us got
astray. Wo thought tho religion of Jcmis
Christ short commons. Wo thought there
was better pasturage somewhere else. We
thought if we could only lio down on the
banks of distant streams or under great
oaks on tho other side of somo hill wo
might be better fed.
Wo wanted other pasturage than tlmt
which God through Jesus Christ gnvo our
soul, and wo wandered on and wo wan
tiered on, nnd wo wore lost. We wanted
bread aud wo found garbage. Tho further
we wandered, Instead of llndlng rich pas
turage, wo found blasted heath nnd sharp
er rocks and more stluglug nettles. No
pasture. How was It In tho worldly
groups when you lost your child f Old
they como around and cousole you very
much? Did not tho plain Christian uiiiu
who came Into your house ami sat up with
your darling child give you more comfort
than all worldly associations? Did nil tho
convivial songs you over heard comfort
you In that day of bereavement so' much
M the song thoy sang to you, purhapa the
wry song that was sung by your little
child tho last Sabbath afternoon of her
lifef
There Is a happy land, far, far away,
Where saints immortal relt". brluht, brlfht
as day.
Did your business associates in that day
of darkness aud trouble give you any espe
cial condolence f Business exasperated you,
business wore you out, business left you
limp as a rug, business made you mad.
You got dollars, but you got no peace.
God have mercy on tho mail who has uoth
Ing but business to comfort him. The
world afforded you no luxuriant pastur
age. A famous English actor stood on the
stage impersonating, and thunders of ap
plause enmo down from the galleries, and
many thought It was the proudest moment
of all his life; but there was a man asleep
Just In front of him, and tho fact that that
mnu was Indifferent aud somnolent spoiled
all the occasion tor him, aud ho cried,
"Wake upl wake up!"
So one little annoyance In life has been
more pervading to your mind than nil the
brilllaut congratulations aud successes.
Poor pasturage for your soul you found in
this world. Tho world has cheated you,
the world has belled you, the world has
misinterpreted you, the world has perse
cuted you. It never comforted you. Ohl
thbi world it a good rack from which 'a
hone may pick his hay; it is a good trough
from which the swluo may cruuch their
mess; but it gives but little food to a soul
blood bought and Immortal.
What is a soulr It Is a hope high as the
throne of God. What is u man r You say,
"It is only a man." It Is only a mnu gone
overboard In buslucss life. What Is a manf
The battleground of three worlds, with his
hands taking hold of destinies of light or
darkness. A manl No line can measure
him. No limit can bound him. Tho arch
angel before the throne cannot outlive
him. The stars shall die, but he will watch
their extinguishment The world will
burn, but he will gate on the conflagra
tion. Endless ages will march on; he will
watch the proiosslon. A manl -The mas
terpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say,
"It is only a man." Can a nature llko that
be fed on husks of the wilderness?
Substantial comfort will not grow
i On nature's barren soil;
1AJ1 wo can boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toil.
TUOSK WHO 8TUAY IN TKOUULK.
Some of you got astray by looking for
better pasturage; others by being scared of
the dogs. The hound gets over into the
pasture field. The poor things fly In every
direction. In a few moments they are torn
of the hedges and they are plashed of the
ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home
unless the farmer goes after it. There is
nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep.
It may have been lu 1857, during the finan
cial panle, or during the financial stress in
the fall of 1873, when you got astray. You
almost became an atheist. You said,
"Where is God, that honest men go down
and thieve prosperf" You were dogged
of creditors, you were dogged of the banks,
you were dogged of worldly disaster, and
some of you went into misanthropy, aud
some of you took to strong drink, aud oth
ers of you fled out of Christian association,
and you got astray. O maul that was the
last time when you ought to have forsaken
God.
