■tell. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. E^ij — ii^ dopiing]^ 1|0, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DEATH IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE: A SERMON ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. 1 BY WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D. NEW YORK : ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, 900 Broadway, Cor. 20th Street. DEATH IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE: A SERMON ON THE D EATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD PREACHED IN BROADWAY TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 23, 1881, BY V' \VM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., Pastor. c'^'V NEW YORK : ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY, 900 Broadway, Cor. 20th Street. 7z.f COPYRIGHT, l83l, BY ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY. Edwaid 0. Jenkins, Printer and Stereotyper, 20 North William St., N. Y. New York, Scptcvibcr 26, 18S1. Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D. DEAR SIR: A sermon like that preached by you yesterday, upon the death of President Garfield, should have a wider and more abiding influence than if preserved only in the memory of those who heard it. Those who had that privilege desire the sermon in a permanent form, and many others would be glad to profit by your eloquent and instructive words in this time of sorrow. In asking for the publication of the sermon we are but uttering the unanimous wish of your Church and Congregation. We are, Dear Sir, Yours most truly, Hubbard Beebe, Caleb B. Knevals, Thomas W. Whittemore. La Fayette Ranney, John J. Sinclair, William D. Moore, John H. Washburn. ,; -- ' A. H. Clapp. Rev. Hubbard Beebe, and others: dear brethren: "" The sermon to which you refer was written without any idea of its publication through the press, and was the simple outgush of my heart under the nation's sorrow. But since you consider it worthy of permanent preservation and general cir- culation, I very cheerfully place the manuscript at your disposal. I am. Your affectionate Pastor, Wm. M. Taylor. 6 West 35th Street, New York, 2btli September, 1881. A SERMON DEATH OF PRESIDEiNT GARFIELD. They went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the Mount. — Numbers xx. 27, 2S. On the borders of Idumea, in the district of Ara- bia Petrsea, and about midway between the most northern point of the Red Sea and the most south- ern point of the Dead Sea, rises the remarkable mountain which now bears the name of Jebel Nebi Haroun, or the Mountain of Aaron. Its ascent is steep and toilsome, and its summit, which is about five thousand feet above the level of the Mediter- ranean, consists of two peaks which give it a castel- lated appearance. Standing on the loftier of these the spectator looks over the valley of the Arabah with its numerous water-courses to the white mount- ains of the wilderness, throuo-h which the children of Israel wandered for so many years, and beyond which are visible the heights through which they had vainly attempted to force their way into the promised land. Close around him, on the east, are the rugged mount- ains of Edom, and far along the horizon the white 6 A Sermon on the downs of Mount Seir ; but over no part of the land- scape does his eye wander with more curiosity and dehght than the crags of Mount Hor itself, which stand up on every side in the most rugged and fan- tastic forms ; sometimes strangely piled one on the other, and sometimes as strangely yawning in clefts of frightful depth.'^' Such was the mountain, at the base and in full view of which the tribes were en- camped when the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, " Aaron shall be gathered unto his people. Take Aaron and Elcazar his son and bring them up unto Mount Hor ; and strip Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people and shall die there." What feelings would be stirred in the hearts of the two brothers by these words ! The tender recollections of boyhood, when from time to time they met and amused themselves in the home of Amram ; the mem- ory of those thrills of patriotism which vibrated within them when, after long separation, they met to begin their struggle for the emancipation of their nation ; the remxcmbrance alike of their association in Egypt, when together they contended against the tyrannic Pharaoh, and of their long and loving cooperation in the leading of the people through the desert — all would crowd upon their minds, and thoughts too * See Stanley's " Sinai and Palestine," p. %"] ; and Alexander Kitto's Cyclopaedia, article, " Hor." Death of President Gai^field. 7 deep for utterance would fill their souls. Nay more, the consciousness on the part of Moses that he was the main transgressor at the rock when the fiat was pronounced that doomed them to exclusion from the Canaan of their hope, would add poignancy to the grief he felt, and we may well believe that they sought relief each in the silent embrace of the other. But not long time could be given to such natural emotion, for the command of God must be obeyed. Accordingly, in the sight of all the people, Aaron, in full pontifical attire, as if he were going to officiate in the tabernacle on a high and sacred festival, steps forth, and with Moses on one side and his son Elea- zar on the other, he sets out for the summit of the mountain. As they move up its steep and rugged slopes, they are followed by the eager eyes of the people on whose behalf he had gone so often with the blood of atonement within the veil. What ear- nest converse has he now with Moses concerning the world beyond ? What faithful exhortations does he address to Eleazar as to his conduct in that office on which he is so soon to enter ? What deep conscious- ness of unworthiness and sin wouM burden his heart ? What calm trustfulness in the God of the mercy-seat would cheer, and sustain his spirit ? And now they have reached the summit, on which he pauses a mo- ment to take his last look of earth. There at his feet are the "goodly tents" of Israel, and over the tribes, mayhap, as he looks down, he pronounces again his 8 A Scnnoii on the priestly benediction. There is the tabernacle in whose service he had found at once his labor and his joy ; yonder away before him is the wilderness, through which so long he had followed the mystic pillar of cloud and fire ; and far off to the right are the hills, beyond which Canaan lies — but that Ca- naan is not for him ! Yet, there is no murmur. Once again it may be written, "And Aaron held his peace." With tender hands his brother strips off his garments and puts them on Eleazar. Then bravely and quietly he lies down to die, and even as Moses and Eleazar look at him, his spirit leaves its house of clay, and he is on earth no more ! Thus sublimely died the brother and companion of Israel's leader. We forget his failings as we see him ascending so serenely the hill on which he is to be "gathered to his fathers." At intervals in the long day of his life his sun had been obscured by clouds that somewhat dimmed its radiance, but now all these have cleared away, and, as it set behind the cas- tellated crest of Mount Hor, it threw thereon a golden glory which lingers on it yet. Three went up, but only two came down — Moses, with a keener sense of loneliness than ever, and Eleazar lamenting his father's absence all the more because of the added responsibility of his new position. For thirty days the people halted in sorrow for their loss, and then the pillar rose from above the tabernacle and led them out and on toward the country of their hope. Death of President Gavjicld. 9 Everything went on as it had done before, but Aaron was not there ! That is an old history ; but, in some of its main features, it has just been repeated in the experience of this nation ; and so I have turned to it to find comfort and instruction in our hour of sorrow. Of our beloved President, too, it may be truly said that he has ascended the hill in the sight of all the people. His life has been a constant climb. From the log-cabin in the forest he went " still upward," until he reached the highest office which can be attained among us ; and although, while he was patiently and heroically threading his way up the earliest slopes, he was un- seen by the multitudes, yet the microscopic inspec- tion of his antecedents at the time of his nomination to the Presidency has made even the youngest among us familiar with his career from his earliest boyhood until the night when, amid the tolling of bells and the tears of the nation, the sad words passed from mouth to mouth among us — "The President is dead ! " We have followed him from the cabin to the school-house ; from the school-house to the carpen- ter's shop ; from the carpenter's shop to the canal barge ; from the canal barge to the academy ; from the academy to the college — first as a student and afterward as a professor ; from the college to the bat- tle-field ; from the battle-field to the halls of legislat- lo A Sermioii on the ure ; from the halls of legislature to the White House ; and from the White House to that cottage by the sea, wherein the long alternation between relapse and recovery terminated in his dissolution. No He- brew in all the host that day when Aaron went up Mount Hor watched the progress of the ascending high-priest with more interest than that with which we have scanned the history of Mr. Garfield ; and we had all a glow of honest, thankful satisfaction when we saw in the Presidential chair a man who might be regarded as a typical representative of the best ele- ments of the American character. Ikit alas! like Aaron, he reached the summit only to die ; and his death also was in the sight of all the people. The nation — nay, the world was admitted to his sick- chamber. For all these weeks each hand among us was upon his pulse, and each ear among us was at his heart. It was as if each of us had a beloved patient in his home. The " fierce light " which usually " beats upon a throne " is nothing to the radiant publicity into which the affection of the citizens insisted upon put- ting the incidents of that chamber of suspense ; and in coming years there shall yet be made in song and story many a pathetic mention of his heroic sayings and his thoughtful solicitude for those who were most dear to him. Now, it is in the effects which this very publicity of his history and sufferings has produced, and is, I Death of Prcsidcjit Gai-ficld. i i believe, destined in still larger measure yet to produce among us, that I find some of the richest elements of consolation under our sore trial. For, in the first place, that publicity has elevated into the view of the community a character every way worthy to become an example and an inspiration to us all. And in speaking thus, I refer not so much to the persever- ance and indomitable pluck by which he was distin- guished, as to the moral and spiritual qualities which in him were so conspicuous. He was from the first characterized by conscience. From the day when on the canal barge he refused to take by stratagem or trick from another boat, the right of way to which it was fairly entitled, on to that of the Convention in which he stood unyieldingly up for a principle which he believed to be " everlastingly right," he was un- flinching in his adherence to that which in his view was just. And this conscience in him, I rejoice to add, was thoroughly Christianized. In his early youth he be- came, on deliberate conviction, a disciple of the Lord Jesus ; and in every sphere he filled, it might be said of him that he was " not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." There was, indeed, no ostentatious parade of his devo- tion. He said little because he acted so much. His piety w^as that of principle rather than emotion ; and it was too much occupied in conduct to have any energy to spare for display. He was more ambitious for ex- cellence than for position. The only place he ever 12 A Sci'mon on the asked for he did not get, and every office which he filled was one to which he was called by others with- out any seeking of his own. He never had the " Presidential fever," but he had the conspicuous fit- ness for the office to such a degree, that his nomination was almost forced upon him by his fellows. So he stands forth before us all a striking instance of the truth of Solomon's words, though in perhaps a differ- ent sense from that in which the wise king used them, "A man's gift maketh room for him." Not what he could get for himself thereby moved him to strive for office ; but, contrariwise, he was called to office because men perceived how much of ability, disinterestedness, independence, and patriotism he could give to the people through the office. They sought him for what he was ; he did not seek it for what it was worth. And surelv I am not wrone in saying that in the elevation and glorification of such a character by such a death we have an element of comfort which is well-nigh incalculable. We can not mourn for him ; for, being such a man as he was, we know right well whither he has gone — and we may be thankful that such a career has been so promi- nently brought before the eyes of the rising genera- tion among us. Young men, let it fire you with the noblest of all ambitions. Seek rather to be than to get. Labor not for office, but for character ; and, to that end, cul- tivate through faith in Christ a conscience that shall Death of President Garfield. 13 spurn from it every thought of wrong ; for in con- science is the main-spring of character, and as you act concerning it, you will become either a hero or a coward. But it is not only in its public aspects that the his- tory of our nation's second martyr is fraught with benefit. There was a domesticity about him which strikingly illustrated the fifth commandment ; and, in a day wdien some believe that our home-life in Amer- ica is deofeneratino-, I am thankful that he who has gone set such a noble example in this regard. What devotion he showed to his venerable mother ? Who can recall without emotion that scene with his fellow- students when, camping out with them, he took out his Bible and said : " Boys, I promised my mother to read a portion of the Scriptures every night, and I am going to read it now — shall I read it aloud ?" and then, with their concurrence, not only read a chapter, but led them in prayer to the throne of the heavenly grace ? Who can speak without pleasure of the kiss which he imprinted on his mother's lips immediately after he had taken the oath of office on his installation day ? And who can read without tears the letter — the only one he wrote during his weeks of languish- incr — to the venerable woman, that he might, with his own hand, give her as much hope of his recovery as possible ? Wliat an example for the sons and daugh- ters of the land ! Oh, ye poor, paltry puppets, who. 14 A Sermon on the in the day of your prosperity, turn your backs upon your parents and think of them only as a burden and a dissrrace — look at these beautiful indications of his filial devotion and go hide your heads for shame ! That installation kiss ! let it stand out in our history forever as an enforcement of the holy law — " Honor thy father and thy mother" — and let it serve to lift up the family among us to its ancient elevation. But he was no less tender as a husband than he was faithful as a son. We got a glimpse of his con- jugal devotion during the serious illness of Mrs. Gar- field in the White House ; and the impression made then upon us was deepened by the telegram which he calmly dictated to her immediately after he was shot ; while, on the other hand, her noble calmness in that trying hour, coupled with her unslumbering watchfulness beside his bed, has given her a place in the nation's heart second onlv — if indeed it be second — to that in which it has enshrined him. Is it noth- ing, think you, that in these days of marriage for con- venience and of easy divorce and of too common lax- ity in this department of morals, God has, through that honored couple, so haloed and hallowed the con- jugal relationship before the world ? While, in the bearing of Mr. Garfield toward his boys and his ten- der solicitude for his daughter, I feel persuaded that every father among us has been stimulated and bene- fited. How many homes in the land, I wonder, could bear the revelation made by the turning of the Death of President Garfield. 1 5 white electric light of pubHcity in upon them as the household of the President has done ? This terrible affliction has made it a spectacle to all. Let us be thankful that it is of such a character that it may be an example for all. But I find another element of consolation in the unification of the nation which has resulted from the publicity in which our President lived and died. When Aaron was ascending Mount Hor, no jealousy was permitted to alienate the tribes of Israel from each other. In sight of the venerable high-priest going up to meet his death, the envyings of Reuben and the rebellion of the sons of Korah were forgot- ten. Israel was once more a unit. One great grief swallowed up and into itself all minor things, even as the uprising tide overwhelms all the pools which the last ebb has left behind ; and, in the thirty days of mournino; which followed his dissolution, there was no exception to the universality of the grief ; for, as the historian tells us, "they mourned for Aaron, even ^//the house of Israel." So it is now with us. For the first time in many, many years there is no section in our land to-day. North and South— their differ- ences for the time forgotten— are weeping in equal sorrow over Garfield's bier, and it looks as if the feuds of a quarter of a century were to be healed and the divisions cemented by his blood. No tributes to his memory are more sincere than those which have been 1 6 A Sei'nion on the uttered by Southern statesmen, and no tokens of grief are deeper than those worn by our fellow-citi- zens with whom formerly we were at war. So, as sometimes offended brothers have been reconciled as they stood beside a father's open grave, the country has been reunited by the death of Garfield. When Lincoln died, the wound was too green to be healed even by his martyrdom ; but now, unless all present indications fail, we have come to the end of that ter- rible strife which began over slavery ; and there is, as I believe, before these United States an era of good feeling which shall give new emphasis to the first word in our national appellation. This does not make a whit less horrible the manner of Mr. Gar- field's "taking off," or lessen by one iota the guilt of the contemptible assassin, but it does tend to assuage our sorrow ; and, in the fact that North and South have looked into each other's hearts through the re- vealing lenses of their tears, and have seen that be- neath all surface differences there is yet, thank God, a common nationality, we have an omen for the fut- ure which is full of promise. Now that we have wept together, we shall begin to forget that we have fought. I think, too, that among the consolatory effects produced by this trial I see the beginning of a spirit of indignation which shall at length sweep away the abuses that have gathered round that system of making public offices the rewards of party service Death of President Garfield. ij which has become the shame of our American pol- itics. It may be said, indeed, that the misguided man who fired at the good President is mad, and that no argument may be drawn from any words of his. But, without presuming to settle whether he be in- sane or not, thus much we may say, that even if he be so, this whole system of office-seeking gave the' shape to his madness, and is directly accountable for the loss which we this day deplore. The life of the assassin, should he prove to be a responsible agent, will be forfeited to the law ; and it is to be hoped that in that case nothing will be allowed to prevent the infliction of the righteous penalty. But, unless I greatly mistake, there has been growing all through these sorrowful weeks a spirit of determination among the people to put to death the system out of w^hich this murder sprung, and woe to the public man who shall attempt to stay that execution! It may take a long time. The struggle may be severe, for self-interest is always difficult to dislodge ; but, de- pend upon it, its death-knell is rung, and the sover- eign people will see that their will is carried through, no matter what official heads may be lopped off in the process. Over the bier of Garfield they have pledged themselves that he shall not die in vain, and a covenant in such blood will never be forgotten. The evil now has only smitten the nation's head ; it has not yet corrupted the heart. The universal feel- ing of this hour is a proof that that is sound ; and. 1 8 A Sermon on the when the people are in earnest, they can do anything. They are in earnest now. God grant that their ear- nestness may continue until they have secured that every department of our civil service shall be dealt with as thoroughly as the Postmaster-General is deal- ing now with the infamous star routes. It seems to be the law of God's providence that no great advance can be secured in anything without a victim, and the value of the victim in this case is so great — for he was the best the nation had — that we may anticipate that the advance will be decided. Here, too, the law comes in, and I am guilty of no irreverence in apply- ing it after this fashion : " Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone ; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." It has been a fearful sorrow. Let us see to it that it shall not be in vain ; and, to that end, let us pledge ourselves by the memory of him at whose bedside we have stood for so many weeks, that, God helping us, we shall slay the system out of which his assassination sprung. If we do not succeed in doing that, it may be the assassina- tion of the nation next. But the effects of the publicity given to our Presi- dent's character and death have not been confined to our own land. The nations have sat with us round his bed, and they are mourning with us now over his decease. Thus this calamity has brought the ends of the earth together, and knit the peoples in a brother- Death of President Garfield. 19 hood of bereavement. From all quarters and from every land, messages of condolence have kept pourin^; in upon us. In Great Britain, as I can testify from observation during my recent visit to my father-land, the President and his patient, self-denying wife were daily through his illness a source of interest to all, from the palace to the cottage. Queen Victoria never wrote anything so queenly as that message which came quivering over the wires to the stricken mourner ; for it was the queenliness of the woman, rather than of the monarch — the sympathy of a widow, speaking from her own experience, with a widow just entering the valley of her loneliness — " May God comfort you as He alone can " ; and the memorial wreath which she caused to be laid upon his coffin will flourish as an "immortelle" in the memory of this people. Here, too, a sorrow has bridged over a separation, and 1776 is justified by the friendship of 18S1. Nor have other sovereigns been behind, while statesmen and poets have vied with each other in the pathetic expression of their sorrow. In this death there has been thus that " touch of nature " which " makes the whole world kin " ; and to-morrow, when his remains shall be car- ried forth to their resting-place, the business of the nations will stand still to let the funeral procession pass ! Truly here is a new thing under the sun, and we may take it as a foreherald of the time of which the poet sings : " When the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furl'd In the parliament of men, the federation of the world." 20 A Sermon on the It is coming, and tliat Christianity which Garfield loved and manifested is to bring it on ! But as another element of consolation under our sorrow, suggested by this text, I name the continua- tion of the nation's organic life. Aaron gives his vest- ments to Eleazar before he dies, and so the priestly work is perpetuated, though he no longer performs it. The king dies ; but with the announcement of his de- mise, the herald proclaims his successor, and says, " Long live the king ! " Ministers and people die, but the Church abides, and carries forward its benefi- cent work. So in our nation, by the wise forethought of those who drew up its Constitution, provision was made for the death of its chief magistrate ; and as the President is removed, his mantle falls upon one al- ready fore-elected for the contingency. When Lin- coln was murdered it was the voice of Garfield which stilled the surging crowd in Wall Street with the words : " Fellow-citizens, clouds and darkness are round about him ; justice and judgment are the habi- tation of his throne God reiorns, and the irov- ernment at Washington still lives." This is our con- solation now ; and to-day, while we sympathize with the bereaved, and count ourselves among them, our prayers must also ascend for him who, in circum- stances so solemn, and amid grief so profound, has been called to the duties and responsibilities of the Presidential chair. For him, too, as for us, these weeks Death of President Garfield. 21 of sadness have been a time of discipline ; and the nation is prepared, as I think it was not at their beginning, to sustain and support him in his new relation. He has before him, perhaps, the noblest opportunity of render- ing service to his country which was ever given to an American citizen. It is in his power, if he but rise, to the occasion, to make one of the grandest Presidential records in our history ; but if he should fail or falter in the " narrow place " to which God has led him, he will sink beneath the commonest mediocrity. He has made some mistakes in the past, but these may be to him now only beacons to keep him from making ship- wreck in the future. Let us frankly give him our confidence that he may prove himself worthy of that confidence. His bearing since that mournful morn- ing, when those two pistol shots sent a shudder through the world, has been in every respect worthy of the occasion ; and his first utterances on assuming office were calm, dignified, sympathetic, and full of promise ; so that if he should go on as he has begun, he may succeed, in a large degree, in realizing the ideal which the death of his predecessor has fixed and glorified before the nation's eyes. No man, I am persuaded, feels the solemnity of his position more thoroughly than he does himself. May God guide him and up- hold him ! and may he never give occasion to the peo- ple to withdraw from him the trust which they repose in him to-day ! 