Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-29
Business Of all Kinds Suspended and the
Churches Crowded.

Public Meeting at the Court
House-A Blue Monday.
The funeral of President Garfield
might truly be called the nations
funeral. 1t was conducted on the
grandest and most sublime scale pos
sible. The congregation was not
confined to Cleveland, Ohio, or even
to the United States. While every
bell in our own beloved country was
tolling, the mourners were gathering
all over the whole world to- mourn
the loss of a great and good man.
chow well the good man fell asleep
some proud river winding towasd The sea,
Calmly and grandly, silently and deepss
Life joined Eternity"
The funeral cortege reached from
ocean to ocean, and from pole to pole.
People of every cline and every birth
were bowed around the nations bier.
Mexico, Missouri, if not with as
much drapery, at least with as much
feeling, mourned the loss of tour
President The business houses on
Monday at 2 p. M, we think without
exception, were all closed. The
churches we're crowded with our bus
mess men and citizens of all parties
and classes. During the memorial
services at the various churches our
streets were deserted, showing how
deep and general the feeling was
with our people. The memorial SER
vices at the
LIBERTY SHEET n. E. CHURCH
were highly interesting. The church
was beautifully draped, with various
notices, and extracts from the dead
Presidents speeches were hanging all
around the room. The exercises
were presided over by the pcstor,
Rev. T. J. Wheat. There were ap-
propriate selections of Scriptures
read; with exceedingly we'll executed
music and song. The prayer was by
Ed. J. A. Headington, and most
appropriate and effective. The Rev.
Wheat made a short sermon of great
lpower and pathos. Judge VIM. o.
Forrist, who all his life well knew the
dead President, made an appropriate
and fitting eulogy, which was the
most complete and beautiful we ever
heard, and will appear in our next
issue.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. z
Ed. John A.. Brooks spoke TO a
full auditorium, as he generally does.
His remarks were most appropriate
to the occasion, and delivered in DR..
Brooks. characteristic decisive and
impressive manner. We heard quite
a number of his hearers say that Ed.
Brooks made the best speech he ever
delivered.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. j. c. Maple held appropriate
memorial services, and was greeted
with an %appreciative audience. He
spoke in a most touching and beeom-
ing manner Of the distinguished de-
parted.
N. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
At the M. E. Church, South, the
'front.' seats we're occupied by the
Knights Commandery of the Knights
Templar, of which the deceased
President was amember, and which
were commanded by Sir knight
James Carroll. The services were
conducted by the pastor, Rev. T. J.
Gooch, who, after song and prayer,
read the Goth Psalm, and addressed
those present from a portion OF
scripture found In Isaiah and the
tLitany of the Order: "All flesh is
grass and all the goodness thereof
is as the flower of the field the grass
witheretb and the flower fadeth be-
cause the Spirit of the Lord bloweth
upon u; surely the people is grass !
! The grass wtthereth, the flower lad
eth !; but the Word of our God shall
stand forever." TIE reverend speak
er commenced by saying that every
where on earth strange contrasts were
presented. On one side WAS the
bridal and on The other the funeral
train. The church often stands on
the square where the criminal is con.
fined. The sounds of music and rev
elry mix with those Of the waiting
assembly. Men assemble and found
tcitres in which art yies with art e
plesse ; but side, BY slde of the sitj
of lie living s6eie is also A1sisy .
the dead. Wherever there is evi
dence or life, there also are the foot
i 3oh.t,1 s.sndipk ss1vs 6irs
We can fdok back upon The histor,
and work Of the past and behold ole
Time With heavy locks among ~
ruins Of antiquity. Up bis hands IN
greatest and the mightiest are d
more .than the wesksst. The sNisa
rods, lAlexanders, 0aesars and ma
poleons, Abraham, Moses and Das''