The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1872, Page 3

THE LAMENTED DEAD, Last Tribute of Affection, Respect | and Admiration to the Mem- : ory of Horace Greeley. FRIENDS LOOKING UPON HIS REMAINS, The Sad Preparations for the Funeral on Wednesday. ‘The Glergymen of the City Premenncing, Panegyrics and Criticisms om the Career and Character of the Late Baiter in Chief, A Tonching Balogy by Dr. Chajtt‘eh His, ingham and Others Strewing of Bloquence Through the Mistery of His Life and Death 3 Freth- A GREAT AND GOOD MAW GONE. The remains of the dead Philosopher lay yester- day in the house of his friend, Samuel Sinclair, 69 West Forty-fifth street. They reclined in the black cloth covered casket in the rear parlor, with a tall temple of white flowers at the head and the Nowery testimonials of loving hands scattered over the ait: THE FACE OP THE DEPARTED PATRIOT Jooked 88 mobile and gentle as in 1ife, The eyes were closed as calmly and ines ‘sbout the mouth were drawn as peacefully as ip sleep. The broad forehead was as smooth and Placid as in the most picasant days of his noble career, and the general contour of his face, as yet unpinched by the chill hand of death, retained the Jook of latge benevolence and childish innocence that had become its famous characteristic, THE COFFIN is of solid ¢hestnut wood, covered with black cloth. It is profusely ornamented witn silver Jnoldings, and has three silyer handles on each side and one on each end. THE NOTICE IN THE NERALD that the body would be visible to those friends of the dead Philosopher who might desire to look upon it during the day brought such multitudes of Visitors to the house that the parlors could not conveniently admit them, and it was found neces- sary to turn away all but the immediate personal friends of the deceased. A policeman was secured to keep back those who were not personally ac- guainted with the family, in order that those who Were might have the sad consolation of looking upon his features in quict. The policeman had a busy day of it. Men came who said, “We were not personally acquainted with Mr. Greeley, but we haa A LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR HIM that entities us to look upon his body.” “I cannot help it,” said the policeman, “only friends can be admitted to-day.” “We were all his friends,” re- sponded the bystanders; but the policeman’s duty ‘was plain, and the unknown callers left, contenting themselves with the hope that they could view his remains to-day. A STEADY STREAM OF PERSONAL FRIENDS passed into the hall and lingered fora moment about the great patriot’s coMn. Strong men fooked upon his face with tears streaming from their eyes, and sobbed like children, and stooped pnd impressed upon his calm white forehead the last kiss of an affection “like unto the love of wo- Man,” Political friends who had battled by his ride in his last great campaign, old heroes of many political struggles, who had felt and ackowledgea the powerful help of his strong arm and pen in earlier days, and men who had battled against him, came alike to his side and mutely paid the tribute of love and respect to his memory, States- men have died and had honors paid them, but few have received such testimonials of AN UNSELFISH AFFECTION, ‘® love entwining itself about the hearts of men, @ personal endearment that might have been a thing apart from the colder tributes of respect and honor. The lifeless champion of a universal bro- therhood has been successful far beyond Presi- idencies and leaderships, for hearts have been iven him better than votes, and a holy enshrine- ent grander than national honors. THE OBSEQUIES. The trustees of the 7ribune, at a meeting: on turday, appointed a committee, consisting of ir. Sinclair, Mr. Reid and Mr. Cleaveland, to take tire charge of the arrangements for Mr. Greeley's ineral, They have fixed it for Wednesday, at leven o’clock, from the Church of the Divine iternity (Rev. Dr. Chapin’s), on Fifth avenue, at e corner of Forty-fifth street. No special invita- will be sent out; but it is already known that nizations of various kinds are taking formal teps for attending in’a body. The remains will lie in state throughout the day on Tuesday at such place as shall be announced in to-morrow’s papers. THE EVENT IN THE CHURCHES, Services at Dr. Chapin’s Charch. At Dr. Chapin’s church a somewhat denser con- igregation than usual was assembled, in the belief hat the eloquent preacher who had ministered to Horace Greeley’s religious faith for twenty-hve years would enter upon some eulogium of the de- veased, There were none of the intimate friends of Mr. Greeley present. They were paying the sad “ites of affection beside his remains, THE PEW which the honored sage had pursued his devo- fons jor 80 many years jg Stout the filth or sixth m the door On the right hand side of the church you enter. On the silver plate over its little door the inscription, “‘H. Greeley.” This plate yesterday bordered with crape, and black drapery fes- ooned the back and front of the pew. Many jaournihl eyes were cast toward the sadly surgest- we seat, where for so many years the noble presence ofthe great champion was to be seen, in devout ttention to the words of the eloquent preacher, he head bent in prayer when the great preacher d, and even the lips following in mute music he devotional chanting of the choir. IN HIS PRAYER or. Chapin touched the subject that filled all hearts, 8 follow: “Sanctity to us, oh Lord, the affliction hat has (pol Sanctify it to amMicted children, that they may be able to up under the repeated waves of affliction that e rolled over them. Sanctify it to those with hom he was closely associated in the things of fe, and sanctify it to the great nation, over- Inadowed by its loss. The sermon was from the text of St, John, iv, 9:—‘Jesus saith unto him, Have I been jong with you and yet hast thou not known ne, Philip? He that hath scen me hath seen the ather; and how sayest thou then shew me the ther’ It was devoted to a theological disquisition on he realization of the presence of God in Jesus hrist, and not until the close did Mr. Chapin refer the death of Mr. Greeley. Then he spoke as fol- 8 ‘The realization of God in Jesusts a power toin- ire men’nobly in the work of lite; itis a power sustain them triumphantly in the struggle of ath, It was @ power thatinspired and sustained r friend, our brother, of whom TWO CONTINENTS ARE SPEAKING TO-DAY, 1 of whom if I do not say much now, it’ is be- huse I cannot speak adequately and because there -e occasions that transcend words, More pmpetent