New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-22
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
rrNERAL or BISHOP JAMES.

sv.v,cps AT ST. PAUL's METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
The funeral of the late Rev. Edmund Storer
Janes ID d. bishop Of the Methodist Episcopal Churcn'
NORTH Who died last Monday took place yesterday al
teruoon at st. Pauls Methodist Church. at fourtaVe
and Twenty-secondst The church, with It's galleries.
was crowded the front peys being reserved Tor crgy
men and immediate friends The pulpit was draped IN
black and upon each side and upon table in the ehance
were anchors and crosses Of white flowers and other
floral triltes At 210 p. the coffin was brought into
the church aud placed IN front Of the ehancel rL The
easet was Of rosewood with silver mOuntngs and upon
itay leaf of the palm tree brought from the HOY Lana
and cluster of roses and lilies. Before the oonin when
carried in walked the officiating minister's Bishops
Simpson OF Philadelphia and Scott Of Dover, the Rev.
Drs Chapman of st. Paus Church, Dashie OF tho MIS-
sionary Society Crawford Presiding Elder OF tho New
York Conference; William Adams Of the Presbyterian
Church. Hunt President OF Drew Theological Seminary
ana O. d. Foss President Of Wesleyan University. me
paIl-bearers were the Rev. Drs. II B. Rdgeway Bnsoy,
Andrew Longacre Sherman, Fletcher, and Fowler and
Gen C. B. Fisk, A. " Stout Mayor Terry OF Orange,
Oliver Hoyt. ]. B. Cornell and William Philips Inc
church arrangements under tie charge OF D. D. h.
Crook. The music during the service was sung by the
ct Paus quartet under w. r. johnson, orgapist, aud
was as follows: Opening anthem Psalm XXnI., :" The
lord Is my shepherd !" chant The Lords Prayer hymn
Becthoyon's Funeral March
The services were opened by the reading Of selections
Rev. Dr. Chapman then delivered eulogy Of me lais
bishop speaking OF the love and respect OF the crch
and people Tor the man, his u and character ald nls
Fere we,itA mental and moral endowuteEts lie sai
that his hU VAS DEVISED not to lectures or writing hut
70 preaching the Word of Cod THAI he was le ils ol
the preacher OF the iayman, and OF man. Inc Rev IT.
Dashie followed speaking Of Bishop Janes's interest in
the isoRaFy eallse also read the last letter ever
written by him, to the Rev. j. s. Porte, IN rsply
r 10 a letter Of eOndOlenUe on the death OF MIS-
James After the chant Bishop Scott male
few reu,arks, giving "Reminiscences OF bishop
Janes's private aud puhllc LIFE Bishop Simpson iol-
lowed him saying during HIS address: am SAD to-
ay not for liin before but for ourselves, tho
Church. and che world. I never knew amy ote VINO
spent as Eruch time In private devotion as ny late col
league Durfng an intercourse OF over "a years never
heard him speak Of any preacher except with ofe ahd
Affection wiser. hoier more eODsecrated or piore
successful ministers gone TO glory; lf Jan
was the senior bishop OF the Church actually Tor tres
years but virtually for eight ten during tho feeble-
ness OF the late Bishop Morris, and his lie has been
given TIE faithful performance oil his Sitl. N-sns
OF New-York YOU mourn; ministers or the Chuieh you
mourn we Ills colleagues, mourn; but there Is rteie
ina in hoaVeR." ,;, -.
n HYMN the coffin opened, and those present were
ernitta5 10 take last Look Mt the remains OF ire de
parted blssp The body left An the ehurch Tor Tue
light, and win be taken this morning to Greenwood
Cemetery for interment