Evening journal., 1894-02-07
HIS TRIBUTE TO CHILDS
Bishop Potter's Eloquent Eulogy
of the Great Publisher.
THE SIMPLE FUNERAL SERVICES.

Philanthropist Editor In Making MOD
eI Newspaper strisiugiy Brought out In
Bishop Pottsr's Remarks.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. The funeral serv-
Ices of the late George w. Childs, held in
st. James church, were notable because
Of the extreme simplicity Of the ceremony,
the presence Of p host Of distinguished
men from all parts Of the country and the
evident sincerity Of the grief felt by the
thousands who were in OF about the shno-
tuary.
The ceremonies included brief services at
the house, solemn procession on foot 70
the church, where public rites were hold
and a touching eulogy delivered by the
Right Rev. Henry b. Potter, bishop OF
New York. Then came the funeral cor
tege to Woodland cemetery, where all that
was mortal of the great hearted philan-
thropst was laid away in the marble mau-
soleum Of the Drexel family, side by side
with the dust of the late Anthony j. Drex-
el, whom he loved as one man seldom loves
another.
The services at the cemetery were private
and very brief. There was prayer, and
the casket was placed in the crypt pre-
pared for it. Mr.. Paul cast upon the coffin
the symbolioal handful Of earth, and the
mortal remains Of George W. Childs were
consigned to the tomb.
Bishop Potter's Eulogy.
Bishop Potter, in the course of his eu-
logy, said: "There are lives that stand so
out and apart from their fellow men, not,
1t may be, because Of their ambitious pace
or colossal performances, but because Of
the sweet and gracious dignity Of service
OF a life that was constant illustration OF
the love OF God and Of man, which is the
essence Of all religion, that we cannot put
them or that which is mortal of them away
out of our sight without somehow telling
to other ears and hearts the words that
burn and the thoughts that throb in our
our own. So it is here today.
George Childs-singularly sugges i've
namel How sweet and filial was the char
acter Of the mani George Childs, a citizen
and a son Of Philadelphia, has lived here
among you all these years TO illustr lte
traits in his going out and coming in SO
eminent that as we come here today they
cry out in the language Of that old ritual
that some of us are familiar with, 'Ah,
alas. my brotherp
For myself shall always think of .Ir
Childs as great, consistent, potential
public teacher. have not the slight est
idea from any personal knowledge how
much or little he wrote, but as one looks
into the face of the tremendous enginery
Of the public press Of our time be can
not but be conscious that behind the men
who wrote in it are the men who, because
they own it, dictate It's public policy and
its private utterances.
Il venture to think the day when the
services Of George w. Childs win be for
gotten in this conspicuous PARTICULAR
alas, one is sometimes tempted TO think It
a unique particularl--win never como.
From first TO last the man whose body
lies there illustrated-tirst in this great
community in which he lived and then all
around the world-that it was possible TO
make daily public print pure and sw eet
and wholesome thing, fit TO come into any
Christian home, and yet TO make il the
vehicle Of ell necessary intelligence, the
/ illustration in itself Of the proper per
formance of public enterprise, and most Of
all TO make it positively power for good,
an advocate on the side OF eternal right.
eousness, friend Of every good cause, q
champion Of every righteous enterprise.
His Work Noble One.
"Beleye me, men and brethren, the sig.
nihcance Of the fact is never in this com.
1 AAA4AAAAl ~ AN AbA A-ANAtlls AAll courage LllAl
it cost, the large faith that it involved, The
steadlast patience under pressure Of which
you and / know nothing; the clear, calm
consistent ordering Of q great public organ
of opinion and vehicle of the worlds ini el
ligence SO that wherever it went IL left ~
| foul taint behind Il, no sting In the human
heart, no brutal word, no vulgar in,inua
tion, but ia telling the story OF the world'
daily history il could lift men up to nobie
ideals and make tlem long TO realize then
In themselves. Again, l think you aud
will remember the friend whose body lie
here this afternoon because while on ont
hand he organized it wisely and ruled il S,
ably, he illustrated on the other that Sin
gular felicity of combining and harmonic
ing the relations of capital and labor"
The bishop concluded his remarks b,
stating that Mr.. Childs had illustrated ii
his daily life and walk all the dignity an,
graciousness Of private citizen, while a
the same time he had demonstrated that
private citizen could take part in publ
affairs purely and solely for the benefit O
the public without thought of himself
and that IN his private life he was a mode
to all. lie concluded with this udjuratior
blessed be God for the lives Of sue
men and for their memoriesl Men an
women Of Philadelphia, remember such
life and reproduce il in your own"