The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-29
SUNDAYS SERVICES.
How the Different Pastors OF the city
Treated the Absorbing Subject
Of the Nations Bereavement.

Of discussion. The services were yer
largely attended throughout the cit
and the impressive solemnity Of the ds
will always live in the memory OF on
people. At the
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
the beautiful emblems of mournin
which surrounded the altar, including
white cross wreathed with pansies,
broken column, a portrait Of the deal
Executive drsped with Grape, and man,
exquisite floral offerings, added TO tn
impressiveness Of the services. the al
fecting character of which vas still
further deepened by the touching mnsiI
rendered by the choir.
The following is briet resume of Tia
excellent discourse delivered by the pas
tor. Rev. DR.. COriley:
''KDOW. ye not that g. prince snd = ETea
man has fallen to-day In LsrAelt''-3 sam. III
Two hemispheres are In mourning 10
day. There may have been as keen {
sorrow before but never . sorroW &
widespread. The cruel manner il
which our President was taken Oh, thu
long protraction Of his sudeFings and
the patience with which he bore then
have had much to do with the intensity
and extent OF this sympathy. But thiI
sorrow Il 50 deep and general mainly be
cause there was such deep and general
interest in the man himself and in his
career.
1st- The American people we're pecu
liArly drawn to him because he filed OuI
the extreme picture Of our American
4 Nffa that taaAfkSFAf0aDa
make no distinctions; all places are open
TO all men; the lowest may attain the
Highest place. Mr.. Garfield fulfilled this
claim In it's EXTREMIST conception He
passed through the whole range OF our
American life
End. The American people were pecul-
iaFly drawn to him, because he was q
good specimen Of what our institutions
can do. He was not only self made but
well made. He not only rose from the
lowest estate to the highest place, but
he honored every place he filed.
8rd. The American people were
peculiarly drawn TO him, because he
was q Christian man. His character
was rounded OF by . divine touch. To
rare gifts OF nature he added the rarer
gifts OF grace. He stood in the light Of
God, and viewed all themes, and decided
all questions In its clear radiance.
he LEFT . strong impress therefore on
Christian nation and that impress will
long remain His Is
'-One OF the few, the Immortal names
That were not born 70 die"
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
was also beautifully decorated. Among
the emblems which ELECTED special adj
miratiOu were broken column on which
rested q green wreath q black and white
union shield resting upon q bank of
white petunias; 9 sheaf Of wheat bound
in Grape; the American flag forming the
background, and many exquisite flow
ers. The following is q brief extract
from the eloquent discourse of the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Hendy:
Know We not that there IL prince and
Q great man fallen this day in our Amer
lean Israeli Yes, for the second time
within the spsce Of seventeen years the
hand Of the assassin has robbed the ma
ton of its trusted chief. Henceforth the
names of Garfield and Lincoln will be
entwined inseparably in the thoughts
and affections not alone of America but
of mankind. In their lives they were
united, alike great hearted, gentle, wise,
courageous. always leaning with entire
humility on the strong arm of God, and
In their deaths,-s0 cruel, so bloody, so
causeless, they were not divided.
Washington, Lincoln, Garfield! History
has no names more lustrous than these.
These are the names that will live as
long Is our language Is spoken; these
are the models 70 whom men in coming
generations shall point their sons these
are the mOlds In which the manifold of
the future shall be cast.
Oh land, pre-eminently favored of
heaven, look up through all thy tears,
and In this hour Of thy bitter bereave-
ment, be this thy prayer, that never
mayst thou lack for multitudes of sons
ambitious To emulate the fame and
the clOudless splendor Of thy mArtyred
chieftain, James A. Garfield!
AT JAYS HALL
the Rev. John Kirby selected I'd
Kings, Is chapter 2lst verse, as his text
which reads: "And it came to pass as
they were burying 9 man, that behold
they spied band of men; and they cast
the man into the sepulchre OF Elisha;
and when the man was let down and
touched the bones of Elisha, he re-
Vived and stood up on his feet"
He said standing as we do to-day be-
meath the shadow OF great national
sOrrOw, with our cities draped in mourn
ing, our temples the scenes of sadness,
and the heart Of the people from one
end of the land TO the other, heaving
with grief which submerges all social
distinctions and brings all together in
the affinitIes OF life; he could do no
other than talk Of him who departed
from US; around whose grave the fifty
millions Of America were gathering and
behind whom stood the multitudinous
~ kA Vy1alk N00PftHF
and suspended action. He said the
question to him had been toaGt hGUe zoe
LOst, and Schat do GCe stiH retain of the
elements that combined to make up the
| manhood of James A. Garfield? That
| q prince and great man has fallen, and
the world had been robbed of an in
estimably precious life, cannot be de-
denied. His sepulchre, like that OF
Elisha, would be margined of from
others, and beneath the mOHumen-
tai marble would sleep all that
was mortal Of one Of the greatest Presi.
dents of the United States of America
yet that which was not mOrtal-the
| spiritual remains Of the great man
would still be in our possession and
| would be the means of quickening 9th.
ers when his body had become dust and
that dust had been carried by cosmic
agencies to the ends of the earth. To
put the worn and wounded body Of Pres
ident Garfield into the grave would be
the work of this Nation on the coming
day. but 10 put his spiritual remains
there were an impOssibility. Those re
mains, like the bones OF Elisha, would
continue TO be spiritually qniekening tC
the minds and stimulating to thG
thought of coming ages. "POsthumOni
Influence" was the theme suggested by
the singular yet significant piece Of his
tory cOntaiued in the text. James A
Garfield was great man; great in hll
grasp Of intellect; in his thirst To-
knowledge, and in his sympathy witt
! all that was 'true and Lovely and o
good report" Though born and raiSeC
In Obscurity his thoughts struggled VI
into power. His inner energ
lifted up all superintendent Obstruc
tons, as the volcanic fires have lifted u
the earth's crust, and though assures o
their own making poured forth thI
wealth and treasures Of its heart. HI
was . man of OriginatiVe thought ant
worthy Of . place in the hierarchy Q
governing minda The world could III
, spare him. His death Is like the dry
ing Of fountain IN the wOFld's wilder
ness-like the falling Of q guiding sta
on the armament Of the race. He ca
! do nothing for US now physically; sucl
functions have ceased, social relation
are severed, his SPLENDID voice and syn
, pathetic speech are silenced and tn
: public career OF man Of more than Of
Z binary character and strength has com
70 an end. His bones like those c
Elisha are to be honorably inferred, bu
\ that Il not 10 be the end; q mighty pos
4 humOus influence will go forth fsOI
his grave through all the coming ceI
turtles. Many q dead soul will reviy
and stand up on his fest when he toucl
h co the soul stirring energies Of PresideE
Garfield as they lay latent in b
Q writings, and as they lie In the reInini
cences Of the race. What Socialists ca
Athe conservation Of energy Is not CO.
n fined 70 the pkvsicai domain. II Obtaii