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‘ jemn Services in Nearly All "the Churchos in the City. co Sacred Edifices Appropri- ately Draped in. Sablo Mourning. ° Yoquent Tributes to the Christian Virtues of the Dead Presi- dont, w- Grand Character Held Up as an Example to Coming Ages. Great Man Ins Fallen In Isracl, and tho Lessons from His Denth. “Gad Roigns, and the Government at Washington still Livos,?? PROV, SWING, There was a large congregation yesterday atthe Central Church, whieh was very ate proprintely draped for the oceaston, and Prof. Swing deflvered a very impressive dis- curse on “Janes A, Gartleld—A City on BI” Following is the sermon: Aceity set on a hill cannot be bid.—Mate, Vi, td, In that part of our earth whieh was mate memorable by the presence of Jesus, pany of the cities and towns were lucated: gpon the summit of a hillor mountain. ‘Lhe oppressive fomperntire of the summer months, and inilitary considerations, rnd also asense of the Deauttul, led those who were about fo found a village or nelty to seek not always some rlyer-bank or likeshore, but some HHL or erag, or mountain, Nazareth, the town of Christ's" carly Ife, was ani hight, and on ong side there was a fearful preelplee, down which the offended eitizens threatened to throw diim who had rebuked their sins, ‘he two trountalns, Moriah and Slow, remind us that Jerusalem was seated upon lofty hights, and was a grand spectacle tothe traveler who was journeying thither in its palmy days. ‘Che ‘Temple of Solomon, the piluces of the King und his court, with tha walls and wateh-towers, made up nn ims pressivescene to all comlug along the Vale leysof Kedron anc ILinnom, and fally justl- fed the thoughtof Christ that “a clty suton alli cannot be hid? ‘Che domain of Christ was spiritual; when He spoke of material things Me had the spire ftual qualities of our world in Mis mind. He wished that Lis disciples might possess vir- tues so great and so nective that all suciety might behold and enjoy their righteousness and benovelence, ‘The ages had been full of diminutive persons who lived only for self aud for all smut results—versons Ike to lighted candies placed under a bushel, Lt ‘was time other forms of soul should appear, Hine for the world to haye minds and hearts that should be as large and visible as elties: upon mounting, Soon tier the great Pale esting Teacher had uttered iis wish and Dud, given the nations aspecimen of n soul too Inrge and too lofty to be conceated, tho deat began to find fuliment in many of the departinents of fimman Ife, ‘Thought and sentiment began to be onarged, history Degitn to record greater actions and to recely into its storehovse greater bfoxraphies, Theo came atong in’ the diving ‘de wien whuse heads rose nbove the multitude ike tho tall chil which “midway leaves the storm.” Our Nation mourns todiy the loss ot one too loftyto be concealed, All the grades of society, looking tp from the door of eot- tugs or palace, see this outtine of a scholar, and sintesmin, nnd soldier, and President, and all mourn that the imngo is no Jonger to Ddeseen In life but. only in’ deaths pallor, The spectacle is made maustal net only by Me merit of tig dead ai but alsa by the J Ravage cruelty of the wound that robbed this cltizen of his existence. ‘The vlghty days of phyatent and mental sitfering, of ‘alternate hope and fear, days which reduced powers ful mun to the powers of only an infant, add dhelr awful part toward placing this naine Aully before the elvillzed portion of the world, Made conspictous by his character rnd Works, Mr. Gartield becomes conspicuous by dls misfortune, ‘hus this figure stands. 1s ‘oon aN, and (twill require centuries full of men and of events to hide Its colossal out- line from the gazeot mankind. Manisdrawn townrd the pathatle. What touches his heart touches also hls memory, Pity often makes wr large element inl ind Mr, Gare field Med of disease or the imitation -of nature he would have been alarge subject of study, but millions wilirend) his blography in coming years beenuse ft ends in the nwful elond of tragedy. Whatdo we witness tor day, nnd what will those behold who shail in future tines run over the binek and white ynee In history, blick with misfortune, white in Virtied it must come to ws as 1 peculiar Tact that two of the greatest of Amerlean, Juihes aro low made more sucred by the suds ness of thelr denths. Ag though the over- rating Providence destred that the young men of tis ern and of future thnes should aludy (enply the lives of Garfield and) Line coh, thelr deaths were nude tragle to allure, the student toward tholr eliapters in the ane alg of xoclety, Looking wt this man not easy ta bo hidden, we see the ability of our country to produce & high order of imanhood. ‘That Mberty Which fn time bas been tho ident condition of nll axes here vertties all the ol hopes and produces u symmetric) character strong on. every site,” When a lod, this Gurflelt en- Joyed the freo play of all Mis intellectual and emotional faculties, Ito was free to, move toward books, and profession, and wisdom. All tho antes to success would open to hin as they had oponed ton Webster or a Clay, He was not fuprisoned by birth nor by caste, he path to daw or statewmanship was as freo'to him as the path wlong thy emnal, and Out of thls freadom of a continent came an uubition of great power. Often when -dis- tinguished visitors appear in London they ary given the freedom of tho elty ina woltl box—an_ elegant Jetter before wiilgh the doors uf gallertus, and [braries, and pariin- Jents, and cathedrals fly open. To. this youth, poor and unknown, the Nation Kiva the freeduin of the ‘whole eirele of Kaman aequtsition, from tha study of Citvek ton place in the pense Tram the hallof the Inw-innker to the chilr of a Jresldents and lis mubition and energy wore inspired Dy the generous offer, Kroedon does hot confer iherity- but tt atfords an ope portitnity, and even -allures