Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
Francis Murphy Goes
to His Last
Rest
End Comes to Evangelist
at 1925 Sunday
Morning
Had Tried to Live Until His Sons
Arrived from the East-Body to
Lie In State at Simpson
Auditorium
Francis Murphy is dead.

Z. Francis Murphy is dead.
The great temperance advocate
passed away at 1925 yesterday MORN
ing at the home Of his daughter Mrs..
Wayland Trask of st. Andrews place.
His last words were brief message
Of farewell and godspeed to his son,
Edward Murphy, who arrived in Los
Angeles Saturday night. Three other
sons are now speeding across the con-
tinent ignorant of the fact that death
has won the race and that they will
never again see their father in life.
They are expected to reach here at 8
o'clock tonight.
The end came after prolonged ILL
ness entailing much suffering, which
Mr.. Murphy bore. brovely and which
toward the last was relieved by opiates.
1t was not unexpected. Several days
ago the physicians in attendance adj
mitted that there was no hope for a
favorable termination of the illness.
The turning point came early last
week, when plans for an operation,
then almost perfected, were abandoned
because of Mr.. Murphys weakness and
his very apparent inability to Withstand
the shock. From that time on life was
preserved in the stricken mans body
largely by the force of his own in
domitable will.
Wanted Ills Sons
His one great desire was to be per-
mitted to live until his sons reached
him. This boon was granted only. in
part. When Edward Murphy entered
his fathers bed chamber Saturday
night it was feared that the great
evangelist would not recognize him. At
the sound of that loved voice, however,
the grand old man opened his eyes,
caa rObinOlU into hfd enn'q fare
and responded with a brief greeting
and message of love. Then he sank
back, and though life remained for
several hours afterward he did not
again regain consciousness.
Funeral services will be held in
Simpson auditorium at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Between the
hours of ii and Q the body will lie in
state at the auditorium. The active
pallbearers will be men whom Mr..
Murphy saved from lives of degrada-
tion. The honorary pallbearers will be
chosen from the business and profess.
sional men of the city who were his
friends and who aided him in his great
work.
Further arrangements for the funeral
have not yet been completed, but will
be announced today by Arthur Let's, a
close friend of Mr.. Murphy's, who has
the matter In charge. A general invi-
tation is extended to all ministers of
the city, irrespective of denomination,
to occupy seats on the platform, at
the funeral service. A memorial SER
vice will be held in Temple Auditorium
next Sunday. Interment will be in
Rosedale cemetery.
His Greed Was Love
No man ever met with such great
success upon the temperance platform
as Francis Murphy, and no man ever
took UP the work with less promise.
The furore aroused by his first meet
ing probably surprised no one more
than himself. He had had no prelimi-
nary training as a public speaker. He
was largely self taught. But he stepped
upon that platform, in Portland, Me-,
enthusiastic, thoroughly persuaded of
the holiness of his mission, determined
to do the best that was in him to re-
deem men, as he himself had been re-
deemed, from the evil of strong drink.
His creed was love, charity, kindli-
ness, federation. Sect, he knew not. He
did the Masters work as the oppor-
tunity offered, as the opportunity de-
veloped when he sought it out. Few
public speakers have made so wide an
appeal. His message, delivered in
every city of Importance in this coun-
LrY, as WSll dS dDIOdQ, Wdo pIOu6hI
home alike to the university man AMI
to the unfortunate denizen of the
slums to the scholar and to the ig-
noramus
In Los Angeles, where he made his
home in recent years, he was known
and loved with an esteem and affection
granted to but few men. His weekly
meetings in Blanchard hall invariably
were well attended and the good he ac-
complished here never can be fully ap-
preciated.
Bids Good BY to Friend
Among Mr. Murphy's many friends
in Los Angeles few were closer to the
great evangelist than Arthur Let's.
Mr. Let's passed much of Saturday
with the dying man. Before he left
for his home Mr.. Murphy rallied long
enough to say few words in farewell
and to give him goodby clasp OF the
hand.
Yesterday morning, when the end
seemed imminent, a telephone message
was sent to Mr.. Let's at HolmbN hall
hollywood asking him to come at
once Prepared for the worst, Mr..
Let's jumped into an automobile and
at top speed raced toward his friends
bedside. He reached the home just
five minutes after life had flown.
Mayor Harper, on being informed
last might that the great evangelist
had passed away, said that he would
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