The Portland daily press., 1885-08-05
MEMORIAL AT WESTMI NSTER.
Large and Distinguished Attendance
at Services Commemorative of
Grant.

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LONDON, Aug. Am immense crowd
gathered in and about Westminster today
and waited patiently for the beginning of
the memorial services in honor of General
Grant Fourteen generals of the British ar
my were present and the equerry of the
Prince of Wales. The American legation
was closed today and Minister Phelps and
the attaches of the legation attended the SER
vices in body.
The service was an imposing event added
to the history of England. The edifice was
crowded with a congregation, nearly every
member of which was distinguished per
son. The order of the services was as fol-
laws:
1.-Schubert's Funeral March"
2;EIhe funeral procession up the nave of the
Cathedral to the choir.
$-The The g2entn opening burial y service. -
5.-The Days Lesson.
6.-Funeral sermon by Canon Farrar
7.-SpOhr's anthem, ''Blest are the departed"
peace.
9.-The concluding prayers
10.-The burial service.
11.-Blessing.
The funeral address, delivered by Canon
Farrar, was most impressive, and was list
ened to i'll almost breathless silence. His
texts was taken from the Acts, chapter 13,
verse 30:
Eight years have not passed since the late Dean
Stanley, who Americans so loved and hOnored.
was walking around tnlS Abbey with General
Grant, explaining its wealth and great memorials
Neither OF them had nearly attained the allotted
span of human life. Both might have chopped that
many years would elapSe before descending to the
grave full OF years and hOnors This is the fourth
summer since Dean Stanley fell asleep. Today
we assemble at the obSeques of the great soldier
whose sun set While it was yet day, and at whose
funeral services in America tens of thousands
have assembled at this moment TO mourn with the
weeping family and friends.
After elequently tracing General Grant, S
boyho0d and manhood, the speaker said:
II the men who knew him in Galena, obscure,
silent, unprosperous, unambiti0us, had said, if
any one had predicted that he would become
twice President and one of the foremost men of
the day the prophecy would have seemed eXtrava-
gantly RIDICULOUS. But such careers are the
glory OF the American continent; they show that
the people have sovereign insight into intrinsic
force If Rome told with pride that the dictators
came from the plowtail America may record the
answer of the President, who when asked what
would pc his coat OF arms, answered proudly,
mindful OF his early struggles, "A pair of shirt
sleeves The answer showed a noble sense of
| the dignity of labor, noble superiority to the
yanities of feudalism, a strong conviction that
men should be honored simply as men, not accord
ing to the accident Of birth. America has had
two martyred Presidents, both sons OF the people.
One homely man who was farm lad at the age
of Z, railSplitter at 19, a Mississippian boat
man at 28 and who in manhood proved one of
the strongest, most honest and God fearing of
modern rulers The other grew from shoeless
| child to be a humble teacher in the Hiram Insti-
tute. With those Presidents America need not
blush to name the leather-seller of Galena Every
true man derives patent of nOblenesS direct from
God. Was not the Lord for thirty wears
| carpenter in Nazareth? LincOln'S and Gar
fields and Grants early conscientious attention to
men. The year 1861 saw the outbreak of the
most terrible of modern wars. The hour came and
| the man was needed. Within four years Grant
commanded an army Vaster than had ever before