tongues and pens than mine illustrate’ the character, will write ¢ epitaph of Horace Greeley. His name i be honored with reverence and jove ad sorrow by differing lips; for it was the pecn. writy of this man that he filled many circles of man interest ond sept & potent influence rough them ail. The hones and hearths of those NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DEUEMBER 2, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘who knew him best will keep his acts and words freshness. in tender THE POLITICAL WORLD, or discordant, as it may be, with his nt an honored leader; by his side and for his cause; the freed- will not forget him until he forgets the record Dis ecars and the breaking of his chains; PRESS, THE PLOUGH, be ‘ymbols’ ork his memory. re is not a or kind work of man that will not feel mobie cause ad was pressed tt; aad yet. hi mind pop a say h, but out on a burselves ont of the chit common of the t wh his work, the lurge-hearved csme from or of ill, was over, His last one of imple faitn and trust. So a peaceful end. We al listen to ‘words Of great men. now of ne a dying = 80 simple, go trathful, so a u t,, am THOSE Wi oF we GRESLEY. “1 know that my Redeemer veth.” That is vic- for life, It is true it does not prove the cor- nO. proo! 5 J - ber that he did not thig bis weak- ness, but cupremed fa aH Rar ol 3 He had lived it congtanuiy, and remem, too, ie vi const i it fs this Christian truth ‘after There is a power in it that is not revealed in .cold phil or pant worldtiness, He who can in worldly conscience * know that my r. liveth” is ‘strong in the faith and pearing of God, and strong too in the work of this and strong when the work of this ey by. bin to be done ho more—‘‘for he that hath ‘Me,” saith Jesus, ‘‘ hath seen’ the Father.” ~ ‘ Mr. Hepworth om the Great Journalist. The “cold snap”. kept a. great mamy from church yesterday morning, but at Steinway Hall, although it was not quite full, the serv:ces “were well at- tended. Mr. Hepworth preached from Hebrews, xil. 9—“We have had fathers of our flesh, whicn corrected us, and we gave them reverence; we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live?” At the close of an eloquent discourse he alluded to the departure of a great and respected journalist from the earth to that bourn from Which no travellér returns in the following touching manner :— THE NATION'S LOSS. When a great aMiction comes we are reminded of our own littleness. To-day Weare here; to- morrow gone. A death has lately taken place for which the whole nation mourns, We can speak of him now because he is dead. Ihad almost said that he died broken-hearted. He has been inter- woven with the interests of this country for forty Years, and just at the cloge of of ex- citing canvasses which we have khown this truly od and great man ‘shook off this mortal coil.” ‘he turbulent waters are stilled at last, and the successful candidate receives the prerer* oftorty at the other lies pale and cold in death. When we forget his eccentricities we will erect a monument to the name of A MAN OF WHOM AMERICA SHOULD BE PROUD. He was endowed with a large amount of great and trne moral courage. I believe that his motives were as pure as any that ever throbbed in a hu- man bosom. We are forced to confess that he did what we would not have dared todo. Many men fill pontoons well, and yet we never feel their presence; ut every one felt the presence of this warm- hearted man, who did what he thought was right and trusted the consequences to the future. le was @ ery, good man, and his errors seem to have been those of judgment and not of heart. While intending to do right he often did wrong; but how much you can forgive a man who tries to do good to the greatest number ! This country will not forget the jact that Horace Greely wanted to pour THE BALM OF GILEAD INTO THE PUBLIC HEART. How shall you and I meet the shadows that are sure to fall upon us? Take God as a father and Christ as a brother and with their guidance you will traverse the dark passage and enter safely the pearly gates of the palace beyond. THE EVENING SERMON—GREELEY'S CAREER AND DEATH. In the evening the hall was again crowded to suffocation, a rumor having gained circulation that this discourse of Mr. Hepworth would be upon the death of Mr. Horace Greeley. There was not a seat available after seven o’clock, and chairs and benches were ranged along the platiorm to accom- odate many who were unable to obtain stats else- where. The hymn— Through the va'ley and shadow of death though I stray; Since Thou art my guardian, no evil I fear. Thy rod shall defend me, Thy ‘staff be my stay. No harm can befall with my Comforter near— having been sung by the enormous congregation the speaker selected for his text, Acts iti., z—“‘The work whereunto I have called them.” He prefaced his sermon with an exhortation to the young men of New York to prepare for the future world, and referring to the death of Horace Greeley, he said :— THE GREATNESS OF THE SORROW. It is well for us to stand still a moment in the presence of a greatevent. It is rig and proper that we should learn the lesson which that provi- dential event teaches us. A great sorrow has fallen upon this land within a few days, and fallen upon it unexpectedly and suddenly. We never until we see them lying in their coffins; we never know how to meastire greatness untill ithas bidden us ‘“good-by” and gone forever trom our midst. While it is here we find fault; when it departs we ratefully remember that it was with us and that it pleased us, The young men of this country can learn a very important lesson from the life of that great man, that good man, whose light has gone out and who has left us for another, and we tryst better world. The flags all over the Continent ai half-mast, the tribute of a grateful people to ac- knowledge’ worth, the bells all over the land tolling out thelr dirge, are signs of the sorrow of many thousand homes throughont ¢ . Three weeks ago we uttered harsh criticisms, but death stops our tongues; three weeks ago we were in the midst of ® Partisan conflict, our prejudices excited, our passions roused ; we were ready to attribute to anybody, to everybody on the other side all possible bad motives, and ready to forgive any weakness if it was on the side where we stood; but to-day our gladiator has won the victory, and we hope God will crown that victory with ten thou- sand blessings, and that a whole nation may be as grateful for the victories of peace as it is already grateful for the victories of war. The other lies on his bier—his race