the heart Mou Oy iti possible ards, Lt creates a fund+ seape whieh charms the eye of eich one set Ung out npon the journey of ite, Despotism ollurs a desert to allthe humble ot birth, boor wit of fow parentage the mind sees only an avid platy without ‘treo or blossom, but. the Hherty and equulity of this lund make it optional with the: traveler whether the plan te is to pass over stall bo n desort or 8 mia uitleent garden. AILs left to personal taste, aC Industry, and wilh And this taste, and tidustry, and personal power ara developed Uy the muny aud great rewards offered to thelr growth, Mr, Gariiow 4s one more wlt- Hess in Chis great aptritual trial, and hia tes Muony ts direct that the Hberty'of Amerie 4s tho nrentest opportunity ever oiferod to fi as inan. - Elsewhere rewards aye offered fo the few, here all are lnvited to the best feust of carth, this cnignent man the youth of Bey learn that carly poverty and hardships, fostead of breaking the heart, need only subor the Judemeont and, conned Chiat common senKe to cong early and tlehty whieh to tha chil aren of heury comes seantlly anu comes i if ever it tinds adawe, “We ea now nok baele and purcelve yoas the hardships: 1 the youth of iin who died asa Presiient Was otily a condition of things witch made Gil the Dhilosophy whitch guine co the young Wan assume « practlenl form. It was not thoughts philosophy unless it held (nity 6o- ation much of AMAR happiness, for whens taller along a canal meditutes ft With be for the welfura of un, Just as when aslive thinks, bo thinks uf Hburey, Just us when a fever-patlent dreams, libs dream ts about cali Water, Lt his been state recently that he dreaina and laws of refori aud ull Wels dire do uot come down from the rel aud iluy / tha bitter things of the world Know be: badly the waters neal ay Nee is tent toler wrought ont an economy for filltions of youth hers nnd every wher showed whit will aud Judieatry. and exalted Purposes can accomplish fn thts wite tatut— {hatall the young need ask as an etiutowment fs mental and physteat teutth. ‘That ts the essential enpital upon whielt to base a large business fir things either mental or spiritual, Ontot energy and taste comes the real dhe nity of ann,” Phis dead President ewrries ws huek to the theory of old Pinto, that motion orenergy lies atthe origin of the tniverse, Unt the starry skles idl che varbegated eartlh are ouly A prenalinls Of the self-noved mind. ‘To Chis nation this one heart brhigs tts back, Tor ont of Hs self tis there bssited haw tinoral work! of Eatn- vation, letrnlyg, re! polities, duty, honor, aud fifth emerged front the nind whieh began. its eareer fur town tn weakness, ‘Plit foree made all the Inunble days and years to. be rich veins of the later silver and gold, As he the theof- ogy of nature we gather up thy tnilnit phe- nomena of fand, aud seat, an sicy, and sey the One anid mide afl these wonderful” and beautiful tifiis, so in reading this blowras phy, whose Inst pare tas Just been written in tears, the reader wiSf suy, Behotd what zoo hess and grentness hive ahoved out of Uhat one heart firoyal paguantry{ Was Janes A, Gurtield great? Asie those barly Yours, when adverse whids always assailed fis bark; ask the nights of study; ask the sthoolg where hestanght; ask the place ve he worshiped; ask tho halls where lie helped enact wise laws; ask the battle where he td soldiers; ask the magni Capitol where ho was crowned as repubiieans crown -their chieftains; ask the eat. tage witere he died, out ot tha nnswers to these questions there comes not the witness of greatness the human heart must henceforth toll and long ih vain. Barth lias no greatness, And yet all tls hinman exeellence grew tp oat of ane National resouyees as though ty show the world the pecutiay richness of the soll And grew inland so far that: we cannot say that. aiid or Kurope combined with America tu enuse this character. The hoy and aman lived In the heart of the continent all sure rounded by his countrys and he fies in fits cots Coday ndead child of hits Nation. ‘Pho econntry mourns today not piily Decause amt has dled, aud died unjustly and pain fully, but ulso because that min was fer son. She had reared hh, she saw her own ff! sin fis free, she Joved himy in fim were a mother’s hopes, ‘This land horelu shows not only the power of iis institutions to tashlon a noble character, but that power of appreelation and grief tint can weep for one thus overtaken by death, In tho scene of these few days we must mark sume sens of a higher elvilizntion and fh more sensitive brotherhood. Looking at the assasii \ mnleht-despale of the present fad the futare. We might wonder what Is the vatue of schoolhouse, and church, and Hiterature, and freedom, rgd the eloquence over tian rights if out of these benutlfal Uiings there enn ernel than a bri But while the heggs the initine of th wonders nn sin i Bt ‘ed by raivi pity. ‘a vage itis ch mov vilu human ercative wished to remove Gare Held from life, but millions npow millions wished Him to ‘Mive, live lapuily and live long, Men of wealth and men of poverty, men of learning und men of scanty eduen- jon, men oF ail the politien! parties, men In the South and men ta the North, and, the erowtied Kings and Queens loved the life of this one man, and would by thelr est have carried him beyond the common thre svore years of pilarimage. Tils death was destred by the lowestone of the human race; ivistamented by the entire populations of two continents, If we count or measure these tears, If we see the Queon of England ng her court to put on the emblems of ring, we cannot Int coneluap that the hate of the one assasin is sublimely ant- welxhed by the esteem of the world. In die pl ney of sich an tupristuye of brotherly esteem the murderer funds his proper h of Infumy. In the Hghtof a universal love. we sve tho dark cruolty of the crime, But we must not forget that we have as- sembled today “in the name of the weekly service