The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-18
LANCASTER.


The following special despatch to The EVEN
ING TELEGRAPH appeared in our Fifth Edition of
yesterday
LANCASTER, Aug. 1.-THE funeral services
over Nil, Stevens remains took place at his
house at O'Clock p. NJ. They commenced with
the following invocation by Rev. A. f. Kramer:
o Thou Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, who art our refuge in time of trouble.
lift upon US the light OF Thy countenance, and
grant Us Thy help. Give us grace TO improve
the affection of Thy hand, and turn our hearts
to keep lhy commandments. May we in the
fellowship of Thy holy Church bring forth the
fruits OF IL gody life. And that having perse
vered IN the way Of piety and virtue to the end
we may live with prophets, apostles, martyrs
confessors and saints of all ages.
After which Bishop Biglcr read the nineieth
Psalm.
Rev. Dr.. Neyn then delivered the following
prayer:--
OG Cod the only true and living God, before
whom angels bow and archapgcls avert their
faces, we come before Thee at this time with
proloun0 rlef, humility and reverence. Thou
hast been pleased in Thy mysterious providence
to remove from this city, and State, and nation
an eminent citizen, who has filed high places
of trust and honor, and We have been sum-
moned together TO pay our last triOute of
respect to his mortal remains, and while
we mourn over his departure, we would seek to
be resigned TO thy governing viii; we thank
Thee for the many distinguished and heroic
virtues with which he was adorned, aud the
many noble works that he was successful in
achieving. We thank Thee that he sympathized
with the poor and the Oppressed aud the suffer
ing and that he was willing to use his extraor-
binary talents aud infupnca tn o11nvio+o ond
improve their conditions; we thank Thee for his
devotion 10 justice and righteousness, and for
the good that has beeu accomplished for
the land and the world bS his con-
slant and unhinching advocacy of these
divine privileges. We thank Thee for his
earnest and untiring devotion to the cause of
education: for all the virtues that adorned his
heart, and the many traits that distinguished
his life. May his example be initiated by us all,
and especially by the legislators Of our State
and nation. Bless his afflicted relatives, and
comfort them in the midst of their sorrows.
Help Us all to be true to our highest and most
sacred convictions of duty while living, so that
We may be enabled TO triumph with the con.
sciOusncss Of inward peace at the bed of death.
All these things we ask in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the advocate and mediator.
Amen!
Rev. Dr.. Gray, Chaplain of the Senate, then
delivered the following address:-"Citizens of
Lancaster and people of Pennsy lvania--We have
brought home your llustrious dead-not yours
only, but ours-not ours, but the nations. Our
journey from the Capital to your city was
marked, very appropriately, by flags flying at
halGmast: by the tolling of bells, and by the
tears OF the people; and to-day, while we are
here engaged in these sad obseques could we
hear. there would come to our from aiar the
wall o. sorrow and the sounds of grief
"Could we see, we should behold, not indivi.
duals. but whole States standing waiting around
as pail bearers. We had hoped that tavoring
Providence would have spared your representa-
tive at least TO the close OF another session of
CONGRESS, for grave questions are pending,
involving the interest OF thirty millions OF
people, which seem to us to require pTeemi
nently his wise counses and executive skill;
but it is otherwise ordered and no doubt wisely.
Therefore we bow IN submission to the
will of the Supreme Ruler, who when the clock
OF time struck the hour, sent His angel 10 unbar
The gates OF the future, and said to his servant,
''Wen doue Come up higher" Add now till
the morning OF the resurrection, we commit all
that remains Of our departed friend to the grave
, and to the guardianship of that God who watches
alike over the living and tie dead, and as the
mouth of the grave closes on the sacred dust
we will pray God TO give to Vermont another
son; TO Lancaster another citizen; to Pennsyl-
vania another statesman; to the country another
, patriot: 10 the poor another friend; to freedom
another advocate; to the race another bene(ac.
Tor, and TO the world another man like Thaddeus
| Stevens"
The procession moved precisely at three
O'Clock in the order set down by the Committee
| of Arrangements, moving up South Queen
street to Centre Square, up East King street to
Duke street, thence to Chestnut street and along
that to Schrener's Cemetery.
While the procession was IN motion the bells
tolled, all the stores were closed and nearly
4 every house along the route was draged in
mourning.