Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-06


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vivdly impressed upon the memory Of the speaker is
the instruction received 10 the fitting way Of pre-
sentng iyuc truth from the sacred desk Would that
It's force might be felt by those who called minister
in divine things. Said Mr.. Webster, " When | attend
upon the preaching of the Gospel wish have made
personal matter, personal matter PERSONAL MATTER
Ii is to present him enforcing these divine lessons Of
wisdom and consolation that have recalled to your
minds these precious recolections.
And we need utter no apology; indeed, we should be
nexeusabe in letting the present opportunity pass with
unwilling the inner sanctuary life of the foremost
man of this world for his most intimate friends are well
that he had it in mind to prepare work upon the
internal evidences of Christianity, testimony OF his
heartfelt conviction Of the divine reality of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ But finding himself rapidly approaching
those august Of Immortality into which he had 50
often looked he dictated the most important part OF his
epiaph And long the rock shall guard his rest
and the sound his drge the world shall read upon
his monument not only
" One of the few, the immortal names,
Which were not born to die"
but also that Daniel Webster lived and died in the Chris
tan faith The deineation which he gave Of Of his
early and noble compeers could never have been written
except from an experimental acquaintance with that
which he holds the chief excellence OF his friend
This description shall apply to himself, trusting that
it will be well understood as admired
Political eminence and professional fame fade away
and die with all things earthly Nothing of character is
really but virtue ind personal worth These
remain Whatever Of excellence is wrought into the soul
belongs
attach itself merely to this life it points to another
world Political professional reputation cannot last
forever but conscience void Of offence before God and
is inheritance for eternity Religion, therefore,
is necessary and indispensable element in any great
human character. There is living withoutit Reli-
gon is the tie that connects with his Creator and
holds him to His throne If that tie be oil sundered all
broken he floats away worthless atom in the universe;
its proper attractions all gone its destiny thwarted and
its whole future nothing but darkness desoaton and
death man with no sense of religious duty is he
whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific
language, as living without God in the world Such
of his proper being, out of all his duties out
of the circle Of all his happiness, and away, far far
away from the purposes of his creation.
mind like Mr.. Websters, active, thoughtful, pene-
ratng, sedate could not but mediate deeply the con-
dton of man below, and feel its responsibilities He
could not look this mighty system,
| "This universal frame, thus wondrous fair"
without feeling that created and upheld by in
tegence to which all other intelligence must be respon-
sible. am bound say that in the Of my life
met with individual in any profession or con-
dton, who always spoke and always thought with such
awful reference of the power and presence OF God No
rreverence, ghness too familiar allusion to
God and his attributes escaped his lips The very
Dotion of Supreme Being was with him, made up Of
1--we and soemnity; it filed the whole of his great
mind with the strongest emotions. man like him,
with all his proper sentiments and sensibtes alive in
him, must in this state of existence have something to
believe and something to hope for ese life is ad-
vancing to its close all is heart sinking and oppression
Depend upon it, whatever may be the mind of an old man,
old age is only really happy when, feeling the enjoy
mens of this world pass away it begins to lay stronger
hold on the realities of another
Mr.. Websters religious sentiments and feelings
| the browning glories Of his character.
Then followed fervent prayer and the reading of a
number of Scrptura quotations suitable to the occasion
At the close of these exercises the body covered
and the lid of the metallic burial screwed down. and
the coffin, which has already been described, was laid
upon the hearse.' procession was then formed under
the direction of William Dehon ESQ., The immediate re-
ations of Mr. WebsterMrs. Webster Fletcher Webster
and his family, James w. Paige and family, Herman
lie Roy Jacob LIE Roy, William H. LIE Roy, Daniel LIE
Roy, Edward LIE Roy, Mrs. Webster's FIVE brothers
Mrs William Edgar, MRS Websters only sister,, Master
William Edgar, Lieut. VIM. LIE Royed the funeral train
Then the attending physician and the officiating
clergyman the domestics Of Mr. Webster's family, in
Guiding John Taylor and his wife, of Franklin, n H the
the Corporation of Boston; the Hon. Abbott Lawrence
attended by his General Pierce attended by John f.
Thayer Esq members of the Corporations of Salem,
Robury Charlestown, Cambridge Winchester and other
towns The citizens from far and made the close
| of the procession.
The pail bearers were Joseph Hewitt Seth Weston j.
P. Cushman Tlden Ames David Phillips, and Ebenezer
Harlow. They were all Of Marshfeld, and among the
oldest residents of the town.
The solemn train ct once put in motion and pro-
ceeded slowly towards the sepulchre without music, and
again the face of the distinguished dead was exposed
to view This the most touching Of the day.
Mr. Fletcher Webster and his Daniel and Ashburton
took their final leave. Then each member of the process
sion filled their eyes with the last fond look of the dead
patriot would be difficult describe the sadness of the
many faces they turned away forever from that form
that they had SO long admired. Some recalled the me
mories of other dayswhen they had the great
tor in the Senate at the BAR and heard him in the open
air. descanting, he alone could, upon those virtues
which 60 to make up the true greatness Of people
while many others shed salt tears upon the bier as they
reminded Of the genial hours Of communion they
had spent with him, and the unobrusve but most in
structve lessons which he gave forth, seemingly and
in truth without effort but yet effective for good to all
who heard, and for all time.
The people having taken their leave, the body was
conveyed to the enclosure which embraces the family
tomb whereupon Rev. Dir. ALDEN delivered the follow
ing prayer
"We now commit this body to the ground, earth to
EARTH ashes to ashes dust to dust looking for the
raj resurrection in the last day and the life of the world
to come
May these mourning relatives of the lustrious dead
and this vast assembled to honor his memory
profit by the testimony of his life and death to the reality
of Christian faith and thus become better fitted to
the solemn test when the Son Of Man shall sit upon the
throne Of His glory and before Him shall be gathered all
nations.
These blessings implore through Jesus Christ
Rsdeemer.
The grace Of Lord Jesus Christ and the love of
God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you
all, Amen
The body then deposited in the tomb-a simple
structureover the door Of which the words DAM
TEL WEBSTER" engraved upon marble slab.
There three monuments in front Of the tomb recent
y erected by Mr. WEBSTER himself to the memory Of his
first wife, son, daughter, and niece.
Tho naonla oil the burial minute