of God, If in thy fife of a Presi: dent any quality of Christianity ts placed Upon Minountain top that quality cannot res min hidden, In oar thes when ‘there Is threntened an eclipse of faith all religious: minds must be happy to reenll the public man Wha lit ils best ulantood saw the power of wbellef In God. Te realized tho perfect. grandeur of the words, "The Lord Relgns.” Ife uttered them fu an hour ot great National darkness, and the pobuince, needed no other eloquence; and when in diy dash the one who had. offered consolation in catatults: needed some refige for himself he sale le was rendy to dle or to Hye. Not the details ofany elitirch faith enme, but the great ideas of the Christian fullplon kronped thouscives around his hed—tho best angety of those snd nights, for they were to help him when the skfilot man sould fail, ‘ “Ht would bo unjust to the name of Christ toguy that Mr. Gartiell’s religion wus ouly that of Nature, ony such general thoughts, as were cherished by Greek and Roman’ pay was, His faith caine to hte thraugl the Chireh of tte age nas it communicates its idens through pitipit and press and the Tes. tament, as It Ja wont to surround and teach the young all through the days of formation, of passion, and temptation ‘Chat Church: encompassed this youth with its hymns, and morals, and trust, and hope, and Hat last the world saw evidences of that henor so consplerots in the Sermon on the Mount and that lef In Weayen so visible tn desis Christ ft fs under some obligation to confess that Christlanity helped forin that character which today allachulre and lament, Beyoud doubt, daily association with learned men of all the different ret cts, and the nally discovery thnt many creeds inada only one sind of religious mumhood, turned Mr, Gare felt away from the distinetive doctrines of tt denomination and Jed him into tha convord of falth: rathor than Inte Its discord; but ih. esttinnting the greatness of his chur. neter we must declare that his imeral symmetry was pristlike, and Christ- Ike bis) repose in the hope of oy second lifes From its official and porsonat ight he remlnds the whote hind that there should by church doors open to all thy youth, Taviting them away trom te slnsof the streat wud from the frees med of Godless air —thore should be a Sunday seeurei to the young and oft that there uifeht he sonw hotrs of sunlight for these delete plints— faith and spirituality. If our Nation, dex (ned ina generation or ere to suspais “if 1 Upon the glube fh power, material and men 1, desires to ba governed by.abie nnd good, MLN It must Kee to fe thut the selioolhousey and the church, with its stay of reat, arg kept open, for through these the youth pass on thelr way to all arent beauty of chiracter and usctuliess of fife, 5 < Lt has beet the reproach of our country that itis not rich In history; that the mind Tiust ook beyond the oveat ar travel beyond tho oeoan to reich the presences of all tint ds. deemed huipresslve. Wo have no yenerably areliitecture, wo historle chuveh, no places of fame, ho throneroome. or prisons, of lowers, or crowns, or Jewels mnnde wecting by Uw nals of a thousand year This objec= tion to one new workl ds well made; but this poverty of our. eowitry is being’ nye {uly oxehanged for riches—the rehes secon in such men as Lincoln and Guriteld and slaiiar moral produeta of the Repidiie, AL mmition will not tongs remain withaut history when the lives of such mon are raphy entering into the great open page, ‘The Ol World fn lts. thousand-year period, reach- Ang from the tonth ecuyy to the nineteenth, eunnot point us to better names—nanes which stand for a better union of intelll- iotice, anil ‘ubitity sane fntourity, and charity, und hero. Old history enn potnt us to ylolont deaths of rulers, aid cin say hers Charles 4. was boheaded, here: Mary Qui of Scots died, here Marat was slay Dut ou two groat Presidents tne been shan not wimuttitude which was wronged, but by pri- vate Fanatics In thelrattack as unauthorized as beasts of prey j and, while old histary abownds In tnatances Where nen divd for some alia of Wrongs, our new bhitory paluts us to two. grent leaders who were the unhappy vietins wnch of siigle wicked heart; and dled to gratify no pitty but auld the tears at all purtles and factlous of the land, Tapldly is our country making wp a hiss tory whieh will surpiss Chose books wo read in our early yenrs. Lt cannot be altlrued at Inany of these Ulustrious ones whose names desprinkle the records of himan lite thine they surpassed thls Gurtisld in the power to wieisure the wants of soclety and ih the soupy, that cannot forget the weltare of the people, Where anelont great mon tram pled about in the living flelds, this aman. walled softly, fearing lest some flower might bo crushed, “Phat attachinent to tho aged mother, that measurelvss attachment to thy wite, were only evidences that this Prealdsnt was the type and product of a now age which was puttiug aside ferocity and was reaching A sonal billty, Gs to hina rlshts which was not present in the men who ruled once these nations whiely ne unst of possessiuet his- tory. ‘The Amertean pages juy not be many, but comparatively they are white, Must we not today rend anew the lesson af waurtallty 2 Must nut we whe have come tute tured by sume one of the many forts of nm bition and hope, feet deeply the undeniable fuet that we are sib fastening to thy end? ‘The efosine scene may not he trawe, but its coming. Weare asked to think of these (hinws by the memory of both: Lincoln and Garietd, for they were both half-melwncholy men, the former loving pathetic, poetry, the lntter even writhng TH. Lincoln tn the hight of his fame wanld say: The hond of tho King that (he seeptre bith orn, ‘Tho brow of tho priest that the mitre hath worn, Tho eye of the snuco and tho heart of the brave, Are hidden and fost in the depths of the graves ‘Tho peasy whosa lot wns to sow and to rean, The herdannn who eliinved with