The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-27

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great sorrow Of the race everywhere around
her. Her heart west out 10 great yearning
sympathy TO the companions OF her sorrow
the tears of her pity fell free and fast. The
passion OF her grief became compassion for
her iellowsuaerers.
She had learned the great lesson Of re-
nunciation-the lesson that we must all
sooner or later give up that which is dear
est to our heart.
This Is The severe lesson which God has
set for us poor mortals. May the heroic
lady who has been so heavily stricken learn
10 take this lesson to heart, and may God in
His mercy seed her heavenly consolation.
Amen.
After the reciting OF the usual prayers
for the dead the congregation was dis
Episcopal Churches.
ST. JANIS.
At SC. James church there was very fair
attendance. The evening service was read
by Rev. George g. Sutton-opening SEN
teDces from funeral service. Instead OF
the regular psater, the funeral anthem was
used. For the first lesson, fiftieth chapter
OF Genesis; second lesson, /. Corinthians
XIV. The hvmus were, "God Moves in
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"Jesus, Lover Of My Soul" The prayers
were specially adapted 10 the occasion.
Rev. j. Peterkin, in place OF a sermon, de-
liyered an address eulogizing the character
OF the late Chief Magistrate. "Not only
good and wise, but most religious" The
lessons for MS 10 lay TO heart were the exam
pie OF his high honor and patriotism, the
uncertainty and heetBess OF all earthly
glory, the common calamity that has made
ne once more feel that we were OF one ma
tlon, one blood, and one family; the little
ness OF man. and the great power and in.
scrutsble wisdom Of the great God Al
mighty.
ST. PAUL's.
st. Paul's church was filed with a large
congregation, both in the galleries and on
the floor. Some sympathizing friends had
sent beautiful howers most tastefully ar
ranged-a large cross, raised on bed OF
flowers, and crown above 1t. The SER
vices were, as agreed by the ministers OF
the Episcopal Church, special memorial
service, with the burial anthem instead OF
the Psalms OF the day, and lessons most iu-
diciously selected. The music was IN per-
feet harmony with the service-all solemn
and OF majestic simplicity. Hymn 93-"i
Would Not Live Alway"-was sung as a
voluntary. The other hymns were those used
in all the churches" Jesus. Saviour OF
nv Soul" and "Asleep in Jesus" DR..
Minnigerode, who had preached on SUM-
day morning on the subject from
the text "When Thy judgments are
in the earth the inhabitants OF the
world will learn righteousness" Usaiah
XVI, o. did not make an address, but
nj fnfr
and hymn with few feeling and appropri-
ate remarks.
AT THE MONUMENTAL.
The attendance at the Monumental was
unusually large, the galleries even being
filed. The services were opened with q
soprano solo
"Angels ever bright and fair
rendered by Miss Swain with exquisite
taste and much feeling. The rector then
read the sentences from the Burial Service,
" am the resurrection and the life," etc.,
followed by the exhortatiOn from the eve-
ming prayer, and the reading OF the 23d and
l30th Psalms from the Psalter. The first les
son was taken from the 10Th chapter Of Gen
eSiS, and the second the 10Th chapter OF
|. Corinthians from the Burial Service. Az
ter the lessons and anthem, appropriate
prayers-such as the prayer for the Presi-
dent, for persons in distress, etc.-were
said. TIE choir and congregation then sang
the 26Oth hymn
ASLEEP In Jesus
REMARKS BY THE RECTOR.
At the conclusion of the hymn Dr. Arm.
strong read as the basis OF his remarks the
507th hymn:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders n perform;
He plants his footsteps In The sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep I'm unfaibomable mines
With never. failing skill,
He treasures no his bright designs,
And works His sovereign Will. &C., &c.
Proceeding with his remarks, he said
There never has been in the history OF this
great republic such strangely sad day Us
this. The nation has been rent and torn
from circumference to centre by civil war;
the Chief Executive OF the laws OF the land
was on another occasion assasslnated, but
neither by wars shock nor by the bullet OF
the assassin did the nerves and heart Of the
body polite receive such an electric shock
as she has done to-day. Every fibre OF the
national body to-day quivc7S; her knees
stagger; her heart trembles. The solemn
funeral knell at this hour announces that
upon the liielesS remains OF the deceased
statesmen is falling earth TO earth, ashes to
ashes, dust to dust. There is no cloud, IL
is said, that has not its silver lining. Dark
and dense as is the national cloud to-day,
there are streaks Of light coming out OF IL.
Never has there been an event IN the nation
that has so aroused the sympathy OF the
entire people as OF one heart. They are
all sorrowing from ocean TO ocean,
from lake TO gulf, and a. Of
one family weep around the coffin OF
one common father. and all people feel
10 day that they have a common sorrow.
Sectionalism is dead in the view OF that
coffin. IL seems strange TO human eye,
passing strange, that the Great Moral Gov.
ernor OF the World should, in order 10 &C.
complish benehcent and great results,
adopt such measures, so bard. There was
time when IL seemed very cruel that the
great God should for the accomplishment
OF what we now see were benefcent pur-
poses plunge us into a civil war. Who
knows but that in the very taking of OF
President Garfield this same great God is
thus cementing the hearts OF the people as
in oney IL reminds me to-day OF one
large iamily, separated and sundered Tor
wears, drawn togetherag The father dies,
and that scattered family is brought around
common coffin. Chickering'S, bad feelings,
and dlssensiOns are at an end as they are
thus brought together. 1t is sad TO see the
great nation in mourning; but il is grand
spectacle, on which angels smile, to see this
great nation pour out into one common re"
seryoir It's sympathy, It's sorrow, and It's
tears. For the accomplishment OF that OBJ
iect even the life OF james A. Garfield was
not too much cost. May this blessed result
be brought more and more, so that in the
ewes OF the world the American nation shall
now and forever present one common sympa-
tby and one common heart and life. suggest
ing In this sad bereavement another proof OF