The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24

BORNE TO HIS GRAVE
Crowds Attend the Funeral
Services Over the Re-
mains of Gov. Bedle.
PASTOR RERR'S IMPRESSIVE GRAFTON
The Body Taken by Special Train
to Its Last Resting Place
at Freehold.
PASTOR HERR'S IMPRESSIVE GRAFTON

The last rites were per1Ofimeu oNei
the body of the late Ex-Governor Joseph
d. Bedle at the First Presbyterian
Church this morning at 1880 O'Clock.
The church was thrown open an hour
beforehand and people began to arrive
from all directions.
The church platform was beautifully
decorated with roses and palms, and the
crowds were seated by the following
gentlemen who acted as ushers:-Henry
Dusenbery, Charles De Witt, Jeremiah
Halsey, William Martin, Manning f.
Stires, David w. Hull and Charles ID.
Ridgeway. A platoon of police under
Captain McKaig was drawn up in front
of the church. Members of the Bar AS
ISOLATION gathered in the chapel and
marched in a body into the church, a
few minutes before the funeral process
sion arrived.
At 1920 o'clock carriages containing
the relatives and distinguished assocl-
ates, of the deceased arrived with the
heafse.
The pail bearers were-Goyernor Geo:
T. Werts, Samuel Sloan OF New YORK;
Alex T. McGill, supreme Court Justice
Jonathan Dixon, David A. Depue. Sort-
landt Parker, James B.. Vredenberg,
John Hopper of Paterson; wee Chafcels
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Little, F.. Walcott Jackson, and ex-Gov.
Robert S.. Green.
The oficiating ministers were:-Revs.
Drs. Van Cleef, Herr, Young, and Rev.
H. G.. Smith of Freehold. The pail bear
ers stood on either side of the steps OF
the church while the casket, which was
covered with roses, proceeded by the
ministers worne past them by Under
taker Hughes assistants. They FOL
lowed it up the centre aisle to the plat
form in front of which it was laid. After
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lily and relatives of the deceased, includ-
ing his aged father, Mr.. Thomas Bedle,
Mrs. Bedle was supported by her sons,
Thomas F and Randolph. Her eldest
sons came behind with the only daugh-
ter of Governor Bedle.
Rev. DR.. Charles Herr opened the ser
vice according to the forms of the Pres.
byterian Church. Rev. Mr.. Smith of
Freehold offered pray and Miss Mel
sang 81 would not live always"
DR.. HERR'S EULOGY.
When the singing was finished, Dr..
Herr began his address, saying
"I had rather, following my own feel
ings, sit below among you who silently
testify your sorrow and woh also ind 1t
hard to give expression to your deep
sense of loss in the death of our nom
ored and lear friend. To have enjoyed
such a friendship makes it difficult for
the minister to perform his usual duty
with. self possession and propriety. AT
the same time, to have the privilege of
saying something at least a little worthy
of his eler1SheQ memory prdceS the
heart and inspires the mind.
1--WE are gathered around the casket
of a great man. He had not the fate of
most of us who are hid in the multi
stormy light of publicity and to have
lived many years full out in the I'M
impeded gaze of his fellow men, lifted
by his gifts. requirements n pubic
services into the cynosure of observant
and challenging eyes, and then be Ia
mentetd and honored in his death by the
worthiest and best, and to be most
tenderly honored by those far and near
who most possessed his friendship-these
are indeed the signs of a great man.
To have lived a large life of manifold
fessional and public spheres; to have
preserved it's continuity of aim and
character and the end and rounded IT
up without a blemish and without a fall;
of those who at once, admire and love,
is certainly to have been great. Let us
not fail to realize that a man of great
gifts, powers and qualities. has passed
MR.. BEDLEs ACHIEVEMENTS.
DR.. Herr said that Mr.. Bedle had,
without the aid of a college education,
raised himself in his profession to be the
leading lawyer in the State, and after
practising but ten years he was appoint
ed to the Supreme Court bench of the
vice, resigned to become Governor of
the State. .
The national scope of his reputation"
said the speaker. made it not invidious
to call hin the first citizen of New Jer-
sey. What words could describe his per-
sonality-the tender, devoted husband
and father, whom no speech could be
presented with appropriate delicacy and
and charm; the wise, kind, faithful
friend, who created for himself in the
hearts of others a tenderness of respect
and gratefulness of appreciation mex
pressfble? Only the unreasoning could
contemplate a life exhibiting itself in
such external phases without inquiry for
the source of its qualities and the ex-
PLANTATION of its elevation, strength, con-
sistency and glow. In the last analysis,
godly sincerity is the clue to Governor
Redle's life. He believed that right is
right, and the will of God mans duty,
and, therefore, a highly-developed and
controlling quality in his character, was
conscientious. He loved the church, and
supported her with exceptional liberal
fly. He served as a trustee, and then as
a ruling elder for years. DR.. Herr re-
cited the death-bed scene, and closed by
reciti M Soxern9T hs9Ie's fa TI WYF hymn.
Rev. DR.. Van Cleef, of the Wayne
Street Reformed Church, added a few
words of eulogy to those of DR.. Herr.
has lived in this city, he had often met
Governor Bedle. He described him as a
Christian lawyer, a Christian judge, a
Christian Governor and a Christian man.
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Puritans, New York, said that Governor
Bedle was a man who was never off
duty and never off his guard as a Chris
tan. Miss Nelson sang ASLEEP in
Jesus" and the Rev. DIR. Paul Van
Cleef pronounced the benedietion. The
congregation remained seated while the
mourners and Dall-bearers passed out.
ON IT'S LAST JOURNEY.
The funeral party arrived at the Penn
sylvania depot at 12:45, where a special
train was waiting to carry the body to
Freehold.
The train consisted of FIVE parlor cars,
and in the front one, near the engine,
the coffin. covered with floral wreaths,
was placed on the polished oak outer
case. Adjoining the compartment was
one set apart for the family of the de-
ceased. The coffin was carried up to
the depot floor by six assistants of I'm
dertaker Hughes. and 1t was preceded by
the baIl-bearers. Following behind came
the family and friends. Beyond the
barriers was a large crowd Of onlook-
ers. Al few minutes before one the train
slowly steamed out of the depot, carry
ing the body of ex-Goyerno Bedle to its
last narrow resting place.
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