Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-17
FUNERAL OF GEO. E. HoADLEY.

 in Tribute to His Memory by Rev. Dr. willard.
 The funeral of George E. Hoadley was | held from his late residence on Fountain | street in Westville yesterday afternoon at l 2:30 o'clock. There was large attendance of relatives and friends. The officiating clergyman was Rev. Df. Willard of the Westville Congregational church. Post master Sperry was master of ceremonies. The honorary bearersswere: Theodore A. Futile, Hon. s. A. York, John W. Nichols, Hon. J. D. Plunkett, John I. Goodrich and Henry M. Hoyt. Ar. Hoyt, who is from New York city, is brother of ex Governor Hoyt of this state. He was warm friend of the deceased and the two saw great deal of the other during MT. Hoadley's residence in New York city.
 Upon the casket were @ number of floral pieces. The tenants of the Hoadley build ing sent large basket of flowers. The offices in the building were closed during the funeral.
 Dr. Willard's remarks at the funeral services were as follows:
 For two or three months he of whom I speak had not been in his usual health, as a rule was kept in door; and more than once he said to me, My time is short; very soon you will be called to bury me- And yet that dread of des h, which is assumed to be universal and instinctive, seemed in his case to have been exceptional. On one occasion, while talking of the matter of life and death, he quoted in part those well-k known words of O. B. Buckingham: Death is gentle, peaceful, painless; in- stead of bringing suffering it brings an end of suffering. It is misery's cure. Where death is, agony is not. The processes of death are all friendly. The near aspect of death Is gracious
 "He died as he had predicted, suddenly, and with only slight previous warning. On Saturday morning. March il, 1898,
 Gods finger touched him, and he slept.
 "As to what manner of man he was, I cannot add very much to the full and able recognitions that have appeared in pub lie prints. My own acquaintance with our brother was of short duration, though long enough to be deep and positive. "George Edward HosdIey was, in my judgment, kindly man, strong and even intense, as were his likes and dislikes. Still his nature was full of the milk of human kindness, and when soft and gentle words touched that nature 1t ovsrhowed with rich and helpful generosity-,hose little nameless, unremem6ered acts of | kindness and of love. The tear would start and the voice would quaver as he told the story of some really needy and depend 1 ent one. But shsms he hated with all the impetuesity of 8 Thomas Carlyle It was 8 genuine kindness, not a sentimental l mockery.
 '.But he was more than kindly; he wa: ! t<h nh friouIc batr oIn n tried, then, to use the words of Shakes peare, he grsppled them to his soul with hooks of steel.' Their joys were his joys l and their sorrows his sorrows. To have put sunbeam on the path of any ona ot them would have b-ea ples-ur-; to bavs caused u cloud would have bseu pain
 And in the way f social gifts he had bu few equals. A wide c1urse of reading heC stored his mind with knowledge, and [
 tenacious memory helped him to uss it 8
 the fitting time and in fitting mauner
 Aud ir his better moods he was not onl!
 entertaining, but instructively entertain
 ing. think it would be hard to find eve,
 in literary circles, so called, very larR
 number more apt in quoting the brighte-
 sayings of both ancient and modern au
 thors. And I had learned to love this maj
 because of the richness of what to man,
 was An undiscovered nature,
 ''For three long years I stretched eu l my hand to him, as to one who desired t
 be led, and humbIy hope and trust ths l no word of mine and no act Of mine il
 duced him to take false step or go in tn wrong direction. But here, Tn this pleas ant home, was another hand whose touc was more soft aud gentle than my own. I
 it was 6 constant blessing and 8 constap
 benediction, and 1t did much to scatte sunshine and gladness in the path of hil
 who walked therein. It was the hand ( .. a true life helper; of one who did hi1
 good and not evil; of one who spread jo 7 over all the day, and made his home sue that to him 1t was the brightest, deares l sweetest place in all the earth.'
 In conclusion the speaker paid besut full tribute to the fine qualities of hea
 and heart of the deceased, his sturd ; friendllness and loyalty to friends, h
 varied culture and or his profound reepe,
 for true religion undehled.
 The death change comes; death is another life. l We bow our heads at going out and entt | straight
 Another golden chamber of the King's Lar ser than this we leave, and lovelier.
 "And so if earth, now and then, |
 darkness, heaven, at last, will give ths
 light"