The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29
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The Late DIR. Miner.
THE FUNERAL SERVICE IN BOSTON,
JUNE 18.

and sympathy for the Bereaved Fam
lily and Church.
The hour of noon on Tuesday was
set for the solemn obsequies-the SER
vice beginning at the house on Col
umbus Avenue. The pastor, Rev. MIR.
Robin, led with an Invocation, and
then read appropriate Scripture. Kev.
Charles A. Skinner then led in fer
vent prayer, as follows:
Our Father who art in Heaven: Rev
erently we bow before Thee in this home
where the shadow has fallen. even the
shadow of death, and lift our prayer for
thy blessing upon the bruised spirits
which bow here in the lowly worship OF
sorrow, praying for that peace which
passeth all understanding to fill their
hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.
Today we come before Thee, o Lord,
with sadness and with gladness. With
sadness. first of all. and tender sympathy
for the poor stricken heart of this dear
companion, wife, and bearing now. to
her, the strange new name OF widow.
Hand in hand have husband and wife
walked together these many years on
earth. in early manhood and maiden
hood, pledging their love each to the
other, and keeping sacred and holy this
VOW through the maturing years OF man.
hood and womanhood, until they have
walked together down the declivity OF
life toward the setting sun. And now
he has passed on into the mystery and
silence. and left her with tear-dimmed
eyes looking at the vacant place by her
side. o God, wilt thou comfort her with
that comfort wherewith thou dost COM
fort the children of men. Have her in
thy Fatherly care. May thine almighty
arm su stain her and thy love bless her.
But while there is this sorrow for her
loss, we bless Thee, o God, for the rich
inheritance he has left, the legacy OF
memory so sacred. so beautiful, so filed
with loving tenderness. An Inheritance
she will now cherish. because it was her
privilege to minister unto him in hours
of care. and WEAKNESS, and sickness; a
companion indeed helping to bear his
burdens 80 bravely, SO tenderly, so low
ingly. All this is a treasure now touched
with immortality, laid up in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust can cor
rupt nor thieves break through and
steal.
May thy blessing. o God. rest upon
the sister present, and those absent, and
upon all those who are bound to him by
kindred ties. We thank Thee for the
Gift tn them of this dear brother and
friend.
And now. o God, we thank Thee for
the life of this man. And while we come
With sadness because we shall look upon
his face no more. because we must say
farewell, because we shall miss him from
our counsels, and from the familiar ways
of life where we have walked together
vet we come, o God. to Thee today with
gratitude and gladness because Thou
didst give to us and to the world this
dear friend. this valiant spirit. this noble
soul. and that it was his privilege to do
Thy work in such abundant measure
and to leave the world better for his hav-
ing lived and toiled in it. And though
now his mortal lips are silent. he yet
speaketh, and his voice pleads for the
cause of humanity everywhere. encour-
aging the faint hearted, cheering the de-
epondent, putting faith into the hearts
of the doubling. We thank Thee. 0 God,
that it was his privilege to die with his
armor Oh, and to the last his eye was not
dimmed, nor the natural force of brain
or heart abated.
He has fought good fight, he has I'm
ished his course. he has kept the faith.
And we may we'll believe when the i'm
mortal gates swung open for his entrance
the voice of the Master greeted him with
"Well done, good and faithful servant
enter thou into the Joy Of thy Lord"
And what welcome he may often have
received from those gone before, whose
spirits he has helped, whose lives he has
blessed!
We thank Thee, o God, that it was
given to this man to do such large work
for the Church of Jesus Christ and for
the faith he loved, consecrating his tai
ents, his time. his untiring energies to
the work, and that he has LETT to US. his
brethren. such an example of faithful
ness, fidelity, devotion and zeal. He has
been our friend, our counsellor, our rep
resentative, and we may in some measure
show our gratitude and appreciation oy
following the example he has left us in
new conservation to the service OF the
Church he so faithfully served in the
cause of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bless, o Lord, the church where he
ministered and served so many years.
the present pastor in the larger work
and tasks now resting upon him, and
make us all faithful unto death.
While we part with our dear compan-
ion and friend in tears. we rejoice in the
hope of our Immortality, where tears
shall be wiped from off all faces. and
where there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow nor crying. In this faith
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