is run, his battle is over—de- feated doubly—doubly defeated, I say, by the victor in yonder distance, and by that other Victor who never lowers his lance to us, t Ws look at that life for @ moment, Had he been born om the mountain top and kept the even tenor of his way along the roval ridge he might have lived and died almost unnoticed, but our hearts are bound to him with peculiar affection, because he began fifty years ago where you and I are working now—away down in the depths of the valley, with nothing but a large ambition and a good dream in our hearts; our eyes fixed upon that lofty pinnacle which we hope to reach at some ume in the future. You look at him and say he was formed by circumstances. No. You are wrong. Circumstances were against him; but ne fought them and conquered. He no better chance filty years ago than nine out of ten in this congregation. Not half the obstacles which stood | in his way stand in your way to-day. How did he win? By nght down honest work, by phxsical temperance, by self-control, by self-poise and by self-direction; by having an aim in life, a high and lotty par se, and by determining never to yiela until he had won the fight; and before he died he was, I think, if not the strongest, at least one of the strongest influences in the Jand. Agree or dis- agree with the conclusions of his mind, that fact remains uncontradicted. He exerted an influence that was felt in every hamlet this side of the Rocky Mountains. Men loved him who had never seen him, and the influence, the illustrious influence of that mind flashed its presence over the whole Continent, Senates were influenced and directed by him, NE SAT UPON NO THRONE; only upon the common chair of the editor of a dally journal, and yet he was the power behind the throne, which is sometimes greater than the throne the nee you shall no ‘of | must live every day by know how much we love and honor our great ones | itself, I shail never forget the lependencs, the moral courage of his early life, and though in later days we look upon his career with a sbarper criti- oa yet you and all friends who rose and who fought against slavery in the name of the New Tes- tament and in the name of God cannot to-day criti- cise as we stand by his bier the man whose face ‘was always llited up against the chains of the over- seer and the slave owner, Thank God for that American manhood so full of courage that it dares stand alone and say an institution is wrong and must be given up! No one knows how much of the victory which freed the slayes was due to him. Through @ thousand intricate ramifications that reistent thought went, kindling minds and kind- ng ts until men learned to love libert! ana heart to hate slavery. trusted by on man himself, the place will be warmer still, and we, for- eceentricities, forgetting his errors Which, oe were many. en! principles which the Lo The Death of Mr. Grecley—His Life—A Lover Buried in the Coral Bed of the Decp Gcoan and a Father and Mother Also Gone : ting Sermon— The Congregation of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Tears—Discourse by the Rev. Dr. Armitage, The sermon preached at the Fifth Avenue Pres- byterian church by the Rev. Dr. Armitage yester- day morning was one which will long be remem- ered by those who heard it. The discourse was based upon the loss by death of Mr. Horace Gree- Jey, and at its conclusion there was scarcely one among the co don who had pot been atfected to tears. ‘tempore prayer, however, which the preacher delivered prefaratory to his sermon, ‘Was perhaps the most touching and affecting of all, During its delivery he said they were there tnat morning mingling tears with their grati- tude and offering with their thanksgiving many of those deep feelings for the bereft which nothing but the great omnipotence of God coulda create in the bosoms of mortals, He had taken in His wisdom one much respected from among us. Our great publicist slept in the image of death; the man whom We had loved for years, whose name, influence and power had been a life among us, was stretched out in the image of death. Why Henly Knew; but out of the aMiction He would cause Fich and noble eforts of righteousness to grow, and they would sec hereafter what they them knew. Rat of this Divine medium. Those.of them who bad progressed into middle life felt that the aMlic- tion was personal. Some of those in this city began their career as public men or private citl- zens, a8 men following certain PROFESSIONS OF INTELLECT, Or might follow equally honorabic positions of Tmanual toil and commercial business, ary) they had measured thetr terms of activity alongside of their fellow citizen who had departed this life, and God’s visitation upon him had struck home to all their hearts, Some of them remembered when he came tothis great metropolis poverty-stricken, unsur- rounded by friends, lonely as a stranger, yet trust- ing asachild. They remembered the struggles of early life, the obscurity, the toi] to educate the great mind that seemed to shape its own course and destiny, and they remembered with thankegiy- ing all the peculiar circumstances that gathered about his life and made him what he was. They thanked God for his poverty and his struggles, for the bent of his noble nature, for the power of his intellectual mind, for the endurance of his sensi- bilities and for the purity of his life. They thanked Him for the correcting lessons that he gave them in the great structure of their usetal yeaa in the jurisprudence of the people and for the sweet and noble communion which ge held through which we drank kindred views and feel- ings, and he would hallow atid sanctify his life that his truth should follow his name in genera- | moe come, as being dead he would be unabie to speak. for they found that the great, the venerable and the wise were mortal like themselves, mitted to come upon Mr, Grecley, while he was old, aseries of crushing calamities; and, within the period of one moon, a lovely family circle that was unbroken, save as a jink that had been taken years ago, and to a bosom that was unwounded save by the scar of old strokes which had been left there, He had broken the poy arch, broken down the altar of the house, and visited it with great and apparent severity—an afiliction by which father and mother slept together that day and a coral beds, an affliction by which the trinity of the link that bound and united them had been broken, and tne principals been taken away in a moment, They prayed that the sweet lessong—purity, nobility and honor of his life, and of his parent: age—might