his goats np the LUE Tho heme who wandered in aontch ot bis bret, Have faded nieny like the grass that we tread, And Mr Garleld In the hight of his sue. cess Juoked out tivon the earth of his tri- Uniph with sud ives He was unable to for- get that he and all he loved were belng borne along by wring iysterious and powertnl, ALL sensitive minis ire pathetle and almost site perstitious iy thelr hours of meditation, The dletates of reason are not able to coumternel Is ) attnehients of the heart te Hie ‘ond friends ant all the to Wh hy preat sre warm-hearted the: eholy wid most plaintive Alny yon all pos: sess such a puthetle estimate of our earths anaty su all see the tontbward mareti of may, so rewul the vanity of riches, and fame, id home, nod fove, that you shall be eompell ta become children. of God and ot Jesus Christ, and thus children of the tinal country that knows no funeral pageatts, no days of bitter disappointment THE REV, BROOKE JIERFORD. Tn the Chuveh of “the Messiah’ yesterday moruing the Rey, Brooke Herford delivered an eulogy on the feof the Inte President, and pointed out some of the beneiits derived by the Nation from ity present tribulation, ‘The snered edifice was draped fn a way ape propriate (o the oecnsion. Over the entrances were suspended heavy loops of black eloth, ‘Sho pulpit was shrouded in erape, and also the ul gas standards near by, ack of the pulpit were two American flags, the sta ils of which wera wount about with crape, white the flags themselves were deeply bordered Liv Diack, In front o€ all this sable array ap peared a large portrait of tha dead President fin frame of mourning. Dr, Herford took for nis text the following Serlptnral passage: Ani thus this man died, loaving tis death for ng oxampic of A noble courage and # momorhut of virtue, not, only unto young mon, but unto all his nation, ‘Thereverend gentleman sald he had chosen that text because there was a ring of trl Umnph about It, although it tolu of death, ‘Truly the words ant thoughts of the text could be applied by the American Nation to- day to heat up the wound which Gariield’s death had caused, There Rad been sowe~ thing {dently noble in the eareer of the ‘tate President, and a gtorfous fesson hind bees taught by his long and patient, but unsue- cessful, strngile aginst death, And the speaker rehearsed briefly tho en- reor of the dead Chiot Miztstrate from its Itunblobeginning on the hlilside farm to its erand close at the head of one of the greatest nations on earth, De, Herford sild that when Garfleld was well along with his Adnmaulstrution, It way preileted that his fale and firm poliey would do much to weld together factions, and pare tleularty that it would serve to bring about. still more amlenble relations between North and South. Had Gurileld lived, these pre dlctlonsmizht al have been fultiled, but, certain Mt was, Uint the love and syinpathy entted out from North and South, and from all parties, by Garfleld’s herote sufferings for ten weeks, dla more to solldify the: Nation thin ten years of successful Administration could have done, Heferring to the nssasin, the reverend gene fleman sald that Cuiteau was a hulf-crazed loafer, who had, without intending ft, done much to bring assastiation and murder into mare disvepute and horror, Litls was mugs the zoo things to he singled out of the great BUTTOW, All Christians prs ved for Garfield's recov- ory, sald Dr. Herford, and yet'the Lord had not granted thelr prayers. Evidently ft was the Divine law that the President should dk aid no conseigntlous Christian shonld exp that a Divine law could be violated to gratify human fongings, ‘he Lord tind affowed the President to Hinger long to teach some noble USSONS. ™ REV. HERRICK, JOMNSON. Au unusually large numberof people were present In the Fourth Presbyterian Church yesterday morning. ‘Tho carpet on the nan alsies was covered with blnek muterinl, the wintlows on either side of the pulpit were draped with a small Ameriean flag sur- rounded by crape, white the front of the eholr y bof with’ a large Ameriean pe, and siniiax; and there was §n the baptismal font, ‘Tho f yery simple, but the general lent. . ‘The sermon of the Rey, Herrick Johns 1 appropriate onv—was based on the te: And His disciples took up the body aud burlod ft, and went aud told Jesus—Matl,, Five. 12, john the Baptist and dames A. Garfleld allke, the speatior sald, Ino many ras co ot hinably ortzin, both usness, both carly in life filed the publi aunt both did by the hand ot violence. “The violence, however, that slew John the Baptist was differantfrom that which slew Jitmes A. Gartield, but tie spirit out of whieh It was born was tho sane, And Lincotn, and Garfield were something mike. ‘Shey ‘never allowed themselves 10 get nway from the’ people's hearts, AL per. soni! sorrow hind come to all, We Tenrned these fessons from fits deaths (1) that the way upward was by the Cross, sutforlig atl snerifies ait loss and death being but the fe witys Opening inten brighter dnd holier ites that there were no broken lives tn God's plan, President Garteld wanting to tive nut tor fiimself, but for hls people, to prove to thom that he was worthy of thelr trust, but ft yot being God's will, us his work here was does Gb) that our trust wis not to be pat dan arm of fesh; and (4) Justice. veureaned was the Lords, Cutten should be tiled end hanged according to haw, was iting thit the streets of Clifeage should be hushed from all din of (ratte ns tte te mented dead was borne to tha grave, that flowers adorn his coflin, that marble mons ments be raised, but, after all, President Gartleld’s {fe would be hie noblest monn- Inv and our best uemorlal of hl. 8 stentifast In righ DU, CAVERNO. ‘The only part the Hey, Dr. ‘Thomns took in tha services at Haoloy's yesterday was to announce that. tha Rev. Dr, Lerliner would preach for hie on the following Sun day. ‘The stage way tastefully draped tn Ingurnhyg, and the Chicago Quartet rendered