Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-30
FUNERAL OF HENRY ROGERS.

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 Tribute by pr. Munger.
 The funeral of Henry Rogers took place yesterday forenoon at 11:S0 from his late filled with relatives and friends of the de- ceased, gathered to pay the last tribute of re- spect and esteem to the sleeper, and of sym pathy for the deeply bereaved ones. Among the mourners beside the widow and children were Mrs. Rufus Rogers, the aged mother of the deceased, Mrs. Samuel Anderson, his wife's mother, and Mrs. Rogers only broth- CT. Alexander D. Anderson of Washington, D. 0. MT. Anderson is secretary of the board for the promotion of the centennial celebrs- tion in 1899. Rev. Dr. Munger, who ofici- ated, made some very eloquent remarks on the character and life of MT. Rogers, which will be found below. There was lovely floral tribute entirely of calla lilies The pail bearers were Judge W. c. Robinson, Prof. J. T. Platt, Julius Twiss, Judge Wil- liam B. Stoddard, 0. K. Bush and Henry G. Newton, all of the New Haven county bar. The funeral party went in carriages in the afternoon to North Branford, where the re- mains were inferred in the cemetery near HOR0IS DlrCnpldC0, auo u0aE Cn6 graves of his father and child. Owing to ill health Dr. Munger was unable to accompany the remains, and Professor Robinson read the Episcopal burial service at the grave. Among the members of the bar present at the house were ex-Lieutensnt Governor Waylsnd, Judge R. s. Pickett, Judge Joseph Sheldon, Charles Kleiner and Charles H. Fowler, and the following clergymen: Rev. Alpheus Winter of Middlefeld, Rev. MT. Barrows of Newington, Rev. MT. Leonard of this city, Rev. MT. Wood, formerly of North Bran- ford, Rev. MT. Cleveland of this city; also present was H. c. Kingsley, editor of the New Englander. Dr. Munger's tribute is as follows:
 The first month of the year is not past be- fore the United church is called to part with two members whose lives in many respects were parallel with one another. refer to the late Judge Pardee and our friend, MT. Henry Rogers. They were not far apart in years; both were lawyers who were educated and spent their entire professional lives here. They stood we'll in their profession, both as to native and trained ability and profession al character. Both reaped 8 fair measure of success and good reputation. Both were for many years invalids, yet kept about their work with courage and will, working to the very last and filling up the brief measure of their shortened years with honored and use- ful toil-workers in the truest sense of the word.
 While the external history and condition of these men were strikingly alike, their moral resemblance was greater. Intellee- tually they were not more alike than are any two well trained, high minded lawyers. In- deed as lawyers they were unlike, but mora1- ly their characters draw together. Each responded to the New England training and easily came to feel that the church and what the church stands for was an essential part of the life of 8 man in the world, and hence they took their place within the church, la place which they filled not as emotional religionists but as be- bieVing that the church stood for an essential part of human life. The place in a church filled by an intelligent and high-minded law yer is of great service to it and connected with it. His councils are valuable and are often needed, for the church is perpetual institu- tion and is to be conducted as such-under large and far reaching principles. The log ical, steady, searching habit of the legal mind is of great value, and is complementary to the emotional tendency of religion, and so serves to check fanaticism and bigotry and nasty action. The Christian lawyer in a church often is not what is called active, but his influence is weighty and healtdfui, bUsh upon the pulpit and amongst his bretheren. Dotn UL Un6 persons nave named exercised this quiet, strong, steadying influence in the church of which they were members. Of late years, this ill health prevented them from
  presence was felt in strengthening and sus- taining ways. As they took their places with conscientious punctuality in the house of God and entered humbly and earnestly into it's services, which bore witness to the reality and value of the Christian Faith. It is not small thing, for it be known that strong, intelligent trained man is believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
 These friends of ours were alike in the res- oluteness with which they held themselves up to their work under great physical disability. Seldom have I known finer instances of courage and moral heroism. In each it had it's ground in a sense of the intense reality of human life and of work as the main feature of life. Conscience, judgment and natural disposition led to such view. Life not giv- en for pleasure; results achieved the clear end of life; native energy for it's struggles, such was the outfit of these men; and under such wholesome views they lived and worked till the very end.
 In the church of St. Nszaro in Florence is an inscription upon the tomb of a restless soldier of fortune:
 "Hush; he sleeps who never slept before. "
 So when I heard that our friend here was at rest, and recalled that activity of body which did not yield till it was absolutely ex- hausted, and that activity of mind which never yielded but continued to the very brink of this life and perhaps leaped the chasm of death without consciousness of ces- sation, had atwo-fold thought, that needed rest and sleep had come, and that such soul would never rest.
 Each thought is justified by reflection There was indeed great need of rest and the peaceful sleep of death, so great that there might well be no tears here for joy that the pain and all former things of the suffering body were no more. And so God gave him sleep; sleep, but not death; rect, but not ces- sation of action. It is impossible to believe 4I.k kIaR1 ful, vigorous mind has ceased to act because it's enfolding flesh crumbled away. Surely the world of mind is not bound under the laws of the world of matter. Surely the soul is more than the body and Is not beholden to it. Hence we believe that there is a world of the mind, a world of the spirit, and that when mind is set free from this primary enwrapping of matter, these swaddling clothes of early existence, it enters into the world of mind and spirit. And there we have him with full faith and hope, faith in the eternal Father of our being, hope in the resurrection of the personal self into the like ness of the eternal Christ.
 To recur to the character of our friend, what most struck me in respect to him was his intelligent, high minded, intense and yet wholesome interest in the present life of so- ciety. It was the interest of student and patriot, and it was real and conscientious. Hence when I saw him in the last months of QlS llI6, LQOuRQ kuoW OoAL4 W6S not IAE of, talked with him upon public affairs, for his life lay in them-and worthily.
 He wrote wisely and well on those sub jects and influenced his age through the dai- ly press and the pages of magazines and re- views. MT. Rogers was intensely vital; all his faculties were keen and quick, and worked with energy and precision. There was 8 certain alertness and quick, flashing response in his thought that made him most interesting companion. His nature was most kindly and sympathetic; rich in those affections that make life sweet while life lasts, and sacred when it becomes mem ory.
 The pity and sympathy we bring to this afflicted house cannot be expressed in words of our own, and we turn to those found in the word of God:
 "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are com forted of God"
 *1st Cor. I, 3 4.
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