Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-03
PROFESSION And PRACTICE
LEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESI-
DENT GARFIELD.
Sermon of Rev. Isaac Everett in C!ncin-
nati-LessOn to be Drawn from the Life
and Death Of the Lamented President
Tribute to Mrs. Garfield's Heroic
Bearing Through the Trying Ordeal.
DEATH BED DECLARATIONS.

DEATH BED DECLARATIONS.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.-Rev. Isaac Everett,
who delivered the funeral Grafton of Presi-
dent Garfield at leveland, addressed large
audience to-day at the Richmond Street
Christian church on the death and funeral of
the late president. He said much anxiety had
been expressed to hear something from the
death bed of President Garfield, some last
words that would reaffirm the faith and con-
victions upon his life. Comment had been
made, too, upon the absence of religious talk
or ministrations beside the dying. The
people demand a sign but none
comes from that death bed. Just so when
Christ was on earth and the very elements
were instinct with his divine power, the peo-
pie demanded sign.
The speaker thought too much attention is
given to mere death bed declarations. In a
short time if the law has it's course no doubt
this nation will hear from the scaffold loud
professions of piety. Far better than
any death bed testimony is the
grand life of Jas. A. Garfield. It
should be remembered, however, that through
the apparently excessive caution OF the presi-
dents physicians no risk whatever was per-
mitted, and then, as hope grew, it was thought
after while his friends might see him, but
the last days of fever and delirium forbade
even this, and he died withOutany formal fare
well message or testimony. But it is known
that at the beginning he asked 10 know the
worst, saying, "You know am not afraid of
DEATH"
We know too that when the Lords days
came he said to his attendants: "This is the
Lords day. 1 have great reverence for it:'
It may not be known that one Sabbath at e.
beron, when he lay with the sea rolling be-
fore his window, and he heard from the chap
ell near by the hymn, "Jesus Lover OF My
Soul,'' he recognized it and quoted the words:
"Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll,
While the tempest still is high"
To those who believe in the efficacy of
human priesthood, there must be regret
that President Garfield had none of the min
istrations, but the president himself did not
feel such need, nor do we. 1t would have
been comforting to the living to have had his
pastor beside him at the last, but we know
that JAS. A. Garfield was himself a royal preist
of God, by virtue of his amounting as q chris
tian and needed none save the one mediator
between God and man to iDtercede for him
with the father.
Mr.. Everett said the grandeur of the funeral
at Washington could hardly be conceived; yet
it seemed to those who were there that this
was nothing, that 1t was an incident of the
great central sorrow, that all hearts were in
the casket with Garfield along the way to
Cleveland. The testimonies of grief and love
were eloquent but none more touching than
the long lines of working men from
shops and mines, whose begrlmmed but
tear washed faces and reyerent silence, told
how deep was their love for their dead fellow
workman. So at Cleveland, where every
tribute that wealth could supply was freely
given. The most touching came from the
poor.
Here he related an incident of very poor
woman taking from its place in her handker.
chief the last coin to buy cheap frame for
fifty cent photo0raph of the dead president
to 20 hungry in order to give place in her
home for his face.
MIR. Everett said he could not refrain from
saving a word about Mrs. Garfield, though
knowing she shrank from publicity He dared
not give utterance to all he wanted to say.
During all these fearful days and weeks and
months of anguish and anxiety and watching
Mrs. Garfield had never lost sight of the fact
that there were other hearts to be
bound up. When she sent me a message,
said he, during her husbands suffering,
for every word about her own great sorrow,
there were ten of tender solicitude for the af-
Fiction which had fallen on my household. So,
on the way from Washington TO Cleveland,
instead of becoming care to others, she be-
came careful of the comfort of those travelling
with her on that sorrowful journey. Truly it
may be spoken of her without extravaganza,
"Many daughters have done virtnously. but
thou, Lucretia. excellest them ALL"
In the light of the autopsy and from what
the physicians had told him, Mr.. Evrett said
1t was plain that the physical suffering of the
president must have been most excruciating,
but no murmur escaped him. The crown of
thorns that wreath he'd the brow of the dying
president made him more glorious than If
crowned with the highest diadems of earthly
hOnOrs.
The speaker said the lesson to be drawn
from all demonstrations over the death of the
president was that It was q tribute to his
abounding moral worth. The address was
delivered with evident feeling and there were
many fearful eyes in the audience.
MEMORIAL MEDALS.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 2.-The superin-
tendent of the mint at Philadelphia has been
authorized to strike memorial medals having
the head of Lincoln and Garfield on opposite
sides. Similar medals were also authorized
containing the head of Garfield on one side
and wreath on the other.
1t is reported Mrs. Garfield will shortly sell
Tie UOuhe OcCupltu ny 6uc idiuliy picSiOuS ~
her husbands Inauguration.
RED TAPE.
A salute was fired yesterday at Washington
barracks in accordance to the order of the war
department of the Goth ult., contemplating
the firing of thirteen guns at dawn, minute
uns,throughout the day and the national
salute of thirty-eight guns at sundown as a
mark of respect for President Garfield. The
order did not reach the barracks until Friday
evening, ten days being consumed In trans
mission.
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
The district commissioners have invited the
citizens to meet and consider the subject of es-
tablishiuga Garfield memorial hosuital in
this city.
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