Steading amid the foundering of your
earthly fortunes, how could you get along
without a God to comfort you, and a God
to deliver you, and a God to help you, and
a God to save your You tell me you have
been through enough business trouble si-
most to kill you, I know It. I cannot un
demand how thu boat could live one hour
In that chopped sea. Hut I do not know
by what process you got astray; somu In
ono way, and some lit another, ami If you
could really sen tho portion somu of you
occupy before God this morning, your soul
would burnt Into nn agony of tears nml
you would H'lt tho heavens with tho cry,
"God hnvo innrcyl" Blunt' batteries havu
been uullmheivd nlmve your soul, nml nt
times you have heard It thunderi "Tho
wages of sin Is death," "All have sinned
aud como short of tho glory of Ood." "My
ouo mnu sin entered Into thu world, nnd
death by sin; nml so death passed upon nil
men, for tlmt nil have sinned." "Thu soul
tlmt slnneth It shall die."
When Sebastopnl was Ixilng bombarded,
two Ittisslnti frigates burned all night In
tho harlror throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortrvMt, ami mjiiio of you aro
standing In tho night of your soul's t rou
ble. The cuunomidu ami tho tontlagrn
tioti, the multiplication of your sorrows
nml trouble I think must make thu wings
of God's hovering unguis shiver to thu tip.
Hut thu Inst part of my text opens n door
widu enough to let us all out ami to let nil
heaven In. Bound It on thu organ with nil
thu stops nut. Thrum It on thu harps
with nil the strings ntuiiu. With nil thu
melody ptmlhlu let thu heavens sound It to
thu earth nnd let the earth tell It to thu
heavens. "Thu Iord hath laid on trim thu
lnl(iilty of us nil," I am glad that thu
prophet did not stop to explain whom ho
meant by "him." I lint of thu manger,
him of thu bloody sweat, him of thu resur
rection throne, him of thu cruclllxlon
ngoiiy. "On him thu Iunl hath laid thu
Iniquity of us nil."
CIIIIIHT COMKHTOTIIK FAM.KK.
"Oh," says somu man, "that Is nut gener
ous, that Is not fair; let every man carry
his own burden nml pay his own debts."
That sounds reasonable If I havu nn ob
ligation nnd I hnvo thu means to meet It,
nnd I cnuiu to you nml ask you to settle
tlmt obligation, you rlghllyMiy, "Pay your
own debts." If you nnd I walking down
tho street, both hale, hearty and well, I ask
you to carry me, you say, and say rightly,
"Walk on your own feetl" But supposo
you nnd I were in a regiment nnd I was
wounded In the bnttki nnd I fell uncon
scious at. your feet with gunshot fractures
aud dislocations, what would you dor You
would call to your comrades saying,
"Como and help, this man Is helpless;
bring the ambulance; let us take him to
tho hospital," aud I would bo a dead lift
In your arms, nnd you would lift me from
tho ground where I hod fallen mid put mo
In the nmbiil lino and take mo to the hos
pital mid have nil kindness shown mo.
Would there bo anything mean lu your do
ing that? Would there bo anything be
moaning In my accepting that kindness?
Oh, no. You would bo mean not to do It.
That is what Christ docs.
If wu could pay our debts then it would
bo better to go up and pay them, saying,
"Here, Iml, here is my obligation; hero
aro tho means with which I menu to settle
that obligation; now give mo a receipt;
cross It nil out." The debt is paid. Hut
tho fact is we hnvo fallen In the battle, wu
hnvo gone down under thu hot fire of our
transgressions, wo hnvo been wounded by
the sabers of sin, wu aro helpless, we aro
Undone. Chlst comes. The loud clang
heard In tho sky on that Clu-istiuas night
was only tho bell, tho resounding bell, of
the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son
of God. lie comes down to bind up tlio
wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and
to save the lost. Clear thu way for tho Son
of God. '
Christ comes down to see us, aud wo are
a dead lift. lie does not lift un with thu
tips of his fingers. Ho does not lift us with
ono arm. Ho conies down upon his knee,
and then with n dead lift ho raises us to
honor nnd glory und immortality. "The
Lord hath laid on him tho iniquity of us
all." Why, then, will no man carry his
slusf You cannot carry successfully tlio
smallest sin you ever committed. Yon
might as well put tho Apennines ou ono
shoulder nnd tho Alps on thu other. How
much less can you carryall tho sins of your
lltotimul Christ comes and looks down In
your fnco and sn(vsi "I have como through
all the lacerations of these dnya nnd through
nil tho tempests of these night. 1 hnvo
como to bear your burdens, mid to pardon
your sins, mid to pay your debts. Put
them ou my shoulder; put them ou my
heart." "On him the Ixml hath laid tho
Iniquity of us all."
