The San Francisco call., 1905-03-25

On one SIDE StOOQ a cross OIL EdStcT
Elilies. 1t was lettered in flowers.
'Auntie," and was the token of Miss
Jennie Lathrop, the niece that Mrs.
Stanford loved SO well. On the other
side was a broken wheel made of La
France roses and galax. Here and
there along the chancel were scat
tered punches of orchids and white
roses. On either side sat the seven
ministers who participated in the SER
vices. their long black robes in strik-
ing contrast to the white figures of
the apostles.
Rev. William Kirk Guthrie of the
First Presbyterian Church of San
Francisco offered the opening prayer.
At the close of which Organist Blod-
gett played memorial anthem writ
ten by him upon the death of Mrs.
Stanford. Rabbi Voorsanger of the
Temple Emanu-El of San Francisco
took the first lesson from the twenty
! third psalm. "The Lord is my shep-
herd I shall not want" Rev. E. r..
Ollie of Oakland read from the Book
of Corinthians. Bishop Nichols led the
congregation in the Lords Prayer.
REV. MIR. DINsMORE,s ADDRESS.
Rev. John w. Dinsmore of San Jose
delivered the principal address, which
was as follows.
few and simple. The exigencies of the occa-
sion and the known tastes of the departed alike
require this brevity and simplicity y
This hour brings to an impressive illus
traton of the sublime utterances of an ancient
bard: Clouds and darkness are round about
him; righteousness and Judgment are the eab-
l.itation of his throne Also of an ancient
prophet. My thoughts not your thoughts.
neither are your. ways my ways. saith the
earth, so are1my ways higher than your ways,
and my Thoughts than your thoughts
Mysteries. bewideIing and inserutane; con, on.
and painful meet us in every path and every
day. No good and wise man. If he had given
the power. would have made such world as
this is. He would not have filed it with mil
lionfold perversities and poisons; with irwin
mendous dynamics of destruction and death
Nor would he have made such human race
! as, ours is. with Its awful talent for rapacity,
treaehefy cruelty and crime For II, by some
fatal blunder. he had made such a world and
such race to people it. swiftly would he have
regenerated or DESTROYED IT. both the race and
the world. Is not that what you would have
done?
No more would your wise and good man
administer the affairs of this world as they
| are administered; nor would he suffer this
race to work out the history 1t has been work
ns d out h fbem aTs 6me h perysrstes Of
| ture. neutralized its posons, disarmed and de-
/ stroyed all their manifold and mighty forces.
| which bring hardship. suffering and death to
| the world. He would instantly extermnate
cut Of human nature its meanness, viciousness
and ferocity, and put an utter end 10 all the
/ frishtful cruelties and crimes which have
| drenched human history in tears. and STEPPED
/ it in blood; those inhumanities of man to man
| which have made the countless millions mourn
/ If you had the power would not you do this
And yet, we believe that the almighty, all
/ wise and ever blessed God created this world
| and that he presdes over all Its on gong'
| from the least to the greatest. True. as i
! came from his hand, 1t was all very good, bu
4 ne permitted the fatal blight to fall upon 1t
! and what permits when he has power t.
! hinder he does. And we believe in his al
mighty providence; his supreme and sover
eign presidency over the world and all IT
affairs from greatest to least. This belief ma.
/ take one form or another. 1t may rest oil
| rational or irrational grounds; Its effects ma.
be ennobling degrading, but in its ger
mnal principle 1t seems to be a primary, al
intuitve conviction of the human race. w
/ believe in the living God; that he has neve
let go of any world. of anything, which h
has created; that he has an all-searching su
pervision. and an Infinitely easy mastery owe
all things absolutely, from suns and system
down to sparrcws and the hairs of our heads
/ and most explicitly over all the multitudinou
] details of every individual life. On this, ou
| faith, our hopes, our consultations, our yer.
souls repose
FELLOWSHIP OF SUFFERING.
| But most plainly his thoughts and his way