West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-04-16
Services Held Over HIS Body,
stChurch of Covenant,
In Washington.
EuLoCIzED By THREE MINISTERS
Rev. Or. Easton Declared That He,
Beecher and Spurgeon Were the,
Three Greatest Preachers Of tn.
century--Interment In Brooklyn. p:

Washington, April 16.-Funeral ser.
vices were held at the Church OF the
Covenant yesterday afternoon over
the body Of the Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt
Talmage. The large church was
crowded to the doors.
The funeral ceremony began at >
o'clock and occupied considerably
over an hour. The Rev. DR.. Teunis
8. Hamlin, pastor Of the Church of
tie Covenant and the Rev. Drs
Thomas Chalmers Easton, of this
city; S. J. Nicols and James Demar-
est, both of Brooklyn, oficiated. The
casket rested Immediately In front Of
the pulpit, and over it was massive
bed of violets. The floral offerings
were numerous, mostly Of lilies OF
the valley and white roses, including
wreath sent from the White House
by President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
The members Of the stricken family
occupied pews on the right, while
across the aisle from them were the
honorary pallbearers-Justices Har-
Ian and Brewer of the United States
linois; Burrows, Michigan, and Dolli-
yer, Iowa; Representative William
Alden Smith, Michigan; ex-Secretarv
of State John w. Foster; the Rev.
Drs. Louis Klopsch, CT New York, and
Bittinger and Fiske, of this city; DR..
G. L. Magruder, Of this city; E. H.
! Branch and F. NJ. Lawrence, lifelong
Brooklyn friends of the dead minis
ter, and B. H. Warner, of this city.
Sang Hymn TaImage Liked.
After the family had entered the
male quartet sang Lead, Kindly
Light" a favorite hymn of DR.. Tai
mage, and during the services sang
Beyond the Smiling and the Weep
ing" and 1T Is Well With Ny Soul. "
DR.. Hamlin in his address pictured
DR.. Talmage as one Of the great
clergymen Of the century. He said
that DR.. Talmage in his marvellous
word pictures always bespoke hope
and cheer; that he aimed at the
! hearts and emotions of the people in
stead Of at their intellect. DR.. Dem
| the deceased. He said Dr. Talmagc
| sometimes had been charged with
| being sensational but he was sensa-
! tiOnal because he must be, and 1t
was natural. He had in his early col
| lege life shown the same marks Cf
| brilliant, meteOric genius that won
| his way through great achievements
| in the later life.
Dr.. Easton protested that it was
| yet too early to measure DR.. Tai.
| mage; that death clears our vision,
removes or minimizes our prejudice;
and reduces the supposed faults. He
said that DR.. Talmage was made of
| the stock from which martyrs spring,
and that no man had lived so apoS-
/ tolic a life since the days of Paul.
| He said that Beecher, Sturgeon and
| Talmage were the three greatest
preachers of the century. but that the
last named was the prince of the
pulpit.
| DR.. Nicols referred to the deal
mans philantropic deeds and charac,
terized him as brave heart and no.
| bic soldier or the cross.
Asked Divine Mercy on the Stricken.
| DR.. Hamlin closed the services with
prayer, asking the Divine mercy
and consolation for the stricken fam
lily. Then the immediate relatives.
| first Mrs. Ialmage, leaning on the
arm Of her eldest son, Rev Frank
Talmage, Of Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence l.. Wyckoff. CT. Utica. n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mangam, New York
Mr.. and Mrs. Donnon, of Richmond,
and others Of the family following,
| passed to their carriages. Following
this the crowd within the church
passed before the bier. The casket
remained in the church until late last
i evening. when it was placed on a
/ special car attached to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad train leaving here for
New York at 1910 a. m. The re-
mains will be inferred this morning
at Greenwood cemetery. in Brooklyn,
after services conducted by the Rev
DIR. Howard Suydam, of Rhinebeck,
n. Y.