Newbern weekly progress., 1861-02-05
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The funeral services over the remains OF
Righ. Rev Nicholas Hummer Cobbs, y, T.,
late Bishop of tie Episcopal Diocese of Alab,.-
ma, were pcr1orn:ed il St. Johns Church,
Montgomery on Sunday the 18th instant We
make the following extract from letter to the
Ciurc5 Ists!!igeacor:
The Cas'lct was covered with {. purple pail,
adorned with plain white cross, and with
wrcathes Of white hvacinti1s and es-,.rgrec::s.
The church ana cllancvl, the pulpit desk and
altar were draped i'll appropriate mourning
At the entrance of the church the corpse
was received by Bishop Elliott in his robes and
by the attending clergy n surpIice and stole
shoulder only. With slow and measured tread
they proceeded up the aisle the Bishop re
peatng with great solennity the appointed
sentences, the congregation rising spontaneous
ly to their feet st the utterance of the first
words Arrived at the chancel the clergy
parted right and left, and took their respective
places, whilc the body was placed upon cata-
falquc in the midst of that chancel where so
often, when living, he had broken the bread Of
life. For moment solemn Stiffness pcrVaded
the great multitude, interrupted only by tears
and sobs, and then wailing sound Of music
broke upon the ear. 1t was the chant Of the
anthem in the burial service, and reverently
did the congregation stand, save here and there
those whom griefand sorrow had entirely over
powered, and the touching eloquence of that
music sank deep into many hearts. The lesson
was read by Rev f. r. Hanson and the 18th
part of the 10th Psalm was announced by Rev
F, B. Lee, the two senior presbyters, and the
only two members of the present clergy of the
Diocese who acted in the election of Bishop
Cobbs
The Bishop of Georgia then ascended the
pulpit, and during the delivery of that able
eloquent, and touching address, the silence OF
the vast audience that hung upon his words
was so still that it could be felt The stream
ing tears of women and men-the occasional
burst of grief which could not be suppressed
and the rapt attention spoke cloquently of the
power alike of the living Bishop and of the
dead, Most feelipgly, most truthfully did he
delineate, and describe the character and life
of his departed brother.
In his breathing words, the man Of God, the
sef-denying, the holy Bishop stood before US as
when in life And when he touched upon the
dying Bishops last message to his clergy and
diocese, those words, those kind and loving
words, worthy to be written in letters Of gold,
and which when published will make an abid-
ng impression upon the hearts of the church
at large, 1t was a scene of such sorrow as well
might break our hearts, Not the long and
protracted sickness, not the funeral array, the
draped church, or wailng music, none, nor all
of these so opened the sluices of sorrow as did
the dead Bishops last most solemn charge
We cannot say more of the Bishop of Georgia S
address than that it was worthy of the subject
of the occasion, and Of himself, and he has won
lasting place III the hearts of Alabama church
men. We need not say more for we trust he
will yield to the unanimous request of the at
tending clergy, and give it to the world and
the church, that they may learn how a chris
tan lived and died.
THE MISSION OF THE BRooKLYN.-Extract OF
a letter from young man On board the .. S.
sloop-of-war Brooklyn, as she left Hampton
Roads:
Dear Father Il received your note on the
oath and was glad to hear of your being in
good health. We are going to Pensacola with
troops and do not know when we will be back
God only knows whether we will ever come
back, some of US any how. Well, 1 viii not
be able to write any more for a while, so faith
er, God bless you until see you again, if l
ever do. hope in God I will
We instance the tone of this letter merely to
show that aborad the Brooklyn apprehensons
of an unpleasant nature existed Certain 1t is
we have two versions of Governments design
the one that she is simply to intercept q. S.
vessels heretofore ordered into Pensacola, the