The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-20
OBSEQUIES OF MR. BENNETT.
BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE
 SERVICES YESTERDAY.

Hen of Prominence from Many Parts o1
 she Country in Attsndance-Very
 Large concourse of Friends and ReIa-
 tions-EuIogy by Hon. William J.
 Bryan-GeneraI E. E. Bradley Master
 of Ceremonies.
 Beautiful and impressive in their simplicity were the last sad rites over the remains Of the late Philo s. Ben- nett. conducted at his late home, 1S7 Wall street. yesterday afternoon at o'clock i'll the presence of large con- course of sorrowing friends and rela- lives. Men prominent in all the walks of life stood at the bier of this man who was widely known for his busi- hess ability, his philanthropy and kind ly demeanor. There was particular Iy large gathering of those who were Intimately associated in business wish the deceased and valued him as a friend, many of them being from out of the city. MT. Bennett had many close friends in this city and they were present at the funeral services in large numbers. ....
 The services were opened by the sing ing of "One Sweetly Solemn Thought by Ericsson Bushnell, who rendered this beautiful piece most effectively. Then came the reading of scriptures and prayer by the Rev. MT. Haynes, pastor of the United church. of which Mir. Bennett was a member. Miss Gaffney then sang an appropriate solo after which MT. Haynes made a few appropriate remarks and pronounced the benediction. In the course of his remarks MT. Haynes said: The most appropriate words on such an occa- sion as this are the words of the Holy Scripture, leading our thoughts and feelings out into some simple utterance Of prayer. It were better under ordi- nary circumstances to withhold our tes- timony of praise until some hour when the mind could dwell more calmly upon the character and achievements of him who has gone. But the circumstances Of this occasion are not ordinary: the man whom we honor to-day was no or dinary man. He was unique by virtue of the opinions which he held. the ideals which he followed and the type of manhood which he exemplified. Such B life calls for some direct and simple word of appreciation. To go out from this service without voicing the senti- ments that have moved you to come to his house to-day were to tempt the very stones in the street to render tribute to him whom you have known and loved.
 The sacredness of personality is. not hestroyed by the death of the body. In every mans life is holy of holies; and God alone has the right to enter that inner sanctuary. Of that relig- ious life which is the expression of a mans sense of relationship to his brother the world has right to take note: but of that life which is hidden with Christ in God the world can know nothing. and into the secret workings pf that life no man should attempt to lntrude. 5g =z
 4 fined itself very clearly to my thought. It is not of a general characteristic or dinary commonplaces which may be at tached to every good man who dies but something definite and distinct. May I come to my thoughts by way of much sighted word of Scripture? I cannot help feeling that if MT. Bennett had chosen text it would have been this. He that 1oveth not his brother whom he hath seen. how can he love God whom he hath not seen?'
 And this brings me to the definite thing I would say. MT. Bennett did not forget his past; his heart, to the very last, was with the people. The burning sin among our strong and suc- cesssul men lies in the fact that they forget their past. Sprung from the people they forget the people. In many instances those who are most bitter against the great masses of laboring men are the very ones who have risen from the ranks of labor. As study men I find that worldly success has a way of changing their sympathy. It was not so with MT. Bennett. The rause of the people, those who could not speak for themselves. those who were doing the worlds hard work-the cause of the people was nearer to his heart than the interests of his own af- fairs. Simple modest, unassuming-- no man, however humble his labor, but found in him 8 brother. He be- iieved in Christ, and in Christ's idea of brotherhood. How devotedly he gave himself-his time, his strength, his means, to the realization of this dream of brotherhood is known to you far bet ter than to myself. His whole life was valiant service in the interests of jus tice and mercy and truth. On every hand men are saying of him that he gould not rest until he got to the bot tom of things; and firmly believe that Me honor one to-day whose heart was set, above every thing else, on reality.
 Reality! How this word brings us back to the sacred mystery of the hour. t.Y a man die shall he live again?" It is a question old as the world. And to that question there is only one an- swer; it is the answer of the good life. In the hour of supreme sorrow all our arguments and speculations crumble in to rothingness. The soul must be a witness to itself of it's own eternal na- lure. If you would believe in the im- mortal life go live as though you were immortal Face your life as this man faced his, and the future need hold no Tears for you. Wealth, fame, honor