The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-13
A FUNERAL SERMON.

Ford county, Illinois, which was writ
ten by a former republican resident
lawyer of that town, who at the time
of writing the same was temporarily
located in Girard, Kansas. The occa-
sion of the letter was a request from
the democratic friends of the authors
to preach funeral sermon over the
republican party, and he writes it up
with caustic pen:
Membe,s of the Democratic Commit
tee Of huvztation and Democratic friends
of Gibson: [ received your pressing
invitation by telegraph to preach for
you funeral sermon over the republi
can party, and being as ever anxious
and willing to accommodate you, I
comply with your request, but as you
were evidently too poor to pay the
charges on your message, [ take it for
granted that it would be impossible
for you to provide for my expenses to
Gibson, and such other necessary ex-
penses as your knowledge of courtesy
would suggest to you. l therefore
accommodate myself to your impecu-
neous circumstances, and we will hold
short service through the columns of
the home paper.
We will open our exercises by sing
ing that old and familiar hymn, "Re-
turn ye ransomed sinners home. p"
Brother Hughes will please lead the
singing, and let all the singers sing.
We will next give attention to the fol-
lowing lesson: Verify I say unto you,
the kingdom of this land is like unto
an husbandman who had two sons,
and the elder of the two rose up and
saith unto his father: If cannot rule
the inheritance as wish, and compel
thee and my brother to serve me in
iniquity, then old man comes down your
shanty; and his brethren hearkened
not unto his demands nor sanctioned
his iniquity, which SO ineensed this
elder brother chat he straightway stole
all the silver and gold from the Golfers
of his fathers house and threw down
the walls thereof and carried away all
the treasures of the house and sought
to steal one-half of the inheritance and
set up for himself another kingdom
wherein the iniquities and wickedness
of his ways might find no hindrance.
Then rose up the man of the house and
taksth that son by the collar and lead
eth him away to the woodshed and
laboreth him for season of four
years, until he repented himself in
sackcloth and ashes. And verify I
say unto you that son was again forth
with returned to his former rights in
the inheritance like unto his brother
who tended the vineyard, and in four
and twenty years by false promises
and deceitfulness was admitted to the
full management of the inheritance.
There is fountain filled with coin,
Drawn from the mines of earth;
A treasury with vaults so full
We all may share it's wealth.
The rebel thieves rejoiced to see
That fountain in their day;
AN d theremay we though vile as they,
Wash all their debts away.
I will now call attention to the fol-
lowing passage as my text: "He is
not dead but sleepeth." The subject
of these remarks was born in the year
1856. Its father was freedom and its
mother was Justice. The offspring
became the inseperable union of the
two, and was called the Republican
Party. When only four years of age
the affairs of the Nation were given
into It's hands, and no sovereign ON
the face of earth ever assumed the
reigns of a government in d worse
condition of Observation-Disclosures,
moral and political ours when
entrusted to it's hand. No sovereign
in the annals Of. time ever accomplish
ed more or brought about greater
national improvement and prosperity
than has resulted to this Repub lican
party; aud no sovereign ever retired
from the throne Of any kingdom in the
civilized world, leaving to his sue
cessor q nation of a people in more
perfect enjoyment of peace, prosperity