NO IIUST FOIl THE WICKED.
Sin hits almost pestered the life out of
some of you. At times It has made you
cross and unreasonably, and It hits spoiled
the brightness of your days nnd tho pence
of your night. Thero aro mun who have
been riddled of sin. . The world gives them
no solace. Gossamer aud vAlntilu the world,
while eternity, as Uiey look forwanl to It,
is black as midnight. They writhe under
tho stings of n conscience which proposes
to give no rest hore and no rest hereafter;
and yet they do not repent, they do not
pray, they do not weep. They do not real
ize that Just the position thoy cccupy Is
the position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands of mon who uover found
any hope., '
If this meeting' should be thrown open
and the people who am hero could glvo
their testimony, what thrllllnguxporiouces
we should hear on all sides! There is n
man in the gallery who would say: "I had
brilliant surroundings, I had the best edu
cation that one of the best collegiate insti
tutions of this country could glvo, nnd I
observed nil the moralities of life, and I
was self righteous, aud I thought I was all
rigut ueioro uotl as I am all right before
men; but the Holy Spirit came to me one
day nnd said, 'You aro a sinner;1 the Holy
Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I
had escaped the sins ngainst the Jaw of the
land I had really committed tho worst sin
a man ever commits the driving back of
the Sou of God from my heart's affections.
And I saw that my hands were red with
the blood of tho Son of God, and I begau to
Sray, and peace came to my heart, aud I
now by experience that what you say this
morning Is true, 'On him tho Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us nil.' "
Yonder Is a man who would say; "I was
the worst drunkard In New York; I went
from bad to worse; I destroyed myself, 1
destroyed my home; my children cowered
when I entered the house; when they put
up their lips to be kissed I struck them;
when my wife protested against the mal
treatment, I kicked her Into the street. I
know all the bruises and all the terrors of
a drunkard's woe. I went ou further and
further from God uutll one day I got a let
ter saying:
"Mr Dsah Husband I have tried every
way, dono everything, and uravnl unrtwxtlv
and fervently for your reformation, but It
seems or no avail. Slucoour little Henry died,
With the exception of those few happy weeks
whin you reuiuinod sober, my life has been one
of sorrow. Many of the nlitbts I have sat by
the window, with my faco bathed in tears,
watculuB for your coming. I am broken
hearted. 1 am sick. Mother end father have
been here frequently and bowed mo to come
home, but my love for you and my hope for
brighter days have always mado mo refuse
them. That hope seems now beyond realisa
tion, and 1 have returned to them. It is uurtl.
and I ba;tled long before dnluu It. May Uod
' bless and preserve )iiii,ainl tnko from you that
aociimeu npiH-iiiunnu liasien tlioilny when we
hull tie attain IIvIiik happily together. This
will lo my dally prn)er, knowing that ho has
alii, 'Coiiiii tiiiliiiiinnll ye that labor nnd are
heavy laden, and t will glvo you rent.' From
your loving wife, Mauv,
"And so I wandered ou and wandered
on," says that man, "uutll ono night I
passed n Methodist meeting house, und I
said to myself, 'I'll go In mid see what thoy
nro doing,' aud I got to thu door, nml they
wero singing!
All may como, Whoever will,
This mail roeolve Kxr sinners still.
"And 1 dropped right thero where I was
nnd I said, 'God have mercy,' mid ho had
mercy on mo. Aiy homo Is restored, my
wife sings all day long during work, my
children como out it long way to greet me
home, mid my household Is it little heaven,
I will tell you what did all thin for mo. It
was thu truth that this day you proclaim,
'On hint thu Iord had laid thu Iniquity f
us till.'"
TIIK UIIUNKAtll) ANII TIIK OUTCAST.
