The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-10

States Army; Gen. Henry V. Boyntou
United States Volunteers; Col. George A
Woodward. United States Army: Col. Add.
son A. Hosmer. United States Volunteers
Capt. Benjamin p. Lamberton, Unitet
States Navy; Col. Green Clay Goodloe
United States Marine Corps: Major job
5. Loud. United States Army. and Capt
Horace Noble, United States Volunteers.
Calvin Farnsworth. Commander of tn,
District G.. A. R.. with the following rep
resentatives OF the Grand Army acted aist
as honorary pallbearers: George II. Sla
baugh, b. L. Chase. ]. II. Dawes. T. 5
Hopkins, S. f. Faunce Nathan Bickford
and John McElroy.
Brig. Gen. George II. Harries. Lielt. Gel
James \. Love. adjutsnt general; Maioi
Charles II. Ourand. inspector general; Ma
jor II. "A. Psrmenter, qusrtermaster gen.
eral. and Capt c. Fred Cook, aide, repre-
sented the National Guard.
The Funeral Ceremonies.
The funeral ceremonies in the churcl
were marked with great simplicity. At
o'clock the organ sounded the opening
strains of the dead March in Saul by
Handel, and the audience was hushed as
the melody of that solemn selection thun-
dered from the instrument. At its close
Military Chaplain Pierce read selection oi
Scripture appropriate to the occasion. after
which the male quartette Of the church
sang Lead Kindly Light"
Rev. N. Woolsely Stryker. ID. D., Ii. D.,
President of Hamilton College, Clinton, y.
y, then delivered the funeral eulogy. Dr.
Stryker said. in part:
over the width of the earth a soldier
household has brought its warrior home
The dust that the nation gathers 10 its
guarding is that of no common man. We
are met TO celebrate and TO mourn him.
But while we recall the record SO COM
pact with mapliness, and which the white
blossom of mo :ssty crowns withal, while
we recite the Story of one who personified
the best American traditions, first this
day do we regard her sorrow who treads
that solemn aisle of pain the sanctity Of
whose shadows are accessible only to her
God. And with her, we remember. too
for his true sake who begat them. these
four dear children-daughtcrs of the
army. wards of the people. and son whose
best possession shall ever be his fathers
sword. Orphaned of him indeed his chill
dren are. but endowed. too. with the I'M
heritage of a gallant name. II is
an estate which with all that appro-
priately pertains to ii this land OF pure
domestic love will thoughtfully and thank
fully administer.
''IIither We have come-the peoples
chosen head, and all authorities else from
their high several sessions-to pay our
poor but tender aims of love TO an un-
blemished memory. TO thank him who is
our dwelling place in all generations. that
the stout tree of liberty still yields such
manner of fruitage. and to pledge our
selves. considering the issue OF the lives
of our renowned dead. TO initiate their IN
blenching and unblighted faith.
Station il secondary. humanity is pri-
mary. And, whatever else any is. today
we are all men and women brothers and
sisters. lifting as children our wet faces
toward the consultations of God The stars
Of the spangled flag. covering now this
shape of its noble warden, shine multiplied
upon the dews of grief But with SOL
emn joy. it beseems you. his comrades of
the army, TO give thanks for the life whose
end must (after this parenthesis OF diff
cult farewells) he viewed, not as ca
amity. but as a conquest. Men unapt TO
weep are smitten by the pathos OF that
courage we mmemorate-courage, most
touching of all human graces; but let
hem also smile with exalted hope as they
ay upon this soldiers sepulchre the chap
cts of their homage"
Poetry in Action.
DR.. Stryker eulogizcd General Lawton's
Military career. and went on to say:
This better Plsntsganet. this latest
3syard. without fear and without re-
,roach,' this modern Philip Sidney,
whose life also was poetry put into ac-
ion.' has shown once more of what stuff
xrha cab
tanee root the memories that last.
For a true poet land so proven is one
eho has written at least some things CT
which no poet that ever lived could have
een ashamed, would gladly haze owned:
nd true man is admitted TO the fellow
hip of heroes by the equality and peer
ge Of his supreme deeds. Here was one
yhom Raleigh, Gustavus Adolphus, VIII
lam of Orange. Winkelried Cambronne.
would know at sight. He was
4 that time-enduring breed which has
nade Agincourt and Naseby and Quebec
nd Lucknow of immortal story. He was
omrade to the Marylanders who guarded !
he retreat at Long Island, to the men
rho passed the Delaware. who served the
.urs OF Pleasanton. who soaked the sod of
he Peach Orchard, who ran singing
brough the tide at Manila, who held
hose who did business in great waters with
'aui Jones and Lawrence and Truxton and
yorden and Bagley-of all the line who
et are with us and which shall not be
diminished though all the seas run red.
lie was in the spiritual loins OF Joseph
Warren and OF Herkimer. He knew the
ecret and has saluted the souls of Mans
eld and Sedgwick and Reynolds and Nc
'herson and Phil Kearney and Custer,
Let It be said and let IL be said here,
hat none OF us is of those who walk back
gard into the future and translate the
resent upside down, A tumld and carping
,essinism lives only in the pluperfect,
ut good faith lives in the future-perfect
he one is subjunctive, the other is in
icative. Nay, duty is in the imperative
nd unconditional mood.
when. in the name of mankind. and
hat peace might be real. We undertook
j 1925 to cleanse the seas. we affirmed a
rinciple and made precedent that I. for
ne. hold to have written the most hon.
rable leaf in all our history. But all that |
as been since was eoroilary TO that No |
pecial pleading of professional malcontents |
18th whom wisdom will not die. no a priori |
distraction, can unsay what this dead SOL |
ier's zeal said for America. Rather does |
uch death enjoin upon our purpose and |
erformance such ends as shall yindicate |
S from cowardly indifferentism and eva
ion in the face OF whatever duty and |
owever unexpected or compiex-enjoin us |
0 regard and to teach liberty's authority. |
War or vnciIIation.
I'VE do not welcome war. We de1lore If:
ut more deplorable were craven vacilla- |
ION toward riddle which must have room |
Dr. its solution. For that rooms sake, and !
Or the peace il shall secure at last we |
everently invoke upon our arms the favor |
f the Lord of Hosts, and though we walk |
trough the ;ailey OF the shadow OF death. |
-e will fear no evil. In the name OF our |