Evening star., 1901-10-15
M. G. EMERY AT REST
Last Tribute of Respect to His Mem
ory Paid Today.
SERVICES At METROPOLITAN CHURCH
Sermon by Rev. Dr.. Frank NJ
Bristol, Pastor.
THE FLORAL OFFERINGS

The last tribute of respect and affection
to the memory Of Matthew G. Emery was
paid this afternoon at the funeral services
which were held in the Metropolitan NJ. E.
Church, AZ and C streets northwest. 1t
was regarded as fitting that his remains
should be borne to this church, which is
associated with SO much Of the life of Mr..
Emery. AS one OF the founders Of the
church he was always actively identified
with all its interests In the presence of
the family and relatives assembled at the
residence, 2O7 l street, and those who had
been asked to serve as pallbearers, the pas
tor of the church. Rev. Frank M. Bristol.
DID,, offered prayer and then the casket
was borne from the house.
The cortege proceeded to the church,
where a large and representative number
of friends and organizations had assembled.
Beneath the black draped arch of the en-
trance the casket was conveyed, and thence
to the auditorium. where the emblems Of
mourning showed that the shadow Of death
had fallen upon the church. At one side of
the pulpit platform palms were massed.
and about the casket were arranged the
beautiful floral tributes from friends.
The services were conducted by DR.. Bris-
tol, the pastor of the church. Rev. DR..
Naylor. the presiding elder of the Wash
ington district of the Methodist Episcopal
lesson was read by Rev. DR.. A. W. Pitzer.
the pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church.
DIR. BristoFs Sermon.
An address Of much beauty and power
was delivered by DR.. Bristol. He spoke, in
part. as follows:
I'm the sorrows Of this hour, with the
sense of a great loss depressing the heart
and well-nigh forbidding the lips to speak
it's tenderest sentiments of love and ven
GRAFTON. of regret and hope, one comes to
appreciate the feelings of Tennyson as he
mourned the loss of his dearest friend:
"T sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief feel,
For words. like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the soul within
GAS shock Of corn gathered in in his
season Is this good man full of years and
of honors gathered to his fathers. But long
faithful and beneficent as this life has
been. we were not prepared with God to
say: 1T is enough How much we de-
him and are loath to let him depart! Such
men as Matthew G. Emery are not COM
mon and the world never seems ready to
let such a man lay down his burden.
"Our own burden seems heavier today
and we hardly realized until now how
great share of the burden Of business and
home and church he was bearing all the
time and was able and willing to bear. God
mentally, and he put to the best and most
honorable use all his manly powers. He
was Of a virile. sturdy stock.
Revolutionary Ancestry.
'He inherited the blood and spirit of a
revolutionary and Pilgrim ancestry. His
strong character, answering integrity,
love of justice, common sense, patriotic
loyalty, innate dignity and broad-minded-
ness seem to have partaken of the very
genius of his native state-the granite state
New Hampshire. He was a worthy COM
patriot Of those sons Of New Hampshire
who have enriched nearly every state Of
our Union by their energy, intelligence. rec
titude and enterprise, and have had the
proud right to boast that they hailed from
Woodbury. and Lewis Cass. Franklin
Pierce, John A. Dix, Horace Greeley, Jere-
miah Mason and Daniel Webster
"Our national development has been so
rapid and marvellous that we can hardly
realize this republic was but thirty Years
old when Mr.. Emery was born. In 1918,
the year of his birth, several of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence and
many Of the trainers of the Constitution
of the United States were still living.
''The honored veterans Of the revolution
survived in considerable numbers. He
might have seen every President of our
republic excepting Washington In his boy
hood days there still walked our streets
and adorned the high places such men as
JeueTSOn, ADAMS, Monroe, JOhn
Marshall and Randolph of Roanoke. While
nearly the entire political careers of Cal
houn, Webster, Clay and every President
from Monroe were run during his lifetime.
Mr.. Emery was not only personally
quainted with many of these ilustrious
statesmen, but he knew every President
from William Henry Harrison, for whom
ne voted. For the reception of President
Pierce of his native state he prepared the
White House. He was Intimately acquaint-
ed with Abraham Lincoln, from whom he
received his commission to raise a COM
pany for the defense Of the capital at the
outbreak of the civil war
1T was often my privilege to hear out
late beloved and martyred President, Will
lam Mckinney, speak in terms Of highest
esteem and brotherly affection of Mr.. En-
cry, with whom he not infrequently con-
Versed on matters pertaining to the church
and to the appointments and general affairs
Of the District of Columbia Thus was
this venerable man a witness of and par-
ticipator in the marvellous and rapid de-
Velopment OF nearly the entire nineteenth
century of our political life.
Compass of q Life.
1T Is difficult to realize what such a
life has compassed. The men who have as
ISOLATED with the very fathers of the repub-
lie are now but few. Their presence among
us is one of our greatest satisfactions.
They are the nations Jewels We rejoice
to do them reverence To lose one such
is an irreparable loss There is a sense
In which all other men may be replaced
The scholar, the financier, the poet the in
ventor. the artist, the statesman the mill
tary genius may have his worthy success
sor, but these witnesses to the first strug-
giles and developments of our national des-
tiny have no successors. Though in the
course of nature we must needs lose them
only profound regret can fill every patriot
heart in saying the last farewell to so
venerable and honorable a citizen as Mat
thew G. Emery.
Few men have been more conspicuously
identified with the development Of this city
than was Mr.. Emery. Hither he came in
1s4O, young man just of age, to make
his fortune He brought with him the good
old-fashioned resources Of an honest we'll
learned trade. He began at the foot of the
ladder with no ambition to bound to the
top by speculative adventures, but with
purpose to climb that ladder round by
round by hard work, honest methods, pa
tient continuance In well-doing and con-
scientious observance Of Gods laws. Here
he has lived his life, wrought out his for
tune. He made his good name, he de-
Veloped the forces and graces of his char
acter. Here he succeeded. 1t is to the
glory OF our country that such man sue
ceeded, and his success should be an incen-
tive to every young man of honor and high
purpose, who would get on in the world.
That life tells us again that the best capi-
tai for any young man to start his business