two voliitirles appropriate to the death of the National Execntlye, ‘Che sermon was by the Rey. Dr. Cavern, who sald he would speak on the ono subject that was before the American people, Every step fn tho briet story of Presileut Gartield hind been a for- ward one, Sho eulintnation of his greatness wns of inarvelous ropliity, fer in one and te mame year he had been Congress, Senator, wid President-elect, When he died Ho da cowl show i greater nnount of work done than did -Prostdent Gartield, Ts publle record on the battleield and ta Jegiolutive halls ty one of. whieh in: tnkht feel vrond, La was more t yesuntatiye In Congress-ho was a leader of wien, atactive directing power, and played: i tmnt part In the history of the fast awenty vents Ke a Chienxa vention nomluated Lincaln fe doney, und the sequel showed the choice an emlnently wise one, ‘Twenty yenrs later ane fon matty the same city xeleoted Mr, Garield tor dhe same high t ag had been conferred upon the war Sincoln, — [Subdued spylauses "Alas," sald the speaker, ‘that, having found ono nan who was ft for tho hgh resuonsibllity, thoy stopped the search. “That failure re suited [i the death of President Garfield, After ho wis nominated they threw dice for the Vice-Presiduncy, mul the dice were loated With the ussasination of Proaidont CGartietd, ‘The wenibers of that convention aball not bs guiltless—they cannot be escusad, ‘Tires thaes in the history of this country have. conventions: cust the dieo for the Vice-l'rest- dency, and tn each instance the sesult lias been disastrous,” ‘The speaker referred ta the posslbiitles that lw before him with the prospect of a quarter ofacentury of ite, Gare cht had ten yeurs before he would be ns old as Webster was when he bygau his career as willplomat, Assisting bo less than statusinen hud written history, andthe: speaker dwelt, at some length of the vlfest of assasinution upon the governments of Eupope. » Wo shall get wong,” the apeaker sald in closing, “but how? We ilyht have welt "Thint is th the face poor ma problem which fs staring us tie weqqrestion is tot, Tow shill the ait be ptuished? but the great question fa the presence of our iiojestle deadis, How much of American history shal be written by Guitean?” [Applause, | D1, It, W. PALTERSOS The Nev. 1 W. Patterson preacher a memorial sermon In the morning ln the first Presbyterian Chuteh, taking the following text: “Shy Lori ts good unto thom that walt for Hin, to tho gout that sevketh Flin. [tis yaoi thit a tnan shatid both hope and quietly walt for Avant the Lord. For tho Lord will but though He have vompasall in eur itis me alee willingly wor. yr 3 Leth, tt i, The ker said that In times of Nationa! Joy or sorrow. the Od Peatamentis spontane- ously Curned to for teachings rectly appro. priate to cach ozeasion, beeuttae it dealt with the trihes of old nv nations, and not merely in thelr tndyidnal capaelty. Ia the. apples. Hon of the chosen test, tho tirst Uning tobe noticed is Goil's Providence fn the chastt: jnent of Indiyiduis and nations, If there be a God, He must have established His laws far wise reasons, however mystertous they may seem in aetual’ operation. If depraved inen are to diveanduct freely, noth {ng but the most constant mirnenious titer- vention can shield even the best. of men from ovensfonal exposttre to the huni of violence, Goil has, fn faet, ereated a wortd of free agents, {tig, therefore, most tren sonnble to say God's Government has noth. Ing todo with the net of the assasin, while iL ts equally tinwarrauted to’say tint {fe spel tho buffet of the nssasin te its fated destin. Hon, God does not do al he permits. Tt there were no good to be avvotmnpllshed Me Would not tnitiet then, ‘She sore disappolnt. went of aur hopes In the loss of the beloved Vresident affords io oceasion for the furbance of frith tn the wisdom and goat. ness of the Sovereln Ruler of the nations, The whole course af ovents whieh fad to the nomination ~ and election of the Inte Present was stunlatty designed to work out agrent providentiil end bythe good of the Nation When the ininds of a few leaders dn the convention were turned fo him if was hailed with a storm of enthisinsm such as few assemblies have ever witnessed or experieneed. He was clearly seen” to the aman for the pfree of all others in” thy Jand, a statesman tnong statesmen, aired patrlot munong patriots. 1 broul scholar Rong scholars, n eveat man from the ranks of the people, a resofute supporter of good, jnorality as well as of a ond politien! policy, and, for the first tine, at least four recent History, an. avowedly Christion President, who consistently, though without ostenta: ton or loud professiun, miintaiied bls religion when surromnded by a host of worldly and ungoty leaders of all polltieal parties, Seareefy a for, the good of the Nation when, by winys- ferfons dispensation, an fnsienifieant sind worthless ¢ re wis permitted to vent his aunhition for notarlety or his zeal far tretion by acowardly and unprovoked net of ngsasina- ton whieh his blaster aif our breyant hopes. ‘The grent ¢ palntnent shonkl teaelt th Natlon the dnadeqaun “The best medteal skit of huni resnurees, of the country, faith- fully employed, served onty to prolong life and suffering afew weeks.) Hunan skill has its limits, sna all beyond that belongs to the fuserutable soverefznty of Almighty God. ‘The trial n_ c¢hnstisement, but not. a fudement. ft should be consoling wood eltizen to reinember to “¢ that we now fave a special representative from our Presidentind chily at the Court of dteaven, for who duubts that the Inte Presi- dent was not merely among the honored men of the earth, hut also was among the reengnlzed sons of God and heirs of the Divine Kingdom, -Those Jong weeks of suffering on earth mist lave served fo tne tensify by contrast the repose and delights of his finally emancipated spirit. Let us all hope and premire to meet hf, not as our President, but as aur brothor