The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-27
WORDS FROM THE PULPIT.
Tributes Paid by the City ministers to the
Vice -Presidents Memory

Vice-President's Memory.
At all the city churches where special Thanks
giving services were held yesterday, reference
was made to the sudden death of the Vice-pr
dent At the union Episcopal service, Bishop
Knickerbacker said:
Dear brethren: We gather in Gods house
on this, our national Thanksgiving day as
mourners. The whole Nation mourns one of tho
great ones of the land. The Vice-president, In
dianas honored and favorite son, has fallen sud :
denly. In moment. in almost the twnkling Of
an eye, on yesterday eysaing, the silver cord was
snapped asund~f. and Thomas A. Hendricks, the
nonors- citizen of indianapolis and Indiana, the
uprlght statesman, the Christian gentleman is
ushered into the presence of his Maker. This
day OF thanksgiving and Joy becomes to US
thereby day of sorrow.
I'VE recognize in this distinguished citizen
beloved member of our own household OF faith;
one who loved her holy services and whose time
ana means were at her service, and whom the
church delighted to honor. With the Nation,
the church mourns his departure, and bows in
humble submission to the will of Him that doeth
all things WELL He has been cut off in the
midst of his honors and usefulness, beloved and
honored by the whole Nation. In the midst of
our sorrow for his loss. we give God thanks to-
day for all that was pure, and modest and
lovely, and of good report in his life. We will
cherish his virtues in loving remembrance and
on this our Thanksgiving day, we offer our
thanks to Almighty God, with whom do live tho
spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord,
and with whom the souls of the faithful, after
they are delivered from the burden of the flesh,
are In JOY and felicity. We give him hearty
thanks for the good example of our brother who.
having finished his course of faith, does now rest
from his labors Our hearts 90 out with sym-
pathy to yonder desolate home and TO the widow
so sadly bereaved. May God our Father sup
port and comfort her with His grace III this, her
time of sore trial and adversely, and may we all,
my brethren, enter upon the ADVENT sea-
sudden nj of
God, to be mp and doing in His service, and to be
prepared and watching for His comi, whether
1t be In tine first or second watch. Yea in an
hour ye think not of, the Son of Man cometh
like thief in the night, when we may be least
expecting Him"
At the union Presbyterian services Row r. v.
Hunter said:
'This city and Nation called upon to mourn
for great citizen and Vice-president On
yesterday we had thought TO indulge in nation
al Thanksgiving feast with joy To-day we
meet under a cloud of gloom and with sad hearts
An honored citizen and high official has fallen
On Thanksgiving of 1885 the angel cf death
brought grief to this Nation. To-day we bow our
heads In sorrow over the death Of him who
so recently honored by majority of the citizens
of our Republic. Yesterday, Thomas A. Hen
bricks was the most distinguished citizen in the
Commonwealth of Indiana. To-day, his spirit
is fled, and all that is mortal will soon be en-
tombed with appropriate honors | am sure the
sympathy OF tDlS audience goes out TO his faith
tul and respected wife, who has been go bitterly
and suddenly bereaved We may sorrow and
sympathze with fellow citizen honored and re-
spected. We may shed tears of patriotism for
our Nations dead, while giving thanks to the
Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the
past year graciousiy bestowed upon us as a
nation and as individuals"
Rev. N A. Hyde, at Mayfower Church, said:~
II am interrupted in the preparation of my
discourse by the startling news of the death of
the Vice president, and at this time the Nation
is shocked by the news flashed over the wires
that he who held the second place of honor
within the gift of the people has passed away.
At such time all political differences should
with one accord be laid aside, and we should re-
member only the distinguished public services
and personal virtues Of the departed. This is
the burden of testimony from every s;de--that
be was pure and upright in conversation, and
em1nently moral in his character This was the
secret of his success and the devotion of his
friends, and it is a cause of Thanksgiving that
the Nation is blessed with statesmen and cap
tains who repeat in their lives the lesson of
Gods word, that righteousness exateth ma
tlon, and sin is rcproach to any people,"
At Cenral-avenue Church very large audi
ence crowded the building. In the prayer by
Rev. DR.. Tincher feeling and appropriate allu-
sion was made to the loss sustained by the Ma
ton during the year in the death of General
Grant, and of Vice president Hendricks. Re-
specting the latter, Rev. Mr. Mcconnell, who
preached the sermon, said:
I'VE enter through draped portals dis
tinguished and honored citizen of this State and
the Nation is dead. His death fell heavily, and
suddenly, and Unexpectedly upon the Nation
70 thousands in this city and State it is per-
sonal bereavement Mr. Hendricks was a man
OF clean personal character and unblemished
official integrity. But this is not the time nor
the place for an analysis Of his character as a
man, or his career as statesman. May the Lord
bless his bereaved family. upon whom this sud-
den, sul'en, heavy grief has fallen May the
Lord sanc:ify this national sorrow to the Ma
tions good"
AT the Thanksgiving service at the First Bar-
tist Church, yesterday morning, no aIlusion was
made in the sermon to the death of the Vice.
president, but Dr. Jefery, in his prayer. made
touching mention of the Nations bereavement