St. Landry democrat., 1881-10-08
JAMES ADRIAN GARFIELD,
Born Nov 49, 1884, Died. President States Sept

Rt. Rev. Bishop Bedell, OF the Episcopal
Diocese Of Ohio, then read the greater por-
ton Of the fifteenth chapter Of Corinthians,
after which Rev. Ross C. Houghton, pastor
Of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
offered 8 feeling and earnest prayer.
At this point the Vocal Society sang as
follows:
To Thee, o Lord, yield my spirit;
Who breakfast in love this mortal chain:
My life but from Thee inherit
And death becomes my chiefest gain.
In Thee live, in Thee die;
Content, for Thou art ever nigh.
Rev. Isaac Errett, OF Cincinnati, then de-
livered an eloquent discourse, 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 wounded" His servants,
therefore, took him out of that chariot and
put him in the second chariot that he had, and
they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died
and was buried in one of the sepulchers of
his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem la
mented for Josiah. and Jeremiah lamented
for Josi3h, and all the singing men
and the singing women spake of Josiah in
their lamentations to this day, and made
them an ordinance in Israel. And behold
they are written 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 Jerusalem and 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, ana the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
the Captain of fifty, and the honorable man,
and the counsellor, and the cunning artifcer
and the eloquent orator. The voice said
'tCry!" and he said, what shall cry?'' All
flesh Is grass, and all the goodness thereof is
as the flower of the field. The grass wither-
eth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of
the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely, the peo-
pie is grass. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, but the Word Of our God shall stand
forever. 5.
In the course of his address, which was
very lengthy, Mr.. Errett said: r-
"There was never q mourning in all the
world like unto this mourning. am not speak
ing extravagantly when I say, for 1 am told
it is th- result of calculations carefully made
from Ach data as are in possession, that GER
tainly not less than 800, 00O, 600 Of THE human
race share in the sadness, and lamentations,
and sorflsy, and mourning that belong to this
occasion hereeo-dayg It is chill shadow Of a
fearful caiamitt that has extended itself into
every home in Ae. thhlA land, and into every
heart, and that hasaaro ecred itself over vast
seas and oceans fetot. distant lands, and
awakened the sincek, s>and profounde-s
sympathy with us in NheS eearts .oe, the
good people of the NatitS,s, an~-.<nong all
people. 1t is worth while, uy friends, to
pause moment and ask why this is. 1t is
doubtless attributable in part dthe wondrous
triumphs Of science and art Within the pres
emit century, by means of which time and space
have been SO far conquered that Nations once
far distant and necessarily alienated from
each other are brought into close communities.
ton. and the various ties Of commerce, and Of
social interests, and Of religious interests
bring them in a contact Of fellowship that