The morning times., 1895-08-05

young colOred boy Killed last Friday after
noon by Miss Elizabeth Flagler, was
held at Shiloh Baptist Church, on L
street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets northwest, at O'Clock yesterday
afternoon.
The church doors were opened at 1870
O'Clock and the throng that had been
standing for fully half an hour waiting
for admittance filed in. In minute every
seat in the audience room and balcony
was filled, save the row of dozen or
more reserved for the immediate mourners,
and number of pews on the east side of the
church that were shortly after wards filled
by young Green's Sunday school friends.
AT least 200 people stood in the street,
unable to enter.
The crowd outside kept increasing rap
idly until and after the funeral procession
arrived 1t was a representative as
sembly of the better coIored element of
Washington. II was quiet crowd. The
incidents that led up TO the coming to-
gether of the people We're little discussed,
and the talk was mostly of a common
place nature.
SCENE IN THE CHURCH
Inside the church the scene was similar.
The occupants OF seats We're in almost
every instance females, and as they sat
chatting away in their bright -colored
summer costumes and hats, it looked more
like holiday party than an assemblage of
mourners.
At 2:30 O'Clock the funeral procession
arrived There We're fully 200 people
in the street, and fully two-thirds as many
more inside the church. When the little
rosewood coffil, covered with flowers,
was lifted from the hearse and carried
into the church the crowd drew close
about the entrance way and the multi
tude inside the church grew suddenly
quiet.
Rev. j. A. Taylor, pastor of the church,
and Rev. Walter Brooks, OF the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church, led the process sion.
The father and mother following jmmed-
ately behind the casket OF their son had
10 be assisted by strong hands up the steep
steps leading into the house OF worship so.
nearly We're they overcome with grief
During the entire ceremonies, which con-
sumed over TWO hours, attendants were
kept busy tanning the hearu-bruken woman,
who was all but swooning in the over
crowded room.
The casket was borne by six comrades
OF the boy, some Of whom were with him
when he was shot. They Were Tyler Pat
tersOn, Andrew Payne, Calvin Pinn, Clar-
ence Perry, Robert Heartgrovc and Fcrdi-
nand Moten
PROMINENT PEOPLE PRESENT.
Upon the roStrum with the divines al
ready mentioned, sat Revs. DR.. Credit,
Berean Baptist Church; J. T. Jennifer,
and John a Griffith, Metropolitan a NJ
+. Church; ". w. Gaines, Culpeper. Va;
Dr. Lampkins, Salem Baptist Church;
K. f. Fisher, John Wesley Church; II. I.
Europe, of Washington, and John Dipard,
of Virginia.
In
colored people, and few Of the other race.
Among the latter was Mr.. D. NJ Morgan,
treasurer OF the United States; Mr.. Logan
Carlisle, who had attended the brief
service at the house, was unable TO be
present at the church.
As the coffin was set down before the
altar the fun church choir sang, Nearer
My God to Thee" d. Brooks read tie
90th Psalm and DI. Jennifer offered prayer.
The latter invoked divine blessing and
guidance on the family during the dark
houI OF bereavement and told tEem to look
upward for consolation. He prayed that
all might gather an impressive lesson for
| good from the sudden incident, thus draw
| ing and asked that a time might come
when the decision OF men in such matters
| shall meet the appreciation OF a Christian
community.
A song preceded Dr.. Taylors address
We ale called together on a very sad
OCCASION" he began, Ito celebrate the last
Iites over the body of Ernest W Green
| 1t is not ouI purpose TO comment on his
| death the wounds consequent on which it
viii take life time to heal / can say
| little because of the friendship existing be-
| tween ouI two families and | feel as
| though l were preaching my own boys
| funeral"
He lead a brief obituary, which stated
| that young Green was born August IL, 1850.
a rgr 1Gt
| two sisters, Joined the church in February,
| 1894, and he had ever been a remarkably
obedient, loving and dutiful SON COM
| nunication of consolation fIom the cougre-
cation of the Nineteenth Street Baptist
| Church to the parents was also read
DR.. TAYLORS SERMON
DR.. Taylor thea took a text from Job
xiv. 2: He cometh forth as a flower
and is cut down" After dra wing a
picture of the morning bloom of flower
| and its noontide whitening the minister
| said:
And the same is true in the life of
| man, and never truer than in the case
| before us. where the hopes and affections
| of the entire family settled. The mother
| looked to him for comfort and assistance
in her coming old age.
why is Ernest Green dead this morn
| ing? Because human sentiment in this
! broad land has been so nodded that human
| life amounts to little But God grant
| that public sentiment will so go out that no
J man ever dare to point firearm at a
! fellow being
| lit is true that Ernest Green was a
| poor boy, and of colored skin, but no
| father could have received more messages
| of coincidence than his father has since
| this sudden, sad taking away of the boy.
! The father bears an unspotted character.
| hnN c1n in To h ir1 fnr
| what? No stain rests on his life or will
rest on his grave. There is hardly man
| III Washington who, passing along and
seeing pear lying on the ground from an
| overhanging tree would not have picked
| it up. The Presidents son would have
done the same"
DR. BROOKS REMARKS.
DR.. Brooks had been requested by the FAM
! lily to speak at tEechurch, and he acquesced
at the conclusion of Dr. Taylor's remarks.
"When 1 heard the news of what had
| transpired on Friday" he began, ~ pic
tured a crowd of boys who, going out the
| highway and looking over the high fence,
| saw the fruit growing there, and then
climbed the barricade and took it, But
| when l walked out on California avenue
and saw a pear tree overhanging the pub
| lie domain, and saw little fence about so
! high (here the speaker held his hand about
/ two and half feet from the rostrum), and
saw the fallen pears left TO rot, a change
| came
"Who would charge life for pear
when pears can be bought for twenty-five
cents a peck? Nature cast side the pear
| to, rot OF course the man owns the fruit
| that lies over his fence.
But some moral acts are ba d only rela-
| lively. Jesus and his disciples plucked
/ corn in the fields of others, for it vas the
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