The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-04

ABOUT lultn OF lack OF Ihltn IN Otner
things 1t Is not impossible soul feats
that God wants of us before He can
work, but Just trust In himself. 1t was
so with Martha, the sister of that
Lazarus. She very likely had some
wild notion that she might vet get
Lazarus back. AS Jesus moved straight
to the tomb II may have painted into
something like faith in a resurrection,
but when the imoeral voice COM
manded to roll away the stone she
lost 1t IL she ever had 1t. Don't do It,
Lord! Don't take any chances, failure
would be awful. Don't try II. No faith
there except faith that God Is God and
this great wild-hearted woman sud-
denly wants to take the Christ that
made the world up in her arms and
shield Him from failure. Just cling to
Him in fear while that loud voice rang
down the startled aisles of paradise
calling back the soul of Lazarus.
Don't interfere with Christ, believe
in Him and let Him raise your dead.
This has been an accident to us we
were not prepared for God was. Did
you never go into quiet rooms through
which, nevertheless, q stir of expecta-
ton runs, "a timid hope in gentle eyes
busy fingers plying swift needles, little
garments laid away in spotless sweet
ness, a couch that never yet has swung
to grooming cradle song, messengers
hourly bringing little mystic tokens?
1t was so this week in heaven. They
were all ready there for the coming OF
these newborn souls, with glad fore
welcome"
Dr. Mitchell was followed by Rev.
DR.. f. S. Lines, rector of st. Pauls
church, who pronounced the usual
prayers of the Episcopal church, con.
Guiding the services in the church. The
caskets were then borne from the
church through the side entrance to the
vestibule, where the four hearses were
drawn up to receive them. AS the
hearses wended their way to the Fair
Haven cemetery nearby, they were fol-
lowed by carriages containing the
mourners and by hundreds of people
on foot. 1t Is probable there were fully
1000 people in the cemetery.
AT THE GRAVE.
AS the caskets were borne from the
hearses to the grave, Rev. DIR. Lines
repeated passages Of Scripture used at
the committal service. The remains
We're then lowered into the large grave,
together, by patent lowering appar-
atus. The grave was lined with ever
green and cut flowers. Dr. Lines pro-
nounced the words. Dust to dust.
ashes to ashes" and sprigs of ever
green ana sprays of flowers were
thrown upon the caskets. Prayers were
said by Rev. Drs. Lines and Mitchell,
and the benediction was pronounced by
Rev. d. j. Clark. Many friends fingered
by the open grave as the earth was
thrown in. Few of those present VIII
ever attend a sadder burial.
The bearers were Frank Sperry, OF
the firm OF Sperry & Barnes; Prof.
Sydney /. Smith, of Sheffield Scientific
school; Edward Thompson, of East
Haven; George Payne. Clarence DEM
ing and Charles A. Tuttle.
The bearers for the children were
Herbert Nelson, Frederick Smith, Will
bur Smith, Frank Page.
The floral offerings were the most
beautiful and numerous ever seen in
New Haven. Among them was an
immense bank Of cyprus leaves and
chrysanthemums from the directors of
the Scranton Tribune; large bouquet
of roses from Editor Livy S. Richard,
of the Tribune, and wife; cluster Of
roses on galax leaves from the en-
ployes of the Tribune; cluster of roses
from Master Saron +. Warman, Of
Scranton: casket bouquet from the
members of the sophomore class Of the
High School, of which Miss Esther
Craig was a member. With the bou-
quet was a card bearing this inscrip-
tion: "They were lovely and pleasant
in life and in death We're not divided"
FROM THIS CITY.
The following from this city attend
ed the funeral services: Mr.. and Mrs.
L. S. Richard, Mrs. f.. Il. Sweet, How
ard Davis, ]. F. Mitchell, John Crane
and S. B. Stillwell.
New Haven was ineXpressbly
shocked by the tragic death of the
Craig family. All of the members of it
were known and beloved by hundreds
of the residents Of that city, and each
seemed to feel a sense of personal loss
in the removal of their friends. The
scenes in the church and at the grave
when the four bodies were lowered side
by side into their last resting place
were indescribably pathetic and will
not soon be forgotten by those who at
tended the services.