The New York herald., 1877-07-11
THE BLISS MONUMENT.

Z TRIBUTE or CHRISTIAN AFFECTION TO THE
PEBIsHEp BIZ THE AsHrABuLA ACCIDENT.
!Bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
TowAxpA, Pa. July TO- 1871.
A. Rome. Bradford county. Pa tho home OF the late
p Bliss tho song writor and the "sweet singer In
Israel" as he termed by his evangelical coIabor-
ers. the monument 70 his momory unveiled this
afternoon. tho presence OF nearly thousand per-
sons, many Of whom had como from distant localities
10 take part In the ceremonies
Mr. Moopv's
Mr.. ID. J.. Moody presided and delivered an address
paying beautiful tribute TO the victim OF the Ash'a-
bua accident In the course Of his remarks he said
that the memory o the poet singer lives In the
hearss OF tho people, never TO be enaccd The
penny contributions Of the children OF Tho
Unltcc States, England, Scotland and other far
"a countries for the monument and tho support Of
the orphaned little ones left behlnd, 70 TAR toward
showing tho esteem and love entertained for him BY
tho Sunday school pupils They had givcn Sll, 06s IS.
and this amount came from 5000 Sunday schools.
The aggregate would have been still greater but word
was sent that secured for this noble object
was ample and that moro funds we're needed
beautiful monument had becn erected and paid ior,
and tho little orphans had been placed beyond want
In concluding his remarks Mr.. Moody presented the
swo little boys OF Bliss TO tho audience. and asked
that tho prayers OF all present be sent up TO God in
lhcir bcha Close the children sat the mother and
sisters Of Mr. Bliss ns also she oro'ners ana s-
ter OF mis- wife.
A handsome cuogy pronounced by Mr. Sankoy
upon tho deceased songsier; while MAJOR D. A. WHIT
ment could be greater TO the deceased than his own
noble words as they went forth In song Tor all tmcs
of tho deccased, said few had done much
Tor tho cause Of evengelizasion as na1 Mr..
Of tho great ard good works nc performing. John
q. Vincent, d. d.. charactcrizoa tho deceased ms
man snS - Of GO9 .a0 ha
len tho choicest OF songs, and tho churches
and tho Sabbath schools had becn elevated
pen His voice, though hushed IN death, gives iorth
its echo in loving souls with thrilling words that
elevated through tho works Of this nan, who pobiy
died while working In tho Mnstcrs cause.
Rev. Arthur T. Person, Of Detroit pronounced the
closing address In this he claimed that even tho
more and older writers Of sacred ongs had
done less 10 elevate the hymns Of churches than
Mr. Bliss, who suddenly from obscurty to prom
ncnco through the pure and elcvating sentiment Of
his Gospel mxS hs naH Vt 11
MONUMENT.
The monument stands midway in the cemetery at
Rome and is twenty two feet high. The shalt IS OF
white Italian marble, in the Romanesqne style, sur
mounted by a draped Tho base rises iour feet
above tho ground and is constructed OF blue marble
carved in rustic blocks is the word:-
On The second base is the instrp.on:--
Their NAMES SHALL LIVE
On mo iron, moulding above his second base rc.
ccivcs the die, and above this ID the SHAFT twelve feet
high, on which carved:-
siiss. ''''''''''>'''
and the passage
.srnv statutes have been my songs in tue housey
ar nv uiiy 1,--p
Above the rhan is cup 10 receive q draped urn.
The following inscriptions arc carved on the
{ Erected by tho Sunday schools OF the Unned$
Estates and Grcat Bruin, In response to the invta-S
s!ion Of p l. Moody, as "a memorial TO Phillip P;s
) Bliss, author OF "Hod the fort' ana other Gospel$
S.ess.
{ Through living iath in jesus Christ they died
SIN the blessed nope OF house made wlhS
$hauds. eternal In the heavens They lived IN theS
$cxpecsatios Of tho return Of the Lord jesus aud<
$the gathering togstper TO Him. Their spirits ares
Swith tho Lord 'Wc sorrow not even othcrsS
(which hope, for II We believe thatS
(also which sleep Jesus will God bring with Ha;S
$ior the Lord Himself shall descend from heavcn$
Swith shout with the voice OF tho archangel andS
$wi,h the trumpet OF God and tho dead In Christ$
$shall riso arst: then which are alive and res
sciouds to nice, ito Lord IN the air. ana 70 shall wc
$evcr be With the Lord "--i. rhessalonans, iv, 49,
>14, Ii, H.
On tho lett hand sido:-
Phillip p. Bliss, Lucy Young Bliss Lovely and<
Splcasant In their lives, aud decth they notS
.divided. I'D Samuel, l.. 23
On the right side:-
Sacred 10 the memory oil Philip p. Blisn
:born in Clear1eld county, Pa, July Q, 1885, I
:and Lucy Young Blms, his wife, born ms
sRAme, Bradford county, Pa, March a. !
.lsSl, who lett their homo. this village
sThursday morning. December 2S, 1876, for Chicago
and met their death at Ashtabulu, Ohio. Friday
.evcning, December 90, 1876, by the falling OF a$
sbridgc, by which train oi wDs broken Into$
fragments and consumed by fire, some eighty per
sons being killed. II rs believed that the bodies of$
sMr. and Mrs. Bliss were consumed TO ashes, sincc<
pothing recognizable belonging 10 their earthly
tabernacle has been discovered.
Tho unveing OF the monument conducted amid
no must profound silence, after which tho ministers