St. Landry democrat., 1881-10-01
President Garfield's Funeral.


land, Ohio, and inferred last Monday
1t is estimated that thirty thousand
people were in the funeral procession.
The address of the Rev. Isaac Errett,
of Cincinnati, on this occasion, is re-
ported by telegraph as follows, his text
being:
"And the archers shot King Josiah,
and the King said to his servants pave
me way for | am sore wounded lie
said: There was never mourning IN all
the world like unto this mourning. He
was not speaking extravagantly when
he said that as result of calculations
carefully made from such data as are in
possession, that certainly not less than
three hundred millions of the human
race share in the sadness and lamenta-
tons and sorrow and mourning that be-
long to this occasion here to-day. 1t is
the chill shadow of a 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 pro-
foundest sympathy with us in the
hearts of the good people of the nations.
1t was worth while to pause a moment
and to ask why this isl 1t was doubt
less attributable in part to the Won
drOus triumph OF science and art within
time and space have been so far con-
quered that nations, once far distant
and necessarily alienated from each
other, are brought into close communi-
cation, and the veriest ties of commerce
and Of social interests, and OF religious
interests, bringing them into the con-
tact of fellowship, that could not have
been known in former times. 1t was
likewise unquestionably due to the fact
that this nation of ours has grown to
such wondrous might and power before
the whole earth, and which is, in fact
the hope of the whole world in all that
relates to the highest civilization; that
sympathy with this nation, and respect
| for this great power leads to these Of
fers of coincidence and expressions OF
sympathy and grief from the veriest
nations of the earth, and because they
have learned to respect and recognize
that the nation is stricken in a fatal
blow that has taken away our president
from us, and yet this will by no means
account for their marvellous and world
wide sympathy Of which we are speak
ing, yet it cannot be attributed to mere
intellectual greatness, for there have
been other and there are other greater
men. Asking all that the most enthusi
astic heart could claim for our
beloved leader, it is but fair to say
that there have been more eminent
educators; there have been
greater soldiers; there have been more
skillful, experienced and powerful leg
,c1c Tow vl oG, ,s~l MI
and political forces; there is no one
hence where the world may not point
to others who attained higher and more
intellectual greatness. 1t might not, he
said, be considered more righteous than
in many other cases, yet perhaps it is
rare in the history OF nations that any
one man has combined so much of ex-
cellence in all of those various depart
ments, and who as educator and lawyer,
legislator and soldier, and party chief
tain and ruler, has done SO well-so
thoroughly well-in all departments,
and brought out such successful results
as to inspire confidence and command
respect and approval in every path of
life in which he has walked and in
every department of public activity
which he has occupied. Yet he thought
when he came to the proper estimate of
his character and seek after the secret
of his world wide sympathy and affec-
ton we shall find it rather in the rich
ness and integrity of his moral nature,
in that sincerity and in that transpar-
ent honesty; in that truthfulness that
lay the basis for everything of great
ness to which we do honor to-day.
The great lesson Of which he desired
to call attention could be expressed in a
few words: James A. Garfield went
through his whole public life without
surrendering for single moment his
christian integrity, his moral integrity
or his love for the spiritual. Coming
INTO exciting conflict of political life,
with a nature as capable as any OF
feeling the force of every temptation,
with temptations to unholy ambition,
with unlawful prizes within his reach,
with every inducement to surrender
merely as successful man of the world.
fully adhered to his religious cOnvic-
lions and found more praise and gath
cred in his debt all pure inspirations of
hope Of everlasting life. DR.. Errett
was listened to with close and earnest
attention. He spoke for forty minutes,
and when he closed a hush for a mo-
ment hung over the vast audience.
The Rev. Jabez Hall then read Gen.
Gar6eld's favorite hymn, which was
beautifully sung by the vocal society.
The hymn begins:
"Ho, reapers of life's harvest,
Why stand with rusted blade"
At 11:45 o'clock DR.. Charles S. Pom
eroy delivered the final prayer and ben
ediction. There were then few mo-
ments of commotion and of preparation.
Tie Washington Marine Band played
Nearer, my God, to Thee"
At a legal investigation of liquor
seizure, the Judge asked an unwilling
witness: