Year: 1862

tNfRAsT FROM THE FUNERAL SERMON OVER TIE


IDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.


Before us lies the ifeless body of one Of
The Presidents Of the Union. We bury him
amid snch circumstances as never attended the
burial of President of the peoples choice
before. While we are engaged in these SOL
emn rites at this very hour an atrocious re-
beion is warning for that Unions destruc-
ton Shall it succeed? Shall il be said thai
the life of this republic was measured only bv
the life of one of It's rulers? Are yOd ready to


lay the Union beside him in his grave? Are
you willing to make his tomb the memori al
of republic which in his own lifetime rose
from three to thirty nlliOnS-put on tran
scendant glory among the nations blessed
its citizens as no other citizens ever were bless
ed-kindled hope among the oppressed of all
the earth--brightened the prospects of the
Savionrs universal reign, and then suddenly
was put to DEATH because lis rccreant sons
would not defend it against the assaults of the
fOulest conspiracy the sun ever looked down
upon, save that which hung the Lord of Clio
iv on the cross? o, with such rrfe ions who
would ever want 10 visit u Presidents tVmb?-
Who would wish TO remember even the names
of the rulers Of nation whose ephemera glo-
ries would only cast deeper iniamy upon its
unIimcly ruin? If a shattered and degraded
and impoverished coutry. how sad would all
such memories be! How full of shame and
remorse and bitterness Instead of the rejoic
ing with which we have been wont to hail
the anniversary CT our nations birth, we would
rather Ge tempted to say: Let that day be
darkness. Let not God regard it from above
neither let the light shine upon it. Let dark
re>s and the shadow Of death stain it, Let a
cloud dwell upon it. Let The backness of the
day terrify ii. Let it not be joined unto the
days of the year. Let it not come into the
number of the months" With more pug-
naut grief than Ddvids, we would cry: The
beauty of Israel are slain upon thy high pla-
ces. How are the mighty fallen Tell it not


in Cath. Publish it not in Askalon; lest the
daughters of the Phlistines rejoice lest the
daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. -
As the modern jew of Jeresalem, debarred
from the temple of his fathers, weeps every
week at the outsice of the impcuetrable wall
and presses his throbbing head in agony
against ths stones, to think that he may no
more see the glories, and taste the joys and
tread the courts of that holy place, which was
once the common heritage of ALL 50 gould we
in country conquered and destroyed by trea-
son, weep al the outside. Of the wall Of an ir-
retricyabe ruin, over the Friyaleges aud bless


ngs, over the names of rulers and the mem
ories Of prosperity and honor. once ours, but
forever lost because in the honF OF their dan
ger we rushed not to their rescue. Shall it
be so, 0, We who assemble to-day to bear one
of your nations rulers to the tomb? Can you
bear the thought of yourselves and your chill
dren standing in future years beside that tomb
only to look over that nations ruins? Can
you consent to it, if it be in the power Of man,
by the help Of God, to avort SO dire doom?
If not, then hear the voice which God in his
providence speaks to you to-day"