St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-27
Memorial Services Held at Plymouth
Church in Honor of the Nations Il
lustrious Dead.
Humility and Courage Grants Leading
characteristics, as the Rev. DR..
Fisher Estimates Him.
Turbulent Times on the Bohemian
Flats--The Editors Associa-
tion--State Exposition.
The Court-Martial-- Sui
cide--The Firemen--StateF Fair
Notes--Briefs.
HONORING THE DEAD.
Iermon by DIR. Dana ON the Death OF
GEN. Grant.

lcrmOn by DIR. BaEf3 on the Deaeh Va
GEN. Grant.
Services commemorative of Gen. Grant
we're held yesterday morning at Plymouth
church. Above the pulpit was hung
draped portrait of the honored dead upon
background of flags heavily edged with
black. On the one side of the national flag
hung the white banner blazoned st Paul
Camp No. /. S. W.; on the other United
States flag with the words: ''Acker Post
No. 81. G. A. r." Before the desk stood
miniature coffin, garlanded with white
flowers and resting upon cannon trimmed
with solemn black. Flowers, cannon and
stacked arms were arranged on either SIDE,
so that the chancel end Of the church pre-
scented an appropriate symbol OF the OBJECT
of the services. Promptly at 1880 nearly
one hundred and fifty members of the Car
field. Acker and Winthrop Posts of the q.
A. r.. defiled into the auditorium and took
their seats in pews reserved for them on
either side of the central aisle. There were
also in attendance besides, very numerous
general congregation, about thirty members
of the Womens Relief corps and twenty
five of the Sons of Veterans.
THE SERVICES.
AS the Grand Army filed in the solemn
and mournful strains of TSchaikowsky'S
funeral march sounded from the organ.
A Quartet choir then sang j. Barnby's pro-
cessional hymn, For All Thy Saints Who
From Their LaborS Rest" After an i'm
pressive invocation a hymn was sung whose
first StanZa ran:
Rest for the toiling hand,
Rest for the anxious brow,
Rest for the weary, way-worn feet
Rest from all labor now.
DR.. Dana then read from Joshua xiii,
what he called 1.-THE last words of Joshua
TO his people before he was called away to
his God: the valedictory of the great mill
tarv chieftain of the Hebrew nation" When
The lesson had been read and a prayer
offered the choir sang, Pm But Stranger
Here. Heaven is My Home, BE it said in
whisper-to the sweet Scotch melody of
robin Adair." After the lesson from the
psalter was read Alfred Il. Gaul's anthem,
s.The Silent Land" was rendered. DIR.
Dana then gave out his text from III. Sam
mel J.. 10. Davids lament over the death of
Saul and Jonathan, the great leaders of
israel, How Are the Mighty Fallen!
THE SERMON.
The reverend gentleman said, in treating
this theme. that the text is seemingly q cry
of disappointment that the great and victo-
rious have at the gates of life the same LOFT
as the lOwlv. What diSarray Death works.
beauty. wealth, power, all bow before this
conoueror In this subsection the common
mortality of all men is shown forth. The
only difference between great and small
lofty and lowly, is in the beuuest that is
left behind to men; and what a glorious
precious legacy has he whom we now
mourn left to his countrymen.
The chieftain who led our arms to vic
tory is no more; he who braved death on so
many battle-fields is no more. He has at
length succumbed to the great conqueror
The warrior who defended his country
the statesman who strengthened its shaken
columns, the traveller around the globe who
was accorded such honor as no one of our
generation has been given, the tender
watchful father is no more. The sense Of
bereavement at his decease is universal.
His country, his times, his family are all
his debtor, because he lived for them all.
The survivors of the Old Guard were the
chief mOurners about the bier of
Napoleon when his remains were trans
ferred to their resting place on the banks
OF the Seine, and to-day there is pathos
in the mourning of the members of the
Grand Army which is absent from that of
others. His conduct since ne withdrew
into private life. the frmness and manli-
ness with which he faced reverse and dis
aSter have endeared him to the people
afresh. After AppomattoX, knowing what
war was. he said, Let us have peace" and
bent all his energies to reconciliation. We
are here to-day to testify our gratitude to
God for raising up this man to this nation
in the days of its direst need.
HISTORICAL SKETCH.
AT this point the preacher briefly reviewed
the familiar history of Gen. Grants life
and his services to his native land. Con-
tinuing, he said that he held with grateful
faith that great deeds are not forgotten,
and that the memory of benefactors of men,
with all the failingS that belong to mortals,
are lovingly cherished, Such men show
our human nature, often belittled
and abused as it is, in all its expansiveness.
Great and good personalities are the gift of
Divine Providence. The salient feature of
Grants character was its staunch and unmis-
taking loyalty to duty. The moral equip
ment of the man was grand, his intellectual
poise impressive. Taciturn, quiet, self
possessed, with eyes turned inward to his
own soul, away from the passions and jeal-
ousies by which he was surrounded, his
foresight was almost prescience, and his in
flexible determination likened him to the
Iron Duke. With large and catholic mind.
with fraternal love for his comrades in
arms and his coadjutors in council, he was
d ildl nlSn 10 the people.
AS the sculptor shapes his statues to the
inches III which they are to stand, so God
Shapes characters for the places they are to
ill. After citing and commenting upon
such incidents of adaptation as Milton. Ma
poleon and Wherefore, the speaker said
that gentle characters were formed for
gentle work, and when in our mill
tary annals, there was need for grave.
earnest, reSolute man to lead our armies to
victory. The man was found. We see the
hand OF God through all the work of orr
nations history. In Colonial and Revolu
tonary times it was made manifest. and
when at the era of the Rebellion, after wears
OF quiet prosperity, when we cast about for
leaders, the resurgent power of human ma
ture was illustrated by military genips
starting from desk and plow. God then
touched this silent man, leading an unob
trusiye, sequestered life, far from the seat of
confusion, and he brought the conflict to an
end. To-day he lies
SILENT FoREvERMoRE,
his last victory won and his closing worl,
accomplished. We should bear we'll in
mind the balm he put upon religion. and
that, in those last long days OF suspense and
pam, he surrounded himself with the COM
forts OF religion. His life also teaches MS n
lesson which we Americans are slow to
learn; that the greatest success is not for
those restless, hasty, impatient ones who
snatch at the laurels; it teaches Ills to hide
our time, waiting upon Gods providence.
There was IN MIN that unsefish and lofty
type of patriotism that / would to God was
more common to-day. Like Moltlse he for
muated his comprehensive plans, and by
dint OF sheer perseverance and tenacitv of
purpose he carried them to a successful is