abide with bis daughters as legacies that should be a treasure to encourage them, and, above all, that the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ might dwell in. their hearts, that the hope of a lorious resurrection should arrive when the be- rothed one, and the tather and motier should come forth, when the sea should give up her dead and the eartn no longer conceal her siain. Then | might these two fatherless and motheriless giris be | reunited with the departed majority of that house who had gone 80 soon before them. They biessed God for THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH, as well as for the means of hisuife. His death had been slow and ear eri ab painless, with an ob- liviousuess of many of the distressing phenomena about it. They thanked Him that He him the Ak leg of the heart by the rending of an the last ties, that He had taken him in insensi- bility of all the transactions of earth to Himself, and yet they thanked Him that He did give that great heart and mind lurid moments in passing away, and that he uttered the noblest truth that was ever told to the universe—“I know that my Re- deemer liveth.” Blessed be God’s name that the | could trust in this precious declaration, and they praved Him to permit the loss of their Grecieys, their Sewards and their Lincolns, the noble men of all their spheres—make them a better peopl . The preacher then selected as the text of his s¢x- mon the eighth verse of the Ug fa a Psalm, viz. :—*I will instruct thee and will teach thee in | the way which fon spouldst go.” He said they must pardon his Weaknéss on the occasion; he felt almost inadequate to conduct the servic: When he learned of the death of this great states- man his heart boundea back to a period of more than thirty years, when he met him a little younger than himself, but both young men, in this city, and it seemed to him to be an admonition to be ready also; for the thought brought back the mem- i of those times with very great vividness, & ie speaker) came to this city a young boy, empty- n anded jorace Greeley, and at about the same period he came, His first knowledge of him was a8 EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER, and some other periodicals followed that, and last Of all a little evening paper called the Zuttler. He Presumed there were few persons in New York who remembered it. Ina conversation with Mr. Greeley a tew months ago he said to him, “I have read your paper from its first number, and even before it was issued, for months.” He asked, with @ pleasant smile, what I meant, and I said, “It grew out of that penny paper of yours, the Evening jttler, a wonderiul little sheet for its condensa- tior, its power and its influence.” With some de- gree of surprise he said, “Really, 1 am surprised that you recollect it. Ihave not heard the name of the paper mentioned for years and had-entirely forgotten it.’ True enough, It was the father of the Zribune, Stern and James Gordon Bennett had also departed from’ the old vete- rans of the press. ‘They left no one except Mr. Bryant and Mr. Brooks, who were the only surviving editors of the daily papers which Were in existence when he came to New York. Raymond and others followed them, and they were gone also, When he looked back on those thirty years he naturally felt that the words of the text should create in his mind the inquiry, should he next be led to the close oi the same journey, The text said, “I will instruct thee, and I will teacn thee in the nied which thou shouldst go.” Men sometimes said that it was a solemn thing to die, and so it was, but he believed that a littie re- flection would show that it was a still more solemn thing to live. It was only THR THOUGUTLESS AND THE INCONSIDERATE that rushed through lite carlessly; men of more with nature, and man’s higher and nobler sphere | They stood that day silently before God,” He had per- | lover lay at the bottom of the ocean sleeping in the | ad spared | publicist, the journalist, the statesman, the emperor | He | caution remembered that every tread of the foot was one tread nearer death. He earnestly en- treated all young men to take an exampleof the manner in which Mr. Greeley died and to put their trust in God. He doubted whether Horace Gree- ley could ever become what he was but {or his ad- versities; it was the lessons he had learned through his struggling life that made him consid- erate to the poor and the dowh-trodden, and these ever were dying of starvation. What made him so earnest in his desire to see phe poune: men of his country become noble, patriotic and prosperot but the trials which he had had to en ater ia his youth and early manhood? He, Mad rea son to dread & erity more than Prosperity was the ruin of geome men, and he <r eran changes come over w ey became prosperous; upon them, "Horace Gresley wore lnveela shane: ay, but they were not granted fo yim a8 a you man; he wore them as @ man of sixty, after w trials, alter the bat and after the ts fonon % hed rt rave it, endo with or, mar! respect wed responsibility. And he aeked, did honor spring some “ie dia Sot comet. hen walking up and down street in ribbons ana lumes; it came to him when his jes were ien in blood, Lt the shouts quered and the groans of the dying. These were had he not been might lie have d daughter—that atten’ withal that atgongeh resolution. that withal that stren; given her to enable her to ‘for him, knowing 80 well how near he was to his end—how near, in- dead, he was to being lost to her for lile, Mr. Beecher on the Death of Mr, Greeley, Mr. Beecher at the conclusion of the sermon preached last night, a summary of which sppears in another cclumn, thus referred to Mr. Greeley’s death. In applying the truths of his discourse Mr, Beecher said :—“It is time, brethren, that we should think of these things. A pall of death hangs over the community. The heart of one who was the light of our dwelling is now unconscious, Aman Whom 1 greatly loved; @ man who wes greatiy charged with great power; aman who had avery commendable ambition, even if it were not the most wise one; a man of enormous energy; a man who did not undertake anything except that which in his judgment was to benefit the meration in which he lived; a man who ag gone successfully through a rough and stormy Ife and lived to a good old age. He would have clasped a worldly honor which Was not attainable by. im; he ciutched at it and fell below it, and @ied of a broken heart—a man who lived in stormy times, and wiose heart and soul were always on the side of the best things, With well intent he