The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-20

Never perhaps. In all its long and hon
orable history had old Benehcent had such
a congregation gathered beneath its dome
The decorations OF the church were
simple, yet extremely tasteful.
large Maltese cross, formed of black
and white, was placed just above the
centre Of the organ where its conspic-
uous position made II especially effective
as an emblem of mourning.
The several chandeliers Of the churcn
also were outlined with black and white
combined together with chain like CT
feet.
Just before II o'clock the srgaa pealcd
forth the funeral march from Chopin
and a moment later the following mem
bers OF the clergy of this city entered
the pulpit Rev w H. r. Faunce, presI-
dent OF Brown University; Rev. Dr.Thoin-
as s. Anderson, OF the Central Baptist
church; Rev. James @. Vose, ID. D.; Rev.
Asbury Krom, pastor OF Renehcent
church; Rev. II. 1 Cushman ID D., pas
tor of the FIRST Universalist church; Rev.
John M. Lowden, pastor OF Plainileld
Street Baptist church; Rev. Wallace Nut
ting, D. D., pastor of the Union Congre-
gational church; Rev. l.. s, Woodwurth,
Rev A. J. Coultas. pastor OF Trinity
church: Rev DR. Henson. pastor OF the
Cranston Street Baptist church.
Mayor Granger also occupied a seat
on the platform during a portion OF the
services
THE EXERCISES.
The exercises were presided over by
Rev. Or Anderson who announced as
the opening hymn, God is the Refuge
of His Saints"
Following. came the Invocation 10y Dr.
Cushman which was in brief as follows:
"Oh God. Our Heavenly Father touched
by great sorrow with all Thy people We
bow before Thee today beside the open
grave OF our honored dead and kather
here under so dark a cloud we would
not forget 10 thank Thee for Thy great
goodness In the establishment CT the
great institutions of this country.
I'VE bless Thee for the beautiful home
life. the conspicuous virtues, the Chris
tian character of Thy servant for all
his manly and womanly qualities We
thank Thee
I'VE deplore before Thee our sins and
short comings that have reached their
climax in anarchy.
Above all I'm the maddenig maze of
things and tossed by storm and food we
do pray that as Christians our spirits
may unalterably cling 10 the one fixed
star of goodness. In the name Of our
blessed Lord and Savior. Amen"
Rev NJ Lowden followed DR. Cush-
man reading from Revelations''An she
showed me a pure river OF the water Of
life clear as crystal proceeding out from
the throne OF God and ~ the Lamb
He read also from Proverbs beginning
"Do not they err that devise evil but
mercy and truth shall be 10 him that
deviseth good"
Following the scripture readings Mr..
william L. Smith. soloist of the 3eneh-
cent church rendered with beautiful ef-
feet the solo. by Ambrose. zone Swestiy
Solemn Thought"
An impressive prayer by Or. vose fol-
lowed.
DIR. vosE's PRAYER.
In substance the prayer wss as follows;
Almighty and ever blessed God, our
Heavenly Father. we bow before Thee In
humble reverence. Thou"Srt our God In
ages past. our hope In years 10 come.
20 God we thank Thee that We can ind
refuge in Thee. We cannot strengthen
ourselves against any sorrow. but with
Thee as our strength and our help
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