Yonder Is a woman who would sayt "I
wandered oir from my fathur's hoiisoj I
heard thu storm that pelts ou a lost soul;
my reel wuro blistered on tho hot rocks. I
went on ami on, thinking that no ono cared
for my soul, when ono night Jesus met tuu
und ho wild! 'Poor thing, go liomul your
father Is waiting for you, your mother Is
waiting for you. Go home, poor thliigi'
And, sir, I was too weak to pray, and 1 was
too weak to repent, but I Just cried out; I
soljbed out my sins ami my sorrows on the
shoulders of him of whom It Is said, 'the
Iml hath laid on him tho Iniquity of us
nil.' "
Thero Is n young man who would sayt
"1 had a Christian bringing up; I camu
from thu country to city llfu; I started
well; I had a good position, a good com
mercial M)sltlon, but one night nt tho the
ater I met somo young men who did me no
good. Thoy dragged mo till through the
sowers of iniquity, aud I lost my morals
nnd I lost my position, mid I was shabby
aud wretched. I wits going down the
street, thinking that no otiu cared or me,
when a young man taped mo ou thu
shoulder nml said, 'George, como with mo
and I will do you good.' I looked at him
to see whether ho was Joking or not. I saw
ho was In earnest and I said, 'What do you
menu, elrr' 'Well,' he replied, 'I mean If
you will como to thu meeting tonight I will
bo very glad to introduce you. I will meet
you at tho door. Will you como?' Said I,
'I will.'
"I went to tho place whero I was tarry
ing. I llxed myself up its well as I could.
I buttoned my coat over tt ragged vest ami
went to the door of the church, nnd the
young man met me and wo wont lu; ami
as I went In I heard an old man praying,
and he looked so much llko my father I
sobbed right out; mid they were nil around
so kind and sympathetic that I Just gave
my heart to God, mid I know this morning
that what you say Is true; I buliuvu tt in
my own experience. 'On him the Lord '
hath laid thu Iniquity of us nil.' " I
Oh, my brother, without stopping to look
as to whether your hand trembles or not,
wituout stopping to look whether your
hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in
my hand, let mo glvo you ono warm,
brotherly, Christian grip, and Invito you
right up to tho heart, to tho compassion,
to tho sympathy, to tho pardon of him on
whom thu Lord had laid thu iniquity of us
all. Throw nwny your sins. Carry them
nolouger. I proclaim emancipation this
morning to all who aro bound, pardon for
all sin, and eternnl life for all tho dead.
Somo ono comes here this morning, and
I stand osldo. He comes up these steps.
He comes to this place. I must stand
aside. Taking that place ho spreads abroad
his hands, and thoy wero milled. You sea
his feet, they wore bruised. Ho pulls aside
tho rolw nml shows you his wounded heart.
I say, "Art thou weary r" "Yes," ho says,
"weary with tho world's woo." I say,
"Whence contest thour" Ho says, "I como
from Calvary." I suy, "Who comes with
theef" Ho says, "No one; I have trodden
thu winepress nlouol" I sny. "Whv earnest
thou heror" "Oh," ho says, "I caino hero
to carry nil the sins nnd sorrows of tho
people."
Aud ho kneels and ho says. "Put on mv
shoulders all tho sorrows and nil the sins."
And, conscious of my own sins first, I tnko
them und put them on tho shoulders of tho
Son of God. I sny. "Canst thou bear nnv
more, O Chrlstr" Ho says, "Yea, more."
And I gather up tho sins of nil those who
servo at these oltnrs, the officers of tho
utiurcii or Jesus Christ I gather up nil
their sins nnd put them ou Christ's shout.
dew, nnd I say, "Canst thou bear any
moror" Ho says. "Yea. more." Then I
gather up nil the sins of it hundred people
iu mis iiuuso, nun i put mem ou tlio shoul
ders of Christ, mid I say, "Cnnst thou boar
morer" Ho says, "Yea, more." And I
gather up till tho sins of this assembly, and
I put them on thu shoulders of thu Sim nf
God and I sny, "Canst thou benr theiu"
"Yea," he says, "morul"
UK HATH UOUSK OUIl Tlt.VNSUItESSIOKS.
