The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-12
FUNERAL OF HON. A. W. PHELPS.

Simple and Impressive Ceremony at Odd Fellows Hall-Beautiful Flower
 Tributes-Address by Rev Dr. Dick
 erman-lnterment in Grove Street
 Cemetery.
 The funeral services of the late Alfred w. Phelps, who died at his home in this city Sunday, were held at Odd Fellows hall on Crown street yesterday after noon at o'clock.
 The services, which were under the direction of Harmony lodge, of which the deceased was a member were beau- tiful and impressive.
 The members of Harmony lodge were present in 8 body and there was dele gation present from the Manchester Masonic lodge, and also from other or ganizations of which the deceased was member. There were several beautiful floral pieces, one a wreath, sent by the grand master of Connecticut, bore the words Grand lodge, l. o. o. F., 1S71- 72,' the period for which the deceased was grand master
 A beautiful floral star was the trib- ute Of Excelsior lodge, Order of the Eastern Star.
 Another beautiful floral piece was in the form of a pillow.
 The pallbearers were selected from Harmony lodge. The honorary pall- bearers were MT. George N. Moses and David R. Alling, representing the past grand masters, I. o. o. F.; Lucius P Deming, representing Sons of the American Revolutions; w. H. Spock representing Wooster lodge, F. and A. M. I. L. Hungerford past grand pat riarch of Grand Encampment l. O. 0. F. of Connecticut; Thomas F. Gill lespie, patron of Excelsior chapter Order of Eastern Star; Charles A. Baldwin, l.. S., John Clemons, Edward Barrett, representing Harmo- ny lodge No. 5.
 MT Charles Stormont presided at the organ and played Chopin's beautiful Funeral March," and the quartet com posed of Mrs. 8. s. Thompson, Miss Louisa Daniker, MT. F. H. Williams and MT. E. c. Bennett, sang very ef- | Actively Sweet Bye and Bye" Abide With Me- and Nearer My God to l Thee"
 | The Rev. George S. Dickerman, the
 
 from scripture and spoke very appro- | priately to the relatives and friends. "A life closes in the eyes of men, but with God it still continues. The | forces which formed the character of the dead are working still. The influ-
 ence of his opinions, his desires are as strong to-day as they were a week | ago. We think as much of him now as then. and the influence of his life and thought is just as strong as it ever was on the lives of those whose life he l touched while living.
 ''The deceased had ambition in his youth to become a scholar and pro- fessional man, but instead he was obliged to take up the carpenter trade, the trade which Jesus had, instead But it has been the great mass of the people who have been ele- vating the country in the past fifty years, rather than the small profession al class, and it was among this class that the deceased lived and worked
 His heart went out in love for all the great 1aboring class. It was through his efforts that the enactment of the eight hour law, which is so beneficent in its workings for the laboring masses It has been said of him that the rule l of his life was the golden rule, and more can be said of no man than this. That was the rule Of Christ's life. Tt is sometimes customary to speak | sorrowfully of the grave and of the dead, but this seems to me to be un- christian. We should rather triumph
 in the assurance of the exuberance of eternal life upon which the departed has entered"
 The interment was in the family plot at the Grove street cemetery. The ser
 vices at the grave were those of the l. o. o. F. and were conducted by Har- mony lodge.