Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-06
DIR. HARRIS REMAINS.
THEY WILL REACH THIS CITY AT
$3.50 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING.
FUNERAL TOMORROW AFTERNOON
Dr. Nhitsctt to Deliver "a Pnncgyrfc
aud other Ministers to Make
addresses Profound @orro,
throughout Richmond.

community, Will arrive here this eve
unc al $50 o'clock. and memorial SER
vices will be held tomorrow afternoon
al the Grace-street tabernacle
The funeral arrangements are still in
a tentative state. but they will be COM
plctcd to-day. Mrs. Harris, and the en-
tire family will accompany the remains
TO This city, and will during their stay
here be the guests Of Rev. DIR. r.. ]. VIII
lreham. at his residence corner of
Fiuh and Cary streets; and until they
come the arrangements will not be final
ly perfected
THE HOUR DECIDED UPON.
Professor h. r. Gaines. the deceased
genteman's son-in-law. and Or. willing
ham, who was most closely associated
with Professor Harris. have charge of
the arrangements but they prefer to de-
Ter the announcements until after the
family have been consulted with refer
euce 10 them. IL has been decided.
though. that the funeral shall take place
from the Grace-Street tabernacle at $3.50
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and that
the service shall not exceed in length an
hour and half.
Rev Dr. W II. whitsitt. president of
the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary. at Louisville. is now on his way
10 Lynchburg. He will come on with
the body TO this city. and will deliver a
panegyric at the memorial service Seve-
raj other short addresses will be made
by Richmond ministers. and some six
or eight clergymen will participate in
the exercises.
The body will be Inferred in the new
part Of Hollywood. Professor Gaines and
Dr. Wilingham having selected a sec
tion i'm the cemetery yesterday. The
section is just beyond Presidents Hill.
and is beautifully situated on little
eminence, fronting east and overlooking
the river
THE CHAPEL TENDERED.
The body will be met at the depot to-
night by a large delegation Of minis1ers-
students and friends Of the deceased
and. in view Of the fact that the faculty
OF Richmond College on yesterday made
a formal tender of the college chapel as
an asylum for the remains during the
interim between the hour Of arrival and
the funeral, il IS probable that they win
be carried directly there. Professor
Gaines as soon as the tender was made
by the faculty. dispatched a special-de-
livery letter TO Professor William Har-
rs. son of the deceased. informing him
thereof. and he expects a telegram this
morning announcing the familys decision
as to whether the body shall lie in state
at the college. or be taken to the home
Of Mr.. Willingham.
THE SORROW GENERAL.
The death of Professor Harris was the
general topic Of conversation throughout
the city yesterday. His long residence
here his prominence as a religious lead
n 10
College. and as editor OF the Religious
Herald of the Foreign Mission Journal
and Of the Educational Journal; his iden-
tihcatiOn with the Masonic fraternity for
ne was a prominent and influential Ma
SOM: his public sprit-all combined to
make for him "A wide acquaintance in the
city and beyond.
The regret at his departure was we'll
nigh universal. Many hearty tributes
were paid to his memory by his old
friends While at Richmond College he
had on numerous occasions supplied the
pulpits OF other denominations. and had
IN this and other ways won their respect
and affection. They sympathized hearth
ly with the Baptists Of the city. who
OF course. mourned most deeply. Not
for a long time has a death so stirred
the heart of this community.
MEETING of FOREIGN MISSION
BOARD.
The Foreign Mission Board, of which
the deceased was for many years presi-
dent held a special meeting Yesterday
afternoon at o'clock, and the secretary.
Dr. Wilingham. announced the death OF
Professor Harris. He said that he had
called the meeting i'm order that the
board might take suitable action thereon.
on motion. Drs. Hatcher Cooper and
Pitt were appointed a committee to pre-
pare a paper to be presented. on behalf
of the board at the memorial service
Sunday afternoon. The board also APP
pointed a committee Of its own members
10 meet the body on its arrival, ana TO
render any service 10 the family in their
power
SORROW AT THE COLLEGE.
There is great sorrow at the death of
Professor Harris on the part of the facul-
~ and students OF Richmond Col
lege. All exercises yesterday were sus-
pended. out OF respect TO the great teach
er who for quarter Of century
went I'm and out among the students
OF the college The morning chapel SER
vice yesterday was very impressive, be
ing conducted by Professor John Pollard.
"a colleague of Professor Harriss on the
college faculty.
A meeting of the faculty was held at
10 o'clock. at which a committee, con-
sisting Of Professors Winston. Thomas
and Pollard was appointed to draft
resolutions expressing the sorrow Of that
body. and extending It's sincere sympathy
to the bereaved.
An adjournment was then taken un-
IN $3.50 o'clock, when the resolutions
were presented and adopted, and Presi-
dent Boatwright was instructed TO ten
der the use Of the College chapel for the
remains The resolutions were quite
voluminous. and expressed great sorrow
at the death Of the eminent instructor
meeting Of the students was held
during the morning, and a committee
composed Of Messrs Loving, Garnett,
and Gibson was appointed TO draft
suitable resolutions In the afternoon a
rnass-meeting Of students was called Dy
President Boatwright. and the resolu-
tions drafted by the committee were
adopted In the resolutions. the students
speak OF the everlasting debt of graft
iude they owe their former instructor
and resolve 10 attend the funeral In
body.
THE SOCIETIES MEET.
After the mass-meeting. the students
assembled I'm the literary societies haIis'
which have been draped In mourning,
and the Mu Sigma Rho Society," OF
which the deceased was a member ana
an one time president. adopted resolu-
tious expressive OF the regret OF the
members al the death OF one OF tnelr
"warmest friends 10 whom they always
pointed with pride"
The alumni OF Richmond college VIII
meet at the Religious Herald ONCE No
l9 east Main street, this afternoon d,
l250 o'clock, 10 take suitable achoh anu
an earnest invitation 10 all ola stuaensS
Of the college 70 be present is extended