The record-union., 1893-02-23

4diASSL Lf6e mas Deen piuchSu. TIL tue
hearts of all mourners with love and rev.
erence of Thee to serve Thee with per-
iect heart, so that when 1t shall please
Thee 20 call them unto Thee their end
shall be peace.
1--WE ask Thy blessing on all assembled
here to-day. They are all Thy children,
and for all we ask Thy fatherly protec-
ton and benediction.
OUR COUNTRY.
"And bless our own land. May the
hopes of all her founders and servants be
realized. May her citizens recognize that
national prosperity without moral no.
bIhty is as gem in the forehead of a
skull, that righteousness alone eXalls
nation. May liberty continue to be our
presiding genius, not liberty TO do wrong
unpunished, but liberty to listen TO the
voice Of conscience, liberty to choose
Thee, . God, for oCr master; liberty to
excel in truth, purity. honor integrity.
virtue, duty. May America ever be the
land of the brave and the home of the
lree. May this great fabric never tall.
Cleanse all the administrations of national
affairs. May those in Office be upright,
hating deceit May legislators unselhshly
and patrloucally serve their country and
not their own ends. Take under Thy
protection the President of the United
states and those dear to him and all who
administer the public affairs NJ this vast
commonwealth, the Governor and officers
OF this State and city, that through them
order may be preserved, and peace, right
and liberty be fostered. Lord hasten
the day of blessed promise when men
shall truly regard each other as brothers,
when hand shall meet hand in friendship
and heart speak TO heart in love; when
swords shall be beaten into plowshares
and spears into pruning hooks; when
there shall be learned no more war, when
shadows of ignorance and superstition
and hatred shall have fled. and the bright
light OF knowledge, religion and love
shall illuminate mems minds, when all
shall acknowledge Thee as the one Com
mon God and Father, Thou who art one
and Thy Name, the one and Eternal God.
Amen ~
The orchestra rendered another selec-
ton, and then DIR. Ruth q. Newland was
introduced. She delivered a memorial
poem. She explained that she had always
been an admirer of the great men Of her
native land and especially OF James q.
Blaine, and therefore she wished TO pay
her tribute to his worth and genius. She
had composed the first part of it when the
Minneapolis Convention failed to nOml-
nate the illustrious citizen 10 the Presi-
dency, and finished it when came the sad
news of his death.
SENATOR GOUCHER's ADDRESS.
The event of the day was Senator 6. G.
Goucher's memorial address. 1t was an
eloquent effort, and was as follows:
I'VE are gathered here,' said the
speaker, ito lay upon the grave of James
q. Blaine u fresh garland OF glory
plucked from the warm hearts Of seventy
million Americans. In rendering this
tribute to the illustrious dead, we have
honored ourselves in selecting a day that
commemorates him who was first in
I
Of his countrymen.' The stricken pro-
cessiOH OF unsheltered heads, bowed
forms and tear-stained faces of the Amer
leans in Pennsylvania, i'll Maine, in the
District OF Columbia. has not passed un-
observed by the great-hearled host who
populate the Golden State. Diyested OF
partisan jealousy, we have assembled ut
the bier OF great statesman, and from
! this solemn presence and consecrated
spot we send across the rivers, the
mountains and the valleys to the confines
Of the roaring Atlantic, assurance OF our
sympathy and announcement of our sad
ness.
'Over our own hearts the sable, hover
ing plnlOnS of sorrow have been spread,
and their black shadows have eclipsed
the California sunshine in our breasts.
We discover in the conclusion of such
sacred message to our Eastern brethren a
silent summons to turn our minds TO
this occasion and this place. Surprising,
yet pleasing, is the discovery that when
our minds concentrate again upon this
occasion and its cause, the
DEsoLAIING TOUCH or SADNESS
And sorrow begins to flee under the pur-
suit of strange enjoyment. This feeling
cannot be analyzed, eNceDt through the
reinforcement which comparison may
afford. None can stand on the seashore
and watch the distant incoming waves,
their dancing creSts sparkling in the
Jewels that seem kisses stamped there by
the tender and sottening light Of the stars,
without feeling happiness in the thought
that such beauty Will come rolling and
smiling forever. None can gaze upon the
nillsideS through the sweetened air of
spring-time, and see the manifold blooms
that great God has unfolded like gor-
geous carpet, without the enhancing re-
Election that such vision isto be repeated
through countless centuries.
''None can look upward to the sub
lime heavens and feast his soul upon the
distant diamonds that seem like angel
eyes, without rejoicing in the knowledge
that this shining coronet belongs to all
time and generations. inspired by these
feelings that captivate the heart and COM
mand the intellect, it is appropriate to
seek their relatives in history. When
ever peril from either without or within
mas apBGdT6u dEdluSb our Country, lQe
emergency has always sent out in free
dom's vanguard the man or the men for the
hour. We have had our Warren and our
| Washington; we have had our Lawrence
and our Sumner; we have had our Pat
rick Henry and our Harry Lee; we have
had our Winfield Scott and our Farragut;
we have had our Grant and our Sherman
and our Sheridan, and also our Webster,
our Clay anu our Calhoun.
"N eft to no heart IN lSafiDu on ou1. soil
has ever come inconsoable sorrow that
these men lived, or that in the tullness Of
their years and their honors they bowed
to Heavens decree and died. In her great
and
MATCHLESs NAMES
We may see the supreme safety of the
Stars and Stripes and the unbroken ram
parts that stand eternal guard around the
Union OF the States. We may, then, aU-
propriately feel that, in rendering our
tributes to the great dead, we are but lift
ing their names to an immortal station in
the cloudless sky of our nations love.
1--WE may upon such occasion take self
ish payment OF our own actions in the re-
ward Tor which reason furnishes security
that the uncounted generations yet hidden
behind the futures mystic curtains will
ever turn their patriot eyes upon the
name we are humbly striving to distin-
guiSh to-day. No nation can sustain it.
self without some source OF patriotism
which inspires The young people OF the
land. When the true American states
man in the evening of his impaired
strength turns his falling eyes toward the
temple of American liberty, and feels a
stronger beating OF his dying heart, his
patriotic hope viii always gather about it
the raiment which falls as gently as a
snowflake and as welcome as a sunbeam
from the shining names OF his country's
fallen and buried guides. Without the
name and record of Washington how
could we teach our boys the inspiring
/ lesson which has sent Onr flag like the