New-York tribune., 1901-02-03
BIG CROWD AT GRACE CHURCH.
HUNDREDS UNABLE TO GET INTO THE
BUILDING-DR. HUNTINGToNs EULoGY.

HUNDREDS UNABLE TO GET INTO THE
BUILDING-DR HUNTINGToN's EULoGY.
memorial service for the Queen was held in
Grace Church. Tenth-st. and Broadway. yesterday
afternoon. The burial service Of the Episcopal
Church read and special prayers were offered
The service conducted by the Rev. DR. William
r. Huntington. the rector OF Grace Church. as
sisted by the Rev. Messrs. George H. Bottome, y.
P. Carey and G. .. Bartlett. The church was
crowded the doors. Hundreds OF persons who
late unable to get near the church. Half
an hour after the service began Broadway. from
Tenth to Eleventh-st.. crowded out TO the
middle OF the street.
Draped the pulpit and entwining immense
wreath OF green leaves and lilies the flags OF
Great Britain and America. These were draped with
royal purple The pillars both sides OF the altar
draped with the flags entwined and with
streamers Of purple ribbon Lying in front OF the
chanoel immense pillow OF deep purple
immortelles, in which in yellow flowers were worked
the letters ~. r." The altar decorated with
punches Of Gala lilies.
The musical part OF the service. arranged and
conducted by J. " Heltenstoin was impressive.
The service opened with the playing OF dead
march. after which Scriptural selections read
by Mr.. Carey. This followed by the singing
Of the ninetieth Psalm by the congregation. Fol-
lowing the reading of another passage from the
Scriptures. the congregation sang ASLEEP in Jesus,
after which the Greed and the Lords Prayer were
recited This followed by the singing OF 20
God, Our Help in Ages Past" The eulogy was
spoken by Dr. Huntington. who said in part
That inevitable hour which all await has struck.
6s oSar9Ry IS ene % The uesn whose 05 m e
had become throughout christendom a sort Of
Tbs. Less and uncrowned she enters into that world
if il is 70 hourish, must begin anew.
But why We Americans tOlling bells and say
EUROPEAN court has put on black? 40: it is be-
cause Queen Victoria Is dead; Queen Victoria, our
friend. Yes. may call her by that tenderest
have waxed fierce against US. when Ministers and
Cabinets have shaken their heads against us times
when English mobs have rejoiced at our troubles
a time there never has been when 1t could be truly
sa!d os her whose death are lamenting that
states Whatever may have been said at West
Minister in Downing Street, at Windsor We al
Perhaps for the very reason that we stand at a
placed to pass Judgment upon their quality and 70
choose whom We shall mourn. At any rate, this
meaning and an emphasis to taese bapa
bienish OF conformity mars tribute Simple
though il may be. II Is at least spontaneous anu
has the merit OF coming from the heart
Comparing the reigns of Victoria and Elizabeth.
he continued:
mon. 1t is this, that both are notable epoehs OF
discovery and change. AnG here is where mere, me re-
search are different from those of Elizabeth. The
Of frst importance 10 the physicist the chemist
and the electrician The one class OF discoverers
went over the sea. The other. being at loss for
more terrestrial worlds 10 conquer. has ventured
our by a path which no fowl knoweth and which
the vultures eye had not seen" Both worlds so
discovered may he called ".
Politics and religion alike sensitive 10 the i'm
pact Of discovery. Great liberations and enfran-
chisements in the social orde- Of the world slowly
result from discoveries which at first give no evil
dent promise Of large results. but which. as time
goes on reveal the secret which has lain hidden
from the first. In the sixteenth century God dis
ed America. In the nineteenth he began dis
.,Sing the resources Of the unseen universe As
4 the discoveries in the EliZabethan reign bring
large sccesEions 10 man We may he sure that so
will those Of the Victorian period.
After the eulogy an anthem sung. which
followed by a prayer by Mr. Bartlett, The
vice was ended by the pronouncing of the bene-
diction