Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-10
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Rev. DIR. Tuttle breaches on
Death at Union Church,
And Gives a List Of the Members Of His
Congregation Who Died During the
Year Just Closed.

At Union Church, Sunday morning,
Rev. DR.. John e. Tuttle preached me-
mortal sermon in commemoration Of
those members of his congregation who
passed from earth life to the life be-
yond, during the year of 1897.
He chose for his text Psalms xc:5-6,
Thou earliest them away as with a
flood. they are as a sleep; in the morn
ing they are like grass which groweth
up In the morning it fiourisheth and
groweth up in the evening it is cut
down and withereth." He spoke of the
tremendous forces which Moses was in
the midst of when he wrote this psalm,
of the difficulties and frailties that the
children Of Israel were exposed to dur
ing their eVentful journey from Egypt
to Canaan, of the natural scenery in the
wilderness Of Sinai, which caused the
great leader to look up from the little
ness of human life to the eternal en-
durance Of the mountains in their
rugged grandeur, to the swelling tor
rents sweeping down the mountain
sides, carrying everything before them
them in their impetuosity. Man comes
into this world with promise of long
life and usefulness, and then some
morning he is carried away in a mo-
ment his usefulness, his promise for fu-
ture things, apparently gone. Yet
life is built upon death, the island in
mid-ocean teeming with vegetation,
and life is built by the death of the
coral animal The chalk cliffs of Eng
land, which are such enduring bull
warks against the inroads of the sea,
scientists tell US are made by death All
civilization is the story of death, yea.
the very soil we stand upon is made Of
DEATH
1t is strange that despairing humani-
ty looking over all this Overwhelming
melancholy waste, should pray, YEA,
the work of our hands establish thou
it?"
DR.. Tutt1e considered that Jesus had
answered this cry of humanity at the
grave of Lazarus, when, standing be-
fore the mouth Of the tomb, his eye up
raised to the everlasting hills of Pales-
tine, he declared, Il am the resulrec-
ton and the life"
Life has various experiences, and
death is fully as much an experience
as birth or sickness. Our body is only
tabernacle, death shakes the tenant
loose. When Christ himself came to-
death, he met his fate as his teaching
would indicate calmly and with forti-
tude.
Christ left no books, Christ left no or
ganizations, Christ left no wealth He
had even to be buried in another mans
tomb Christ left II men, but a handful
when compared to the immense Roman
empire. He left them with this saying:
go we into all the world and teach the
gospel" Death did not destroy Christ's
work. After two thousand years, it is
still carried out. Our churches send
les ~ iufa
of the globe. Chrlst's kingdom is firmly
entrenched in the world today
This memorial Sunday, DR.. Tuttle de-
clared. was a tribute to the memories
of the Christian character of those
members of his flock who had died. The
church, typical of the brotherhood of
Christ, should have memorial services
for those of her own WHO have gone be-
fore. While some of these went sud
Of martyrs, patiently, until the end,
Christ-like.
In closing, DIR. Tuttle referred to the
fact which st. Paul brought before his
readers, that a cloud of witnesses is
continually round about us; that about
us is a world peopled with the souls of
the departed. How close to US are all
the dead
The following members of Union
Church entered into rest during the
year 1897: Feb. l, Abbie H Bigelow;
Feb. 49, Newall A. Merriam; Feb. 20,
Emma L. Griggs; March 3, Sophia A.
Howe; March g. Maria G. Moen; July g.
Mary A. Bell; July 25, Harriet W. Esta-
brook; Aug. IL, Charles NJ Howe: Aug
%, Ann B. Braithwait; Sept 1S, Nancy
H. Allen; Sept. 49, John M. Waite; Oct
Is, Ida E. Mcdonald; Nov Is, Frances
E. Balloon; Dec. 2, Alonzo Kimball;
Dec. Il, George Whiting; Dec. 25, Sarah
Aldrich