The record-union., 1896-03-23
THOMAS MCDONALD AT REST.
Funeral Yesterday Of the Ex-senator
and PTeSSman.
His Memory Eulogized BY President
q. W. NJ. Ogg of the Local
Pressmens Union.

The funeral Of ex-State Senator Thos.
II. Mcdonald took place from his late
residence, 1107 L street, yesterday
afternoon. The remains were taken to
the Cathedral, where religious services
were conducted by Rev. Father Walsh.
The funeral was attended by large
concourse of the deceased's friends,
among them the employees of the State
Printing Office, who turned out in
body
Appropriate hymns were sung both at
the church and grave by Mrs. Copper
smith. Miss Peltier, ]. G. Genshlea and
Walter Longbottom. The floral offer
ings were numerous and beautiful. the
employees of the State Printing Office,
where Mr.. Mcdonald was employed be-
fore he was taken i'll, sending one rep
resenting "The Last Form to Press"
The pall-bearers were Hon. A. ].
Johnston, J. o. Funston. ]. O'Meara, j.
H. Drohan, Harry Rodgers, L. P. Will
Jams, ]. R. Welch and A. ]. Galligan.
The funeral was held under the au-
spices of the Printing Pressmen's
Union, of which the deceased was
member At the grave H. w. M. Ogg,
President of the union and an old and
intimate friend of the deceased, deliv-
cred the following eloquent oration:
Friends: AS it has pleased our wise
Creator to remove our dearly beloved
friend, Thomas H. Mcdonald, from the
cares and anxieties of this world to an
eternal and Interchangeable one, we are
assembled here to render the last office
which the living may minister to the
dead.
while the tear of sympathy mani
tests our grief for the loss of our de-
parted friend, let the exercise Of charity
be shown in appreciating merit. No
human character, however exalted, is
free from blemishes, and none is SO de-
praved as to be destitute of every vir-
tue Man is born to die. The coffin, the
grave, the sepulcher-an speak to us in
language that could not be misunder-
stood, however unheeded it may be of
mans latter end
AS, therefore, life is precarious, and
all mundane pursuits empty and vain,
let us no longer procrastinate the i'm
portant concern of preparing for an
eternal and Interchangeable state. Let
US embrace the happy moment, while
opportunity offers, in providing with
care and diligence for the great change.
The fixed law of being, which dedicates
Gil that is mortal to decay and death,
is inscribed in the great volume of ma
ture upon its every page. Day after
day we are called upon to follow our
friends 'to that bourne from which no
traveller returneth,' but from the house
of mourning we go forth again to
mingle with the crowded world-heed-
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and the surety of that end to which all
flesh is rapidly advancing.
HE who gives vigor of body without
warning paralyzes the stout heart and
strikes down the athletic frame. The
living of to-day become the dead of
tomorrow. Man appears in and disap-
pears from this life as wave meets wave
and parts upon the troubled water. In
the midst of life we are in DEATH
''He whose lips now echo these tones
OF solemn warning will in turn be stilled
in the cold and cheerlesS house of the
dead, and in the providence of God nore
can escape. Tom Mcdonald was a man
who was loved, respected and honored
by all that knew him. AS husband he
was affectionate and true; as a father
he was loving, tender and devoted; as
son he was dutiful and considerate; as
a friend he was true as steel, kind
hearted, social and generous; as a citi-
zen, one whose upright and noble life
was standard to be emulated by his
fellows. 1 worked side by side with him
for twenty years, and never in all that
time did hear him speak i'll Of anyone.
This brave and tender man in every
storm of life was as oak and rock, but
in the sunshine he was as vine and
flower. He was the friend Of all heroic
souls. He climbed the nights, and left
all superstition far below, while on his
forehead fell the golden dawning of the
grander day. He loved the beautiful,
and was with color, form and music
touched to tears. He sided with the
weak, the poor and the wronged, and
lovingly gave aims. With loyal heart
and with the purest hands he faith