sought a more eminent honor and missed it, Byand by, when the excitement of the time has passed away, men’s judgments will be clearer, and we shall Bepever Chante WTAE Was Warisedp that endeavor ina iiterent and clearer ig ht, A better balanced Judgment will be formed. than cap be formed now; ‘We shall see muck policy, in egdeayars, in writ- ing, In speaking—that we cannot see clearly now. ne thing we may see now—this death has brought leath nearer to the thoughts of men. Death steals ns atall times. A Wise Providence hes taken a kind heart and a@ goodman. Deathspreaus loom over us, ‘This news to-day makes all men’s thoughts conversation turn into one } channel, and warns Men of the uncertainty of life. Death Pak, A to all of you. Entrusted to you is not only administration of worldly trusts, and when yon fafl in this be aysured by the truest assurances that you will be received into an eternal happiness, ‘oll 80 fearlessly, live so wisely, by resolvesso taken day by day, that when ‘ou Work your work is so easy and #0 well done shat you shall be assured that when the door shall at open your Mame shall be called and you Shall have an abi it entrance into the kingdom of heaven. Woe is it to you if you waste it, woe if You neglect it, woo if you take care of the body and negiect the soul, woe if you live for this world, woe to have an Sh oo in all that is temporary and not in that which iseternal. Put yourselves in the hands of God in all storms and trust Him to the e Mr. Beecher offered a short prayer, and after the singing of a hymna the benediction was pro- Roupoed and the immense congregation was dis- The Death off Forace, Geeclay and its Lessons’ to Li ry —His Life din Example for the Straggling—Mr. Gree- ley’s Remarkable Statement to Mr. Talmage—An Eloquent Tribute to the Dead Delivered in the Brooklyn Taber. nacle. Mr. Talmage’s sermon last evening was on the death of Horace Greeley, and its lessons to literary men and others, The Tabernacle was crowded to its utmost capacity. Mr. Greeley was a warm friend of the pastor of the Tabernacle, and took a deep taterest In the lay college connected with the church, before which he lectured last Winter. The preacher last evening spoke for nearly an hour. An abstract of the discourse will be found below, The text selected was Zechariah xi. “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen.” Horace Greeley is dead! The caricaturist drops his pencil, the author his pen, the merchant his | yard stick, the laborer his piekaxe, the student his book, the lawyer his brief, the nation its sorrow, the world its culogium. There ought to be, in the life of this man, a lesson of hope for the struggling. But young men sometimes think they have no chance, ho money, no elaborate education. You have as much chance as this boy had, Look at the lad in Vermont, in homespun clothes, dyed with butternut bark, helping his father get a scant living out of a poor piece of ground. One who, | with bare {cet and tow shirt, helped his father to raise a living for mother and sisters has a right to publish fifty books concerning “What He Knows | About Farming.” See : THE WHITE-HEADED LAD getting off the Albany towhoat at the New York jattery, moneyless aud irtendiess, and sitting ou the steps of a printing oMce waiting for the ‘‘voss” to come. Then look at him occupying the fore- most editorial chair of the world! Have you no chance? He who has got a good, industrious mother, graduates from a university higher than Berlin or Edinburgh, with a diploma in each hand. God starts us with at least $100,000 of capital. Your right arm is worth $5,000, surely; your left as much; your reason is worth $20,000, certainly, and you would .not want to seil your soul for $60,000. That makes for every mau that starts in lite a capital of $100,000, Many are waiting for institutions to mak» them, and for friends to make them. Fool! why don't you make yourself? Columbus was @ weaver, sop wus @ slave, Hogarth a carver of pewter pots, Horace Greeley entered New York with ten $10 75 in his pocket. You say it was genius and e¢centricity. No, it was work. Many a man has tried to copy Horace Gveeley, but got nothing but his poor handwriting and his slouched hat, It was work that made the man. ‘This providence ought to be A WARNING TO OVER-WORKED LITBRARY MBN, Mr. Greeley told me ten di before his nomina- tion at Cincinnati that he had not had a sound sleep in filteen years! Brethren of literary toil, we bad better slow up—put oon brakes. You who bre going With thd exXpfess train, at sixty miles an hour, had better take the accommodation at thirty- | five miles an hour. It is this niglt work that is | killing our literary men. The brags heads of the | coffin lid are made out of light, Firat the devil tries to stop the useful thinker by aking him lazy; bus, failing in thac, he stands in the editor's THO LD ate rnaes * the ge etigth study, saying — four 8 work you are doing: Writs two books this wiht ‘9 out and deliver fifty lectures at $200 a night.” Men of in- tellectual toil, you are careful oi the candle to keep it burning bri ny you had better begin to look after the candfentick, ‘We find in this solemn providence the doctrine G brotherhood. All parties feel it. We are at the | close of the meanest chapter of personal vitupera- tion. The moment this death was announced it hushed everything. When the nation next week | follow Horace Greeley to Greenwood you will not be able to tell who were republicans ‘and who lib- eral republicans, All the States wili vote for him as @ man Worthy of honor, and by THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF THE WORLD | he will be proclaimed Presideut of the great re- formatory movements of the last twenty years. | How Cain f the nation has grounded arms! The trumps that sounded the victory of his political ry pore will deepen into the grand march tor y the dead. We learn from this providence that newspaper men, like other people, will have to meet God, It is @ vast responsibility to set type or sit im an edi- | torial chair; the audience is 80 vast, the result so | Infinite. ny man ought to be a high-toned Christian itis the editor, Now, the editor in his columns says “we” and ‘“us,’’ but in the last day | it will be “I and “you.” I congratuiate you, men of the printing press, on the splendor of your op- portent, and { charge you, be careful how you use It. Alas! for those who prostitute an opportu- nity In blackmatling and enlarging their subscrip- tion list by pandering to the appetite of BAD MEN AND WORSE WOMEN poeoniay. the air with a plague that killed