River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-30
JOHNSON MEMORIAL
MINNEAPOLIS AUDITORIUM is
FAR TOO SMALL FOR THE
GATHERING.
THE KING OF SWEDEN MOURNS
Ex-Governor Lind Spoke at Church OF
Redeemer Exercises-Many other
Churches Held Meetings to
Pay Their Tributes.

AliUU6dDOllSs
the mans life, straightforward, direct,
with appealing tenderness, the ao-
dress at the memorial service to the
late Governor Johnson in the auditor
ium Sunday Afternoon gave voice TO
what was lying dumb in the minds OF
the 5000 persons crowded into the
! building.
Half an hour before the program was
to be opened, floor, galleries and stage
were filed, and nearly 1000 people
were waiting outside at o'clock when
Bishop Edsall pronounced the invoca-
ton. AS many more were turned
away during the next hour.
High over the stage a large picture
of the dead governor was hung, draped
with the national colors and crepe and
on the walls above the second gallery
were rosettes of half furled flags with
mourning pendants.
eff ever any doubt had existed re-
garding the true greatness of the man
whose memory we meet here today to
CELEBRATE, that doubt would be dis
PEELED at the sight of this gathering"
the service in the place of President
Northrop of the University of Mime
sofa, whose attendance was prevented
by illness. "The secret of Governor
Johnson's success" said the mayor,
clay in his entire simplicity ind gen.
uineness."
The mayor then read message Of
&,.i6 70 fLo II, % dot
Sept "a, and sent through the Swed
ish minister of foreign affairs to the
local consulate. 1t was: "Graciously
commissioned, I beg to express his
majesty's warm sympathy in the be-
reavement occasioned by our country
man, Governor Johnson's DEATH
John A. Johnson's life and death
contain an intimation Of immortality,
declared Rev. M. D. Shutter. His
work here on earth will go on and
on, said DR.. Shutter, broadening in its
scope, influencing the characters and
acts of man by the inherent power Of
example, while his Maker will, no
doubt, provide him with greater work
to do in the beyond.
hefr, atndDs oamemorojMa. N cmfwy
ut is not our place to give him
seat among the great men," said Rev.
Andrew Gillies, when our bones are
Wondering in the dust, our grandchil-
dren will lisp his name and recite his
achievements. But it is our place to
rejoice in the virtues that make him
hy a1I VIZ II
about John A. Johnson was, not be-
cause he came near to some men, but
because he came near to all men. He
was a man of the people, belonged to
the people and served the people until
the end of his days."
The speaker called upon his audi
ence not to forget that, while the loss
is a great affliction to the state and
nation, yet the blow has fallen most
heavily on the wife, who today sits in
midnight blackness in which we can
only know the twilight"
''He lived man and died an ideal"
1t was with these words that former
Governor Lind closed his tribute to
the late Governor Johnson at the mem
orial service at the Church of the Re-
deemer.
THAT funeral procession at st. Pet
er demonstrated that men are ruled
by sentiments-by ideals. am CRATE
full that it is so. If we were governed
by intellect and calculation it would
be barren world. There was much
in the personality and life of John A.
Johnson that appealed to the common
man. His experiences were the ex-
periences of the great mass of people.
knew him intimately. 1 loved him.
love his memory.
Memorial services in addition to
those already referred to were held in
many churches of the city. Geo. Eber-
hart addressed one of the meetings.