The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-11-30
LOWELL HONORED.
Tablet to the Memory of the Great
American Poet and Diplomat
In Westminster,
Erected by His English Admirers,
Unveiled With Appropriate
Ceremonies.
Ambassador Bayard Was the Chief
Speaker, and Paid Lowell High
Tribute.

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let erected to the memory of the late
James Russell Lowell in the old chapter
house of Westminster Abbey, by the
subscriptions of his English admirers,
was unveiled with impressive ceremo-
MES SAmong those present was the
United States ambassador, the Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard, who, during the
course of his remarks, said:
81 hold myself happy indeed, to have
been permitted, in the Chapter House of
Westminster, and before an assemblage
SO distinguished and impressive,
to be present when for the second
time the name of an American is in
scribed in this double sanctuary of re-
llglon and renown, containing already
the bust of Longfellow, and where now
are unveiled the windows and tablet to
the memory of James Russell Lowell,
his brother poet, both from their kin
dred from beyond the sea.
1.-The forms of these two gifted sons of
America have been clasped to the bosom
OF the land that gave them birth, and
their ashes rest in peace at home. but
the proof of their just fame has been
waited to and fro across the Atlantic.
falling in clear, musical notes upon low
ing ears in the two countries whose
people speak the same mother
tongue of Longfellow and Lowell.
Here in the Abbey their names are
blended i'll goodly fellowship, worthy
n0mn1n1nnS of fbof
Wordsworth who gave us nobler lives
and cares"
After saying that he would not at
tempt the portraiture of Lowell, Mr..
Bayard continued:
lit is fine strong saying that Blood
Is thicker than water" and every day
proves how the times of common origin
and ancestry are stronger than written
treaties and how Unborn sympathies of
race, III the end, can silence international
discords and jealousies.''
Mr.. Bayard then referred to the pleas
ure he felt at the fact that Lowell and
himself spoke in this very chamber upon
the occasions of the Stanley and
Coleridge dwellings and said that
he was glad indeed, that this mark of
honor to his dear countryman was
erected so soon, adding ''the reproach of
delay. so often just, cannot be made
here, for here a Brotherhood of letters
have FASTENED with graceful, loving ap-
probation to give to buried merit its inst
memorial.
''In American homes throughout the
broad land over which the ensign of the
country waves, a sense of grateful pride
will be felt when they learn that the
name and fame of their fellow country
man, the poet, scholar, statesman and
patriot, has received at the hands of the
Britons this high tribute of respect in
their most venerable temple of national
religion, honor and renown.
"'Give my love to England in gem
eral' was the last message of Lowell in
letter to his friend, John Hughes, and
in these memorial windows and tablet
may we not read the reply of England in
general to james Russell Lowell, and
the nation he SO faithfully represented
at the court of st. james,
The Memorial.
Ine memorial CONSISTS OF TWO stained
glass windows. One of them is divided
by two mullions into three parts, while
at the bottom of the other two is a me-
dallion portrait of the minister, author
and poet, and on the three sections
of the mulloned window are rep
resentations of an angel bearing
shield below the arms of the United
States, the landing of the pilgrim fathers
from the Mayfiower, and the figure of
st. Botolph. On the other window are
the figures of Sir Launfal, an angel
bearing a shield below the arms of the
United Kingdom, and a figure of st.
Ambrose, as well as symbolic repre-
sentation of the emancipation of the
slaves. --
l.. A Mark of Love.
While Mr.. Lowell was minister to
Great Britain he greatly endeared him
self to the best classes of English people
and shortly after his death the project
was started of erecting memorial to
him. The funds were quickly raised
among his English friends, and the cere-
monies marked the final completion of
the work of love.