a nation, Mr. Talmage referred to Mr. Greeley as the champion of be ed rinciples, He was the foe of all intoxicating drinks, from the rye whiskey that throws the sot into the ditch to the wine cup that makes @ fool of the fine lady In the parlor, He saw the ruin intemperance had | i Wrought among men in his own heard the snapping heart orphans robbea by the rum bottle and sweats im th of its torment ascending forever forever. think all the decanters in the grogshop rattled eaterday with gladness when it was told that jorace Greeley was dead, This. sad cireumst teaches us that the last ce moments of life are a re tame _ pare for eternity. What” ee THAT MAN'S RELIGIOUS NoPES Were I am not informed, but the Tast days of his ‘tal aberration, 1 races. were ene “cede: mre ‘atio suppose re men in the a States of abe: ‘than Morace Kies of we mirengsh ofthe garyies, weirs lat di tad lush now, faerie jong loud gate, Then bim down forest under the snow he has haa eet eto 86 Tesui Ne thous ne weed _— Bloquent Tribate to Horace Greeley by the Rev. O. B. Prethingham. December's opening Sabbath, bright with sun- shine, though bitterly cold; was greeted by an un- Usually large attendance at the services yesterday morning at Lyrie Halt, Rev, 0. B. Frothingham preached, His subject was “The Love of God,” and its basis the words of St, Paul, “Notthat God its loving, but that God js love,” To say that God is love and love is God was, he began, the same thing. The great: feature of the divine law, as manifested by the early Christiane, was God sending His. Som imto this world to snatch men from eternal damnation, Following out this idea of the amount of saving influence required to | Fescue one from theinfuence of the devil, Theo- dore Parker, instead of @ Trinity, made out a qua- | ternity—the fourth one being THE DEVIL. Having dwelt upon what would be the effect tr banish the devil from the world he proceeded to Say that it was dificult to define what the love of God is, Unitarlavism of every degree stood upon | this basis. Think of this all unbosoming atmos- phere giving vitality to the smallest insect alike with the greatest saint, and bearing on its broad | bosom-ail living things. Think of the stars, “aft ha Mi nates ating.» Look upon the insect world tuil of wondrous life; dive into the depths of old ocean, where small fishes disport amid the majestically moving whales; Walk forth into the grand primeval forest; look upon the snail in his tiny cover; look upon the | polar bear; look upon even the great centre of magnificent forces; go far beyond the stars visible to us into new regions where new stars have been fung into space; look everywhere, anywhere and | the universal chorus comes forth, “God is love.” | Alter all, the mn and of widows and at squats in the brewery, the smoke EVIL OF THE WORLD ol good there men would but sump; conform to the laws of virtue and things would be. greatly diferent. Tue shadow then would be removed from Provi- dence. Why will men be so blind and stupid as to act contrary to what they know tobe for their best good? Ah! there ia ‘THE GREAT PROBLEM of this our wondrous lie, Nothing satisfles man. The insect drinks in the morning dew and basks in the day’s sunshine and dies content at eve. Man is insatiate—néver content. Picturing at eloquent length the fruits of this insatiateness and discontent of man he showed bow different the world would be if men were less ambitious, less restiess and more content. From tnis he went back to Untta- rianism, which he summed up py Saying that the | Unitarian was an optimist. Bishop Berkeley de- | clared that the only substantial thing was talk, uaint old Dr, Johnson answered the argument to joswell by saying, try him with a stick.” Wasit | right that there should be so much crime? Was it right that judges should be Idlers? Was tt right that | few men in Wall street should ruin many? All | things that are are in their causes just—so says Pope. All things work together for good—so says Paul; but he adds—to those who love God. Darwin tells us of the law of selection, by which, ia trutl reat THE STOUGGLE FOR LIFE, the strongest survi All things do not work to- | gether for |. They poly, who only love God sur- vive. This is the law of selection. No matter what the voluptuary or the worclng or the cold, scien- tific man says; hear what the honest and just man says—what he says who strives to do his duty to | the best of his ability. Poverty may clothe him in rags, may put out his fire; business may be blight- | ed, calumny may rouse suspicions against him— this man never repines, The Puritans did not re- | pine at Providence; they found love in God. So do | alltruly brave men. In this connection he re- ferred to | | HORACE GREELEY. His death had caused a general chill. Of his career as a public man he would not speak. He would neither allude to his private character, | This must be left with the Searcher of He I wasonly of the driit of life they had ar to judge, Speaking for himseif alone, speaki trom a life-long conviction, the life of Horace Greeley illustrated the enthusiasm of humanity. He was born aemocrat, a republican in the grain, aman thoroughly human. He had been poors he | knew what it was to be cold and thiniy | clad, and to be neglected aud nobody | in society, He had grown rich and powerful and | an associate of the wisest and best of the nation, His broad humanitarianism early showed itself in | his bitter opposition to slavery. He pleaded for | peace; he pleaded for popular education; he urged the absolute divorce between religion and State. He said frankly that this.was not a Ch tian State; that here meet on equality all creeds. He contended zeaiousiy for the rights of all | men and also of ail woinen. Ail his so-called allu- | sions and sentimentalisms came trom his humanity. | In religion he was a Universalist. He becam Universalist from conviction. Le believed God was love. He died in this firm belief. A great | teacher, an earnest reformer, a stimulator of honest | thought had passed away. He owed his death to fidelity to the same principles that .made his life illustrions. The toils of being standard bearer for his party were too much for him. The storm of abuse and bene 4 bursting upon him was too much. And then there came the defeat—the first crushing blow, which, with strength exhausted by | his night vigils at the bedside of his wife, was more than he could stand. A Spiritaalistic View of Greeley’s Death. The services of the Progressive Spiritualists at Apollo Hall were well attended yesterday, despite | the sharp air and the slippery condition of the | sidewalks. During the evening exercises the lec- | turer, Mr. Thomas Gales Forster, briefly alluded to | the death of Mr. Greeley. The subject of the dis- course was “A Response to the Charge Recently Made that Spiritualism is Heathenism Revived.’ The lecturer desired his hearers to know that the heathen mind of ancient days entertained the idea | of God, in whose infinite power they believed quite as fully and evidently as sincerely as the pro- fessed believers of the present time. It was mere arrogance for thse now living to claim that Christianity alone entertamed the true belief in the divine power, The lecturer cited numerous passages Jrom the writings of | illustrious pagan authors in support of his pre- | mises, and said that the aristocratic religion of the present day was simply Judaism galvanized. He | claimed that (Hindoo literature being his authority) | Abraham was a Brahmin, and, moreover, that he | was an avowed Spiritualist, @ believer and a medium, The heathen of old clearly understood | the relations existing between man and the angel | world, Mr, Forster spoke at some length to show that many of the learned pagans were Spiritual- ists, and that heathenism in its higher sense, as Jndged from their works, was something of which no man need be ashamed. All the better testi- monies of the religious world showed that THE SPIRITUALISTIC IDEA was eternal and natural, In the present be og much | had been done to advance its growth; but It would | doubtless require another age to pass away before the whole universe should accept spiritualism as the one true religion, The lecturer urged al! to seek the truce and pure spiritual light; so that | when their spirits should take the flight to a brighter and higner life they might say with that great and noble spirit which had just entered the spirit-world, “1 know that my Redeemer liveth.” The speaker said that spiritualism taught that | every man must be his own redeemer, an: then the spirit world would be to him ali brightness and | all-beauty forever. In the morning Mr. Forster’s theme was | “Thanksgiving Day.’ In the course of the lecture the speaker gave a history of public boy oh He said the noblest act done on our last Thanks- giving Day was periormed in this city—a city so notorious for crime. The act was providing food to 20,000 destitute human beings, and it made no difference whether thos2 who participated in the | charity were saints or sinners; the act was a noble | one and all concerned in its performance would have their reward in the blessings and gratitude of the recipients of the charity. e lecturer said it was a commentary on the religious institutions of the country that the President felt obliged once a | ‘ear to tell the people that they should be grateful. | very day, sald the Heston should be a day of | gratitude, The Spiritualists had especial cause to be ful. They knew that although there imiaint be vacant chairs at their family aitars on is insignificant ae compared with the amotnw' \ ¢ | indignation in deine | recovered, | ing that he wa the recurrence of Thanksgiving Day, the family circle had not, nevertheless, been broken. They know that their departed are NOY IN ANY GREBNWOOD— not unaer the sod—and they aléo know that God never separated two hearts that attraction or Page had united, The Spiritualist knew that this life was only the first ink in ao interminable chain of life, Mr. Forster said, in concttsion, that although ppiritoalee, was growing, it was often obliged to its way along. He urged hear- ers to push on the work. Spiritualisin was either everything or nothing. If everything, as he be- lieved, every possibie effort to advance it should be made by its disciples. If it was nothing, it Was the most superb fraud known toall history. “CRUMBS OF COMFORT.” Mr. Greeley’s Private Secretary Denies the Story Relative to Mr. Reid. A reporter of the HEBALD called on Mr. Whitelaw Reld, editor of the 7rtvune, to ascertain his con- struction of the story published In @ morning paper, which stated that Mr. Reid had written a certain article in the Trivune to which Mr. Greeley had written two disciaimers which Mr, Reid had pure Posely left out of the paper, and that this blow Killed Mr. Greetey. Mr. Reid said that he would take no notice of the article and would make no statement as to its as- sertions, Mr. O'Dwyer, Mr. Greeley’s private secretary, who kuew all the circumstances of the affair, was afterwards seen. He made the ap- pended statement, It shows that, while there ‘Was a basis of truth in, the article spoken of, the facts had been perverted im such a manner as to be totally faise. ‘MR. O'DWYER’S STATEMENT, When Mr, Greeley saw the article, “Crambs of Comfort,” he wrote a brief rap explainin that the editor (meaning hunselty not write i and disclaiming its general tenor. This he had ‘set’? in minion, showing that he did not much importance to the whole matter, and when the proofot it was brought to. htm he drew” ¢wo strokes across it and wri suother in which he treated the matter with atill less concern ee iat cap Bla, Secrenery: ae tole him to ave the first set aside and the secon Prendloted ry “set up” Instead. His secretary jo pegs) without any remark, to a as he was accustomed to do with ev article which Mr, Greeley sent for hia (Mr. Reid’s) consideration or to have amended according as later news might warrant, When Mr. Reid received at night the two pal phe he wrote to Mr. Greele, paving that the matter which he (Mr. Greeley) had sent for his consideration he would hold over until the morrow; ti papers approved of the article, bat still_he would act as he might desire. Next day Mr. Greeley expressed no wish to have any reference made in the Tribune to the article and expressed his satisfaction with what Mr. Reid had done, It is said he came no more to the office after he wrote the paragraph 1 question. This is jaca - incor- rect. He wr@te there on Fridsy—the lay after—the article “Our Wooilen Industry” inserted Sati A the 9th, and came there again Monday, the day after the Boston fire, and wrote two article » Which were’ inserted. The brotherly intimacy warm affec- tion which always existed between him and Mr. Ried were not interrupted for a moment. He always gave Mr. Ried the widest, discretion in regard to modt- fying his articies or leaving them out altogether, and if an article was necessarily held over for even & week he never felt troubled about it. His last act was aglance of recognition toward him and an effort to extend to him his almost pulseless hand, Mr. Sinclair was perfectly