The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-10-05

in the silent grave, it may be with
the blessed hope of the resurrection
from the dead where we shall be
forever with the Lord. Guide us by
Thy counsel, afterwards receive US
to Thine excellent glory we ask il
through Christ, the Lord. Amen"
At this point the Vocal Society
sung, ITO Thee, o Lord, I yield my
Spirit"
ADDRESS OF REV. ISAAC ERRErr.
Rev. Isaac Errett, of Cincinnati,
then delivered an eloquent address,
taking for his text the following
"And the archers shot at King Josiah,
and the King said to his servants,
Have me away for am sore wound
ed. His servant therefore took him
out of that chariot and put him in
the second chariot that be had, and
they brought him to Jerusalem, and
he died and was buried in one of the
sepulchers of his father. And all
Judah and Jerusalem mourned for
Josiah, and jeremiah lamented for
Josiah, and all the singing men and
the. singing women speak of Josiah
in their lamentations TO this day,
and made them an ordinance in
Israel. And behold, they are writ
ten in the lamentations, now, the
rest of the acts of Josiah, and his
goodness according to. that which
was written in the law Of the Lord,
and his deeds first and last, behold
they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah. For
behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts,
doth take away from Judah the stay
and the staff, the whole stay of
bread and the whole stay of water.
The mighty man and the man of
war and the prophet and the pru-
dent and the ancient, the captain of
fifty and the honorable man and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer
and the eloquent orator. The voice
said, Cry and he said, What shall
| say?' All flesh is grass, and all
the goodness thereof is as the flower
of the field. The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth, because the spirit
of the Lord bloweth upon it. Sure
ly the people is grass, the grass
withereth, the flower fadeth, but the
word of our God shall stand for
ever"
This is time of mourning that
has no parallel in the history OF the
world. Death is constantly occur
ring. and every day and hour, and
almost every moment, some life ex-
pires and somewhere there are
broken hearts and desolate homes.
But we have learned to accept the
unavoidable, and we pause o mo-
ment and drop a tear and away
again to the excitement and ambi-
tions of life, ard forgetita all. Some
times life is called for that plunges
large community in mourning,
and sometimes whole nations mourn
the loss of a good king, or a wise
statesman, or an eminent sage, or a
great philosopher, or q philanthro-
pist, or n martyr who has laid his
life upon the altar of truth, and won
for himself an envious immortality
among the sons of men. But there
never was a mourning in all the
world like unto this mourning. /
am not speaking extravagantly when
] say, for am told it is the result
of calculations carefully made from
such data as are in possession, that
certainly not less than three millions
of the human race share in the sad
ness and lamentations and sorrow
and mourning that belongs to this
occasion here to-day. 1t is chill
shadow of fearful calamity that
has extended itself into every home
in all this land, and into every
heart, and that has projected itself
over vast seas and oceans into dis
tant lands, and awakened the sim
cerest and profoundest sympathy
with us in the hearts of the coed
people of all nations and among all
peoples.
1t is worth while, my friends, to
pause a moment and to ask why
this is? 1t is doubtless attributa-
BILE in part to the wonderous tri-
umphs of science and art within the
present century, by means of which
time and space have been SO far
conquered that nations once far dis
tant and necessarily alienated from
each other are brought into close
communication, and the various ties
of commerce and of social interests
and of religious interests bring them
in contact Of fellowship that could
not have been known in former
times. 1t is likewise unquestion-
ably partly due to the fact that this
nation of ours, which has grown to
such wonderous might and power
before the whole earth, and which
is, in fact. the hope of the world in
all that relates to the highest civili-
zation, that sympathy with this
nation and respect for this great
power leads to these offerings of
coincidence, and expressions of
sympathy and grief from the various
nations of the earth; and because
they have learned to respect this
nation and recognize that the nation
is stricken in the fatal blow that has
taken away our President from us.
Ard yet this will by no means ac-
count for this marvellous and world
wide sympathy Of which we are
speaking. Yet it cannot be attrib-
uted to mere intellectual greatness,
for there have been and are other
great men; and acknowledging all
that the most enthusiastic heart
could claim for our beloved leader,
it is but fair to say that there have
been more eminent educators, there
have been greater soldiers, there
have been more skillful and expert
enced and powerful legislators, and
leaders of mighty parties and polite
al forces. There is no one depart
ment in which he has not won emi-
nence where the world may not
point to others who attained higher
and more intellectual greatness. It
might not be considered more right