The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-18
The Body of Officer
Garland Escorted
BY Comrades.
REV. Mr.. SANDERSON'S EULOGY.
Police Department and
Veterans Attend the
Funeral.

Charles A. Garland, who at the time
of his death, was the oldest active
member of the Worcester police depart
ment in point of service, was buried.
yesterday afternoon, the funeral taking
place from his home, 4 Gardner terrace,
at o'clock
Services were conducted at the house
!by Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, pastor of the
Park Avenue Methodist church, who
was a personal friend of Mr.. Garland
The service was simple, and closed
with prayer. The body was taken from
the house to the hearse by the bearers,
! Officers Charles Shippee, H. B. Streeter,
4 C. w. Barker, S. G. Bullock Edison
Fairbanks and Addison March, all ac-
tive members of the police department
and veterans of the civil war.
Escorted by 60 members Of the police
| department in full dress uniform, in
charge of Chief of Police James M.
brennan, assisted by Capt. David A.
Matthews and Lieut.. M. j. Walsh, the
! funeral cortege moved up Main street
| to Trinity church, where services were
conducted by Rev. G.. w King, PHI D.,
pastor of the church, and Rev. Alonzo
Sanderson. Rev. Mr.. King read the
Rev. Mr.. Sanderson delivered the eulo-
gy and closed the services with bene-
| d1ction and prayer Mr.. Sanderson' s
eulogy on the dead officer was filed
with kind recollections of his life, and
took in not only his record as a police
officer which covered a period of about
| 80 years, but his record in the civil war.
| He spoke as follows:-
| Let not your heart be troubled; We
| n NnA hp1 ole ~,
my Fathers house are many mansions;
| if it were not So l would have told
you
| go to prepare a place for you, and
| if L go and prepare q place for you, /
will come again and receive you unto
| myself, that where / am, We may be
also. John, xiv:1-2-3.
| How natural and blessed in an hour
like this, to turn our attention to our
holy faith in Jesus Christ our Lord and
| Savior, and look into the face of our
| God and say Abba, Father, our dear
Father And as we thus look up into
! the face Of our God and Father
through his dear son, how quick and
loving is the response:
Let not your heart be troubled We
believe in God, believe in me also"
The consultations of the Christian
faith are always adequate and real, but
never more so than in thes dark and
sad hours of our earthly trials and
| separations. Christ is a friend that
sticketh closer than brother, and his
presence is never more welcome and
comforting than when we part with our
| friends in death and feel that they have
! gone to be foreVermore with the Lord.
The Christian faith and hope the pos
| session and Dractice of the doctrines
and teachings of Christianity, have ref
erence to all that can possibly concern
us here or in the great and solemn
| hereafter, to which we are all so rap
| idly approaching.
For me to live" said the great apos-
tie, lis Christ, and to die is gain. .
Christ settles the great questions of
| life and death. Living in him, we can
never be miserable or forsaken. Fol-
| lowing him, walking in his way, keep
| ing his precepts and commandments,
we have the primer of the life that now
| is and of that which is to come.
The mysteries of life gather about us
from the cradle to the grave, but the
light and love of Christ penetrate them
all and show us the way out.
To live is Christ; to live is to have
| life. and to have it more abundantly.
| I'm him was the life and the life was
the life was the light of the world.
Christianity in its teachings and prac-
tice touches every part of our life hal
| lows all our motives, puritieS all our
thoughts and purposes, and lifts us up
to things blessed and real and worthy
of us. It's friendships and sympathies
are the truest and best, its affections
| the hottest known to mortals, its hopes
| the strongest and surest of which we
can know, outlasting all time, all sor-
row and all death, opening to US not
only the gates of life temporal, but of
life eternal, clearing away not only the
mists and shadows of these earthly
damps, but revealing to us the sure
rewards and felicities of another and
better country, here, and clarifying us
hereafter.
How we ought to thank God today.
how we do thank him. for the gift of
his son to be our savior, our redeemer,
our brother and friend, that he has
come to light UP the way, to instruct
us to, to save and guide US, to sustain
and comfort us; a strength to the poor,
a strength to the needy in his distress:
refuge from the storm; shadow
from the heat, when the blast of the
terrible one is as astorm against the
wall
He will swallow UP death in victory,
and the Lord God will wipe away tears
from off all faces, and the rebuke Of
his people shall he take away from
off all he EARTH"
Oh, let us praise God today for a
faith that is real and makes us better
men and women wiser and happier to
live, and that prepares us to die.
Let US be- thankful today for a Savior
and God that meets us all on one COM
mon level, whose love and concern for
us all is as impartial as the sun in thu
brightness and glory of his shining.
Lei us praise God for a salvation that
removes GUS envies and hates, our am
mosities and disputes, our selfshness
and degredations, and makes us the
sons, the children of God, brothers and
sisters in one common hope and in one
common veal, with strength and might
to dare and do, lending to all our lives
the charm and beauty that comes from
holy living, and, best of all, folding us
at last in the arms of an everlasting
day and joy, giving to them who weep
the balm of an heavenly emulation
In this blessed hope and comfort our
departed friend and brother lived and
died This faith which he had in the
Christ was the strength of all his days,
and followed him into every pathway
and duty into which he was called, and
wherever he went
This more than all else made him the
unselfish and grand man he was, and
endeared him to all who knew him.
Naturally man of fine endowments.
the grace of God refined and multiplied
them all, making him a blessing in the
home, in the community where he lived.
in the city where he served, in the
ermy where he fouRht-a man honored