The Portland daily press., 1896-03-13
THE LAST SAD RITES.
The Funeral Services of the Late George s.
Hunt Yesterday.

N' OSol ~ I1uuU WAS u6lu ny
his 1eiiow townsmen could be had than
the tremendous attendance at the
funerai yesterday. The funeral services,
IN de1erence to the oft expressed wish OF
MI hunt, were held at his residence and
we're very simple though none the less
impressive. They were conducted by the
heV. Dr. blanchard and the Rev. DR..
boiles' Mr., Hunts brother n-law and
life long friend.
Aiter singing of hymn by the Con-
gress Square church choir, DR.. Blanoh-
ara read from the scriptures and touch
ing poem, entitled "Our Dead" Then
Or. 6oiles paid loving and tender tri-
quite to his dear friend.
DR.. Bolles said:
snail not be misunderstood If, out of
my aHectionate nearness to this brother
VINO Is gone, l say those things which lie
SHe ueepest In my heart as I remem Der
nln: Shall say nothing but that which
yus1Iee would say; nothing l am sure
put mat which the gratitude and the
love IN a hundred hearts here present
Woulu leap out to declare. For I think
that God shows his love not only In the
eIeae ways OF nature and of grace, but
also ID those human laws which He gives
us; which are moulded upon His law,
WWhioh declare the strength of our human
Ivy ana the recongit1o.4 of whose goodness
Is our own praise of the divine love. And
50 remember of this dear friend of yours
anu mine those good things for which
MS lie has stood in this community for
80 many years. While he is remembered
IL VIII be known that the New England
conscience and New England purity have
moi l6COna q n
ne Is rememb sred, every young man may
come 20 think that integrity andindustry
are stlll tho golden keys to success and
nonor. While the influence OF his life is
relt 1t shall be understood how genuine
modesty is the highest mark of true ex-
cellence and how the sanctity of the
nome Is the shrine from which comes the
benevolence.
j.! speak to those of you who have known
him in his common life in the business
world, and If / 1emind you that his name
was the SYNONYM of activity and enter
prise, that his forecast and his honesty
were remarkable among the many who
have honored the commercial ranks of
Por,land,s life, If speak to you of his
pride in thls city and tell you, as you
know perhaps better than, that moth
ing which could promote the honor OF
Portland, which would add to her
strength or to her credit could come to
him without the most generous support
from his sympathy, his personal help and
his purse, l shall but recall to you by
my enloRy the simple fact Of his true, his
faithful and his tender life. / want to
say OF him that he was a man who
filed out the full term Of human life, and
yet was always young. If, as Longfellow
tells us, 1.-THE thoughts of youth are long
long thoughts" they were the thoughts
of his whole life, for he never grew old
And if, to quote Lowell, that 1.-THE gift
without the River is bare" we may know
that his life writes sweeter verse in that
poem, because in all his generosity which
was SO great he himself, his sympathy,
and his love was more than the abun.
dant largeness OF his mind. He was one
who knew that most difficult of arts, to
do another man favor as though it were
a favor to himself. Beyond public Ax-
preston in the consciousness and fearful
thoughts of how many, high and low to-
gether, in this dear city, IL tine story of
his friendship and his love And l want
to say again that he was moulded upon
the choicest and the best type of Ameri-
can manhood. There was no ostantation
in his life. His heart went out to beau
tiful, to true, and to simple things. In
matters which concerned the government
of the city, the state and the country, he
iofCa oiiO bCou uhiHAS ohd iiO 1ONod but
best men. The honor and the character
of such man sdd lustre to the stars
which mark the ensign of our govern
ment. Death came to him as he has al
ways prayed that it might. The thought
of any slackening Of the hasty pulse of
his toll, the thought of any failure
through the weakness Of old age or the
accident of time, the thought that he
could ever become useless in the world be-
cause God had laid the REFRESHING hand
of circumstances upon him. oh how he
dreaded to live when he could not do
something for b is fellow men, could not
contribute to the enterprise of the world,
could not stand as living authority for
those things to which he had given his
life. And so the angel off death touched
him and his sleep was painless and his
t. n orrow was heaven.
And this is but O single word out of
what our abundant love would say for
him now that he is gone. We say it
quietly and simply. as he would have us
speak of his name or his life. And yet,
there Is one other thing that we must say,
that we must remember now. In our
faith in God love we have to say that
we remember that such life cannot be
lost. Of course it's influence will linger
through its contributions to the life of
the world; it will lingef in it's effect
upon this city and its fortunes, but
more than that the conscious personality
of this active, pure, tender loving heart
must find its place and it's work in that
higher world upon whose experience it
has entered. He who has conquered self
upon earth enters as victor into that
divine privilege. He who has had the
warm hand and open heart below, finds
fields of infinite charity and love await
ing him. He who has tried to elevate
the standard OF our human life Will find
that the garnered wisdom is not wasted
in the demands of the immortal years.
He has not passed from activity to rest.
He has not passed from care and devo-
ton and trouble to dreamless peace. He
has gone to a higher work with God.
That is why God took him to himself,
Ii is place is ready there. and the dear
ones who have gone before have welcomed
him with faces from which the tears have
dried and which now are wreathed in
smiles, and when Gods time has come
we shall find him living, loving still,
W 18th garnered sheaves CT heavenly grain
to show us there, and with welcome to
the same loving, active toiling spirit to
I he same self sacrifice and to the same
manhood and purity that I'VE have known
in him below. The years are few and
the way is short. 1t is not farewell but
only for little, and we come.
When DR.. Bolles had finished speaking.