A Fruitful Life; The Career, Character and Services of Henry Woodfin Grady: An Address Before the Albany Chautauqua, Albany, Georgia, March 30th, 1890 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Fruitful Life; The Career, Character and Services of Henry Woodfin Grady: An Address Before the Albany Chautauqua, Albany, Georgia, March 30th, 1890

Among the events which have transpired in the interval since this institution was established is one of large import and peculiar pathos, to which the present occasion especially our attention.

We have no standards to measure the worth of a life which sheds wide and beneficent influences, nor can we count the loss sustained when such a life ceases to be - no, not that - but passes beyond the range of our vision.

From participation in our affairs we have lost an active force; in the forefront of our march has fallen a heroic lender; from our companionship and love has been called a genial, Christian gentleman.

His public services merit this recognition. When the thoughts of this people have turned so often to the loss which the commonwealth sustained in the death of Henry Woodfin Grady, it is fitting that they should gather in this multitude to consider his life and to bear this combined testimony that it was not in vain.

I can hope to give little aid to the suggestion which at this time rise spontaneously in the minds of us all.

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