St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-03
HAIL AND FAREWELL.
TO DANA AND LUVHER AT
HOUSE OF HOPE.
Memorable Occasion-Sermo of
DE-. Egbert-Still Looking
for Dana.

| tHo reSiuence OF the fDOtner, 52S Holly
avenue, and borne into the church by
eight pail bearers. friends of
the deceased. The body of Mr..
| Dana was not there, but the
services were joint in character and at
tended by the friends of both the un-
| fortunate men. The casket was coy.
cred with wreaths and cross of flow
ers, and brck of the bier was large
basket OF flowers sent as token by the
comptroller's Office. The flowers on
the casket were contributed by the
Elks. Meridian lodge of Odd Fellows
and the sheriff's office. The employees
of the sheriff's office and others in the
city departments sat in a body.
The pallbearers were j. j. McCardY.
| w. A. Van Siyke, August Beckman. T.
| Johnson, K. b. Ware, A. H. Stees, t.
Is. Merriam and G. II. Duncan.
! Relatives of both Mr.. Luther and Mr..
| Dana followed the remains into the
church. and with them were Pierce
Butler and Charles E. Chapel, who both
| feel keenly the sudden taking away of
| the young men.
As the mourning train filed past the
aisle William Browne executed a
funeral march on the organ. The church
| quartette, composed of Mrs. De Wolf,
| soprano; Mrs. Colville, alto; Mr.. De
| Wolf. tenor; and Mir. Colville, bass, sang
a hymn. This was followed by the
reading of the thirteenth chapter of
| Corinthians by Rev. Scholville, assistant
| pastor of the church.
| The fupproI I,,, Dov Joh,>
| Paul Egbert, ID. d.. pastor of the
church. and this was followed by a
| prayer and benediction. ending the
simple but impressive services. The
| funeral procession then wendell its way
to Oakland cemetery, where the remains
OF MIR. Luther were tenderly laid to rest.
In his Impressive euiogy, DR.. Egbert
said i'll part:
Human speech is a most marvellous
thing. But. just as speech is too :frail
vehicle to carry mans greatest
thoughts. SO there emotions. OF sorrow
especially, that are too heavy to be
borne by human words, that are too.
deep 10 be reached by the plummet of
our earthly language. And all one
can dolS to let these words suggest
to each mind some thought, or
better, some great hope; for Il know
| OF no comfort in sorrow that is.
not filled and blessed with a
great hope-a comparison between that
which now Is upon our hearts and that
which some day will fill them. just as
God in Has word does not explain the
things Of this life or the future life, but
| gives US giimpSeS here and there of
great. rich life in this present
and more wonderfule : life in the
world to.come. That is ali words can
| do fer uS-to, suggest that there is out
| beyond speech. out beyond even your.
thinking and nIIne, out beyond all our
| present knowledge" even beyond our
spresent hope, a Jaeger and richer and
|; more wOlIde III life, that sour present:
+ though 1alid our present hopes, our,
| present faith, suggest, TO Us, almost re-
veal to u.s. a-.......--.
| It's marvelousiy appropriate, though
possibly we seldom think OF it, that
| flowers should rest upon the grave; that
that thing of beauty" which God made
and spread SO richly over the earth, that
man has spent SO much thought Gpen to
make more beautiful, to suit his own
eyes, should be SO. Associated
with the darkest thing in our;
life. Now, do you think that God
would. by all the marvellous chemistry
| of nature. take out of earth, out Of rain,
out OF sunshine, out of atmosphere all
| tile fertility and all the rich colors, and
| put them III their perfect form in every
| flower that blooms; will He do this for
| flower that is for day and then
| passes away, and do less for Soufthat
can understand his work in that flower?
| What will He do for such a creature?
| He says He Will make Him like himself
| perfect. 81
Oh, how much of perfection is gained
through suffering! Here are two young
meli, loved in their own homes, respect
| ed and loved by their fellow inen, trust
| ed by those who work with them; we
| say cut off in the midst of their life.
| No, it is not true. We have no right to
/ say that. They have gone into life
\ that is SO much greater and richer and
larger and more wonderful that they
| are not cut off in the midst of their life.
| They are born of God INTO the larger
| life through what we call death.
Not one word that | can say can touch
the two lives that have gone out into
! the other world. But, oh! what COM
| fort there is for those who sorrow in
! that teaching that there was man of
| God, like unto the Son of God, like
| unto the Son Of Man, who went through
! =
beneath them, far below where man
| can 20, and rose up through them unto
| likeness with God, and stands perfect
| today in all the wonder and glory OF His
| divine life.
This death has come not only to the
! homes. 1t has come most keenly there.
| 1t has gone deep into a mother heart,
| sisters heart, the heart of brother.
| 1t has gone into the heart of every one
IN this city. Your presence here today
| tells of your sympathy with those who
suffer. Thousands of others feel the
| sympathy that you feel. There is great
comfort in that. But The deep comfort
| of all comfort Is not thai you and l are
! in the darkness with those who suffer
most, but that God is with us.
l. No eulogy is i'll place at a funeral SER
! mon like thiS-only an expression of
+ our sympathy, of our trust in the God of
i all cOmfOrr, of our belief in a Savior
l. Who rose from the dead, Who Himself
| was made perfect through suffering,
| and is touched with the feelings of our
infrmities. and the Great Spirit, Whose
very name is the Comforter. Our God,
and Father, and Savior. and Comforter
| has taken these lives. What marvel
7 Gus change there has been! And some
day it may be that with them some
l.of US will talk over the past.
| How hard it will be in the glory that
L shall be revealed in us to remember the
darkness and the pain aud the sorrows
and the mystery of this world i'll that
great life of peace and happiness.
The Elks, OF which order MIR. Dana
was member, paid their respects TO his
! memory at il meeting last night in the
| following memorial:
st. Paul Lodge NO. SO. Benevolent
! and Protective Order OF ElkS, has
learned with the deepest sorrow of the
| disaster which has taken from us our
friend and beloved brother, Charles f.
Dana. His death comes to US not
only as an affliction TO our
organization, but to each and
all as an especial personal loss. He was
! a whole-souled friend. and as such Sc
cured friendship which only death
could sever. In the lodge he will long