Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-26
Memorial Sermons.
Remarks and Eulogies on the Death O1 President Garfield From Prominent Clergymen-Tho Churches Draped in Mourning.

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 CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
 Rev. Dr. Todd preached a fine sermon yes terday morning at the Church of the Re- deemer to large congregation from the words eBe still and know that am God" The church was finely dressed in mourning. Dr. Todd began by quoting the opening words that had been spoken by others who had been called upon to speak upon like oc- casions as this He went on to say how tru- ly God rules over all. To us Gods provi- dences are singular, and it would seem as if the prayers of fifty millions of people had not been answered. Never has the death of any one man been so much mourned. Pres ident Garfield was a man of the people. In every department of life he fairly worked his way from humble station to his high position. (All of which progress Dr. Todd went over in detail Nor anything but what would cause the sympathy of the people, as was learned by occasional glimpses of what took place during his suf- fering and his struggle for life, and how the whole land admired the faithfulness of his wife.
 Little do the people know-even today what he suffered ,and. as he slowly went down to the gates of death, fifty millions of people marched with him on that journey.
 His whole life before he becan-e President was devoted to the public good. And when he came to his high office, the first few months of his administration proved that he was beginning a great reform work. But our hopes are cut of, and his ! good work will have to be done by others, if done at all. But it may be all for the best that he was taken from us at this time, for his memory will be embalmed upon the | L o-,I Ia, horyo drawn more closely together the people of various sections by his weeks of suffering, and there may be behind the cloud God working for good. Yet we cannot but look upon this death as calamity, although no harm can come to him who is dead. Dr. Todd closed by saying: Push on, thou ship of state, in spite of the seeming perils that may be before thee, and we will trust in God, for we know that all who trust in Him will not be oonfounded.
 COLLEGE STREET CHURCH.
 College Street church services yesterday morning were attended by large congrega- tion. The pulpit and communion table were elegantly draped and there was 8 lovely fio- xal display. The pastor, Rev. Mir. Kelsey, preached discourse deeply affecting and touching all hearts. In opening the pastor said:
 Sixteen years ago. in company with thou sands of ministers in all parts of the land, it was my melancholy duty publicly to pay tribute of respect to the beloved Chief Mag istrate whose noble life was ended by an as- sassin's bullet. The same solemn task is to be repeated to-day. Then we were just emerging from the storms of long and fear full struggle. Just after the sun of assured success had burst through the clouds of war, and the good man who had borne burden heavier than any beside was rejoicing in the hope of national supremacy restored catching from the Pisgah height glimpse of the long sought promised land of peace-he was laid low in death. Then the nation bowed in humiliation and sorrow not known before. Now, in time of profound peace, the fires of the long conflict either out or covered with the white ashes of deepening. forgettulness, the great problems of these troublous times mostly and happily adjusted, unexampled
 prosperity crowding the nation with smiling abundance, another chief, peer of the mo- blest, the nations choice, the nations pride and hope, is stricken down. Long has the nation watched, prayed, hoped. To-day fifty millions of people weep. yet with grief ns genuine and deep as ever bowed the hearts | of men.
 The speaker gave fine sketch of the life of the dead President, in which he said: ''In | 1850 Gen. Hayne, a gallant son of South | Carolina, graceful and polished speaker and | a cogent reasoner, made Q powerful assault | upon the North and her institutions. The ! northern men in Congress felt that there was \ but one man who could answer the speech. Some thought, indeed that it was unanswer- ! able. But Daniel Webster, the ion-faced l man from Massachusetts, did answer 1t, grinding it's arguments to powder, scattering it's alleged facts to the four winds, rising to | majestic heights of eloquence untouched before aweing into hushed and tremulous 1 silence the august assemblage by the impas- ! stoned surgings of his soul and the solemn cadences of his awful voice. It is doubtful | if the scene can be paralleled in the annals of parliamentary debate. And yet, forty-siz years after, it was exactly reproduced h | August, 1876, MT. Lamar, of Mississippi, the ! most finished orator on the Democratic side of the House, made a mighty assault upon the Republican party and it's rule in the South, and forcible plea for his oppressed country. It was felt that there was but one man in the Republican ranks who could an ! swer the speech. James A. Garfield was the I man, and he did answer it, if not in strains oi | eloquence as lofty as those of Webster, ye | with completeness of success not 8 whit inferior. It was the greatest speech of his life, and placed him high on the roll of the
 mighty debaters of our land. It created {
 furore in the house. All business was sus ! pended for some time after it was finished | More than @ million copies of the speect
 were distributed through the land.
 And though our eyes are dimmed with tears
 we are not so blinded by time not to set
 some good already shining out of it's awful
 trial. Who has not felt his own heart soften ing more and more as these days have slowly ] dragged along revealing some new feature oi
 the sufferers nobility And it is true of the
 national heart. And in the heat of this grea
 sorrow prejudices have died out, barriers
 been burned away and passion consumed
 All parts of the great republic have crowdeo | toward common center, and therefore have come closer together. Hearts beating have come to beat more in love for one an other. Not for generations has this been so | united 8 people as to-day.
 | Nor are we too much occupied with eur | grief to learn no lesson from its sore be- | reavement. Never have the baleful effects { of partisan strife taken such obnoxious fea- ! lures as the lurid light of it's crime throws l upon them. Never before has the folly of | nasty and inconsiderate choice of the second I officer of the government been so apparent | as to-day. Never has the danger attendant | on factious conduct and incendiary speech in ' n1RQ QuATG0rS T6C01V0O buCA OAupAdS45 aS IO- l day comes from the coffin of our dead Presi- dent.
 Never has the necessity of reform in civil service-to which General Garfield stood l pledged-seemed so imperative as to-day, in | which we see our beloved leader a victim of
 the pernicious system which he aimed to de- ! stroy.
 If these things come nightly home to the l national heart, and produce their legitimate effect in the national life, then the death of President Garfield will not be in vain. Nay, rather it will be the vicarious sacrifice of a regenerated government.
 And after all, let us look up. The Repub- I lie remains. It is more than one man. Great
 is our loss but all is not lost. We pause for moment to weep. but the government
 moves right on. We take up the eloquent words of him whom we mourn-true as any that he ever spoke-true even of himself : Individuals may wear for time the glory
 of our institutions, but they carry it noD to
 the grave with them. Like raindrops from
 the heavens they pass through the circle of
 the shining bow and add to it's lustre but
 when they have sunk into the earth again,
 the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on"