The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28
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Russell w. Harrison, supporting his
wife, followed the father and sister.
Then came the venerable parent OF the
deceased mistress of the White House,
the Rev. Dr. Scott, escorting Mrs. John
T. Parker, the niece of Mrs. Harrison.
Mrs. j. Mckee and Mrs. Harry s. Dim
mick, the son-in-law and niece of the
dead woman, Hon. J. V. L. Finley, of
Baltimore, the Presidents cousin, and
Lieutenant John #. Parker and Private
Secretary Halford were the others COM
posing the family party. They came
slowly down the long corridor, past the
banked palms and flowers, past the
great portraits of former presidents Of
the United States and entered the room
Of death. All rose to receive them.
The mourners seated themselves to the
south of the catafalque, where the
palms and banks of flowers to great
extent shielded them from observation.
Those present, barely 2uU in number,
were almost exclusively the official fam
lily of the president and whose relations
with the family put them on the footing
of domestic friends. When the specta-
tors had resumed their seats in silence,
DIR. Hamlin, the pastor of the Church
OF the Covenant, read the following
passage of scripture: t'In My Fathers
house. there are many mansions" and
those selected passages which followed.
This was followed by brief prayer,
and then the choir of st. Johns church
sang 'sAbide With Me-" This was fol-
lowed by reading of scripture by DR..
Bartlett.
Then DIR. Hainiin offered prayer, some
passages of which were as follows:
We heseech Thee, our Father, that
those stricken here may be able to take to
themselves this morning all thy gracious
promises of comfort, and all those assur-
ances of Thy word that touch the heart
and pierce the soul. We pray that they
may look back over the delightful years
| unbroken by u single instance to be re-
gretted-that have passed. We thank
Thee, and pray that they may pause in
the midst of their grief and thank Thee
for all the faith, for all the love, for all
the wifeiy and motherly devotion, for all
the womauly affection, for all the forti-
tude In lor su Sering. for all the fidelity
to the higest duties o. life, that we have
witnessed in this Thy servant and we
pray that the example thus set may ue
constantly before US, and lead others in
the same path that this dear friend has
| trod.
/ Then the pastor prayed that the uni
versal sympathy manifested towards the
| stricken household might soothe the
hearts that were smitten, and that the
example of patient endurance of pain
and sickness and triumphant death
might not be lost upon this great nation
that we love. A prayer for the general
forgiveness of sins and the 5enediction
| closed this touching invocation. From
their recessed eoncealment III an adjoin.
ing room the choir sang the first two
stanzas of Cardinal Newman's beautiful
hymn, which Mrs. Harrison SO much
admired, Lead Kindl, Light"
1t was just 10:40 o'clock when the
services concluded. They had lasted
barely forty minutes. The funeral pro
cession then proceeded to the Pennsyl
vania railroad station, arriving there a
11:25 a. M, where large but silently
decorus crowd awaited them. The
presidents car was a combined parlol
and dining room car. The cabinet anG
othes distinguished attendants occupied 3
car which was divided into six drawing
rooms, arranged in suites. The Who'll,
train consisted of six vestiDuled cars
The train left Washington at l1:40, on,
hour exactly after the closing of tn,
services at the White House.