St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-29
AT REST.


family lot in Mount Pleasant cemetery
with many honors Thursday afternoon.
Memorial services were held in the
North Congregational church, which
he loved so well, and where he Officiat-
ed as deacon at the communion service
the first Sunday in March, the last time
ne was in the church. The mourning
company filed the large audience
room to it's utmost capacity, many be-
ing obliged to stand. The pulpit plat
form was decorated with rich profu-
sion of flowers and many green palms.
Conspicuous among the floral tributes
was a piece representing a cathedral
entrance with Coates ajar," and with
the inscription overhead in immOrtelles,
"Passed through" This was the con-
tributiOn of the employees at the Fair
banks scale works, specially appropri-
ate as the mementO represented a
contribution from every person at the
works. A beautiful anchor of rhodo-
dendrons, azaleas and ivy leaves was
from the Underclyffe conser vatory.
In the large audience there were
were many from abroad, among them
His Excellency, Gov. E. j. Ormsbee
and Adjt. Gen. T. S. Peck, Quarter
master Gen. w. III. Gilmore, Coils. q.
Mansur and d. E. May of his staff,
Pres. Buckham of Vermont University,
Ex-Gov. Farnham of Bradford and
representatives of some of the branch
houses of the Fairbanks company, in
Guiding S. N. Brown of the Boston
house, w. S. Wells and G.. G. Miller of
the New York house and Ora p. Patten
of the Montreal house. The employees
of the scale works attended in body.
Mrs. Fairbanks's only remaining broth
er, j. Calvin Taylor, and her niece,
Mrs. Frank Parker, both of Derry, n.
H., were present at the funeral servi-
ces.
The service, simple and very i'm
pressive, really began with the sub
dued tones of the organ, which was
presided over by j. II. Humphrey of
the North church choir. The service
proper began with the Scripture
reading by the pastor of the church,
Rev c.. NJ. Lamson:-
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling
place in all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to ever
lasting, thou art God. Thou turnest
man to destruction and sayest, return,
ye children of men. For a thousand
years in thy sight are but as yesterday
when it is past, and as a watch in the
night. Thou earliest them away as
with a flood they are as a sleep; in
the morning they are like grass which
grOweth up. In the morning it -four
isheth, and grOweth up; in the even
ing it is cut down, and withereth. For
we are consumed by thine anger, and
by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou
hast set our iniquities before thee, our
secret sins in the light of thy cOunte-
nance. For all our days are passed
away in thy wrath we spend our years
years are threescOre years and ten
and if by reason of strength they be
forescOre years, yet is their strength |
labour and sorrow: for it is soon cut
off, and we fly away. Who knoweth
the power of thine anger2 Even ac-
cOrding to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, o Lord, how long and let it
repent thee concerning thy servants. 0
satisfy US early with thy mercy that
we may rejoice and be glad all our
days. Make us glad according to the
days wherein thou has afflicted us, and
the years wherein we have seen evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
and thy glory unto their children.
And let the beauty of the Lord our
God be upon us and establish thou
the work of our hands upon US yea,
the work of our hands establish thou
it. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide I'M
der the shadow of the Almighty.
Then followed the reading of Cor
inthians XIII, the chapter which tells
US that GALL gifts, how excellent soev-
er, are nothing worth without charity"
beginning =
Though L speak with the tongues of
men and of angels, and have not char
ity, am become as sounding brass, or
a tinkling symbol.
Closing with,
And now abideth faith, hope, chart
ty, these three; but the greatest of
these is charity.
A double quartette of male voices
(Messrs. Conant and Tyler, Humphrey
and Hazen, May and Silsby, Atwood
and Brooks) sang without accOmpani-
ment the hymn -
Jesus lover of my soul
Let me to thy bosom fly.
The prayer by the pastor will not
soon be forgotten by those who listen
ed to it, and whose hearts responded |
to the thought that Through the mem
cries that crowd upon us Thou art
shining like the stars of night through |
the darkness" The sermon followed |
which will be found in full below.
MIR. Lamson's Sermon.
When the word came, Gov. Fair
banks has gone, | said, the thirteenth |
of first Corinthians is the Scripture that
should be placed by the side of his life
Not one verse, but the whole of the |
chapter is the text; the truth woven
through all his character and action.
l desire therefore, on this day, when
sorrow utters its love, to place at the
head of my thoughts that which he