The Washington times., 1895-02-25
Douglass Remains for Five Hours
at Metropolitan A. M. E.
ORDER OF THE 0BSEQUIES
Rev. J. T. Jenifer Will Preach the Sermon
and Other Clergymen Also Will Speak
Memorial Services Held at a Number Of
COlored Churches Yesterday Rankins
"reminiscences of the Departed Leader.

Frederick Douglass. The attendance Will
embrace persons in all conditions of life,
for Douglass had friends among white and
black, high and low, rich and poor, but
naturally the great majority will be of that
race to whose service his life and his great
mental activities were devoted.
No doubt the demands for admission will
far exceed the capacity of the church. Adj
mittance will not be restricted, however,
TO those holding tickets. Only a small
number of seats have been specially re-
served Every body will be admitted after
the doors are opened at 3 O'Clock, in the
Older Of their application, until all availa-
bic space is exhausted
The services VIII be simple, yet imposing.
Special music has been arranged for choir
and organ Tor this occasion. The sermon
Will be preached by the Rev. j. L. Jeniler,
pastor OF the church, and there will be also
some eulogistic addresses by Bishop way
man. of Baltimore; the pastor of the Ana
costa Church, which Mr.. Douglass some
times attended, and some other clergymen.
Tue body Will lie in state at tie church
from 8 a. m. to p. m, and II is
expected that there Will be steady stream
of colored people during these hours who
will wish to take last look at the features
OF Iue great leader OF Il4tlT
In many ofthe colored churches yesterday
the services had special reference To the de-
ceased.
The services held in the Andrew Ran
kin Memorial Chapel yesterday after
noon were conducted by President Ran
kin. The regular dedication Of the chapel
did not take place yesterday, but Mr..
Rankin paid a beautiful tribute TO The late
Frederick Douglass.
After the OOpuinP services he said.
PRESIDENT RANKIN'S SERMON.
I'VE meet for the first time in this heau-
tiful chapel, which bears the name of my
only brother. / had thought that what
opening exercises we held ii would be
appropriate to associate with our ami
versary exercises And | had asked Mr..
| Douglass to speak from this theme: What
Christianity has done in the world during
my life time Well he said to me, W
viii see, but l am getting TO be an old
man. Did he mean that he already
heard the echoing footsteps of the mes
senger who should say: Rest from thy
| labors, arise, and follow me.
'Fenow- Iaborers with God, Frederick
Douglass lies to-day dead at his home in
Anacostia He rests from his labors and
his works viii follow him. When he was a
] little slave boy in Maryland he had no
/ Bible. IL his biography he says: L have
! gathered scattered pages OF the Bible from
! the filthy street cutters and washed aud
dried them that in moments of leisure l
might get a word or two of wisdom from
/ them And then he goes on TO tell how
an old slave uncle by the name of Law
son used to sing and pray with him, and
/ encourage him that the Lord had a great
work for him to do.
But how can i do it, he asked.
! GOD FITTED HIM FOR HIS WORK.
/ 81 am a slave, and slave for life,
/ The old man replied: The Lord can make
you free, my dear; all things are possible
with him; only have faith in God And
So he added. with all the other blessings
sought at tie mercy seat | always prayed
/ that God in His great mercy and in His own
good time would deliver me from my bond
age
1.-The prayer God answered, and God
( took him and fitted Inn to participate IN
a work that viii always make bis nation
glorious in history; n work that VIII
always be remembered, which viii Ee III
fluential on this planet 10 the end of time.
But all the work along this line is not
done. Some of us may do something &c
carry this work on to fill up that which
is behind Let us not forget that the charter
given us is the same as that given him, fol
we are laborers together with God"
REV. DIR. STEWARDS TRIBUTE.
A glowing tribute was paid to the mem
ory of the late Frederick Douglass by TIT
Rev DR.. c. E. Stewart, pastor of the Camp
bell Street Baptist Church, of Norfolk
Va, at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church
yesterday morning.
DR. Stewart chose for his text Acts III
land he said unto them, it is not for you t
know the times or the seasons which TIN
Father hath put in His power"
God" DIR. Stewart said, hath takel
unto himself one of our brethren. Not onl,
a brother, but leader But He know
what is best for us He who governs tn
innermost workings of our beings, who con
trolls our every action, must be submitte'
to when He sees fit to call from our mids
our beloved. God is just"
DIR. Stewart then gave an exhaustive &C
count of the early life and bondage OF tn
great anti-slavery advocate. He spok
of Douglass struggle to gain positio
J where he could command attention in tn
I political world, and of his final success
after his English friends had come to hi
: rescue He referred also to Douglass III
tring efforts and hard work at the head c
the underground railroad" movement
Who" he said, lean ever take his place
1t is not for me to say. God, in His mere
and judgment, viii not forsake u.s."
COMPARED TO MOSES.
Rev. L. Geriah Lamkins, B. D., pastor O
Salem Baptist Church, Champlain avenu
northwest, in the course of his sermon las
evening compared the late Ere dericl
Douglass to Moses in the following words
'tIhey were both born slaves; both had t,
flee from the land of their birth. They wer
both men of unimpcaehable character, o
great natural abilities and courage. The.
both were the greatest benefactors ant
earthly leaders of their races.
ut was said of the valiant sage Ma
cabeus, the man that spread the fame of hi
nation to the ends of the earth, that Will
he was pursuing his enemies with invincibl
, courage he was mortally wounded, at tn
first report of which all Judea was moved
and floods of tears ran down the cheeks
the inhabitants, who with one voice erie
out: Why is this great mandead, thatsave'
the people of Israeli
When Joab stabbed Abner, David said
the people: 'Gird You with sackcloth an
mourn before Abner' David himself TO
lowed the bier and lifted up his voice an
u wept and said: Know We not that primo
!, and a great man has fallen in Israel to-day.
y 1.-The sad news of the death of the sag
of Anacostia has circled the globe ere thi
= The sound has echoed and re-echoed arour
: the world, Why is this great man dead
Moses was great as a law-giyer, Isaia
was great as prophet, Hannibal, Caesa
Cromwell, Napoleon, Washington, and Graz
It were great generals; Cicero, Plato, SO
! rates, and Aristotle were great philos
pliers; Dante, Milton, Byron, and Longfe
J low were great poets; Wendell Phillip
i william Lloyd Garrison, and Charles Sur
}. ner were great abolitionists: so was Fre
,. erick Douglass-yea, more, he was gre
[. leader of his people,
The church will be draped in fnourniI