But he Is departing Clenr tho way for
htm, the Son of God. l'011 tlie door mid
let'hlm pass out:- He is carrying our sins
and bearing them away. Wo shall never
see them again. He throws them down
into the abysm, nnd you hear the long ro
verberating echo of their fall. "On him
tho Lord hath laid the iniquity of us nil."
Will you let him take nwny your sins to
dayr Or do you say, "1 will take charge
of them myself; I will fight my own bat
tles; I will risk eternity on my own no
countr" A clergyman said in his pulpit
ono Sabbath, "Beforo next Saturday night
one of this audience will have nnascd out
of llfo." A gentleman said to another
seated next to him: "I don't bellevo it. 1
mean to watch, and It It doesn't come true
by next Saturday night I shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood." Tho mnu seated
next to him said, "Perhaps it will bo your
self." "Oh, no," the other replied; "I
shall live to bo an old mini." That night
he breathed his lust.
Today tho Saviour calls. All mny como.
God never pushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody. The mnn Jumps off. It
Is suicide soul suicide it tho man per
ishes, for tho invitation is, "Whosoever
will, let him come." Whosoever, whoso
ever, whosoever! In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into
the kingdom of God, Join the procession
heavenward.
Seated among us during a service was a
man who came In and said, "I don't kuow
that there is any God." That was on Fri
day night. I said, "We will kneel down
and find out whether there Is any God."
And lu the second seat trout the pulpit we
kuelt. He sold: "1 have found N in. There
Is a God, a pardoning God. I feel him
here." He knelt In tho darkness of sin.
Ho arose two minutes afterward in the lib
erty of the Goel; while another sitting
under the gallery ou Friday night said,
"My opportunity IS gone; Inst week I
might have been wived, not now; the door
Is shut." And another from the very midst
nf ,I.U MIAtllll. j1..l(.i l... .u.inl. B....1....1
!ut bii :i.iHtt, inn"K iliw nriin, i iiaiiuti
out of the front door of the Tubermiclu,
I laying, "I am a lost man." "Heholdl the
Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of
the world." "Now ! the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation." "It is tip-
pointed unto nil men ouce to die, mnl after
Unit the Judgiuentl"
WHO WILL BE REMEMBERED?
A CorrmMiiiletit Tnkrs Issim with
Liiniincry Mitchell Depow.
Hjoclid CorrespondcDce.
New YoitK, Juno 25. When Dr,
Cliauiicey Mitchell Dcimw sattl in his
ntldruM nt tlio unveiling of tho Grant
monument at Galena, that of all Ameri
cans down to this titno only five would
bo remembered by tlio pcoplo thousand
yenrs henco namely, Washington,
Hamilton, Webster, Lincoln ntitl Grant
there wns a conslderiiblo cry of dis
sent TltereuiKin tho doctor guvo nn ex
planatory interview, in which lio mild:
nut. I.I....1 . ts. .
"wiiHiiiugiuii mm Hamilton wero tlio
constructors, Webster took up tho work
thoy lirtil begun, Lincoln and Grant
finished tlio work. It is only tlio con
structive men who aro remembered by
tho mans of tlio iieoplo."
This1 is hows, indued. Most general
renders certainly thought tlmt Alttric
tlio Goth, ntitl GtMiserio tlio Vandal, nnd
Attiltt tho Hun wero remembered, mid
that thoy wero not very "constructive."
And Hannibal the Carthaginian most
peoplu lutvo heard of him and Tamer
Inno and Unjuzot and Genghis Khan,
Wnllunstoiii nnd Tilly uro remembered
by most Germans perhaps Dr. Depow
would gy it was because thoy con
structed desorta in Germany. Certainly
nil tlio abovo named uro as well remem
bered as liny constructive men of their
time.
On second thoughts somo of these mun
niight lie said to bo of it "constructive"
tendency Tamerlane, for instance He
constructed a pyramid of 00,000 corpses
iu Bagdad. This was tho way he cele
brated July 0, 1101. On his way to
Delhi, in India, finding lilinsolf encum
bered with captives, ho hud an oven 100,
000 of them massacred to construct n
gravoynrd, probably, as Dr. Deiww
would say. Ho overran southern Russia,
burned Azov, and finally, in 1403, mini
hilatcd tho tinny of Bajnzet and cap
tured that twtentuto, whom ho took
around with him in un iron cage as long
us tho enptivo lived.
