The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-16
De witt c. Ta7ma<e ON the Life and
Death OF Charles Sumner


Mr.. Talmage preached last evening on the hol.
lowness and uncertainty Of lie and OF worldly
honors, aud held up the life and death of Senator
Sumner as one very emphatic illustration OF the
truthulness Of his subject. The Tabernacle was
densely crowded.
Mr.. Talmages illusions to the dead Senator
we're as follows:-"The week just ended Will be
memorable in the annals OF American his
tory, because of the death OF an ex-President
and the leading Senator Of the United
States, and the ministers of the Gospel who con-
front the people to-day with religious
message may well be earnest and pointed
In what they say. We have never had q
better lesson concerning the hollowness and
uncertainty Of worldly honors than we have had
in the life and death OF Charles Sumner. Now the
land uncovers its head as silent body goes
through to Its burial place. independence Hall Is
offered for the reception Of the remains. The
nags are at halfmast Funeral euOgiums are
sounded through the land, and the minute guns
on Boston Common thrOb, now that his heart has
ceased to beat. But
WHILE HE LIVED HOW PURSUED HE WAS,
now maltreated, how Censured bv legislative
resolutions how caricatured In the EDITORIALS, how
charged with every ambitious and impure motive
and hatred and bilingsgate and falsehood emptled
on bis head! And when Brooks club struck him
down in the senate Chamber, there were hundreds
OF thousands to cry, "Good for him-served him
rightn
Last summer o year he must put the ocean be-
tween him and his maligners that he might have
o little peace. They said ne went of sick and
broken-hearted because he himself could not get
to be President. Oh, Commonwealth of Massachu.
sets who is this that lies to-day sleeping in your
public building, under garands and wrapped in
the American fag9 Is this the man whom, only
little while ago, you
DENOUNCED AS THE FOE OF AMERICAN AND DEMO-
CRATIC INsTTrUTIONsp
on, ye American people, we cannot by week Of
eulogums and newspaper leaders, which the dead
Senator can neither hear nor read, atone Tor
when l see such a man as Charles Sumner pursued
Tor lifetime by all the hounds OF the political
and amid great national reeuiem saw wSat
hypocritical thing Is human favor You take
quarter Of q century In trying to pull down his
ing to build his monument. Either you were
wrong then or you are wrong now.
nat oria Senatorial Presidential chairs let them
see the folly of all earthly aspirations.
TWO GREAT NATIONAL FUNERAL BELLS
are toing, one from the East and the other from
the West. both ringing out the warning "Put not
your trust in princes, nor IN the son OF man,
on that very day their thoughts perish" Better
be seeking alter the honors OF Heaven; better be
preparing Tor the great future. Be quick, the
moments dart past; be quick the hour OF your
dissolution hastens; be quick the day Of grace is
closing be quick, lest some slight paralysis strike
your brain, as 1t did our venerable ex-President
or like the Senator who now lies III state waiting
T onT nens Sa feel an a. The heart and
gone God forbid that alter so many emphatic
warning, you should lose your soul.
A Monument To BE Raised to His Mem
Dry by the CoIored Citfzens-An En-
thusiastic Meeting Last Night.
Last night crowded audience gathered at
Republican Hall, situated In Twenty-third street
and Broadway, to listen to a funeral grafton on
the memory OF the late Charles Sumner. The
meeting, although colored one. was largely at
tended by white people. on the platform a
catafalque had been erected, covered with black
velvet PAIL In the centre Of the pail were In
scribed, in large golden letters the name of
sumner" Gracefully entwined around the
mournful emblem were some choice flowers.
Among the most distinguished coored citizens on
the platform were the Rev. d. Il. vanderese, J.
Butler, A. Williams, II. s. McIlvain, j. M. Andrews.
T. s. W. Titus. W. Il. Coopey, i Er Crosby and