tn the bands of ile everlasting covenant of redemption. ‘To avert all great disasters we must be governed by suvh a natfonal consefence as the Lord {na alone can create aud keep In vigorous cy DR. LORIMER, ‘The usual morning services were held in First Baptist Church, Dr. Lorimer offictating. After the singing of the hymn, “Thy Wit, O Lord, Be Done,” followed by a tonehing prayer from tho Rey. W. C. Ttiehards for Christian resignation to the Divine will and cousolation to tho mother, whew, and ehil- dren of tho deceased President, the eholy kave nfine anthem, ‘fhe decurations of the nudlenee room were In excellent taste. Around the front of the gallery ran a width, of black, draped belitnd the pulpit, aud only relieved by the white of a bust of the Presl- dent, which was placed xbove aud back of tho preacher's head, in frout of the gallery, and by a white bow of tulle surround: ing the clock ab the — opposit end of tho room. Just jn front of the bust of tho President hung a beautiful wreath of tuberoses and sinilus, atid just over the head, suspended as If it was about to bo placed on the brows so well doserving of It, another wreath of green, ‘The columns of the buptistery and the gas-tixtures In front of the: cholr were draped with tuité and sintins, forming a soft and grateful contrast to the sombre black, ‘Lhe troutof the pulpit was also covered with the American flag taste fully draped, and a largo flag hung from elther door in the gallery, ‘The sides af the pulpit were covered with black and pots af paling and otheretropical plants, : Yr. Lorbner did not select any partloulnr text,and his discourse was rather a memorlal speech than asermon, — fle safit that ft was: often the case that the illustrious dead could not commant the tribute of respect shown by the tears of those thoy had yoverned, or with whom they lind Hived, but only obtained mercenary evidences of regret, or decrees of courts artisticntl: vetted, But there was a marked exception in the ens of President Gacield, for n whole Nation wis in sorrow. Labor turned from its furrow, and conumerce stood sill, Lt was bo Micehased or pitrchaseable Mournmny, but itree tribute of a free jeopla to ona who, though exalted to the loftlest of human thrones, and swaying tho mightiest of uaa seepters, inade for himself 9 lasting peace in the affections of tie American people, ‘The sorrow for the- loss of the President was lost as oe ns thong he was an neti neiber of ch liousehold, ls name was a household word, never to be forgotten, No ality or staton, learning or alltience, wis sulllclent to protect Crom: the assisin's law. Not the Innocence of Abel, the gen- orons futhority af Lorenzo de Medtel, tho Keonlus of Kleber, nor the patriotism of Lincoln: avalted anything, dt was matter of surprise that there would bo found ft omin 80 vicious ns to destroy tho fife of President Garfield, Nelthor the enlightenment of elvilization nor the progress uf our country hid been ably to curd or tae the tgerish ferocity of. 1 tell born and hell-lnspired stiner. Looking buck ovor the pages of ht os It could be seon how futile waa the assasin's act either fo core reet pubile wrongs or right abuses, No hist+ Ing good Ind ever been ween ipltalied by saxination. ‘The nbuses sought be ett had contin Athines increased, The God-lke stroke of Bratus dit not restore Mberty. to Rowe. ‘The murders of Wenry, 101, of Moury of Navarre, of Willan of Omnge, of Gabazzo, of the Duke of Buck- ingnam, nnd recently of the Czor of Russia had all been nearly or quite futile, A rater gone, wnother rose elther In public Justice or private tnddanution to strike the IMurderer dlown and avert thy caluulty that night be fopending, ‘The mane “assasin’? de rived from the Tyner distilled fram Hentt and used as an intoxicating beverige, was Athy applied to a tin who, mddened W inte “or revenge, rushed forth to execute dls depraved designs iy the commission of an awful erie, Whatever In. the presont case Was the assashvs desten it had be coup ttely frustrated, ‘The people, too, had been drawn together, and, save the tere rible loss of that one lite, the country was, no worse off today Uran lt was two months igo. More thot that, there were streaks of light amid the gloom, “The awful erime had drawn the nearts of the people of the two sections of tha country together as aimoxt one nation. ‘There seamed, also, more prt piorl a dotormination to uphold the mijesty of the law, ‘Thess thoughts, however, did not tend to mithxate thelr sorrew; NO human words could do that, But, thot they might not be reconelled, they, could learn to grandis of thelr betwf, They could study the char- eter of him whom they had loved and make Din their model snl the mudel of their chll- den. Ue stood betere us, and would bo re & hu he bez fis work for | Mere was nono, tehing the spirit: of ndstig Hin his ebare ron sueh dustitus rane that nssertoat The Wdhosynerasivs seemed 10 have ab might have afded Tn forming ialin y sturdy WHIs, thas eeinsiveness oF our country, the geor Wess af our siti see tiahtol Ningara, and the ¢ of his ehitracter atl seemed chasselertetinn bn cour bsti ations aud ¢ aoter and dite, He ere: tlong a vier and fra [tsalf wherever he we of our naturals counterpart lia hin ty rellect iM Serene as the neva Ja thought, sharp und qutek as the Ningant An netion, honest, loving, aud symipathetle, he had t fellow-fevltng for alk, He hal 200 years, diy. Of good Aimericna bleed dn hls velus. As they studded hls Hfe, they knew not what to ihntre more, the firmness of Js mother, or the fortitude: of her by Ontr rtrd pope fation was not to be compared with the peas: antry of the Old World. “The possibility: tat ty one might to the highest station ere- ted an ambition la one Mimeriea fru boy. an energy, self applleation nowhers ¢ be found fo the same, degree, yout Garfield, so xetfretiaut that fat hurcow without insisting on of payient, showed speelally a lending eharacteristies of the sine