Tamerlane's great ancestor, Genghis
Khun, might perhaps bo culled construct
ive, us ho issued a codo of laws to tho
effect that there was but ono God, and
therefore should lie but one khan, and
ho wits that khan. Ho conquered nnd
captured ninety adjacent khans, throw
ing his captives into kettles of boiling
wntor. Invading China ho burned nino-
ty-six cities nnu mnny Hundred villages,
slaughtered some 10,000,000 iieoplo, and
constructed it desert us big as Texas. In
central and western Asia he did even
better. Civilization wits utterly destroyed
from China to India and Arnbia, and, al
though tho people of those countries aro
inclined to exaggeration, their statement
that ho caused tbn loss nt 1 no nnn nnn
lives is considered reasonable. Yet ho
seems to bo remembered even by "the
mass of the people" in Asia anyhow.
Hannibal slaughtered tho mon of Italy
llko sheen, killing 50000 nr (to OoO Inn
battle, nnd novor constructed anything
worth naming; yet tho American who
nas not neurit or Hannibal must bo a
nhonomenon of itrnoriinee. Tlin rhnnra
are at least oven that Wilkes Booth will
bo remembered us long ns Lincoln, and
it's a safe bet that more Americans can
quote tho refrain of tho last verses of
Guitenu this mlnuto than thero aro who
can quote any speech of Garfield's. And
does not tho poet tell us that
Tho aspiring youth who tired tho Kphcslnn
dome
Outlives lu memory tho pious fool who reared
it.
Most people, it is true, cannot name
either olfhiiud, but why enlarge? Tlio
plain truth is that Dr. Dopow's gonoral
statement is not in accord with tho iop
ular way of thinking. Perhaps people
ought to romomber their benefactors and
tho constructive men best, but they
don't. If thero is any difforenco notico
ablo it is the great destroyers who aro
best rememliered. If you want to test
this go and ask your acquaintances nt
random: "Who was Dr. Priestly? Who
invented chloroform? Who introduced
vaccination? Who was Dr. Marion
Siinins, nnd what did ho introduce?
Who began tho groat modern reform in
prison management?" And when three
fourths have answered that thoy don't
know, then ask them about tho Bender
family and Nero and Lucretia Borgia.
Dr. Depew's particular application in
tho case of Alexander Hamilton is un
fortunate. Impartial history says that
the convention of 1787 took ouo good
look at Hamilton's plan for u govern
ment and rejected it unanimously. Ham
ilton did a great work to be sure in get
ting the convention together and induc
ing the states to ratify its work; but ho
mado no secret of the fact that ho had
no faith in tho government "only ox
pectod it to last till a better ono could
be f ruined." Ho was a monarchist. Hera
is his own statement: "The best form,
not attainable by us, but to which we
should approach as near us possible, is
the British constitution. Ite
houso of lords is a most noble institution.
It seems to bo admitted that no
good executive can bo established upon
Republican principles." But let us ap
ply an everyday test Ask the average
schoolboy who Hamilton wits, and ho
will answer that ho was tho follow
Aaron Burr killed in a duel.
Hamilton did indeed havo a "con
structive intellect." So has Jay Gould.
So had Napoleon Bonaparte. If the
avorogo man were asked to name the
great "constructive intellects" of this
age, is thero any doubt that ho would
uumo such great captains of industry us
Gould, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, the Astors
and ttossibly Dr. Depew himself? Aud
yet who would think of handing over to
that class tho job of constructing a gov
ernment for a democratic-republican
people? As to Thomas Jefferson well,
he drafted the Declaration of Independ
ence, the "Act for the Freedom of Reli
gion" (1780) in Virginia and soveral mes
sages and other stuto papers of marked
ability. Ho bought the great Louisiuua
territory and provided the plans for or
ganizing governments in thu great north
west. If half or more of us Americans
credit him with the poiwesslou of a
"great constructive intellect," it is be
lieved that we can present pleas in miti
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