The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-11-16
MISCELLANY.
A TRfBUTE BIZ THE EPISCOPAL
BISHOP or NEW JERSEY.


The following is an extract of a sermon
preached by Bishop Scarborough inst. James
Chapel, Eiberon, on Sunday, Sept. 25th, on
the death of President Garfield;
When named this autumn Sunday for
my visitation to your beautiful chapel, | had
little thought of the sad duty it had in store
for me. Since then, Elbefon has become
historic name and place--a sacred shrine,
where in coming years many a pilgrims feet
will delight to tread. The eyes Of the whole
civilized world have been turned toward it,
the lightning has written 1t in far off lands.
/ cannot forget, too, that the very walls of the
holy place where we have met together this
morning, share somewhat in this fame, that
has gone out to the ends of the earth. Here
only in mid June last the feet of one, then in
/ the very primo and vigor of manhood, who
4 had attained the climax Of human greatness
trod these courts of the Lord as a devout and
humble disciple. Here in your midst he sat-
man OF quiet mien, dignified in person end
manners, joining with yours his voice in pray
er and praise, and listening in the spirit and
temper of little child to Gods Word and
Law. On the Sunday following he went to
the mother Church of ST. James, Long
! Branch. And then, before another Lord $
day came ronnl, the cruel causeless crime of
the assassin had laid him low in the dust, and
brought him face to face with death. The
flow Of sympathy set in toward the capital,
and the agonzing prayers of a whole people
/ E..J
heightened into weeks and weeks into months,
| Hope alternated with despair The battle for
/ life was the most sublime in which he had
ever Joined. But all in vain. The struggle
was n hopeless one from the start. A life of
pain and helplessness-a thousand times more
to be dreaded than death itself--ths we know
now, was all he had in prospect. And from
this God has in mercy delivered him. Our
prayers have been answered, but not as we
hoped they would be- u /
need not dwell on the mere details Of life
that has left its mark behind it clearly craven
on every individual life Of the nation. do
not pass them by because they are the
mere uneventful details of an ordinary
commonplace life They have the flavor Of
romance about them that will make them and
keep them ever fresh and green in the popu-
lar heart. II seems long journey from the
little log-cabin Of single room--the home of
the sturdy pioneer in the Ohio wlderness--to
the White House at Washington. But the
swift feet of James A. Garfield accomplished
it in less than half century AS we see the
fatherless lad, in the homespun of his
mothers weaving, welding the axe that he
might keep roof over the widowed mothers
head, we learn the true secret of his success
in life. Self-relant, brave perseyering-he
won success by mere force of character, and
raised himself to place and power by his own
merits solely. He had neither wealth nor in
fluence to make his way for him, and SO he
carved it out for himself. He was not only
the architect but the builder of his own
fortune. Hence | regard him in all this a
representative man Of this new, free life of
ours. There is no other country under the
sun where such a career is possible. 1t is a
little singular that Lincoln, our other martyr
ed President-who was SO eminently man
Of the people--learned In bis youth to endure
the hardness of pioneer life in the West, and
SO was trained in the same school with Gar
field for the same high honors And he who
has just taken up the sceptre that fell from
the hand palsied BY death-wtom we have
hardly yet learned to call President--lke his
predecessor, has had to make bis own way in
the world. ! remember him very well in the
village where speht many of my own
boyhood's days, Iansingburgh, n. ~ His
father was the Baptist minister Of the town,
blest with learning and piety, but not with
worldly goods. He gave his children educa-
ton as their best dover, little dreaming that
be was training son for such dizzy height
Of place ard power. One WHO was trained
IKE Chester a Arthur ina Christian home,
/ will, am certain, know how to fule well, be-
! cause he first learned 70 obey,