The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29

There are the life and the light.
Here is the fading, the wasting.
The foe that SO watchfully waits;
There are the hills everlasting,
The city with beautifulgates.
Here are the locks growing hoary.
The glass with the vanishing sands;
There are the crown and the glory.
And the house that is not made with hands.
Here is the longing. the vision,
The hopes that so quickly remove;
There is the blessed fruition,
The feast, and the fulness of love.
Here are the heart-strings a-tremble,
And here Is the Christening rod,
There are the song and the cymbal.
And there is our Father and God"
Alice Cary.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to
her who suffers far more than all. For
nearly sixty years she was faithful to him
as the sun, as devoted as life. He knew
as did none others, how she watched and
loved him. And that other member of
his household who loved him as daugh-
ter, commands our commiseration, and
also the extended circle of relatives.
Farewell colleague, friend, teacher.
father; remembrance OF thee will remain
in all our hearts through the passing
years until we shall greet thee and say,
All hail. as our feet press the sands of the
Eternal Shore. Rest thou from thy Ia
bors. Thy works in long procession fol-
low thee. Amen.
Address-Dr. G. H. Leonard.
Rev. DIR. G. H. Leonard, Dean of the
Tufts Divinity School, then gave the
following address:
Here today, as il in answer to the per
sonal wish of the man we mourn, we try
to keep to simple words and simple acts;
and to that reserve which will not allow
us to go beyond the objects and events
which lie within the sphere of private
grief, and the sense of personal loss
which has come to this parish and to
those societies which look to this. one as
to a mother. Indeed the very word l
chance to use, makes us think of the
most endeared relations of this pastor.
not only to single flock in single CITY,
but to countless men and women who
knew his face and voice, and to count.
less others who never saw his face or
heard his words. His very name has
been moral help to many perplexed
soul and burdened heart. and few names
that we are able to repeat, have carried
more courage to discouraged lives, or
more light to those who sit in darkness,
or a clearer sense of freedom to lives en-
shaved.
Perhaps he is best known to thousands
of persons in all parts of the country. Il r
his intellectual and moral leadership in
certain great causes. And it is to be
said, think, that the very unpopularity
of these causes, gave emphasis. possibly
over emphasis. to his part in them, and
that the very nobility of his advocacy,
was in such contrast with the moral tim.
idity of many men about him. that it
has been easy, natural to set him apart
as the heroic thinker, the righteous
pleader against wrong, and the unseltieh,
courageous advocate of things right and
pure. and good-our foremost citizen, in
these respects, after Garrison and Phil
lips.
What results in civic life, in special re-
forms, in popular education, are trace
able to his effort, others will tell who
had part with him in these great activi-
ties. We who are here today see this
greatness only as it looms through the
rain of our grief, and hold ourselves,
with the inevitableness of love, to the
friend we knew, and to the beloved pas
tor whose vigilant faithfulness was never
dulled by use. nor hindered amid the
manifold service in the wider demand
made upon hand and brain and heart; so
that. in all these years, it has been the
delight of his soul in supremest service,
to go in and out before the people he
called his own, to bless and cheer them
from. house to house. and. above all, per-
haps, to give loving. cheerful help in
guiding hand to the young. / never
knew a man who could 80 penetrate
without STOPPING to the hearts of chill
dren, as if every dearest little child of
the flock were his own to love and to
lead.
l may say, also, that the frequently
quoted saying of Hegel, that great man
condemns the world to the task of ex.
planning him. does not apply in this in
stance; for ALoNzo A. MINER, the man
of God, the faithful minister of Jesus
Christ, explains the man in all his rela-
tions to the world, to life. and to work.
The ground and motive Of every appeal
for good order and good citizenship, for
honesty, for purity, for peace. and for
brotherhood, were in the character OF
the man and in his religious philosophy.
To him there was one great premise for
concrete righteousness in social life, and
for every other practical conclusion, viz,
the Fatherhood of God. II any philoso-
ply ever quite gets rid of the element of
abstraction and gets down to the actual
individual. his did. DIR. Miner. above
most of his contemporaries. was teach.
or of that form of ethics which has it's
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