The New York herald., 1865-04-21
TRINITY CHURCH.


BY THE REV. DIR. DIX, BEFORE THR GOVERNOR
OF THE STATE AND MAJOR GENERAL DIX.
At morning service at Trinity church yesterday there
was again very large congregation Governor Fenton
and General Dix occupied prominent seats in the nave
first part Of the service ntoned by the Rev. Dr.
Ogby. DR.. Weston read the first lesson; the Rev. Mr..
Breese, Of Hoboken the second lesson The Rev. DR..
vinton noned the prayers and the Rev. Dr. Dix rector
of the parish, and Of General Dix, intoned the
tany As is always the at Trinity, the musical por
ton OF the service, under the direction of Dr. Cutler
was most effectively rendered. The anthem, "Happy
blessed they who have entered into their rest
though the body dies, the soul shall live forever fell
with peculiar impressveness upon the Of the
. congregation.
powerful sermon preached by the Rev. DR. Dix.
He took follows-
He that ruleth must be just, ruling In the
fear of God
And he shall as the light OF the morning when the
sun riseth even morning without Clouds the tender
grass sprngng out OF the earth by clear shining after
rain.-Sccond Samuel xiii,
These the last words Of David. He spake them
as he saw the time drawing near when he must 60 the
way OF all the earth they the last song Of the
psalmist. Each man knows best the way of his own
profession; and he a ruler, knew what ruler ought
to be. and delivered his judgment on that subject
before he died. The sentence his performances
he lett his Lord to utter but the general law by which
he ought to have guided his course he moved to
state and in the moment In which the rod of
pre about be taken from his relaxing hand Those
words Of David the ancient king may aptly used
proper to description of the dead President We
sembled yesterday and again. in response to the Cover
nors proclamation, to-day occasion without pre-
cedent in past history There has been, this side
of the world, like sorrow, far
read back the history Of the who have dwe here
Regarded in its and in Its Of manifestation
1t stands b7yond comparison in its awful grandeur BY
that act, to which the sober Judgment of mankind
has awarded the in degrees Of arocious crime
by that Decd OF which language fails to paint the nfamy
by that SIM against which Christian civilization cries out
involving the reversal Of all progress good
and as throwing back mankind into the slough Of bar
barsm the act the crime the sin Of murderous assass
nation man has been laid low, who held in his hands
the destnes of twenty millions of his countrymen and
to whom they were at that moment looking with grow
Of character and his ability do his duty posi-
tion unto which it had pleased God to call him.
And gathered together to and weep
with all those millions over q bereavement which
every lover Of his country feels to be personal to
himself There is great cry throughout the land; II
not one dead Some few words would reverenty speak
s sui, snsn s2ss N S s,o
been wrested from US by the murderer's hand That
sanguinary nend that nocturnal demon Of the darkness
Of this world thought to have done him harm when he
lifted up the weapon against his e How short
are the calculations of the wicked onel That act has
vensrated and beloved victim. When whore, at any
( time, In any age, has q man gone to his
as '1 ruler oi tine ana going to n
Of Of anguish, Of interest Of devotion to
human being like that which this hour Is revealingf Un
faced, unmasked tho result Of national edc OF
proclamation by authority the simple, unaffected, real
demonstration of the heart Of this great family Of free
men, There is grandeur in this scene with which mo-
occurrence hitherto compare the blood
felon wherever he be skuking mark what he has
done. He thought to spread dismay and confusion
through the land He has but lifted veil which lay
upon tho great national heart, and shown the
world It's greatest strength and glory in its
tenderness, its veneration for goodness, Its mag
nncent coecedncss and self control His infamous
deed has made stronger than the people whom he
together by the bond Of a alicton The sound
OF the funeral hymn, sterny ascending tae
mutual devotion which, up TO this hour lacked the lever
