Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-15
JOHN .. GABLES FUNERAL.
Immense C0noourso o0GAourn0rs-Improos e
Services.

Services.
The funeral of John 8. Gable took place
yesterday, from the residence No. 80
North Queen street. At 2 o'clock hum
dreds of friends gathered at the residence
and viewed the remains. Among those
present were large number of clergymen
Of the church of which Mr.. Gable was q
prominent member. Rev. Seilhamer, pas
tor of the Union Bethel, of which Mr..
Gable was An elder, Rev. A. x. Shoemaker,
of Chicago Rev. c. Price, Harrisburg !;
Rev. ]. 8. Esterline, Columbia Rev. D.
A. L. Laverty, Harrisburg Rev. J. 8.
Weishample, Lancaster Rev. D. s.
Shupp. Middletown Rev. B. F. Beck,
Harrisburg Rev. John Tucker, Lancas-
ter Rev. Abraham Long, cambridge ;
Rev. John Swenk. Lancaster Rev. Stone
shifer, Rev. d. w. Gerhard, Lancaster,
and perhaps some other clersymen, were
present.
The services at the house consisted of
brief addresses by Revs. Stoneshifer and
Shupp, after which the funeral cortege,
consisting of the hearse and about twenty
five carriages filled with mourners, and a
large concourse on foot, including the
Friendship fire company in a body, moved
up North Queen street to Walnut, along
Walnut to Duke, down Duke to Orange
and down Orange to the church.
Arrived at the church the coffin was
taken from the hearse and placed in front
of the altar, and then Rev. Seilhamer de-
livered the funeral sermon, an eloquent
tribute to the memory OF tho deceased, and
filled with words of wisdom for the living.
Rev. A. x. Shoemaker, of Chicago, fol-
lowed with an address on the life and char
acter of Mr.. Gable, prefacing his remarks
with a statement that MIR. Gable had some
years ago made a reques, that he should
do so. He said that Mr.. Gable was one of
those positive Christians, who, like Abra-
ham Lincoln, looked to principle rather than
policy as guide to his. action. Although
unlettered and uneducated in the schools,
he was a man of great practical intelli-
gence and general information. He was
not an active politician, but had clear
views on all great questions of local, state
or national importance. He belonged to
the order of heroes, who are always found
in the front when duty calls them there.
but who leave the minor details to others.
He was man of fine business capacity ;
did not meddle or worry about small
matters, but was wholesale in all
his movements and operations Though
liberal in his religious views he
was radical in his religious life,
and struggled to keep the truths Of
religion pure and simple before the eyes
and understanding OF the people. His re-
ligiOus hobby was the great missionary
work, in which cause he never tired labor
ing, in behalf of which he was liberal
contributor. In the church, he was good
counsellor and adviser, but it is doubtful
whether his merits were as highly appre-
ciated while he lived as they should have
been.
At the close of DR.. Shoemaker address
Rev. G. Price and Rev. D. A. L. Laverty
made some pertinent remarks, and after
an invocation the coffin was removed to
the .hearse, the funeral cortege reformed
and moved to the Lancaster cemetery.
where the closing religious services, includ-
ing dirge by the choir, took place, ard
the body was lowered to its resting place.
The Friendship engine house was hung
in black yesterday from its tower to the
foundations and while the funeral pro-
cession moved the Empire bell was tolled.