Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-15

uOlbu uiuibthTh were bbhteu On Iue
platform and many other ministers sat
in the audience. A number of the
clergymen marched in from the chapel
and were followed by the trustees of
the church. After the trustees camo
DR.. Hulburd's immediate family. his
wife, son, ID. Wendell, and daughter,
Anna, and others.
The service was begun with the
reading OF scripture by the Rev. s. M.
Morgan. After the quartet choir had
sung selection, DR.. Monroe of Della
ware College read another portion Of
scripture. Prayer, most affecting and
appropriate was offered by the Rev.
John Y. DobbinB. d. D., of Newark
Conference. who was formerly pastor of
Grace Church.
Presiding Elder Barrett made an
appropriate address, referring to DR..
Hulburd's character and work, and
then read the abstract which DIR. Hull
burd had made for sermon.
The subject of the sermon was 1.-THE
Divine Ministry Of Sympathy" and
the text, For we have not an High
Priest which cannot be touched with
feeliug of our infirmities. Heb.
A, 15. S
DIR. Hulburd's abstract was as fol-
lows: "8
'Man that is born OF woman hath
but short time to live, and is full Of
misery" That is sombre; it is gloomy (;
it is sad. Is it trueY There can be no
dispute about the first part Of it, for
what is our life? 1t is but vapor
which soon passeth away-a watch in
the night that, swiftly slips by. But
is it full of misery? Most certainly
not if you intend to tie US down to a
literal form of expression. Life is not
all funeral. thank God. The bells ring
as we'll as toll. There are wedding
favors as well as Grape bands; orange
blossoms as well as cypress leaves.
Thore is 'sHallelujah Chorua'' as
well as ''Dead March, in Saul. But
there is a vast deal of toll and trouble
in the world, and no place, scarcely
any individual, who is free from it.
We are born to t., born to weakness,
infirmity and trouble. You cannot get
away from it; if you escape it for a
time in yourself, ii comes through a
loved one; if your house has escaped,
it comes to your door; It meets you in
the newspaper, II is brought to you
| through the post or the telegraph. 1t
confrontsi us on the street; it chal-
lenges us in our public walks aud
private ways. Poverty, anxieties, pains,
suffering, sins, expressions, errors-we
move among these day by day. 1t is SO
common that we grow accustomed to
it, grow indifferent towards it. We
despair Of helping it all, there is 80
m uch-and we content ourselves with
passing it by. 1t will be only drop
in the bucket, and where is the user
But is there no sympathy in the uni
verse, which is unfailing, unwearied
and unblunted? i answer. yes. For
We have not High Priest which can
net be touched with feeling Of our
infirmities. . He comes to men as the
great -hope-bringer. He. came right
down into our midst with His message
of hope, love, pity and relief. Some
body cares for you. The world may
sometimes seem not to care; may be
engrossed with its own; may have be-
come used to seeing the lame man at
the beautiful Gate. and may pass him
by; it may even sing:
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone;
For the brave old earth must borrow its
mirth
1t has tears enough of its own"
But this is not His response to the
worlds cry. He is always saying:
"Come unto Me all ye that are heavy
laden; and L will give you rest. =" He
is this for our sins and our sorrows,
too. He went about doing good; and
HIS is ministry of comfort bringing,
ear-drying, and of burden Tightening.
Every revelation which is made of Him
shows Him in this light. Weakness
always appealed to Him, and never in
vain.
DR.. Upham OF the Drew Theological
Seminary made an eloquent address.
In the course Of it he said of DIR. Hui
burd: He could have laid down his
life-is it too much to say that he did
lay down his life-for the Lord Jesus
Christi"
The speaker stated that he had
heard DIR. Hulburd preach such ser
mons as he had heard no other man
preach. lie preached the Gospels: he
livod it. He was great, genuinely
great, a grand purpose. the consecra-
tion of great abilities. and grand sue
cess. He is not dead. That great brain
yet thinks, that great heart yet beats.
He lives somewhere in Gods great
universe.
Tho Rev. M. B. Chapman, D. D., of
Brooklyn, N. Y. referred to earlier
pastorates of DIR. Hulburd in Sandy
Hill, Springfield, Lowell, in Now York
and Philadelphia, and spoke of the
great body whose thoughts are turned
to Wilmington on account Of his death.
The speaker did not hear DR.. Hulburd
preach very often, but those sermons
he had heard yet feverberated in his
brain. We mourn him as friend. He