The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-01-12
FUNEP Al SERVICE
OF Mrs. DIR. J G. Chinn. Who Died
in this City AT the Age of
1O2 Years.
Beautiful Remarks by President
Loos and Full Text of one OF
the Most Beautiful Sermons
Ever Heard In This City,
Delivered by Rev. n.
II. Matthew'S.

From the Lexington, KY. Transcript, j an. 4.
Yesterday, a charmingly beautiful
winter day, at 10 O'Clock, at the Main
Street Christian church in this city,was
the time and place OF the funeral SER
vice OF Mrs. Catherine May Chinn, who
died on New Years day, in this city at
the age OF 1o2 years, ,honored and loved, ,
not merely by her husband, DR.. j. G.
Chinn, and her relatives, but by the
pure and good of this whole city.
Flags al half mast, the boom of can
non, reversed arms, draped palfreys
and muff1ed drums, have before this an
nounced the death of the great and
famous of this city, but probably no.
body has died here into whose grave =,
with the falling clods, has fallen more
of Lexington's heart felt sympathy,
then went down yesterday, when dust
to dust sank down in the peaceful and
honored grave of Mrs. Chinn.
When Thomas +. Marshall made
that famous eulogy upon Richard Men,
fee, to which attention has been lately
so beautifully called by the transcripts
published letter of Judge w. B. Kin
kead, it thrilled this continent as il the
clarion voice of an arch-angel had
been heard from heaven. But yester-
day while, In the words of Revs Loos
and Mathews, there was scarcely less
of human eloquence; there was in the
theme which lay before them, that
which, though deau, yet spoke, and so
supplemented the elOQuence of these
gentlemen that the effect was that
which touched deeper and finer an
more exalted. and sublimated emo
tions in the human soul than the
most skillful panegyrist can do in any
portrayal of the character of him or
her whose chief distinction is in the
glory of the world.
The calm, deliberate, chaste. dis
passionate Oratory with which the age
of President Leos spoke of he much
greater age OF the deceased, was i'm
pressive to the full extent OF the capa.
bilities of words, snd when upon the
other hand the comparative youth of
Reverend Mathews joined in its elo-
quent tribute to the deceased and to
her husband lin whom, more than ever,
the great company assembled seemed
to feel personal and tilial interest,
there seemed to be absolute complete
ness in the occasion.
lue VerDdtln sermon OF Mr.. Math-
ews is here given. AS is always the
case it loses some of its inspiration
from the absence OF surroundings and
the personal magnetism of the orator,
but it will be found to be a gem, i'm
style and history.
"With long life will | satisfy Him,
and show Him my Salvation. ."-Ps.
XCI. 16.
She has lived long, long time.
Past three score and ten years, by
reason of strength four score, with vet
another score added, passed the round
ed one hundred, il she had been spared
10 see the fullness of another spring
time, she would have journeyed by the
second milestone of her second cen
tury. One hundred years! 1t is a |
long time to live-a long time in view
of the largeness of life in those modern
days. When we See such an old age.
though its eye be dim and its natural |
strength abated, yet with it's reason !