The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-06
Funeral of Winston T. Townsend.


 Townsend, son of Judge William K. and
 Mary Trowbridge Townsend, attended the funeral obsequies of the deceased at the family residence, No. 14S Grove street. at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Of those present were several hundred
 of the deceased young mah's class
 mates, also members of the legal pro
 fession and prominent business men
 and citizens generally. The deceased
 was one possessed of many amiable and
 lovable traits and was young man of
 rare promise, and that his death was
 greatly lamented was evident from the
 general sorrow at his death. Palms
 and other potted plants were used in
 abundance, and at the beautiful resi-
 dence also were the loveliest flowers
 of the season in great profusion. There
 were many lovely floral offerings. The
 class of 1901, Yale academic, of which
 the deceased was a member, sent sev-
 eral dozen American beauty roses, as
 did also the several classes of the law
 school. The Pae society of Andover,
 White Caps of Tafts school and Hay
 Boulay of Yale each sent floral tributes.
 The remains rested in a wicker basket,
 which was completely hidden by flow
 CTS.
 The bearers, all of whom were mem-
 bers of the freshman class at Yale,
 were Osborn Day, Stewart Hotchkiss,
 Arthur Jewett Young, Robert Lewis
 Atkinson, Raynham Townshend, James
 Harold Childs, John Arthur Keppelman
 and Ray Morris.
 The services were conducted by the
 Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, pastor Of
 Center church, of which the deceased
 was a devoted and faithful member.
 Rev. Dr. Smyth delivered a beautiful address, most appropriate to the very
 sad occasion. He spoke as follows:
 "In an English churchyard, where
 dear child had been buried amid the flowers, these words were inscribed on
 the stone, The Gardener had need Of
 it. and He took it. No better words
 may express the simple Christian trust in which we seek to-day to accept the sudden transference to the Heavenly
 Fathers house of this lovely youth whose life had already come on earth to its pure, fair blossoming. The Garden CT had need of this rare flower, and He took it.
 ''He had lived long enough, though he was so young, to gain the one thing of greatest worth which any man through longest years of earthly life may hope to wirl--a true, clear, happy Christian character. In school and in his opening college life he had shown his classmates and companions how to live with a pure heart, a kindly spirit and a noble Christian purpose. He has lived here long enough to become ready for the higher life and the larger ser vice beyond our knowledge, but not be- yond Gods plan, to which he has been called by deaths sudden order, and into which he has entered with spirit strong, and fresh, and pure, from his blameless earthly life. God, who keeps many of us at our little posts of service here for long years of discipline and of duty, has promoted him in his earthly youth, and without need of further waiting, to the ranks of the heavenly hosts, and given him, before He has
 granted it to us, opportunity of larger
 life and service in some more glorious
 place in His spiritual universe. You,
 his classmates and companions, return to your tasks and make ready to greet the promises of your lives, helped to become truer men by the memory of his life among you, so quiet and un- l assuming, yet so clear and noble in it's thought and purpose as you know it was; but he has gone on, having finish ed the work given him to do here, to find elsewhere his task and beyond our sight, yet not beyond our following in the future, to do the good will of God now given him in heaven to do, as but yesterday it was for him to do on earth.
 "A year ago last January, with q group of other young people, he stood in the church of his fathers to confess / before men his Christian faith. I can not forget the simple sincerity with | which he had expressed to me his desire l to take that decisive Christian step, and I remember how quietly yet firmly he revealed his desire to take through | life the nobler Christian part. He con- | fessed with us in the church this great 1 human faith, believe in the life ever lasting;' and the church of his fathers | gave to him it's Christian benediction, Now the God of peace, that brought | again from the dead our Lord Jesus, | that great Shepherd of the sheep, make you perfect in every good work to do | His will And, sooner than we had | thought, heaven itself has fulfilled the | benediction of the church in it's saluta- | ton of grace and peace to the youth | who is now made perfect to do His will l in every good work in the life ever | lasting.
 "We now, while our voices tremble I with our farewells, would answer from | our deepest hearts and highest hopes l of immortal love, All hail! Grace be with your spirit! AS heirs of the ever | lasting life we salute you as you go l before us on our lifes upward way! | The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be 1 with you"
 | The interment was in Evergreen cem- l etery.