Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-27

ucIu III iAlIOOu'S IaSL uuc. IL was CleaH
connected statement and tersely stated
just what the synod wanted to know.
| DR.. Albright followed with resolution
ordering that one hundred dollars of the
current synOdical year be devoted to the
contingent fund of the theological semi
nary.
DR.. Hay, on the proposition of DR.. Baum
relative to a memorial service on the death
of ex president Garfield, recommended
the following:
"The committee appointed to make the
necessary arrangements for memorial
service on Monday next in accordance with
the prOclamatiOns of the president of the
United States and the governor OF this
commonwealth, respectfully recommend !:
| ~. That in hearty accord with the
spirit of these proclamatiOns. the synod
suspend its ordinary business on Monday
morning next and hold appropriate relig-
ious services in this church at half past ten
O'clock
Rev. Emil Meister, pastor Of st. Stephens
German Lutheran church of this city, in
vited synod to hold its Monday evenings
ses sion in his church. His invitation was
unanimously accepted.
Adjourned with prayer by Rev. S.
Dasher, of Harrisburg.
Garfield Memorial Service.
Monday, 1O:30A. M-Accordlins to pre-
vious announcement, the regular exercises
of synod were dispensed with and the
mornings session devoted to memorial
| service. The audience room began to fill
| up rapidly. The soft music stole through
the church over the bushed audience be-
fore the sweet strains of Rest, Spirit,
Rest" broke the spell.
G. A. Hay, Joel Swartz and T. c. Bel
heimcr, occupied the pulpit.
When the choir ceased Rev. T. G. Bel
heimer, of Reading, stepped forward and
read appropriate selections of Gods
word.
The congregation then joined in singing
the first hymn, beginning Before Jevo.
vah's Awful Throne"
Rev. DR.. Swartz led in prayer com
prehcnsive, earnest and touching, after
which the hymn beginning with
"Benesth our feet and DER our head
Is equal warning given.
DR.. j. w. Conrad, editor of the
Lutheran Obsercer, appointed speaker
OF the occasion, announced as the
basis of his memorial discourse,
lst Cor. iii, 81, "Therefore let
no man glory in men; for all things
are yours; whether Paul, Or Apollos, or
Cephas, Or the world, or life. Or death, or
things present, or things to come all are
yours and ye are Christ's, and Christ is
Gods"
He began by saying 'When Louis
XIII. lay in death Masillon raising his
hands to Heaven exclaimed, God only is
great y"
What means this mourning? What
nno0nc this fuunnrn1 ku,;
Washington and from Washington to
Cleveland? Weep, o America! The
president is dead
These occasions. pregnant with instruc-
tiOn, are to be seized as glorious OppOrtu.
mites of presenting eternal truth.
The theme deduced was "The Christian
a. .Possessor Of All Things"
This theme he applied, l. To mdicid-
Mats, as possessing 1st, The ministry I'd,
The world Sd, Life 18th, Death 5th,
Things present 9th, Things to come
7th, All things. Why all this ? Because
Christians are Christ's and Christ is Gods.
He now applied this truth
III. 10 Our Ndtion-The same course
was maintained through this wider view of
the subject. This truth was brought over
in the May Flower, was with the Pilgrim
Fathers Oh Plymouth Rock and was en-
bodied in the constitution of the United
States. With peculiar skill he applied
each phase of his subject to us as one
grand, united nation. His logic was clear
his style impressive his illustrations apt
his imagery striking his denunciation
bold.
In the third and last part of his discourse
he adduced several impressive lessons.
He saw in this event.
First. The inscrutability of God.
Second. The necessity of Discrimination
between permissive and causative prOvi-
dences.
Third. That such events become occa.
sions for special overrulings of providence.
Under this head he rose to several flights
of eloquence.
Fourth. The saddest thing of all in this
was that assassination was inaugurated in
America.
He reviewed the past and ended in a
brilliant climactic period against nihilistic |
outcroppings, the arrival of Leo Hartman {; |
and Wendell Phillips sentiments in his |
late Phi Beta Kappa Grafton at Harvard
university approving the use of nihilistic |
means as used in foreign countries.
Fifth. The Nervousness of sin.
Sixth. In conclusion l see, tribute to |
ing us. The orators peroratiOn was finely |
conceived and climactic. From an infant |
in a western cabin, he rises to the highest |
gift in the nations power and we see the |
product of Christianity under free institu-
A. Garfield. It was COM
plete tribute to a noble christian charac-
ter.
1t was pronounced the Grafton of the day |
i'll Lancaster.
DIR. tTay, at the conclusion of the dis
course, read the resolutions of synod,
which were adopted by rising vote and |
the last of which We append
ResolCed, That in common with our fel-
low citizens of all sects and parties, and
indeed with our fellow men everywhere,
whose cordial sympathy mas been flowing
from all parts of the earth toward the
household of our beloved chief
magistrate, We send to his aged mother,
his beloved widow and his fatherless chill
dren our sincerest coincidence and the as
surancc that they shall be remembered in
our prayers, that they may be divinely
and comfOrted in this dark and
trying hour.
Afternoon business Exercises.
Monday 2 p. M. Synod opened with pray
er by Rev. Ii: Billheimer, of Reading.
The calling Of the roll was dispensed
with. Minutes were read and adopted.
Pastor Heilman read the report OF Pastor
Willard, superintendent of the orphans
home at Loysville. Report and resolution
If confidence in the present efficient man.
lgemeot of the institution was adopted.
Rv invitation from Pastor MeiStor Row |