pl, #2 Wits alse One of the best rs of our politiral life. Hey nided to ben ofleeseexer, Thy ett hin. and in that respect, at least, he s absolutely above reproaeh. In ili also was foun ane of the. most attractive nant: festations of our home fife with fts sweet, Jol. ruership, Finally, there was in hin an exhibition of tho religloys Ife of the Nation. We were Lot a codtess, an infidel Nation, Sometimes words esenperl that seamid to hide this, but. down deep in the heart of the Nation there was ant nbidling faith in dehoval, fe carried hig” religion everywhere with him, not as ot continons or rlinad Istle rite or coremony, Mut in agcortdanee with the free spirit: of the people, as at pers Inet power inthe State and people, Me liad Tett a model to follow, and, though we catmot be ts greatar gulde the Ship of State with as tira a hand, or proclaiin a Savtor's leve, yet we could make ourselves on worthy of love, to follow the path of duty as elosely to bu instant it seasot and ent. of season. FARWELD WALL SERVICES. ‘The Gartield nemorial servlee at Farwell Ih at 4 a'e sterday afternoon was altented by so many people that the audito- ruin was crowded to Its utmost capneity, and numy were unable to get. even standing room, ‘The services were opened hy Mr ty anneunend the hymn, Soul? whieh was sung if by the chote of about ol dames MeGranahan, Mr. Harvey then briefly outlined the natrlotic and religlons purpose of the assenbly, and el «Mr. SAttle, of the New gland Congregational Chureh, to lead In prayer, Mr. Uurvey then aummeunced that while the cholr was rendering another hymn scontribution would be taken for the henctit of the Vermont Avenoe Christian Chureh of Washiagton, of whieh the hunented Ures- Ident was a member, suiueh ns the ‘Trastees of that chine! in necordance with Mr. Gartietd’s wishes, decided te built at unpretentions edillee that should cost nop Inore Thin 35,009, the contributors would be asked for sinull subseriptions of a penny ora dime, Hardly a person in the andlence falled to.contribute, ‘The hymn “Thy Wil Be Done” was then sung, and the Rey, O. A. Burgess, of the First Christian Chureh, read tho ninetieth psafn, a\ son entitled “Phe Calling of the Roll an Heh, written ssty for. the ovcasion by Mr James: MeGranatian, was then simz by a quintet of male voices. The words are NS follows: Sadly from the fetd of battle To his reat 1 hero burnes Notiy hath be stood the confifet, Now to Christ hls soul hath gone. Hear hin slowly, bene bher gently, Any the mingled body bys Let hin sleep til Christ shall eal! him— ‘Cull and crown him there on blgh. Chorur, Tet hin steep, eatenly sloep. While tho diss utd the Seaes go by; Let him eleop, swently sleep, Tilt the call of the roll on high, Monn aod brenk, 0 waves of ocean, Blah ye whuds ners the son, White i mourning, weeping Natlon, Ciathers rotund the fireiess clus. Marred and brulsed, 0 plisnus story, Jie sa good, Bo soon to dic, Ttut with Christ he'll etand Ii glory When thoy eall the roll on hiv, Chora, le, Faithful to the trust accepted, Ha by grace the evown hath wn, O may'erace to ua bo given, tu Ris path to follow on. Reaye and tri, the Lord confessing, Self for hint to erneity, Ever reads to give aids When the roll is ealied on hich, ‘The Key, Dr, Johason, of the Fourth Ures- byturhan € then dellvered a brie? and feeling xddi taliing for the bass of hia re ny test, “God's ways are ot uur de showed to inubilty of manklad, trate the Inserutable dispensntions of Divine Providence, and argued that, heeause God bul not seenfitio answer the tilllions of prayersfor the President's recevery Ina way ilesired by the petitioners, the Litidels had no foundation for thelr sneers nnd ul. verse erifieisnis, Gul's ways were not our ways, else God must necessarily descend tu the lovel of weuk hua Intelligence, After tho singing of the Gospel song “My Redeemer,” Judge Moore imide a few eau sullng remarks, fouching upon the Meath while In ofies of four of the Presidents of the United States, and the survival of the Government even though the gloom fullow- hg such demise seemed at the time alinost Hunosaibie, ‘Tho speaker, mild a glowhnyg tribute to the late departed, “trom when x0 niuch had been expected,” and dwelt at some Jongh upon the uprightness and gedliness of tie man, MISHOP, CHANLES EDWARD CHENEY, of the Reformed Folscapal Chureh, sald that to hii tis death of the President was as to the voles of God ealllug the American peos wlo te reventanes for thelr maudtin sentt tnentality in regard to eres rebubing theo for thar neglected moral respansibitity in the wldesprend disrexard for tinman iifo—a talline to whieh the murderaf the President was directly attributable, ‘Lhe Lord was nttnishing tie peaple for thelr tnteniperauce of speech concerning those who wore’ high In authorits~for thase who staod in tle plnces, Since the fatal shooting twa monthy: ago the wewspapers of the land tad vied with each other to do honor in speech ta the head of the Gavernment. Na one would question the truthand the beauty of all that wus sald, wind yet te site papers that now sounded Is praises villtied fim ns never before min was vililed wher the possession of the Presidentintebalr Jay be- vopraminent cltizens of the country, krent Creator was rebuking that isu. ordinate and blasphemous sult whiel tends wif to the reviling of, the Maker of all things; tu the aeceptance of the teachings of that In- fide! polltielangugersell, As Moses! reyiest tohe permitted'to see the Promised Land was refused because ft was but a temporal blessting, so hind the prayerful requests of the fitty nitions ot people of the Unttod States deen dented, beeatse what they asked was ret cc ncral blessing upon Gen Gariekd. Applause, ‘her ne kya One by One,” Ma}. Whh- te, the evangelist, spoke brioily, exhorting it bellet te the Lord and ceceptanes of the filth In Christ, The Crowning Day bs Coming’? was then sung, and the aidlence was dts: dnissed with the benediction, pronaunced by: Bishop Harris, af New York THE NECORATION ‘The hall was very tastefully decorated for the oecasion, ‘Tha wall at the back of tho alige wis nearly covered by a tires National flag, looped and festooned and bordered by 1 Dlaek frame, Cra? the tpper bordor of whleh was the lasoription In white letters: tn the hope of the Gaspol which is so precious $n this afiction?