The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-24
FELEARAMS.
sOLEMN CEREMONIES
The Services At She Cap EOi
Concluded And the RIP
To Cleveland Com
meuceds
THE SERVICES.

IN a clear distinct voice, the follow
ing selections of scriptures. The
Lord reigneth the floods have lifted
up their voice, the Lord on high is
mlghtler than the voice of many
waters; clouds and darkness are
around about him, righteousness
and judgement are the habitatien of
his throne: by Him kings reign
and prices decree justice; He chan
geth times and seasons; He remoy-
eth kings and Setteth up kings, for
there is no power but Of God. The,
powers that be, are ordained of God.
WhOsOeVer, therefore, resisteth the
power, resisteth the ordnance of
God, and by that resistance shall
receive to themselves damnation.
and some passages from st. John and
the Gospels with exceeding effect.
Rev. DR.. Isaac Everett then
offered prayer. He spoke in clear
but low tone, and with much evil
dence of deep feeling. AS the clos
ing words Of the prayer died away,
the Rev. F. D. Power, of Vermont
Avenue Christian Church, of which
President Garfield was a member,
delivered a feeling address. He
spoke in a clear voice and was dis
tinctly heard in every portion of the
hall. He said: THE cloud so long
pending over the nation has at last
burst upon our heads. We sit half
crushed amid the ruin it has
wrought. A million Of prayers and
hopes and tears, as far as human
wisdom sees, were in vain. Our
loved one has passed from US, but
there is relief. We look away from
the body; we forego for the time
the things that are seen; we remem-
Der with joy his faith in the son Of
God, whose gospel he sometimes
himself preached, and which he al
ways truly loved; and, we see the
light and blue sky through the cloud
structure and beauty instead of
ruin; glory, honor, immortality and
eternal life in place of decay and
death. The chief glory of this man,
as we think of him now, WAS his
discipleship in the school of
Christ. His attainments as a
scholar and statesman will be the
theme of our orators and historians,
ard they must be worthy men to
speak praisewOrthy; but 1T is as a
Christian that we love to think of
him. 1t was this which made his
life to man an invaluable boon, his
death to US an unspeakable loss. and
his eternity to himself an inherit
ance incOrruptible, undeiled, and
that fadeth not away. He was no
Seetarian; his religion was as broad
as the religion Of Christ. He was
simple Christian, bound by
no sectarian ties and wholly in
fellowship with all pure spirits. He
was a Christologist rather than a
theologist. He had great reverence
for the family and relations His
example as son, husband and father
is a glory to this nation. He had a
most kindly nature. His power
over human hearts was deep and
strong. He won men to him; he
had no enemies. The hand that
struck him was not the hand of his
enemy, but of the people, the
enemy of the country, the enemy of
God. He sought to do right man
ward and Godward. He was a
grander man than we knew. He
wrought even in his pain a
better work for the nation than we
can now estimate. He fell at the
height of his achievement, not from
any fault Of his own, but we may in
some sense reverently apply to him
the words spoken of our dear Lord:
" He was wounded for our trans
gression, he was bruised for our in
EQUITIES, the chastisement of our
place was upon him." AS the ma
tions remember the Macedonian as
the Great; and the
Grecian as Aristides the Just,
may not this son Of America
be known as Garfield the Good. He
had Joy in the glory Of the work,
and he loved to talk of the leisure
that did not come to him. Now he
has it. This clay is precious because
of the service it rendered. He is
freed spirit absent from the body;
he is present with the Lord on the
whence came his help. He
finds repose. What rest has been
his for these four days. The brave
spirit, which cried in its boiy, Il
am tired is where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at
rest. The patient soul which
groaned under the burden of
suffering of flesh; ooh, this
pain" is now in a world
without pain. Spring comes, when
flowers bloom, buds put forth, birds
sing; autumn rolls around, the
birds have long since hushed their
voices, flowers faded and fallen
away, forest foliage assumed a
sickly hue; so earthly things pass
away, and what is true remains with
God. The pageant moves, the spleH
dor of arms and banners glisten in
the sunlight, the music of instru-
ments and oratory sWells upon the
air, cheers and praises of men re-
sound; but spring and summer have
gone, and autumn sees a nation
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