Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-11-01

bv Commander Mat. Van Akin of
Carroll Post, G. A. r., Of Port Jer-
Wis
Last came the wife, daughter, re
latives and friends of the deceased
general.
Services at the church were
opened by scripture reading and
prayer by the Rev. Thomas Nichols,
after which the choir composed of
Mrs. H. G. Williamson, Mr.. Wilfred
Brodhead, of Milford Hon. w. E.
Mccormick and G. F. Van Inwegen,
of Port Jervis, rendered the hymn
Nearer My God to Thee by special
request.
The funeral address was by Rev.
Dr.. Carpenter, a brother-in-law of
the deceased, and was as follows:
l am privileged to make this men
ton of life just finished, just fin
ished in its earth's stage, it has fin
ished what the good old Bible calls
- its course A mere shadow of
its actual and absolute career, new
ertheless symbolical and significant
of much both as to character and to
destiny. Charles II. Van Wyck was
a public man and person of very
strong and striking traits, / mis-
speak when l say was for in such
cases what we must say as when
one goes on a journey simply he is
departed he has not gone out he has
gone on and what he was, in all
growth and culture in all faith, hope
and character. If he finds the sal
walton of it in the second man who
is the Lord from heaven, he is and
will be more than ever as time goes
on. Charles H. Van Wyck while
he was here evinced large and afflu-
ent traits in which there intruded
nothing taat was soTdld, mean or
small, whatever may have been his
faults and infilmities, such as all
men have. His disposition was al
ways large and full, and first of all
he was an honorable man, his in
tegIity was an imperative instinct,
disclosing itself as well in matters
small and large, in matters, personal
and domestic, as well as social and
public.
He never posed in heroics, but he
was heroic all the same, candid, out
spoken, brave, if sometimes impul-
sive. 1t is believed that his politi-
cal possibilities, opportunities or as
pirations were always subordinated
to his sense of duty and regard foI
the rights of others. After serving
his state in civic functions he en-
tered Congress and essayed to re-
present his constituents with much
assiduity. At the coming on of the
great war he at once laid down his
ease, his personal interests, and
rislled his life and enlisted. From
the time of his enlistment he de-
voted his whole energies to the ser
vice of the nation and was especially
ardent in that consideration for his
men in camp and in the field which
of itself betokened at once a strict
disciplinarian and a warm hearted
officer From the lips of those who
served under him comes ample and
willing testimony that his bravery
was not rashness nor his ardor reck-
lessness. If ever he let himself
loose it was in the impulsiveness OF
speech, but in council and in action
he was always steady and deliber-
ate. In that frame that lies there
now before us locked in the motion.
less and speechless rest that super.
venes for every life on earth at last
there lies a wound which through
all these years has caused him an
effort to suppress the pain of it
For the first time now it lies quiet
and insensate, an emblem pledge
and token that there is a life, land
in which there shall be no pain, as
there is a land, a life, in which
neither can they die any more. He
was entitled to the compensation OF
a pension, whatever that may be
but to the best of my knowledge
and belief he never asked for nor re
ceived it. Returning from the camI
he entered again into the halls o.
Congress as reelected by larg,
votes and sat himself somewhat
conspicuously and even aggressively
against the usurpation of monopo
lies. In after days he was mucl
spoken of and spoken to as a candi
date or propounded nominee fol
higher public functions, Possibly
he might have conciliated opposition
but he never truckled and he no