The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-07-28
From nc !Sapanaah Geo gian, july II
TIE ILL-FATED PULASKI.


deep. whose pillows had closed over the earthly bodies
OF their late Joyous companions, offered by our Gnu
zens on Thursday last. procession was formed a.
the hour and IN the order prescribed by the Committee
OF Arrangements, and although the day was intensely
warm, numbers Of ladies' swclled the melancholy pro-
cession Others awaited the exercises at the ndepen-
dent Presbyterian Church. which, when the procession
reached H. already too full TO accommodate wno
composed H. although seats placed IN It's eapa-
cious aisle Al the Church the exercises wcrc very
solemn and appropriate The Reverend Clergy VINO
successfully addressed the THRONE Of Grace, or read
the appointed Hymns felt the unity Of their duties,
while many full heart and moisiened eye among the
crowded congregation, testified that Il was an occasion
which human sympathy gushed forth at human SUI
fering.
And who were the sufirrersl Fresh from our midst
glowing with hopes Of happy years--of delightful
summer-of a rapturons return 10 the friends oil Their
homes, and the participants in all their human Joys
they. with beating hearts, with smiling counenances
babe adeu to the scenes OF their earthly felicity, and
embarked on the ocean wave-alas. TO perish oeneaih
its whelming bllow. The tear OF sympathy for the
young and lovely, the aged and the good could not De
sied at time like ihis. The Reverend Orator IN do
prling the virtues OF the deadhe deprivation OF sur
yying fronds--he suferngs Of those who survived on
the wreck, and the anxietes Of all eloquent indeed
The silent and snbdued attention with which bis address
was listened iothe patience Of the Congregation dur
ing the hours which the exercises occupied evinced
tnat tnc WbSh s"S oeN ~
Ocean and Of all things visible and invisible had extend.
cd over them But why dwell on this mournfu subject
Grief has silent eloqncnce which needs not language
TO portray it, The following the order Of the exer-
cises III The Church.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
DIRGEi
Invocation and reading the Scriptures.
HYMN H. MI Scorr
The God Of love viii sure indulge
The flowing tear, the heaving sigh,
When righteous persons fall around
When tender friends and kindred die.
Yet moi one anxious murm'ring thought
Should with our mourning passions blend;
Nor would our bleeding hearts forget
Tn Almighty everything friend.
Beneath nun rons train OF ills,
Our feeble flesh aud heart may fail;
Yet shall our hope in thee, our God,
Ger ev'ry gloomy fear prevail.
Parent and husband, guard and guide,
Thou art each tender name III one;
On thee we cast ev'ry care,
And comfort seek from thee alone.
PRAYER ORIGINAL HYMN. &c, Nj
Oh God before Thy mighty throne,
We bow ourselves to-day,
Oh hear thy creatures plantive moan,
AND bless us whe we pray.
Whelln'd meath the deep and angry wave,
Our iairest and our best,
Have found within that watcry grave,
Their calm, and peaceful rest.
Shock'd by the horror of the bill,
Our hearts by grief torn;
We murnur not at thy dread will
Yet cannot cease to mourn.
Father we bend the humber knee,
o. give Us faith aud love
To feel, that this severe decree,
Hath issued from above.
That all we have--and all VIC are,
And all we Ger can be-
Ourselves-our happincss-our care
Come, gracious Lord, from thee
Shed DER the mourner's heart thy ray,
And point him to that bourne,
Where time and care shall cease their sway
and man forget to mourn.
ADDRESS BY REV w PRESTON
PRAYER. HYMS-L. NJ. Holloway.
Thy ways, o Lord, with wise design
Are fram'd upon thy throne above,
And eyry dark aud bending line,
Meets in the centre of thy love.
With feeble light, and half obscure,
Poor mortals thy arrangements view
Not knowing that the least are sure,
And the mysteres just and true.
They neither know, nor trace the way,
But trusting to thy piercing eye,
None Of thy feet to ruin stray,
Nor shall the weakest fail or die
My favord soul shall mcekly learn,
To lay her reason at thy throne;
Too weak thy secret to discern,
I'll trust thee for my guide alone.