Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-23


answered Jesus unto them: Verify, verify.
say unto you: he that hearefh my word. and
believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting
life. and shall not come into condemnation; but
hath passed from death unto life. To him that
OvercOmeth will grant to sit with Me on NV
Throne; even as | also Overcame, and set down
with My Father in His Throne. Blessed are they
that do His commandments. that they have
right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city. And they
shall see His face and His name shall be in their
foreheads.' And He went little further and
fell on His face, and prayed. SAYING, O.,
my Father. if it be possible, let this
cup pass from me. Nevertheless not as
WILL but as Thou wilt. 1t became Him for
whom are all things and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make
the captain of their salvation perfect, through
suffering. The disciple is not above his Master,
nor the servant above his Lord. 1t is enough
for the disciple that he be as his Master and
the servant as his Lord. Let not your hearts
be troubled; We believe in God, believe also in
come to you. Leave thy fatherless children; 1
will preserve them alive. And etthy widow trust
in Me. And it came to pass, when they came to
Bethlehem, that all the city was moved
about them. And they said. Is this Naomi?
And she said unto them, Call me
dealt very bitterly with me. went out full,
and the Lord hath brought me home again
empty. For small moment have forsaken
thee: but with great mercies will gather thee
hid my face from thee for moment; but with
everlasting kindness, will Ihave mercy on thee
saith the Lord. Thy Redeemer. And Jacob died,
and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph
went up to bury his father. And then went up
with them both chariots and hOrsemen; and it
was very great company. And when the in
habtants of the land saw the mourning
they said. this is grievOus warning to theel
And they did unto him, according as he had COM
manded them. For they carried him into the
land OF Canaan, and buried him in the cave of
the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought
for possession of burying place. And heard
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth. Yea, saith the spirit, that they may
rest from their labors, and their works do follow
them. l wouldnot have you to be ignorant con-
cerning which are asleep, that ye sorrow not
even as others which have no hope For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them, also, that sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him. Wherefore, comfort one another with
these words. Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it. The Lord gave the Lord
hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the
Lord"
The Rev. F. D. Power, the pastor of the Chris
tian church, on Vermont avenue, attended by
President Garfield, then proceeded to deliver the
following feeling and appropriate address:
REV. MR.. POWERS REMARKS
Mr.. Power said: The cloud so long pending
over the nation has at last burst upon our
heads. We sit half-crushed amid the ruin it has
wrought A million million prayers and hopes
and tears. as far as human wisdom sees, were
vain. Our loved one has passed from us. But
there is relief We look away from the BODY
We forget, for time. the things that are seen;
we remember, with joy, his faith in The Son of
hirnS So1f
preached, and which he always truly loved. And
we see light and blue sky through the cloud
structure and beauty instead Of ruin; glory,
honor, Immortality, spiritual and eternal life in
the place of decay and death We see the
goodness of God which crowns all His works
and the Fathers love from which no might. no
terror. no relentless force in nature. no strange
ness OF lot or circumstance. no power of evil in
man, no unbending necessity of any law, can
ever separate us. Peace thrOned above sorrow.
and love the bright, infinite power over all In
the light OF revelation it matters little where a
man stands in this life, or how feeble a platform
of worldly prosperity, in how deep slough of
despond: Or how lofty pinnacle. or how lowIy
plain They look upward and see far beyond
all clouds OF doubt and sin, all the brightness
sphere OF mans strength, and even all the scope
OF mans comprehensiOn-beyo all human
hopes, and elevations. and imaginings as well
as human burdens and trials, sorrow and pain
and see dwelling with GOd as vast as He is. as
eternal as He is, as universal as He
and steadfast as He, are love, mercy. pardon,
redemption. the rich promises of God. the power
OF the life to come. the great, loving, sparing.
pltying, provident hand of the Father stretched
to all points of the needy earth and showerng
os'sas Of GGd ana n t Rs"cs We etue is the Into hand ii
we commit our beloved. Beneath it we
rejoice; as it beckons us we follow. We are re-
minded to-day as we stand beside the nation s
dead, that the king of kings and Lord OF Lords is
supreme; that the Lord gave and the Lord
taketh away, and his name is blessed in both the
giving and the taking; that the Lord kileth and
maketh alive. He bringeth solre to the grave
and bringeth up; that the Lord maketh poor
and maketh rich, bringeth low and
foateth; fo lis and o,n that na Though nna man
mourners go about the streets and the body re-
turns to the earth as it was. still the spirit Shall
return to God. who gave it; ;.ild the dead that
die in the Lord are blessed Christian faith
d"ells not upon the body, but looks away to the
spirit at rest with God The Grief glory of this
ship in the school of Christ. His attainments
as scholar and statesman. will be the
theme Of our orators and historians.
and they must be worthy men to speak his
praise worthily. But it is as a Christian that
we love to think of him now, Speaking OF his
avenue, he said to me: 81 am not there as
President of the United States; l am there
SIMPLY rs disciple of Christi and it is in this
attitude that he stands to-day before the God
whom he so sincerely worshppcd. He
was wonderfully symmetrical man; rarely have
men seen SO much physical beauty; it took a
deadly bullet to waste it, Seldom have men
known such vlgOr of intellect. No task
seemed beyond him. Equally complete was his
spiritual life. He approached the unrevealetl
mysteries OF God with deepest reverence; the
revealed duties of man he accepted without
question Humility is the base of every virtue,
and in religion as in the world, is the avenue to
all true glory. There was genuineness and
simplicity about his religious life that was
exceedingly beautiful. When 10 years of age
he liiade public confession of Christ in school
house. When at Williams he would walk twelve
miles to little church of the Disciples to break
bread on the Lords day Wnen he entered
pubic lie in this city he met weekly with his
brethren Ia the City Hall, and after their Occu-
pancy OF the little frame house Of worship his
place was regularly flied. He would sing with
heaItnesa It the songs Of praise, partake devouty
OF the emb!ems of the body and blood OF
CHRIST, and grasp kindly the hands OF
his ufethfeh as he passed with his aged mother
on ms arm: The church was ever restful home
to him. In his last illness. knowing OF OII
daily prayer for him. he was heard to say: ''The
aeaf little church on Vermont avenue! They
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