dey eopment and the OF expresson this funeral
wal has in it the music OF coming era, through which
the dead OF to-day shall walk In spirit canonized and
glorihed in the undyng love and veneration coming
just as the French look back to the good Henry
w. and love him for the fate which brutal passion in
nicted, will the American people, 10 their
remoest generations speak endcrly and reverently OF
that good, that honest that kindly hearted man. their
sixteenth President
CHE that rulsth must be just, ruling IN
the fear OF Cod How fairly do these words describe
him. Who was just, if he notS or also, If may
read the mans inmost heart IRON his words, did
rule conscien ousy in the God2 Honesty
and his name were synonymous and that he IL dead
what could he ask what nober record than that he
proyerbaliy the honest man2 And then how tender
let rather think Of tina, grand Chrstke trait with
hanKfulness that II bcamed forth brightly from his
person at the last. When they struck him down ho
was mcditatng how TO do them good; his last official
acts acts Of kindness and enency marked
excite in some quarters alarm; in him acy murdered
their best frend his heart full Of plans Of conca
ton at the moment when they aimed at II their exc
cradle blow That enough for every lover Of peace
timely grave There icth one who, 50 far as we can
judge bore III Will to any creature that lives
who, he said himself when we told him
that he was reelected felt sorry TO triumph
over any one; who was seeking, In those
his last few days. to find how he might soften to the
enemies OF his country the circumstances Of their
disastrous defeats how no could save them modification
and humiliation; how much he could safely give them
think have uardoned Il q came 10 the se ass evsn
chief man Of the insurgcnts who would have had the
blood OF no one on his hands, and also IL he knew in
those last hours what had happened TO him. and who had
done IT, would verify believe have prayed fcr his mur
dercr and been ready TO do what else
give him o, II there a crime more foul more base
abomnsble than that which has been done on that
unostentaous, wse kindheared friendly man. TT IL be
named that we may not seem in the scale of wcketness
one degree below any yet known. The people know
nothing worse, and therefore, s the lament for none
was ever amcntcd for by them unto this day Whittier
shall not fell himS WHITTIER that the arm OF tho govern
mint cannot lay hold Of himS This case in which
may be DEFERRED bat Il Win come. Tho whole earth
has not place where he cannot DO known
and followed and found Tho government does not
exist which dare refuse TO give him up, II he
he within its limits Only part OF the world is there
day where he can breathe and walk in safety
In those parts OF this country in nsurgcnt cond
ton and not yet reached by or armies But around
thai scnng region the circle hourly contracts Ho shall
not long have shelter there; the years shall bring
him into hands, te months and the days do not
do II There Is small consolation In the thought
the evil cannet DO repaired. But that man owes
"a dbt 10 the nation and sooner or later tho
hour of its payment viii come Meanwhile \
we have but 10 be pationt and follow
NV brethren, amid the thouglts which upon tle
nitud at such a moment this - Of which will (
re ny and passonaicy speak Ono consequence ofth
ghasty crime will be- aud already, that thereby
tire population p ta before the bar of Tie opinion
" mankind II has bcca urged by mhnyby nlosithat
this act OF assassination s out the natural rca ~ OF
soc al cord ton TO which ruch acts seem properly 70 be
long IL tad that the roEl and social tone tcmper
end spirit ~ the .oulhern people such that
fanny Ike IN mi ght natnr1ly be expected from tLem
ID AZ thers arc others WHO caN0, cunsel 20 such ycW 81
the case; who claim for SO L' c zaion h cher 'One
better Spirti who maintain tMai s ~ ilaa dr-tL 4
rSnc p es % Civ stnuitv aud hHi the moral condition
he people u not below mat Of se rest 0i civilized man
yinf 10 tlat opinion our pgoSber has adNe cd. n, 4
.ould MT iCel thnt wbUl people c0nit aatl bel
luinuleN'i 10 degraded, ai 10 has h,tJ uct t- +
hey arc but lbW Tie thing o. ~ dntrrmn a d-tn0 l.
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