The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-16

and In the center was fine oil portrait
oil Mr.. woodbury., draped wiki the flags
OF the nation and the State. The center
oil the church was occupied by the yeie--
ans OF the First Regiment OF lnfaltry ana
the First Battery OF Rhode leland Volun-
teers, and in the audience were His Excel.
lcncy, Governor Chaires Warren Lippitt
and Chief Justice Mattoson and all the
most prominent men OF all the clffsrert
callings In the state of Rhcse Isisnd.
The assembly, in.its size and in itg quail
ity, was itself a magnificent tribute. and
the words OF the prayer and of tie memo
rial adress furnished n never to lie forgot
ten lesson In patriotism end all the other
splendid attributes which eHaesEes- u--
gust us Woodbury. to this city and State.
lhe SCRIPTURE lesson was read by Rev.
James Il. Vose of tho Benetcent Congre-
agtioral Church. from the thirteenth
chapter OF PauPs first epistle to the Corin-
tbians.
The order OF service was:
Organ preinde; anthem, "Abide with
Me, Fast Falls the Eventidr,'' Barnby;
invocation, Rev. Auugstus M. Lord;
Scripture lesson Rev. Rev. James q.
Vose, ID. D., anthem, "At Eventide 1t
Shall BE Light" Gsui; prayer, Rev.
James De Normaldie; response, "Sweet
Are the Ties that Bind in One. "Mende;s-
sohn; congregational hymn, vsLead
Kindly Light, Amid the Eucircling
Gloom; address, Rev. 4. Il. Steer; en-
them, "StilI, Still with Thee, When Pur-
pie Morning Breaketh, 'Foote; congrega-
tional hymn; benediction, by the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Mott; organ postlude.
THE MEMORIAL ADDRESS.
summary of the magnificent eulogy
given by Rev. Thomas X. Sheer is as fol-
lows:
II it were possible that each person in
this great assembly this afternoon should
utter some word which would express
how this life Was dear TO his or hers. there
would he the real memorial that this life
deserves. From the relations of business,
from the home, where bis genial tempera-
ment shed glow in the darkness OF Sc me
sudden night; from fgiendship--from all
tn ESQ sources would come sincere senten-
ceS to make the real memorial OF Augus-
ttA- Woodbury. y-It-is- al grateful task to
speak TO YOU today, but what may say
is simply the signal which shall arouse
the memory of his relation to your own
life.
Augustus Woodbury. was born to in
spring conditions. But six years had
elapsed since Channing. with the skill
of the swordsman and The gentIeness of
the saint, had opposed thc one roint OF
Unitarisnsm to tho five points of Gavin
ism. Through those six years had devel
oped the growing stream and augmented
refreshment of a new thought of God. 1t
was a good thing TO be born In 1926.
when the war was being waged between
the belief that dictated terms TO heaven
and the belief that accepted heavens
terms. Ii was for the emancipation of
the pulpit and of the slave The crusad-
ors OF those years found in Augustus
Woodbury. a willing listener end his love
OF freedom and OF justies, his sincerity
in championing the cause OF the slave
and of universal suffrage made him dare
to address an audience OF tv elye people
in hall where only twelve people dared
10 come.
lie seemed to haye early learned ''to
know, not for the Sake of knowing, but
10 be star TO men for ever.n He did not
learn for the occasion, hut for q life
lime. As each duty arose with tae chal-
lenge OF the coward TO oppose slavery.
with the appeal for suffrage. with the call
for Philanthropy, be found for each ap-
peal that the knowledge was ALREADY for
the discharge of each new Obligation. II
was nature to bin that he should be part
and parcel OF his time.
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