New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-26
WHAT DEATH TEACHES.

The artbt,r grools 81 "a.
Protestant hliscopGlJ.
The chancel, altar desk and pulpit IN the
Church of the Incarnation draped in mourning
yesterday The hymns and prayers chosen were appro-
pirate to general sadness at the death of President
field The sermon by the pastor the Rev. Arthur Brooks
also bore directly the National calamity The tex,
taken H. Samuel lii 49, "a And the king lamented
over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth 4
Thy hands not bound. thy feet put In letters
man falleth before wicked mon, feest thou And
all the people wcpt again"
As a Nation, part said the speaker we have needed
consolation during the past week We cannot but loot
at such an event as opportunity TO learn OF the
nature OF Gods dealings with us all. The power OF
death Is very great II makes AL judgment men and
things higher and better IL only puts man before
the Judgment seat of God but It IL men caught
some sound OF what was going within the VAIL and
tried to look at the events of the life just In the
same light that shines there.
year ago the lie which to-day is closed in the
hands i 81 the mamagers Of political campaigns; every
ward as telling of its character To-day there is larger
view OF IT, and II stands before the ghtened estimate
cies, what were it's motives and methods. Death
is thing 10 DO anticipated with joy as it
II is thing to be anticipated with great soiemnty as
has the real foundation OF an true life within him
the Hnselhsh devotion 10 God ana TO his fenowman The
lesson OF death Ia indeed one whchs only frequently
as seems TO us read 10 the OF But when
read to others we do not hear IT, and when it
slose 10 u. win us Instructl0ns its very awful.
In nnmS OFTEN ten prevents our hearing what we
visits Nation II in its i'm pressiveness
AS takes one whose destiny had become bound up with
act of death aud its Judgment here brings the en-
which it has elsewhere. We oStc6 new lesson of iis
Importance, aud see that not our Bibles
e is written that it Is crisis in existence
when II comes It proves whether man is fool not
and makes plain the story of his life He dies like fool
whose hands are bound and whose feet fettered hy
thoughts. he dice like a wise man who through lies
events ever reaching forward TO that larger view of
Is gone from the mortal body.
A BELIEVERS FAITH NOT SHATTERED.
The Rec Mr. Perkins at ST. Geor0oS Church protestant s
AtSt. Georges Church, on Stuyvesant Square. at
the morning yesterday the pastor the Rev Newton
Perkins said
We meet to-day in Gods house. "a one
common family. 10 bend before Him in humble
submission to His awisc providence sending terrible
Judgments throughout the land He has bowed the
hearts OF the people OF Nation as the heart OF
man in grief and sympathy. There a land where
the spirit of liberty is known and cherished that
does not share grief; there is not a Chris
tian heart in either continent that does not SORROW
with MS over tins mysterious visitation of our Heaven
|ly Father Ii is only he who can sean the
future only he who, like the of DID, can read the
unwriten and undeveloped plans the Almighty who
looking at the iuture or this Natio results
attending this change that may presume to say that the
regard earnest supplicatiOn
servants Inhdels may scoff and fools may mock I'm,
the Christian win ever be frm in his belief that the
Judge OF all the earth shall do right As God has dealt
with in the past He win continue to deal in the ve,rs
to come Those waters shall not overwhelm us: these
fires shall not consume The night truly dark lint
already we SEQ the dawning light OF n brighter day
Mr. Perkins then spoke OF the way In which, the Ma
lions or the earth had been drawn together by the
death of the President and how party strife and bc
ernss had died away in the shadow the great aillo
ton. In closing he said: e '0
once more we turn hearts TO the sorrowful house
hold AT Cleveland and with fearful eyes and Christian
sympathy we ask God 20 he mercifnl and fun
OF compassion 20 the aged mother as She
stands 6a beside the form of the son she so dearly
broken widow deprived of the strong arm of support na
the loving care OF tender husband TO the younV family
whose Christian father s this day separated fn fhen
ana as the last sad rites OF earth performed over
dearly loved one we that the clouds sorrow NAV
soon break and the sunshine OF Gods comforting
ana abiding presence remain with them forever
PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER
The Rec c. III. Eaton Church OF ue Dicae
(UntoersattsD,
The Rev. c. Ii. Eaton, at the Universalist