The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-10-31
DIED IN JAPAN
RESTS IN HOUSTON
REMAINS OF BISHOP SETH WARD
WARD OWEN TO EARTH AFTER
eULooisTIc SERVICES.

/ Houston. TeNss. oct administers
from every church I'm Houston ard
from many Texas cities were pres.
en-: in Houston at St Pauls Mctno.
dist church Thursday morning %
listen 90 the culogics and 10 pay
tribute TO Bishop Seth Ward of tie
Methodist church. whose mortal yc.
mains were given to the earth af."r
the services at the church Bishop
Ward died in Japan several weeks
ago; on Wednesday the remains ar.
rived in Houston from the Far Eas'
and the funeral services were held
today.
Flowers filled the pulpit and chan.
eel and dccked the altar rall 5long
its wide and sweeping curve, ard as
the funeral party entered The .hur, u
the organist played the funeral
march by Chopin
Every church in the city had ,rrt
ground of fragrance and beauty
against which Bishop Warren Clnd.
Ter stood when he uttered "a words
In culogy OF the lead Sn"arn
church. St Paul's char,h, TaGclHL.
Gle church. the Texas oortercncy
and the Cleaners Society OF St
Pauls had sent special sctp "ne H..
signs in flowers That of the Clean.
ers was sheat OF gold wheat filled
with pure white rosebuds.
ST Paul Quanette, composed Of
Mrs Turner Williamson. Mrs. Jc-
rome Swinford, George Doschcr and
George Myer. sang Vests II Will
Give You Rest"
After prayer by Pastor Ryland the
choir and congregation sang Bishop
Wards favorits hymn, Forever with
the Lord; Amen; So 1t BE" II was
the one he had sung while dying
Bishop Gamblers theme was the
desire of Paul the great missionary
bishop OF the early church. to Fin.
ish His Course with Joy"
He described the life of the apostle
up 10 the time when his missionary
iourneyings being complete he want.
ed 10 go back to Jerusalem and
carry the offering from the Gentilcs
to the Jews, who in Jerusalem were
suffering the pangs Cf hunger and
famine, and there give visible proof
to them in the converted Gentiles
of the power of Christianity to save
the heather, and by the bounty oi
the heather break down the racial
preiudiceS that existed in the minds
of the Jews. Paul's friends sought
to dissuade him. but ne went beyond
in the spirit Of Jerusalem He said
When they wcpt and besought him:
none of those things move me. my
very life is not dear to me if |
can finish my course with joy. and
I am ready rot only to go to Jcru-
salem, but TO die there"
Against the background OF the life
OF the first great missionary to the
heather Bishop Gambler drew word
/ picture of the life OF the last mis-.
sionary bishop of the Method ~
faith TO hay down his life in for.
ai
duty and going from the battlefield
20 the throne
/ He told how during the long years
in which he had known Bishop Ward
he had never known him to hest
tate to complain or to ask for any
easier position than that which was
offered to him.
DIR. George Sexton paid tribute 10
! the greatness and goodness Of IN.
| dead man
Mr.. Huffmastcr, az the organ, play
! cd the solemn strains OF Beethoven'~
| funeral march, "On the Death OF A
/ Hero and the mourncrs, the minis
ters and friends filed out TO thu
long line OF waitrG carriage and ac
! companied the ren'linB to the grave
At Glenwood. afd" few brief
words Of tribute and If prayer from
( the ministers present. the quartettc
sang. My Faith looks Up . Thee. "
Then the mound wa hcaprd with
great masses Of flows and the
! dead was lett To rest IL his native