New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-26


81 BEECHER THE REV. DRs. bellows TAYLOR
ii VINCENT, DIX, THE REV. ROBERT coILYER AND
& OTHERS.
In nearly all the churches yesterday in this city
and Brooklyn the life and death of President Gar
81 field furnished the text of the sermons Words Of
y comfort. sympathy. hope and warning were uttered
81 and the lesson which the sorrowing Nation has to
s. learn from the painful event was set forth Tho
81 churches were draped with black, and in the
y prayers the bereaved family was remembered The
day was beautiful and the congregations were large
3 WHAT THE PEOPLE MUST LEARN.
81 "e o' s"ry Ward Beeeel al plymouth Church CCOnorO
81 There were three or four hundred persons
s IN front of Plymouth Church yesterday morning before
3 io O'clock and when the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as
8 cended the pulpit threequarers later there
81 was not scat 70 be had in the church All the ases
8 were hned, and the crowd extended out into the
s street as far as the force OF his voice could
3 be heard, While three four hundred went away when
s. they found IL there chance Of obtaining ad.
lnl'tance The church was trimmed simply bat taste
iuy The pillars of the organ eRtwined with white
Grape while from the top of the organ were suspended
: graceful folds OF black and white. Pieces of black ana
q white Grape extending around the building were at
@ched TO the cornice and also TO the railing gal
81 lery. To the right of Mr.. BeecIer WAS a
q handsome bank OF flowers, ana al his left ,ras n
bunch OF pampas grass Mr. Beecher in the course
OF his announcements for the week that during the lask
summer for the first in thirty years he had heea
g able to remain in comfort at home He trusted that in
y the future he shoald able 10 begin preaching on SEN
q ember ID instead OF October 1. His text was Psalms
3 Gill, 1917, aud ci., 2427.
z How short said MI Beecher, is human life at the
longest. We spend years in gathering knowledge
3 and die just we get ready 10 use it,
We learn how to live only pass Yet we are not
! ano@od To 1--we even the short life allotted man.
3 fun life is accounted four score years the average ne
is not more than two The babe grows up TO ma
ury, but The web Is broken and man stlnbes on the
threshold of his usefulness MOrasts and poets have
hied the world with sad srtans the shortness OF fe
and to-day stand before strange manifestation of
g providence Why is it that the good man dies
y apparently in the beginning OF his useful.
5 nessf Why is it that the hero to whom. we
pinned our faith has passed away2 We had
n gone through the vicoriousy had lived through
2 reconstruction; had fought the fight against green
back money and had Just entered on the skirs
OF our promised land when leader our Joshua was
q stricken down. lie WAS man who united the best ee
3 nents OF ns felloWcountrymCn he firm vet gentle
and in him the lion ana the lamb seemed Ia lie down
tosether he was not empty partisan but he looked az
s. al questions with calm and unbiased mind; he had
S6oF M n@ 9 he Sed aq TeS acquired it By hard and
q Poverty and he had lived by the Of brow;
Win almost the brst OF the trumpet Lad cora
one Of her leading generals. Later he entered tbs
s. councils 81 me Nation and from that time hs
name was iound connected with every advanced
At length the Republic called Garfield to it's highest Of
naIes of ali the @ ne ees nan MI iST ne place % Call the
y any OF them than be wasi -Four months
hSe splendid promises Of usefulness But that bright
n ioD ,h hs etnIsna carried has been shoti" flashed
r with his family The drama is ended. For weeks
y to put his brow and God him After yesrs
before amid the Changing of 6essp tse
Joyous shouting Of the people wac borne silence.
r1dte men forgot 70 sleep and watched its passage az
Blessed are the dead that die in Lord" For them
STs no 81 more more burdens or SORROWS Around the
children TO teach Them 70 be brave and to honest
8 measurements What is time TO Hint Mans life is ike
e a9 On ihe "a sea- which rses 70 the surface aud
es all events by eternity, that which may seem TO ns
ocnsL may arise TO Us from this disaster Sometimes
eds death we NAV 1ns p pest socaiS 9I mans ne SO rom
IN IN an e1acIly similar way Washington is revered for
would have been he had met with =
& our's life was, death was OF much Inore irspoTtaps
Asthongh we hoped TO reap much from JiarfielGs
aud South have felt the first time the healing balm OF
wS and np H ha heae se aTer Tf w. SNSnas 3 BY tho
as been no division in the Nations sorrow s waole
heart Has beaten together Charleston has the
as bitterly as Philsdep6ia and New Orleans
TSed N he eeT set % Nor have party lines
q striking than the unitr Of the Na,cn in
z IFS grief has been the unity of mankind When lincoln
\ was shot the world was shocked rather than rieved.
i France were still red with the blood Mexico. But
q pressed its From Russia and Turkey on the
East to Japan n on the West there has been common
8 the world been stirred this is the itrst time
q may it NOT he the last
This sympathy had also comfort. Were there
ever before SO many prayers offered upf The Mussu-
man. the Catholic the Protestant all prayed TO God a.
8 they knew Him, and in their own fornaty. But did
s. God refuse 10 answer them and prayer ctioni In
8 the lower sphere God answer the higher
one He did Is there no other of prayer in
z conulnuance OF me Could we not be
q fortified and strengthened by President Garnelds
dealD han by his ntef Is this not sublime
+ 10 our pIayersf we see people dying everywhere;
except IN the OF friends We scarcely
feel that death 10 an aicon But why should Garfield
N not 9et Because We looked upon him a tree
\ which we shoua gather only goodfru:t But is ID not
1etes TO have t branches raised so that il wiz
q beneht the whole woridi
There lessons continued Mr.
d bbeeeher, 10 be drawn from President Garheld's
,,eatn ana tnere is one which wish particularly
Our Government be compared "A stately mansion
Mhlch many are desrous 0l entering Some walk boldly
enter by the back from which all refuse comes
BY the nature OF constitution obliged send
3 ected are not tine most suitable persons cannot
bear TO have the public ideal destroyed and opinion
his honor, and advance by ignoble means. Aud
SSSpy TS "p oehS& SSicd an8asr @S1 sT1gsmS hon,
y scI as statesman, X Is an example that honor and
integrity not incompatible with political adVance-
nelIt aud that mans lie viii Do example Wash
In the simplicity habits there has been no need
oI protection around our Presidents And IL is true
n That public opinion, with is better guard of
8 any European monarch. There sense here Of
wrongs inflicted upon generation after generation to
stir men up madness against their rulers oar lavs
are OF our own making and be changed Then oaly
short time must before
hateful ruler. Yet legislation is inconplefe 4
ad rather take the bullet than be protected
! fellow-c1uzens. But an attempt the life a man
al rely should be treason and its punishment shoud
be death lAppausel But let this be done by law. No
3 than he lad to sssassinate President Car.
neid. Let us stand for the administrs-