St. Landry democrat., 1881-10-08

unlawful prizes within his reach, with every
inducement to surrenderah his religious faith
and be known merely as successful man of
the world-from first to last he has manfuly
adhered to his religious convictions and found
more praise, and gathers to him in his death
all the pure inspirations of the hope of ever
lasting life.
THE speaker here hastily reviewed the re-
markabie career of the illustrious dead, as
he, step by step, ana without any placc-seek-
ing on his part, gradually rose from one de-
gree of eminence to another, until he was
unsolicited on his part, placed in the highest
POSITION known to our country. Mr.. Errett
then added:l
NOW. gentlemen, let me say to you all
those IF you occupying great places OF trust
who are here to-day, and the mass of those
who are called upon to discharge the respon-
sibilitieS of citizenship, year by year, the most
invaluable lesson that we learn from the life
of our beloved departed President is that not
only is it not Incompatible with success, but
it il the surest means of success. to consecrate
heart and life 10 that which is true and right.
aud rise above all questions of mere policy.
wedding the soul to truth and right, and the
God of truth and righteou mess in holy we'd
lock, never to he dissolved. | feel Just at
this point, that we neei this lesson. in this
great wondrous land of ours this mighty
Nation, in its marvellous upward career,
with its evcry-ncrcasing power. opening
its arms to receive from all lands the
people of all languages, all religions and all
conditions, and hoping, in the warm embrace
of political brotherhood, to blend them with
us, to melt them into common mass so that,
when melted and run over again. it becomes
like the COcinthian brass. and in one type of
manhood, thus incorporating all the various
nations of the earth i'll one grand brotherhood,
presenting before the nations of the world
spectacle of freedom. and strength. and pros
perity, and power beyond anything the world
has ever known. But LET me say that the per-
manency of the work and its continued en-
largement must depend on our maintaining
virtue as well as Intelligence, and making
dominant in all the land those principles of
pure morality that Jesus Christ has taught
us.
1T is of all things the saddest and most
gricvous blow that those bound to him by the
tendereH ties in the ho ne circle are called 10
yield him to the grave. to hear that voice of
love no more, to behold that manly form no
longer moving in the sacred circle of home, to
receive no more the benefit OF the loving hand
of the father that rested upon the heads of his
children and commended the blessings of God
upon them.
The dear Old mother, who realizes
here today that her four-score years
are, after all, but labor and sorrow-to whom
we owe, back of ali | have spoken of, the
education and training that made him what he
was. and who has been led from that humble
hCme in the wilderness, side by side VITA him
in all his elevation. and assured him the tri-
umph and The glory that came to him step by
step as he mounted up from nigh to higher to
receive the highest honOrs that the land could
hestow upon him. Left behind him, lingering
on the shore where he has passed over TO the
other side, what words can express the SYM
pathy that is due to her. the consolation
that can strengthen her heart and give her
cou age to bear this bitter bereavement.
And the wife who began with him in
young womanhood, Who has bravely kept
step with him right along through all his
wondrous career and who has been not only
his wife but his friend and hts counselor
through all their succession of properties
and his increase of influence and power. and
who, when the day of calamity came, was
there his ministering angel, his prophecies
and his priestess, when the circumstances
were such as to forbid ministrations from
other hands, speaking to him the words of
cheer which sustained him through that long,
fearful struggle for kfe, ana wa ching over
him when his dying vision rested upon her
beloved form and sought from her eyes an
insrlring gaze that should speak when words
could not speak
And the children, that have grown up to a
period when they can remember all that be-
longed to him, left fatherless in a world like
this; yet surrounded with a Nations sympa-
thy ard with worlds Affection, and able to
treasure in their hearts its grand lessons of
his noble and wondrous life, they may be as
sured that the eyes of the Nation are upon
Them and that the hearts of the people go
out after them. 20
DIR. Errett was listened to with close and
earnest attention. He spoke for forty
minutes, and when he closed a hush for
moment hung over the vast audience.
Mr.. Garfeld's favorite hymn was beauti-
fully sung by the Vocal Society, as follows:
"Ho reapers of lifes harvest,
Why stand with rusted blade
Until the night draws round thee
And the day begins to fade2
"Why stand We idle waiting
For reapers more to Gomez
The golden morn is passing,
Why Sit ye idle, dumb? st
'Thrust in your sharpened sickle
And gather in he grain;
The night is fast approaching,
And noon will come again.
,@-
"The Master calls for reapers,
And shall He call in vain?
Shall sheaves lie there ungathered .s-
And waste upon the plain?
"Mount up the heights of wisdom
And crush each error low;
Keep back no words of knowledge
That human hearts should know.
81 Be faithful to thy mission
In service of thy Lord,
And then golden chaplet e.
Shall be thy just reward
At Has DIR. Charles S. Pomeroy deliv-
cred the final prayer and benediction, after
which the Washington Marine Band played