The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-06
FUNERAL OF PROFESSOR MORSE.
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The Services at the Madison Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church.
Panegyric on the Deceased by the
Rev. DR.. Adams.
The Flags HaIf-Mast on Broadway for
the Great Electrician.
Governor Hoffman, the Legislative Committee,
Chamber Of Commerce and Telegraphic
Representatives Present
at the Funeral.
The Remains Taken to Greenwood
Cemetery for Interment.

Yesterday a stranger walking up or down Broad
way could not have avoided noticing the many
nags lowered half mast high the naestafs which
pierce the air on the tops OF the most prominent
buildings on the great pubic thorougnlare. These
tributes OF respect memorialized by the American
flag, dropped and waving 10 ana fro sugglshly,
were the Tokens OF respect TO Professor Morse, the
inventor OF the present telegraph system.
At the Madison square Presbyterian church over
one hundred persons were assembled on the walk,
and some were clustered in the street to witness
the funeral ceremonies. AT the entrance 10 the
vestry Governor Hoffman stood, wearing black
beaver nat ana dark overcoat. Several stan oni-
GERS were In the vicinity bearing on their coun-
tenances visible signs OF FOR the loss of
great electrician.
on Madison square number OF people had COL
lecied but they were chiefly attracted by the pos
sibility and promise OF show. There was no
show whatever at the faneral Of Professor Morse.
Ills funeral ceremonies well behtted his lifelong
career Everything was In conformance with the
dead mans character. IL was IN fact, a telegraph
funeral When the coffin, or casket, as it Is some
times called, was borne around on the shoulders OF
half a dozen men from the residence Of the man
who has revolutlonized the world by thought of
mechanism anu genius the peOpe-men, women
ana children assembled and closed III on the pro.
cesson. The pallbearers were, nearly all OF them,
aged men. Some had been, as he had been, pro-
genitors OF new idea and they followed him TO
MS grave bowed IN heart and soul. The dead. man
was OF the Presbyterian latin, most ardent be-
lever ana a champion of the doctrines which ohn
CALVIN taught TO Servltus. In all his dealings ne
was man OF great probity ana decision.
IL was, indeed, q tribute Of respect shown to q
man of genius when John A. Dix with his White
hair; Cyrus Field. who completed the Atlantic
cable; Peter Cooper, bowed down with age; Cam
bridge Livingston the veteran KnckerbOcker ana
legal scholar: Ezra Cornell, Charles Butler Daniel
Hunting ton, William Orion, with his dark, hand.
some lace, marched into the church at the corner
oil Madison avenue and East Twenty-loufth street.
There were some few members OF the Legislature
as a committee TO 40 honor TO the aged inventor.
without gloves, ana 40 hal not ridden up town in
carriages, as Is usual with them. The directors OF
the New York, newfoundland and London Tele-
graph Company were also present IN body, with
the directors oil the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. Some fcw members o. the National Acad.
envy 81 Design-ior Morse had been painter III
his early youth; The Evangelical Alliance, The
Chamber OF Commerce, the members OF the
Association for the Advancement Of Science and
Art, the Board OF the Stock Exchange OF New York.
the Mayor and delegates from Poughkeepsie, were
the main aisle anu took seats after the coffin
brought In IN the pews to the left and right Of the
passage.
mourner wearing his white scarf, the Rev. DIR.
Wheeler, OF P0ugnHeeDsic, an Obj friend or the de-
ceased, came out OF the vestry with the Rev. DR..
Adams the pastor of the church, assembled the stairs
leading to the desk and sat down. The coffin OF
handsome rosewood was brought In and placed at
the end Of the asie 1t was covered with japonicas,
crosses OF flowers, camelias and wreaths OF steph.
anolls The organ peaed forth mournful refrain
the corpse was brought up the aisle, the anthem,
~ Heard Voice from Heaven" was sung by the
choir, and the 1lstn Presbyterian hymn, 'Asleep In
Jesus Blessed Sleep" was also given The Rev. DR..
Adams delivered eulogy the deceased as fol-
l0ws:-
How poor and paltry the words OF man In the
presence Of The great mystery OF deatnl How
weighty, now sublime those words OF God with
which we are bidden on such occasions to comfort
one anoiher "Belng born again." not or corrupt
whose truth abideth forever "ror all fesn is as
grass, ali The glory OF man as the MOWERS OF grass.
away; bubtnc word OF the Lord endufeth fOrever.n
Tnis IS the word which by the Gospel Is preached
unto mem. Two aspects are here presented OF
nni according to the other, Imperisnaole, aoId-
good meican never be lost TO the world. rnc good
which men do lives after them, ana cannot he IN
race who tasted death, being dead still spcaketh.
He Is the true Metnusaleh VINO originates good
thoughts ana projects when 1--we a thousand years
alter he has passed from the world. Two days
ago funeral procession filed through the
streets with mulled dram and 1ags draped with
black and every sign 0f puolIc woe, bearing the
remains or one whom we all loved. As the pageant
went by you said To yourselves sucn is the end-ife
all overland like vapor vanished away. Not so.
the fidelity and loyalty or the brave soldier not
lost and cannot pass away but have entered as per.
manent properties into the lie and history or the
guished man whose death has brought US together
at inns nour. II II 90 true, according TO the scrip
Is it that the death or such man as he Is like
the fall OF an oak IN grove creating wide chasm,
and bearing many vines and trees and bOughs with
IT. the ground Deep the SORROWS In the nome
circle and IN private intlmacies by this event, his
as a pubic bereavement We sorrow not alone.
Millions have shared the shock One IS awed
by the thought that nos sooner ma death
taken this dear ana honored irienu than oy
means Of the instrument which his glorious head
@ ae o ne @as me on
nents-castward, westward and simultaneously
was tue topic oil re marx, the occasion Of grief IN
London, Paris Rome, Vienna. Berlin ST. Peters
burg, syria, Egypt, CHINA, Australia Japan anu IN
every part Of the civilized world. We say, In Ia
mlliar phrase, he rs dead-Dut In the best sense ne
lives stlll and VIII live forever, IN forms Oh useui-
ness which are intimately related 10 the concord.
the welfare ana the advancement OF the whole
human race nave no intention AT this time and
place to give the detailed history OF MS con-
necuon with the magnetic telegraph rs those
various assocIalons OF science aud art with
winch he WAS connected VIII VIC Win eacn
other IN pupshlnQ the trutn or THIS matter,
| shall entrust hls eu0gy 10 them, passing
myself to those moral and religious aspects III his
life ana work when seem u me Tue most appro'
pirate 10 be mentioned Dy TREND add minister In
the sanctuary wnerc he was accustomed To worship.
This, am sure, Is the method wnich most accoros
with the modesty OF our deceased friend, for while
the world was nlled with the spendor OF ms sue
cess. sucn was the genuine quality OF ms religious
fai,n that, irst and last, he delighted to regard
himself as the child and agent OF Providence. That
first message whIch was mashed through the first
was afecaton, but the sincere expression of one
VINO always devoutly 1elt nis dependence on
DIVINE IT0Wucnce throughout the whole success.
the period or time IN the history OF the word
when Geographic communication was established
~ not the least oil the many proyidential aspects
which command our notice. The early and long So
gregatl9n OF Nations prior TO the Christian era was
no accdent. so long as Christianity was not ready
for the word the world was not ready Tor Christi
anliy Tne ISOLATION VI one nation from all others,
unnnaI q rev nl finn n