The Washington times., 1895-02-18
Services in Honor of the Memory
of the Late Eugene Rhodes.
ONE OF THE ELBE'S VICTIMS
Christian Endeavor Society Of the First Pres
byterian Church Pays Tribute TO High
Character Of Its Late Prudential
dresses by Congressman Huliek, DR.. Sun
derland, President Leckie, and Others.

The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of the First Presbyterian Church
held service last evening in the lecture-room
of the church in memory OF Eugene Rho les,
late president OF the society, who. with his
mother, went down TO death recently with the
i'll fated steamer Elbe.
The exercises were presided over by the
present president of the society, Mr.. A. E.
Leckie, and consisted mainly of brief eulo-
gies OF the deceased, beginning with an ad-
dress by Mr.. Leckie, who was his college
mate and warm personal friend His tribute
was touching one, reciting the many noble
qualities Of his dead associate and pointing
out his unseIfsh devotion to the duties of life
and his high regard for the obligations he
had assumed as a member of the Christian
church.
SERMON IN, HIS SHORT LIFE.
Other addresses in the same line were de-
liyered by President Connor. of the District
Society of Christian Endeayor; Hon. George
W. Hulick, of Ohio; E. d. Scott. colored
employe OF the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
where the deceased was employed as clerk
Rev. Adolos Allen, assistant pastor of the
church. and others. DR.. Sunderland also re-
ferred to the subject of the service before the
close, speaking with manifest feeling of the
young man, TO whom be was warmly at
tached.
MIR. Hulick discussed the earlier life of the
deceased, and said there was a sermon in the
short history OF this young man whose span
of life was so brief. He recounted the many
high traits of character he exhibited, and said
he early set out 10 make man of himself.
The basis of Mr.. Aliens remarks was the
courage the deceased manifested in declaring
his Christian position and his devotion to his
mother.
A most eloquent tribute was that OF E. d.
Scott, who said he could not permit the oe-
casion TO pass without attending. and in be-
half OF himself and twenty other colored en-
ployes asked opportunity TO place lat least
verbal forget-me-not and q garland of roses
upon the watery bier of their dead friend
and mingle his tears with those of his ether
friends.
A letter was read from Rev. s. Y. Holmes,
a former assistant pastor of the church, who
was unable to be present.
Appropriate music was supplied by a
quartet composed of Mrs. Wilson. Miss Dillon,
DIR. johnson, and Mr.. Simons, and by Misses
Craigen and Mullicon, who sang duet.
The proceedings closed with prayer and the
benediction by DR.. Sunderland.
MEMORIAL WINDOW TO BE PROVIDED.
The society, with the aid of others, will in
the near future place q memorial window in
the upper story of the church as amark of re-
spect for their friend who has gone before,
the contributions to procure which are to be
entirely voluntary.
Following these exercises there was divine
service, the Rev. Henry Lunn. a Methodist
clergyman, of London, England, preaching
the discourse. There were with him in the
pulpit Revs. Sunderland and Allen, pastors
of the church.
DR.. Lunn took for his theme the character
istics of the Scribes and Pharisees, their
standing and influence. He said they were
teachers of high patriotic aims and lofty
ideals. and made of Judea for Rome what
Ireland is for England. With these exalted
personages the young Teacher of Galilee
came into conflict and took up one after an
other of their strict and narrow rules and
condemned them, substituting for them the
broader and more liberal rules contained in
the Sermon on the Mount and as elsewhere
chronieled in the Scriptures and breaking
down the aristocratic conditions they strove
to create.
His lesson was that 1t is easy TO fall into
the groove occupied by the Pharisees. He
argued earnestly against living too much in
the past, against pride of church ancestry
and against sectarian bigotry. He said it is
more disgrace to lose what is once gained
than to fail OF gaining what is sought.