St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-17

piece, representing double gate swinging
in an arch, the gift of w. E. Steele.
The Broken Column was contributed by
the employees of the house of Coykendall
Bros. IL Co.
The Broken Wheel, an emblematic piece
representing complete wheel with a small
brake in the tire, presented by the Jobbers'
association.
\ cross was given by Miss Mary NJ.
Nelly.
Nine wreaths, one for each victim, were
presented by Mrs. Nevins.
An anchor was presented by Mrs. j. G.
KalkOrf.
A bicycle, ingeniously made, was the
gift of the Minneapolis Bicycle Club. on
one side in blue blossoms were the letters
IN. B. c."
There were many other pieces, such as
Tyres, crosses, wreathS, etc., the gifts of
various friends of the families
Arriving at the graves, the pail bearers
conveyed the bodies in order to the verge,
and the choir of the Church of the Re-
deemer sang an affecting anthem. The
members OF the choir were Miss StOddard,
Miss Dennis, Prof. Patten and A. W.
krech. DR.. Tuttle then diScoursed as fol-
lows:
My Beloved Friends: The public has been
already sufficiently informed through other
sources of the terrible scenes which have
their closing act here to-day at these graves.
L will not therefore narrate them, nor dwell
upon them. will not even ask you to listen
10 any eulOgy L might fittingly offer, l have
IN my heart to offer, ON the persons whose
l1feleSS forms we now commit to the earth.
You knew them, you respected them, you
loved them and you mourn for them. Warmer,
purer tears were never shed than we shed for
Nhnu Ga1ll
they had fewer claims for apparently, and
we have claims for. Seldom what was harder
for US to spare, what tore our hearts more to
part with
We have lost friends before, all of us. We
have seen the earth close over those who
were unspeakably near and dear to us, but
when has it been so difficult to say - Gods
will be done" to see and feel that it was all
for the best; not to wish that we could turn
back the wheels of time and change the order
of things? When has this whole community
suffered as it has suffered the last sad days?
Has it confronted a sadder calamity? When
has the universal heart been
MORE DEEPLY TOUCHED?
When has it burned more tenderly for the
dead and for the living? When have we all
retired ut night praying more earnestly for
better news in the morning; have we made
such effort to deceive ourselves into Il
into less cruel experience to look and find
luaI VIC OilIy
1t was not then, my friends, altogether the
suddenness of their death, nor the form of
their death, that caused snch deep and gen
eral mourning for these persons. The way
in which they were snatched from us
without moments warning or prepa-
ration and the number taken were
in themselves cause enough for great
excitement and grief, but deeper rea-
son for the awful shock everywhere felt was
the fact that the heads of these families and
the families also, occupied conspicuous places
in this community, were closely identified with
it, and were widely hOnOred. If death had had
his choice among our citizens, and had been
determined to strike as hard a blow as posSi-
bic at our social and business ranks, he could
not have wrought a greater ruin, nor left
more profound sorrow.
To say, my friends, that q mighty shadow
has fallen upon us, that our city, our social
circles, public and private, our business in
terests also, have met with an irreparable
loss is only to repeat what passes from lip to
lip throughout this vast multitude of sincere
and sympathiZing friends. This event is so
extraordinary in some of its aspects,
in its results, and rises in such
frowning magnitude of gloom that human
language utterly fails in dealing with it. and
we can only stand submissively before it, in
voking the mercy and pity of God and sum-
moning to our aid all the power of our Christ
IS.
lesson of the littleness of human strength, of
the infirmness of human foresight and of the
uncertainty of human life, lesson impressed
upon us
WITH A SOLEMNITY
and force we are not likely to soon forget.
We have also a lesson of the imperative need
of religion, of the hopes teach
ings, solution and consolation of religion,
of a solid concession, trust in our Heavenly
Father, in Christ our loving Savior, and in a
blessed immortality. We have still another
lesson here, which suggests with startling
emphasis the Importance of living in con-
slant readiness for the voice that shall call
us away to the future world, of keeping our
work here as far advanced as possible, and
of having on always the moral garment fit
for us to appear in when we ascend to the
higher presence of God. Let us turn our
eyes then from this dark picture below
to the brighter one above. Let us leave this
myterious problem we try in vain to solve to
the love and wisdom of the infinite Father. In
a little while after the fearful storm at the
lake had spent its fury and the waters had
caught these bodies in their cold embrace,
the evening sun shone out clear and beauti-
ful again, and peace rested everywhere but
in our troubled hearts; and shall not the sun
of our holy faith emerge from its black
clouds and shine down on our hearts again?
''Yet love will dream and faith will trust,
Since He who knows our need is just,
That sometime, somewhere, meet we mustl
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through the cypress trees;
Who hopeless lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mOurnfu marble play!
Who hath not learned in hours of faith,
To truth, and flesh, and sense unknown,
That life is ever lord of death,
And love can never lose its own
The choir then sang the following by
Whittier, TO an arrangement of
GOTTscHALK's LAST HOPE"
and it proved very touching:
1 long for household voices gone,
For vanished smiles 1 long,
But God hath led my dear ones on,
And He can do no wrong.
know not what the future hath
OF marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies.
And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an untried pain,
The bruised reed He will not break
But strengthen and sustain.
And so beside the silent sea
i wait the muffled oar
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
know not where His islands lift,
Their freshest palms in air,
only know cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
After fervent prayer and pronouncing
OF the benedictiOn the vast cOneOurse dis
persed and the sad yet kindly offices of the
nall hearers andad fba ,,,aIo ~ H. 1870.