The times., 1901-06-05
TRIBUTES TO DIR. DoMER.
HIS Memory Honorcd by Many
Friends at His Funeral.

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| By magnificent flowers. by great gath
ering of friends. and by a deeply rever-
entail funeral service. the memory of the
ReY. Samuel Domer, d. D., was honored
| yesterday afternoon at St. Paurs English
Lutheran Church, of which he was for
| over twenty five years the pastor Rev.
! f. w. Moot conducted the services and
! addresses were made by the Rev. w E.
| Parsons. D. D, the Rev. j. G. Butler,
ID D., the Rev. A l.. Kuhns, and others
The church was filed to the doors with
those who had known and admired Dr.
Domer. The floral tributes were so nu-
merous that there was not sufficient room
! for them on the casket, and within the
chancel rail they were piled about the
altar in profusion. Representatives. from
the Lutheran Church in Maryland Nir-
ginia, and Pennsylvania were present to
represent their State synods.
From 10 o'clock yesterday morning until
half an hour before the funeral service
began the remains lay in state and a
steady stream of people passed by the bier
to take last look at the face of the dead
minister. The pallbearers were j. q.
Meyers, l.. a Alden Edward T. Kaiser,
William Rouzer, John +. McLain- j. A.
Griesbauer, Charles Ii. Ourand and John
G. Parker The interment was at Glen
WOOD cemetery.
Many ministers gathered to pay the
tribute of their presence to ms mem
ory. Among those who sat IN the
pews reserved for the clergy were
the Rev. Stanley Bilheimer, who sue
ceeded DR.. Domer at St. Matthews
Church in Reading. Pa, many years ago;
the Rev. E. ID. Bailey, the Rev Paul
Metzel, the Rev. George Brothage' tne
Rev. NJ. Ross F'ishburn, the Rev. a;
Homrighaus, the Rev. ID. Wiseman, ana
many others of Washington There were
present also from Harrisburg the Rev
DR. Luther Deyoe and the Rev Dr. Ma
rion Kline and from Baltimore the Rev
Or. L. NJ. Zimmerman. Ministers OF oth-
er denominations than the Letherah
were present, notably the KEY. Dr. Wal-
lace Radcliffe, of the New YORK avenue
Presbyterian Church and the Rev Joseph
J. Muir, OF the Street Baptist Church;;
The music was rendered by an aus iheiite9
choir composed of Miss Edna Doe ana
Miss Goeckler, sopranos; Mrs. NJ Best
and Miss Muth altos MIR. Clabaugh, par
itone, and George Muth, tenor MISS As-
nes NJ Beltzhoover was the orgaii,ist' gil
Hardly any occasion of mourning mas
brought together 50 many friends OF the
Lutheran Church. The ancient structure
on the corner of Eleventh ana II
Streets was filled to overfoWlng. 10 tle
strains of Lead, Kindly Light, the fam
lily and mourners entered the church Dr.
Domers favorite hymn, Thy WIZ be
Done" was read by DR.. Kline, of Harris
burg, and following reading was sung by
the choir DR.. Kuhns delivered an earn
est prayer. and DR.. J. l.. Butler, of Luther
Memorial Church. read the scripture les
son from the ninety-stxth Psalm.
Dr. w. r. Parsons, of the Churcn OF
the Reformation, delivered an address,
in which he said This is no time for
sermon Let US spend a few minutes in
review of the days that nave peeh
DR.. Domer was rare character. Such
long life he had that II would be useless
to try to review it fully. He was broad
churchman, and he confined himself to
no one creed. The loss of such a hgure
cannot help being felt by all in the com
munity. To fall asleep on the LORD
day, that was passing away that even
he would have wanted He was ready
to close his life and take up the everlast- !
an optimist, saying always, Some |
sweet day we will come into the summer |
land and gather IN our Fathers house. !
Now he is in the land of everlasting |
spring, and 1t Is a comfort to believe it I
is so. He would want only words of help |
fulness and hopefulness to h. spoken here |
today. ! sat as a boy and heard his elo-
quent words in his first church in Penn
sylvania. He was in his prime q most !
eloquent preacher, with a wonderful |
wealth of imagery. He could so easily !
preach the lesson that out Of this world /
we should draw what is beautiful and |
bright and take to ourselves the glory |
of Christs life.
He ended his course of usefulness just |
seventy-five years after his birth al |
Sabbath Rest-just where he began-at !
Sabbath Rest
At the close of the services the children |
Of the Sunday school. under l.. D. Allen,
tunity to view the body. AS they passed |
by they dropped upon the coffin a flower |
or bud. The services closed with the /
Chopin funeral march.