2 2 A Sermon on the But to mention only one thought more, we have the larg^est consolation of all in the fact that God is among the people. Aaron did not take with him the pillar of cloud and fire. The shechinah still hovered above the mercy-seat, and after the days of mourning for. the high-priest were ended, Jehovah was as much the leader of Israel as He had been before. No indi- vidual is indispensable. It is as easy for God to carry on His work without us as with us, if only He be rec- ognized and honored by those who remain behind. All individuals are but His instruments ; and all instru- ments may be made alike mighty in His hands. Let us be only sure that God is with us and all will be well. And He will be with us if wc will be with Him. As Lincoln said, when one spoke to him of the impor- tance of having God on our side — " The great thing for us is to make sure that we are on God's side"; and there are many indications now among us that the people are anxiously desirous that this shall be the case. What spiritual aspirations have been awakened in us all by the sorrows of these weeks, culminating in the sad climax of this day ! It is almost like a re- vival of religion over the land. Were ever prayers so numerous or so earnest offered as those which have been and are now being presented throughout the country ? When was God so widely recognized among us as He has been in these recent days ? Are not all these tokens that He is still in the midst of us ? And when the editor of a secular newspaper — and he is Death of President Garfield. 23 not alone among the journalists of the land — can write such words as these, " He is dead ; and the prayer of his fellow-citizens, although not answered to their hope, has yet been answered with a benediction," we may surely take it as an omen of reviving spirituality among the people." Let but that disposition continue in the midst of us, and higher prosperity than we have yet dreamed of shall be attained ; for still as of old the law holds good, " Them that honor me I will honor, but those that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." No one can read the history of this nation without marking how clearly at the critical turning-points of her career the hand of God has been revealed in her deliverance, and He will not forsake her now. So let * On the morning after this discourse was dehvered, the following sen- tences appeared in an editorial in the New York Tunes. We give them here as another corroboration of the statement made above : "Not the least impressive nor the least salutary of the various phases of this experience is that which touches the religious nature of the people. Notwithstanding all that has been said and assumed of a drifting away from faith in the supernatural and the divine, we doubt if there was ever a time in the history of any nation when the thoughts and feelings of the people have turned so much tov/ard a higher power on which they felt themselves to be dependent as during these weeks of anxiety. Prayers have gone up continually, not only from temples of worship and from family altars, but in silence from hearts unused to demonstrations of de- voutness. The sense of dependence on an overruling Providence has been deepened and intensified, and, though hopes have been disap- pointed and prayers have proved unavailing, the people will gather to- day with their faith unshaken and their disposition to acknowledge their need of divine favor and guidance greatly strengthened." The prayers were not unavailing — no true prayer ever is. But God did not give that which we asked, because He had something better to bestow, which could come only through the denial of our request. But the crowds which thronged our churches on the funeral day proved that the writer was correct in his forecast. 24 Sermo?i on the Death of Presidejit Ga^'field. us take heart again and sing, " God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved ; God shall help us, and that right early." As good John Wesley said with his dying breath, "The best of all is, God is with us " ; or as the pious Scotch woman put it in her own vernac- ular, "The Lord's aye to the fore!" "God lives; blessed be our rock, and let the God of our salvation be exalted." For the rest our loved one sleeps in Jesus. We have no doubts or misgivings about him. Already he has entered into the joy of his Lord ; and great is the contrast between the gloom of our mourning and the gladness of his glory. A voice is heard on earth of kinsfollc weeping The loss of one they love ; But he has gone where the redeemed are keeping A festival above. The mourners throng the ways, and from the steeple The funeral bells toll slow ; But on the golden streets the holy people Are passing to and fro : And saying, as they meet, " Rejoice, another, Long waited for, is come. The Saviour's heart is glad, a younger brother Hath reached the Father's home." To that home may we also be admitted, in God's good time and way, through the merits and mediation of our great High-Priest. Amen. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 013 785 808 3 , JMVtHUiliCaiJOiV^W Wi M M$MfM