familiar with the facts at the time and coincided in Mr. Reid’s beaded 80 did Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Greeiey’s brother- “law. [From the Star of To-day.) The Fight Over the Body. The death of Mr. Greeley seems to have lifted the lid from the journalistic caldron, and out jump the long-cooked enmities, prejudices and malice, which for months or years have seethed in un- natural restraint. The feeling entertained by the Sun corps to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, late editor and present managing editor of the 7ribune, is similar to that felt. by a free-b!ooded Apache for a neatly painted Sioux. Circumstances placed Mr. Reid in the chair more ably filicd by Mr. Dana, and there he was forced to exercise a somewhat arbitrary policy in dealing with some “¢ the gentle- men now associatea with th®'\sun. Why or wherefore the nate we know nq but there tt fs bitter, relentless, cruel and savage, with a purpose well defined and aplan not to be deviated from. Hardly had Mr, Greeley dropped his head upon his pillow when the slumbering fire broke forth, and the fiercest flamings of the Sun sought to con- sume and ruin Mr. Keid. It will be remembered that the fribune published some weeks since & manly card from Mr. Greeley, in which he an- | nounced his resumption of the editorial control. On the same day tiere appeared a jocose, rollick- ing article entitied, ‘Crumbs of Comtort,” which put in comical phrase the laughable side of a defeated candidate’s relief from the bore- dom of political applications for position, Perhaps the severest standard of good taste | would have adjudged the article broad and undig- nitied, but no one could read it and fail to catch the potat, laugh with the writer and be prepared thenceforth for the good-natured give-and-take, for which the Trivuxe has long been noted. According tothe Sun this article created great ratic and republican circles, and gave Mr, Greele; shock jrom which he never He de to disclaim its authorship, and wrote two short articles to that effect, which Mr. Reid suppressed, thus adding to the dejection and melancho| lready in the mastery of his mind, In other words, 1t would appear trom the report that Mr. Greeley begged the poor boon of explain- not the author of the “offensive and that Mr. Reid cruelly and ungenerously 1 him even that consolation, artic! refus It seems to us there are two ways of looking at this, and in eitier Mr. Reid appeurs entirely justi- fied by the facts, 1 ere is no proof that the Sun's assertions are ‘ed on fact. so fat as is Known Mr. Grecley may , have written the article or he may have approved it, and no one in the Sun has shown or offered the least evidence that he ever desired a correction, 2. Whether he wrote it or not he was clearly non compos at the time, as the unh»ppy facts since obtained unfortunately prove. If he wrote the articie and desired to take it back it would have been tolly in Mr. Keid, knowing, #s he did, his con- dition, to permit it. Ii he did not write it and de- sired to have that fact known it was a matter of discretion with the editor in charge, the editor who represented Mr. Grecley saue aud not Mr. Greeley prostrate, whetier to yield acquiescence or refuse it. The intimate, almost lial relations subsistin; between Mr. Greeley and his lieutenants are well known. Implictt fidence and entire trast ruled their daily intercourse, and, wise or foolish, it is very certain that the couduci of the paper was a matter about which unfriendly discussions were never had. It would be much more probable that the Sun should pretend to reveal a scandal wholly imaginative than Mr. Reid should insult, annoy or offend the icelings of his chief. The World, too, sows its hand and teeth in de- fence of Mr. Grecley from the ghoulish criticism of the Times, The World has published several arti- cles in re Greviey. ‘The first was very babyish and in- ficted a umentation on the public, for which but few of the initiated were prepared. it launched into the t-witted brutal Jennings’? and the “thrifty Jones,” with sharpest lance and heaviest bludgeon, aud in a second assault drew blood freely in the most approved and scientific manner. ‘These journalistic amenities over the = | dead body of an associate are racher unsightly, and the singularly brutish demonstrations of the Times have excited the disgust of every reader, rofessional or jay, ‘The generous tone of the TERALD isin rich, marked and honorable contrast to the vulgar tirade of the ost aud the orutal in- decencies of the Tisnes that none can fail to notice it. Mr. Greeley was a fighter in his time, but he never sought a trinraph at the expense of his better nature, and would have scorned an advantage gained in discussions with the dead. It is a nasty quarrel as it stands, and before the mee is over will lead to something besides red nk, ACTION OF THE ARCADIAN OLUB Resolutions of Regret and Respect—The Members to Attend the Funeral of Mr, Greeley in a Body. At a special mecting of the Executive Council of the Arcadian Club, held yesterday, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted :— Whereas the Arcadian Club is again c mourn the Joxs of another lea@er in Ameri and that within, so brie! a. period aiter U Pioneer Journalist of New York, James Gordon Bennett; erefore “gesolved, That in the death of Horace Grecley, the tounder and editor of the New York Zri/une, the members of the Arcadian Club recognize, m common with their fellow citizens, the necessity of paying a proper tribt 1, true and upright man, and is 10 profession whieh tts y and adherence to principles so steadfastly adorned. tesolved, That not alone does journalism sustain a loss in his deach, but that, as the deterder of the opprewed and the fricnd of common humanity, his taking of has been a loss to thove who sympathize with the Detter nd. the Executive Council and the members lesolved, Thi of the Arcadian Club attend the funeral of the deceased in a be HENRY G, STEBBINS, President y. Guorcr W. Hows, Recording Secretary, THE FEELING IN NEWARK. The absorbing topic of discussion in Newark ever since Saturday morning has been the melancholy death of Horace Greeley. Thousands who but yesterday, as it were, impoverished their Store of language in reviling and abu one of the fathers of American journalism are now seemingly among the deepest mourners. Pity and heartfelt sympathy is ox. ressed on all sides, not only for “poor Horace, nt for the two poor giris who are now so terribly realizing the poetic axiom that “misfortunes coma not singly, but iu battalions.”