Gladstone's Eulogy of Gordon.

Southland Times, Issue 8040, 22 June 1885, Page 3

Gladstone's Eulogy of Gordon.

Th© right honorable gentleman (Sir Stafford Nortbcote) has dwelt with the utmost proprioiy md the utmost feeling on the I<^^bich T: the r country has sustained in the death of General Goidpn. He stated thatj^neral.-^ordbjilhad devcted his life, arid all Imakcs life; yoltiabie, lc> hisr Sovereign and i<y jjiiß , country . Sir, ' he might hav^ 'enlarged that eulogiuua, for the life of General Gordon was not ''limited • even to those great objects. ; It was der Toted to hia i Sovereign, to his country,, and J likewise "to'the world. General Gordon!*; sympathies^ere not '•' limited by race, or color, Sir religion, f In" point of fact, he BetimS KaVe deemedjit his special honor :' ta^flefolCiiiiß energieß ''emdy'toy rusk Mb existence on' %K&!£ 9f ' thpjfo wittf whom be had ; nO;;OtlierJie than .that of, human sympathy*! ol^«ral.Gqrdon was a hero, and- permit me to Bay. ; he was still inpre~_> h« was'a heroi among! heroes. „ For there .■ have been men who have obtained and deieift^tfis praise of herpißm whose berbiem ■ WW roanif eßted on the f fie!d ' of battle, or i#;sM£cbfifltcts|and wild,- when examined - iiithete^^ were noValtp'g^^ian^elesßV but if you take the^cMe7^^thi^t.man, pursue him into; pnvapy^ WflstigateV his hftart and his mind, you will fad tfiattie* proposed io himself ; notany ideal oof • ■ wealth a and" ' power, or; #veu fame, bnt to do good was the object ' he* pr'opoied to himself in; his whole life, tiioVdii' that one pbject%as his one desire to flMflfthw exjftetfcid? ; c \Sach is the man W© l<Bßt^iq«B g>eat indeed ; belt he Irnot ? alf'l6lt 7 , for such examples are fruits fill in the fntare. r and;l trust there : will of that character and th^s^deedji.other^^ in the future time mayvjemulate his noble and most dbristian example.; -