The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-05
FUNERAL OF JOHN Q. KEMBLE.


Members OF the Press Pay Their Last
Tribute OF Regard.
Yesterday afternoon, At Bonney & Stewards
undertaking rooms, funeral services were held
over the remains OF Jonn Cleveland Kemble,
who was city editor OF the Morning Journal
Most OF the newspaper men of the city were
present, and the black cloth casket was covered
with flowers which they aud others had sent
The Rev. David Claiborne Garrett read the
impressive service of the Episcopal church and
spoke briefly. The occasion called to his mind,
he said, the stricken mother in the far East
whose love had followed her boy all throu IA his
life, till now the end had come sin sickness
and in health" Mr. Garrett continued,
whether the young man trod the path OF viz
tue or had wandered into forbidden ways. the
mothers love has always followed him. un.
changing, never failing This mothers love is
oil all things on nth most like the love Of God
as revealed TO us by His blessed Savior. Wher-
ever we 60, whatever we do, whether we walk
uprighuy or whether we faiter in our duty. the
boundless love OF the Eternal, of winch this un-
selfish mothers love is such q fitting type,
reaches out alter us to draw as to Ham,"
~ see here" the speaker went on, "a trinity
OF emb ems The flowers lyin upon TINS coli u,
sent as q token of your esteem of your dead
comrade, are symbol OF hope Taough with
each recurring winter tney die and pass from
sight, yet 81 the summer returns they spring
again AMI blossom in a new life. SO they may
be 10 US the symbol of q new aud better life for
him who has passed beyond.
1.-THE candles are for the light OF faith, which
is to console US in this hour OF sorrow. We Can
have faitn in the goodness OF GOD and in His
mercy to all of His creatures; faith that in the
life TO come He wall be as tender toward us as
He 10 In the lie on earth. l do not like the
phrase probation after DEATH but cannot
help believing in an education after death.
hal fa nf haN ffsps e nj
earth. We simply pass through the socr from
one chamber to another, and so have faith
that when death comes 10 US here the books are
not forever sealed, but taat the indivIduI may
still live and still grow into something better
and higher. We have faith that he whose way
NAV h.ve been hard on earth. he who struggled
almost helpless sgan.t an unisvorabls environ
ment, he VINO bore heavy bur lens that dragged
him down, may have q chance t. live aad to de-
veiop higher character In a happier, more
helpful environment-to deyeop q character
which may in time tit him for communion with
the SAINTS
tine third part of this trinity OF which /
spoke 10 the charity. the love which is in each
one of your hearts-faith, hope aud charity.
We are all ready to speak most kindly OF the
dead, and to dwell on their good qualities In
deed it was proverb OF the ancients that con-
corning the dead no evil should be spoken.
We. with our weak Judgment, know not who
is the good man, ana VINO the bad The man
VINO III nisters at the holy altar in the church
may be q nypocrite with impure mind, may be
worse in his heart than the man outside whom
people call a sinner. 1t Is noteworthy fact
that those who are hes. acquainted with even the
worst Of men id high qualities OF heart and
soul, qualities worthy OF deep regard. / do not
mean to pallia'e stu or to speak as If 1t were q
light thing, bus l wish TO urge eacn of you to
have charity in his heart toward the liyiag as
toward the dead. Each man has something
worthy of respect. Aud sinoe those who know
us best, love Us the most, can b siieve that
the merclfui God WHO knows as through aud
through, who knows what temptations we have
endured, how sorely we have been tried, how
we havt struggled tn pugh perhaps the struggle
has TO men seemed N van-we can be sure that
tue mArciful God has TO- u, and Tor the one
who is now at rest thaI CHARITY which we
should end avor To exercise toward all "
After brief prayer Closing the services the
newspaper men present took q farewell look
upon the face of the dead The remains were
then conveyed TO the private vault OF Bouney &
Stewart to await orders from the East concerning
their disposal.