Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-20
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Funeral Services of our Late Presi-

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WARRINGTON, April I9.-The day is
beautiful and quiet. All business is sus-
pended, and every spot is filled with peo-
tple. Secretary Seward and Frederick con.
tinue to improve.
In the immediate peighborhood of the
mansion dense crowd had assembled
during the forenoon. Various bodies met
at the Treasury Department, separate
IFeoms having been assigned them by assist.
ant Secretary Harrington, who had CHARGE
of division to the Executive Mansion.
They included the Assistant Eecretsrv. the
Assistant Post Master General, and the
Assistant Attorney General, Senators and
Representatives in Congress, Governors of
the several States, the Judiciary, and
others OF prominence. None could enter
the mansion without tickets, they having
been provided for six hundred persons on
", upon the raised platform steps on the
east, north and south sides of the room.
The corpse lay about the centre, space
being reserved all around the catafaloue
with chairs for the occupation of the fami-
~ of the deceased. II was here in the east
room that the bodies of President Harrison
and Taylor lay in state, but the arrange.
ments on those occasion were far inferior
to the present.
At IL o'clock the guests began to arrive,
a body of about bixtY clergymen being the
first to enter, who were followed by the
heads of Government bureaus, Governors
of States, members of municipal govern
ment, prominent officers of the army and
navy, the diplomatic norps, &C., &c.
At noon the President of the United
States, in company with his Cabinet, except
Seo'y Seward, approached the Gatafalque
and took last brief look at his illustrious
predecessor, and then retired to position
Immediately on the east and in full view
of the cofiued Femaius.
AT ten minutes past IL, amid profound
silence, Rev. DR.. Gurley approached the
head of the catafalque and announced the
order of the religious services, when DR..
Hall, Episcopaliaa, read portion of the
Scriptures according to the forms OF that
church.
The opening prayer was by Bishop Simp.
| srn of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who
in the course of OF it said, that in the hands
| of God were the issues of lite and DEATH
Our sins had called for his wrath to de-
scend upon us as individuals for the sake
of our blessed Redeemer. Thapks we're
returned for the gift of such q man as our
Heavenly Father had just taken from us,
and for the many virtues which distin-
guished all his transactions, for the integ-
rlty, honesty and transparency of character
bestowed upon him, and for having given
him counsellors to guide our nation through
period of unprecedented sorrow, Thanks
were also returned that his arm was
streng thened and wisdom and firmness
given his heart to pen declaration of
emancipation by which were broken the
chains of millions of the human race. God
be thanked, that the assassin who
struck down the Chief Magistrate had not
the hand to again bind the suffering and
oppressed. The name of the beloved dead
would long be identified with all that is
great and glorious with humanity on earth.
May the spirit OF rebellion soon pass
away. God grant that the sun NAV shine
on free people, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf.
May ne not only safely lead US through
the struggle, but give us peace with all
nations of the earth.
God bless the weeping widow, as in her
broken. heartedness she bows under sad
stroke, more than sho can benr. Eucircle
her in thy arms. God be gracious with the
cnllaren loft behind, and endow them with
wisdom
We pray, the Bishop aaid; TO make rbs
assassination one of personal profit 10 our
hearts, while by the remains of the de-.
ceased, whom we had called friend, We
pray that our republic may be made the
stronger for this blow, while here we
pledge ourselves to set our faces as flint
against every form of opposition which
may rise up for its destruction, so that we,
the children, may enjoy the blessed advan.
tages off government delivered to us from
! our fathers.
he concluded by repeating the Lords
prayer.
The Rev. DR.. Gurley then delivered a
sermon standing on the step near the head
of the coffin. He commenced by saving:
1--WE recognize and adore the sovereignty
of Almighty God; His throne in the heay.
ems and His kingdom ruleth over all. 1t
was a cruel hand, the dark hand of the
assassin, that struck our bonored, wise
and noble President and filled the land
with mourning. But above this hand there
is another which we must see and acknow-
ledge. In the midst of our rejoicing we
needed this stroke, this discipline. and
therefore God has sent it. Our affection
has not come forth from the dust nor from
the ground, beyond the act of ASSASSINATION.
| Let us look to God whose preropatiye ia to
bring light out of darkness, and good ont
of evil. He who has led us 80 well and
prospered us so wonderfully during the
last four years of anarchy and conflict
1 will net forsake Us now. He msY ohastise
but will not destroy. Let our principle
anxiety now be that the new sorrow NAV
be sauctifed sorrow, and induce us to
give all we have for the cause of truth, jus
tice, law, order, liberty aud good govern
ment, and pure and undetled religion.
8 ReV.D r. Gray, of the Baptist Church.
closed the solemn services by delivering
q prayer, concluding:
God of the breaVed, comfort aud sustain
this mourning family; bless the new Chief
Magistrate; let the mantle of his prede-
cessor fall upon him; bless the Secretary
of State and his family; bless all the
members of the Cabinet; endow them with
wisdom from above; bless the commanders
in our army and navy, and all the brave
defenders of the country; give them con-
tiDued success. Bless the Ambassadors
from foreign COURTS and give US peace