The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-09
IN MEMORY OF GARFIELD.
LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF A
MEMORIAL EDIFICE.

Washington, 2.-The cornerstone
of the Garfield Memorial Church
was laid this afternoon at o'clock
on the site of the former small frame
structure ON Vermont avenue,
known as the Christian Church,
which the late President and his
family attended during their resi-
dence in this city. The afternoon
was cool, clear and bright, and be-
fore the hour appointed for the be-
ginning of the exercises the church
grounds and the streets adjacent
thereto were occupied by an audi
ence numbering nearly 5000. After
the singing of the familiar hymn,
Coronation" in which nearly all
present Joined, the Rev. j. G. But
Ter read a selection from the Bible,
and prayer was offered by the Rev.
H. D. Clark, of the Paca street
Christian Church, of Baltimore.
The Re- Frederick D. Power. pas
tor of tbs Vermont avenue Chris
tian Church, then addressed the as
sembled congregation, in substance
as follows:
While this anniversary is a sad
one, it is also to us an occasion of
grateful JOY. Here our children
have gathered to do honor to the
holy child Jesus; here our young
people have confessed their faith in
The Son of Man; hele many have
Joined in our prayers and praises
whose voices no longer blend with
ours in songs of the sanctuary, but
have been added 10 the anthems of
our fathers heavenly house. Still
another association, which gives
to this day a pathetic significance
and which is indissolubly bound up
with the work which we have here
hegun, is that connected with the
lamented leader of the people,
whose familiar form crossing this
street to the little frame church
with his mother on his arm and
his wife on his side rises before US
to-day, and whose constant presence
here is the best recollection of his
lie The long looked-for crown Of
many labors is this work. Since
1913 handful of people known
simply as Christians have met
weekly-frst from house to house
and finally in the little frame
church which recently stood on this
spot. From a dozen they have
grown % 400 souls. Rich in faith
but not in gold, they have worked
and waited; with anxious and
pIaYerful hope they have antic-
| ipated this hour. When one of their
number was raised by the people to
the highest dignity of the nation,
and the eyes Of men were in some
measure turned upon them as his
brethren, they felt their long
cherished wish about to be realized.
So the work was begun, and help
came in from many who felt with
US. But cur day of increased bless
ingS seemed only to dawn when its
sun was clouded, and that which
was to have been reared with re-
joicing must have a history, like
all histories, with its elements of
sadness. President Garfield was a
trustee of this church, and within
the past three days another commu-
meant of this hOdy-the Hon. Mr..
Hawk, of IllinOis-a man Of pure
life and loyal devotion, has passed
away. Men thus come and go, but
Gods work continues. Thus far we
have seemed to have the divine ia
vor. This ground is ours, and $2O,-
600 are ready to go into these walls
$4,000 more are needed to COM
plete the structure. We will go
| forward faithfully discharging our
trust, and asking and expecting
great things frem our God.
The Rev. Mr.. Power then laid the
corner stone. This ceremony was
followed by an address from the
Rev. B. A. Hinsdale, president OF
Hiram College, who gave a sketch
of the origin and history of the peo-
pie known as Christians and of the
church to which they belong. In
closing his address President Hins-
dale said:
This church is a memorial to the
late lamented Garfield. Its corner
stone is laid upon the first anniver-
Sary Of his assassination, and this
makes it the object of a wider and
tenderer sympathy. To his host of
personal friends, to his religious
brethren, nay, to the vastly larger
world which was so deeply i'm
pressed by his great career and so
deeply stirred by his cruel fate, this
Christian temple will be a shrine
around which will cluster the ten
drills Of the heart
| While the brick aud stone and iron
| shall defy decay, these foundations,
the walls to be laid upon them and
the spire that they will lift toward
| the sky, will speak of the widows
house in the woods of Ohio, of
Hiram school and Williams College,
of the army, the halls of legislation,
and the chief magistrates chair.
They will speak Of the Inauguration,
of the last letter to the white-haired
mother, of the eighty DAYS of I'M
complaining anguish, of the death
at Elberon, and of the majestic
funeral march, which bore the NOR
tai which had lost the immortal to
| its resting place at Lake View. Do
| you ask me to say more? In the
words of Hneas to the CaTthagenian
Queen, "You ask me to recall unut-
terable sorrow" Not often do men
build structure which commend
rates so much as the church whose
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