Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-12
FUNERAL OF HIRAM CAMP.

Characterization thc Business of
 His Life-Large Numbers Attend
 the Funeral.
 The funeral of the late Hiram Camp, the sx- president of the New Haven Clock com pany, was held from his residence, 312 Ferry street, yesterday afternoon at o'clock, and was attended by hundreds of so,rowing friends and relatives. About fifty members of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's association, of which the de- ceased was president, formed in column and attended the funeral services in a I body. About one hundred of the em- ployes of the factory also assembled at the l corner:of Grand avenue and Ferry street and attended in a body. The funeral was one of the largest which has recently been held in the city. The entire lower floor of the large house was thrown open and every available space was occupied, while many sat or stood in the grounds during the ser vices. All who had known or associated with him seemed to take pleasure in turn ing out to show their respect for their de- ceased townsman and fellow-citIzsn, and to pay their last tribute of love and af lection to their deceased friend.
 The service was opened at few minutes past o'clock by a prayer by Rev. U. o. Mobr, the pastor of the Ferry Street Con- grepational church, after which Gervase Green, Yale '94, who ia & graduate of the School for Boys at Mt Hermon, Mass, in which Mir. Camp was so much interested, sang solo, ''Sometime We'll Understand" in Q most excellent manner. Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips of the Church of the Redeemer then read the Forty-sixth Psalm and several other passages from the Bible, after which he spoke in the main as fol lows: q am not here to pronounce 8 eulogy over our deceased friend. Nothing could bs more distasteful to the friends of this man who has gone from us, and am sure that nothing would more certainly meet with his disapproval. And, indeed, he needs no eulogy. The noble Christian life which has been lived among you is it's own best eulogy, it's own best example and enforcement. Yet when one, who has been conspicuous among us, passes away, we are apt to ask what it was that lifted him up above the others who lived and | struggled by his side. And 1t Is always | most interesting to enquire and study into | the lives of those who have been thus lifted | up.
 'I shall not speak of his early life or his | life as business man among you. Doubt | less all of you have read this duly chron icled in the columns of the daily press
 But this much will say. He possessed those sturdy Puritan qualities which have
 made so many New Englsnders great and
 noble. And I think that he possessed
 these qualities in a marked degree. Ht | was endowed with certain resolutenes.
 and persistence of character, a strength O. I mill and r,bucioa1
 which enabled him to do the work anG
 achieve the success he did. Having sait
 this much concerning his outward life,
 need say no mora.
 "But the principal thing to be looked &
 in 8 man is his attitude toward spiritus
 things and truths-truths which are uni
 versally regarded as truths even by thos
 who don't accept them as the fundamenta
 principles of their own living. That whic
 lives longest when bodily relations hay
 faded from sight is what comes from one , personal relation to these spiritual truths "Mr. Camp was won't to remark tha about fifteen years ago great change cam
 to him both as a Christian, 8 business ma and @ representative in the Christian , church. The truth of Christ was held b him in his earliest manhood in most steac fast belief. But he was simply Christia
 business man, loving the church of Ii 8 choice, giving to 1t of his substance sn ] attending it regularly. But after tho tim : of which I speak there was @ msrke change in him-s change in his line l thinking. Religion from that time b
 came the business of his life. All that @ had become up to that time throughout n diligent life and all that he had acquire l. was from that hour devoted to Christ. E
 regarded himself simply as 8 steward. f lived in His name and by His grace. An @ he went forth day by day to strive as l r had never striven before to make his Ii l. conform to the principles of the New Test
 ment. And he went forth with his goot
 in his hand, doing good to all with who >1 he came in contact. And in this I thir we can find the key to the wonderful ir precision which he has made upon this COT
 munity and upon all men with whom he a
 sociated. The greatest question of his Ii , was when and how he could bs of the mo 7. use to the most men In 8 word religic 'f in it's sweetest, purest and most ennobli1 j. sense became the business of his life.
 'I think his two principal characteristic
 were simplicity and strength. And
 was strong through his very simplicit Y He was a strong man both mentally al l. physically-one of the sturdy, rugged m' l. who moved among us and who blessed u
 church of which he was 8 member and u
 community of which be was citizsn.
 "Some things came of this change, to
 He had loved the church before. But nc - he loved it with the fondest affection, al he gave his heart to the work in such
 way that it became his ambition to ser It the church in the highest and stronge " way.
 ,+ ''He also developed much stronger To
 for the Holy Scriptures and strove to J, his mind with them. One way which Il took to store up Bible verses in his mil V always seemed most interesting to ID " He had a little frame in which he plac y written on white paper in his bold, cle s hand his text for the day. He plac D this frame on the dashboard e his carriage and committed it J. memory while driving between his off s day, filling his mind with all the beauti Il and truths of the scriptures, until one d. l. it came to his cara that his action was u n subject of unkindly criticism, after whit n he discontinued it, fearing to offend ol n by 50 doing. The last text, which " Il written in the frame was: ''The Enteril J, in of Thy Word Giveth Life; it Give 8 Understanding to the Simple" and und @ 1t wac: "He that Spared Not His Ov J. Son, but Delivered Him up Unto us, He r Shall He, Not With Him, Give us |. Thingsa"
 n "If you look through his Bible you "
 find it well worn, with the passages mark,
 and the leaves turned down. The PsaIn |. was ons of the parts of the Bible mo
 loved by him, and here you could not fl d clean page.
 f "But still another result of this chan,
 was passion for evspgelization. I B built this church next to his home, SCI
 representatives of Christ to the fronti ' and went about from house to house vii @ his Bible th his hands teaching the peop 6 of the love of Christ. He also organize D many Sabbath schools. What the resu
 of this work is I would not dare to sa but there are many who owe their Chri
 tian life to him, and there will doubtle + be many to welcome him at the gates @ heaven.
 @ "Many things might be noted as comir l. into this mans life, but it is not necessal Jor me here to speak of them. He h, l. lived among you and you know him as s man of sterling qualities, strong convi 2 tions and man of prayer. Above a . things else he desired to be good ms : and to help others into the light in whic
 all, the best thing that can be said of
 man?
 "For the past few months he has bee
 gradually breaking down. Every lit
 while his old vigor would rally, and b ] friends had hopes that he might be give 3 back to them well and strong. But slowl s and. peacefully his splendid physical O. ganization broke down. Some of the e1 a and precious. One of the principal thinn : | that occunied hia mind fin thasa Have x,s