Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-20
ELIAS LOOMS.
Funeral Services at Batten Chapel
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gY-Rurfnl In tho College Lot.

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Yesterday-PresIdent Bvvight's Eulo-
gy-Burial In the College Lot.
The funeral services over the mortal re-
Of natural philosophy and astronomy in
Yale, were conducted by President Dwight
at Battell chapel at 8 O'Clock yesterday after.
noon. The president came down from Litch-
field to pay the last tribute of respect to his
associate. Members of the faculty and their
families, together with some friends of the
university were present in the chapel. The
only relative present was Hon. Francis B.
LOOMS Of New London, who is q cousin.
The other relatives all live at distance from
New Haven and found 1t impossible to be
present. They are Professor Calvin Loomis
of Summerville, Ga. and David B. LOOMS
of Saltwater, Mimi, brothers; Mrs. Sophia
Edwards, and Mrs. Newman of Upper Alton,
ILL.,, sisters, and two sons, Henry B. Loomis
Of Seattle, Washington territory, and Francis
e. Loomis, Phi. D. of Yale, and Goettengen,
now in Switzerland.
A choir of male voices under the direo-
ton of Prof. Stoeckel sang the chant blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord, and two
hymns, the FIRST lines of which are 80
1Ou Jul ucAP Al ages Phbb, au0 my AdltA
looks up to Thee" President Dwight's adj
dress was an eloquent sulogy of the charao-
ter and personal worth of his distinguished
co-laborer at Yale.
A few of the things the president
said follow. The words of Jesus, "And
yet am not alone, because the Father is
with me-" were the words of the text. These
often come to us with peculiar power
when we think how we are passing on to
the eternal kingdom. We have fellowship
in his sufferin9s and in his joy. We even
fill up what is behind him in his history.
With thoughts like these, could not but
recall the words of the master when 1
learned that our friend was dying
alone, and yet not alone. He pursued
alone he passed out of his mortal life as qui-
city as he had pursued his life here. What
words could more fttingly express our
thoughts of him than those of Jesus on the
last night of his earthly life. am mot alone
because the father is with me.
Our friend had lived solitary life for
many years. Even before he came to his
main life work here he was deprived of the
chosen partner of his life and his home was
lost to him. His studies, in which he
achieved such great work, took him away
from the world. Nature and education
made him man of few words, and men of
few words are wont, more than other men, to
live In and with themselves. These things
made him live alone. But he was not lone
ly. The element of the hermit was foreign
to his character. He did not live
took no interest in it. He was ready to
teach and help Others He was kindly and
generous, disposed to follow in his reading
the public lives of the day. He was man
who studied the great subject of education.
He looked out toward the future. He was
man who could be alone and yet not alone.
Alone in his work, in his life by the changes
of this life and yet not alone in his influence
on others and his work. The scholars life
not of necessity life removed from other
mems and our friends life was not such.
His spirit In its Utmost dwelling place turned
toward the Divine Father. His life passed
calmly on its Christian course and when adj
monition of the end came he laid himself
down peacefully to die as he would have lain
down to sleep.
He was remarkably gifted by nature for
the work which opened before him. His
mind was penetrating and capable to hold
carefully before it the relations of things, so
essential to mathematical thought. He was
what we conceive q fine mathematician
ought to be, If the ideal is to be realized. As
a lecturer he had the power of stating con-
oisely what he had to say, and in few well
chosen words convey to the hesrer the
thought in his mind. The many public
works of his, approved and used so widely,
will bear additional witness to this power
He was warm hearted and generous friend
of the university. He came here as an Off
Ger and professor twenty. nine years ago,
when already nearly fifty years of age. For
nearly quarter of a century he was an ac-
tive and energetic worker in the university.
Gradually he passed the work over to
younger men. Finally came feebleness, and
he passed over his public work to other
hands. But his work continued. He col
lected his work for the public use. Since
eighteen months ago he told friend that he
had some work to do which would take a
year, and he prayed that he might be
given that time to do it when he should be
ready to die. The year and little mere
was given him.
At the opening of the present vacation he
went to an inland town, where he has been
accustomed to spend his summers, in the
hope perhaps that he might gain enough
strength to pass another winter, although
conscious that the end might come at any
time. When the warning came he arose like
a man and turned his face toward the city
for thirty years his home, and hurried here
to die. In the Last days Of his illness he
gladly recognized some of his associates who
were ministering to him, and at last passed
suddenly and quietly away. Aloae and yet
not alone. The blessednoss of the fathers
house was with him, and what was to US the
sunset of that summers day was to him the
sunrise In a happier land.
The interment was in the college lot in the
Grove street cemetery. The following were
the bearers Profs. Il. A. Newton, ID. Dana,
Arthur w. Wright, w. Il. Brewer, o. B.
Marsh and Addison Van Name.
Prof. Loomis was Munson professor of
natural philosophy and astronomy for the
last twenty-nine years of his life, but of late
years has been able to do very little active
work. His duties have been assumed jointly
by Profs. Brewer and Seymour. Therefore
there will be no need of present action by
the faculty in appointing his successor, and
in all likelihood no steps will be taken to fill
the Munson professorship until the latter
part of the next college year.
A TRIBUTE.