Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-04-17
Or. TALMAGE's FUNERAL
Ffssldsnt. Cabinet Msmbsrs and
Cthef Notable Attend.

Washington, April 17.-Funeral SER
vices We're held at the Church OF the
Covenant yesterday afternoon over the
body of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage. The
large church was crowded to the DOORS
The, funeral ceremony began at {
o'clock and occupied considerably over
an hour. Rev. DR.. Teunis s. Hamlin
pastor of the Church of the Covenant.
and Rev. Drs. Chalmers Easton of this
city and S. j. Nichols and James De-
marest, both of Brooklyn, ofaciated.
The casket rested Immediately in front
of the pulpit. and over 1t was mas
sve bed of violets The floral offerings
valley and white roses, including
wreath sent from the White house by
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. The
members of the stricken family occu-
pied pews on the right, while across
the aisle from them We're the honorary
pallbearers, Justices Harlan and
Brewer of the United States supreme
rows of Michigan and Dolliver Of Iowa,
Representative William Alden Smith
of Michigan. ex-Secretary of State
John W. Foster, Rev. Drs. Louia
Klopsch of New York and Bittinger
and Fiske of this city, DR.. g. L. Ma
gruder OF this city, E. n. Branch and
F. NJ Lawrence, lifelong Brooklyn
Warner of this city.
After the family had entered the male
quartet sang Lead. Kindly Light" a
favorite hymn of DIR. Talmage, and
during the service sang Beyond the
Smiling and the Weeping" and 1T Is
Well With My Soul" DIR. Hamlin in
his address declared Mr.. Talmage one
of the clergymen of the century. He
said that DIR. Talmage in his marvellous
inf 1ylo VIC IA IA mr.
cheer; that he aimed at the hearts and
emotions of the people instead of at the
intellect.
Mr. Demarest described the student
life of the deceased. He said that DR..
Talmage sometimes had been charged
with being sensational, but he was sem
sational because he must be, and it was
natural. He had in his early college life
shown the same marks of brilliant
meteoric eloquence that won their way
to great achievements in later life.
DIR. Easton protested that it was yet
too early to measure DIR. Talmage, that
death clears our vision, removes or
minimizes our prejudices and reduces
the supposed faults He said that DIR.
Talmage was made of the stock from
which martyrs spring and that no man
had lived so apostolic life since the
days of Paul. He said that Beecher,
ISpurgeon and Talmage We're the three
greatest preachers of the century, but
that the last named was the prince of
the pulpit.
DIR. Nichols referred to the dead
mans philanthropic deeds and charac-
terized him a brave heart and noble
soldier of the cross.
DIR. Hamlin closed the services with
L prayer asking divine mercy and con-
ISOLATION for the stricken family. Then
the immediate relatives, first Mrs Tall
mage, leaning on the arm of her eldest
son, Rev. Frank Talmage of Chicago;
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence l.. Wyckoff of
Utica, n. v; Mr.. and Mrs. Mangan of
New York, Mr.. and Mrs. Donnan of
Richmond, and others of the family fol-
lowing, passed to their carriages
Following this the crowd within the
church passed the bier. The casket
remained in the church until late last
evening when it was placed on a spe-
cial car attached to the Pennsylvania
railroad train leaving here for New
York at 1910 o'clock a. m.