The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-07

Cleveland Vocal Society Of the ''Funeral
Hymn" by Beethoven, whereupon the
hymn was sung, as follows:
! Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not
! deplOre thee;
Though SORROW and darkness encompass the
The Savior has passed through its portals be-
And the lamp Of His love is thy light through
the gloom.
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 feeling and earnest prayer.
At this point the Vocal Society sang as
follows:
To Thee, o Lord, I 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,
SucTClOTc, tUOh Hill OuL VI LudL CudIlOt anu
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 Ia
mented for Josiah. and Jeremiah lamented
for Josiah, and all the singing men
ana 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, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
the Captain of fifty, and the honorable man,
and the counsellor, and tie cunning artificer.
and the eloquent orator. The voice said
''Cryw and he said. What shall cry?" All
flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof is
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.
In the course of his address, which was
very lengthy, Mr.. Errett said:
"There was never a mourning in all the
world like unto this mourning. I am not speak
ing extravagantly when l say. for 1 am told
it is the result Of calculations carefully made
from such data as are in possession, that GER
tainly not less than 500, ,0oO of the human
race share in the sadness, and lamentations,
and sorrow, and mourning that belong to this
occasion here to-day. 1t is chill shadow of q
fearful calamity that has extended itself into
every home in all this land, and into every
heart, and that has projected itself over vast
seas and oceans into distant lands, and
awakened the sincerest and profoundest
sympathy with us in the hearts of the
good people of the Nations, and among all
people 1t is worth while, my friends. to
pause moment and ask why this is. 1t is
doubtless attributable in part to the wondrous
triumphs of science and art within the pres
ent 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 communion
ton. and the various ties of commerce, and of
bring them in a contact of fellowship that
could not have been known in former times.
1t is likewise unquestiOnably partly due to
the fact that this Nation of ours, which has
grown to such wondrous might and power
before the whole earth, and which is, in fact,
the hope of the world in all that relates to
the highest civilization, that sympathy for
this Nation and respect for this great power
lead to these offerings Of coincidence and ex-
pressions Of sympathy and grief from the
various nations of the earth, and because they
have learned to respect this Nation, and recog-
nize that the Nation is stricken in the fatal
blow that has taken away our President from
us. And yet this will by no means account
for this marvellous and worldwide sympathy
Of which we are speaking. Yet it cannot be
attributed to mere intellectual greatness, for
there have been and there are other great
men; and, acknowledging all that the most
enthusiastic heart could claim to our beloved
leader, it is but fair to say that there have
been more eminent educators, there have been
greater soldiers, there have been most skillfuL
and experienced, and powerful legislators
and leaders of mighty parties and political
forces. There Is no one department in
which he has won eminence where the world
might not point to others who attained higher
and more intellectual greatness. 1t might
not be considered moro righteously here than
In many other cases; yet, perhaps, It is rare
in the history of men and in the history of
nations that any one man has combined SO
much of excellence in all those various depart
ments, and who as an educator, and Q law
yer, and q legislator, and q soldier, and o
party chieftain. and ruler, has done 90 well,
80 thoroughly well, in oil departments, and
brought out such successful results as to in
spire confidence and command respect and ap-
proval in every path Of life In which he has
walked. and in every department Of public &C
tivity which he has occupied. Yet 1 think when
wecome to a proper estimate Of his character
and seek after the secret of their worldwide
sympathy and affection, we shall find It rather
in the richness and integrity of his moral
nature, and in that sincerity, in that transpa-
rent honesty, in that truthfulness that laid
the basis for everything of greatness to which
we do honor to-day. I may state here what
perhaps is not generally known as an illus
tration Of this. When James A. Garfield was
yet mere lad in this county. a series OF re-
ligious meetings were held in neof the towns
ofCuyahoga County by a minister BY no means
attractive as an orator, possessing none Of the
graces Of an orator, and marked only by