—worda used by Gon, Gare field Tia etter ton trlond bereaved at a bee foved child. Atelther side of the stage, and suspanted fronting the audlence, was, an Amorican thug, draped hy white and black andl surmounted by a whites cross. Upon the wall of the stage reeess, axtendlng from ono wide to the other at regular distinces, were Ahirtuon stars above as mnany shights, Above Sho spoaker’s desk, suspended on” wire renching neross the | stage oat ant altitude” of about fifteen feet, wis tho ward "Cartield?” In urge black fetters, Upon the main walla nt both sides of the |, platform wore large black stars, upon which wore the Inseriptions: “God Pew tintt and “Tt is your duty ta carry the Gaspel to every tna and wolnnn at the frontier posts, and before God you WH be hotd responpttile for any neglet” From the gallery front fell a width of black, studded hore and there with black roseuts, und tastened ate Supe porting pillar with a festoon and a wreath of {ho suuyy myterlal, and upon tho bluck front Melts Dearing the names of t the Unto one shielt for ea eshaits mid arrangentents of the atecorations were teal and in good taste, and were mneh sudtialred, Di WILLIAMSON, In the Fitst Methadist Churely Use services were gnened With at appropriate prayer by the Rev. Dr. Kldder, followed by the reading of the thirty-ninth psalm by Dr. Bast, and singing by the choir. ‘She pastor, Dre Wile Nuinson, salt Go's children lind prayed for twelve weeks for the recovery of President Garfield, but hedied. ‘Tho speakerexplalnedt that the prayers fitd not been made after the miter of the tf p sald "Thy will he done? bat were wenks nud dletateriat in spirit, Instead-of wenk sd meek and subinis- sive. Prayer could be onty the personal ean selous sulinisston of the willto the wilot tind In bettaif of a spectat interest, Ordi. warily they ask the Supreme Will not for thelr needs, but for their notlis and personal aratifications, while naught say a if Uheir nveessity hed the Divine eat should be thelr example. Agiin, the {ns ot nutture are the Jay God, aud If a man b mortally wounded Cod had already wil that he should die. Ueonusn thelr beloved President was no tore, God's people should not become discouraged and cease to pray, but. should plead with submission and for thelr oneets, remembering that Jie knew alt things, ond perhaps sald, if the le saw things is Me td, they would rayed fur the translation of the P, Dre Witliaiuson closer with an eilugy to the memory of the de sident, umes AcGurtield had secured a grant pretintuence ite yistne of pretiuinent merit, but Gud was pleased to wiFord hin another tileritan ‘Our beloved Preshlent had forfelted a perishable tnherltauce and wained one that ls imperishabd The -ehurel was: beunitltidly draped in deep bhick. The organ, the atari its surronnditics, and the Daleony were covered wily heavy festoons-of seft black cloth, fast- ened here ant there with knots of nurrow white ribbon. ‘Two Amerieau this velled in black erape were plead tithe eentre af the balcony nround the gallery, Te nthye: J dent, quent my TUE MEV, L. I. MERCER. Tho Rev, 1.2. Mereer delivered a spectal discourse it Hershey Hatt yesterday worn fu, taking as his text the words of the dead President: “he world's history is a Divine hoe, ery nation Is a eanta and every nan a word? [Cis 0 Divine poem, and thore- fore, sald the speaker, writtes by Gal and fnshloned by His wil, ‘The trne idea of history Is recognizml only when God Is ree- ognized In i, Jt is Providence which metes out the bounds of each canto, which setsthe Ninits to eneh nation's history, ‘hus it fs that Aineriean nationality, the nationality of Lumanity, was tramed by Providence, If every nation Is framed ana Divine iden, {hose Hyves fit most perfeetly Into Its histo- ry whieh ave most perfeetty endowed with | the Divine spirituatity, ‘The uppalting disaster tu the beloved 1 sentashock Urect to the wid: party factions, Te was the typieal illustra. Hon of ae Jost thes of Atmeriean eltize ship, and fifty millions of peaph iL te Gol in prayer that he miglit be spared to the Nation The end came, Dil God not hear’ asked the speaker, Nay, rather Providence had crowned ils tte with. the glory of mare tyrdom, ‘The prayers sent up to Heaven have come baek to calny rivalries, to cool the eat of passion and excitement, to msive the permanency of law sud order, and to sanctify patrlotisin, Other men have risen from ob- ¥ to eminence, but this man’s tte tus: What it Is te be ready fora eall, ine splred by ambition, without the list of self- texrandiscment. ‘This trust in the Provi- dence whieh culls sl nitke his example stand before us with that of our other mare sted President a bright: word in the eanto of the Nauun’s histor THE REV. LUTIER PARDEE. In the little frame chureh known as Cale vary Episcopal, on Warren, between Qukley and Western ayennes, the fev, Luther lar. deo preached yesterday morning on Our Calunity.” ‘The edifice was titled by a large congreaition, which tuak great Interest in the services, ‘Lhe trappings of wo were simple but effective. Binek cloth draphncs were hung on either side of the centre of the elureh, the sime encireling the square pile Jars, the mondtony being broken by the white cord which looped up the folds, and. from whieh were pendant black and white tassels. ‘The rector took fis text fromthe atuth ehapler of Ezra, twentieth verse, and from this deduced the tesson of onr eniauity. He heli that there were sorrows whieh de- veloped the tuobleat feellugs of man. It was great and terrible shack, the death of Presl- dent Gurtield. [fell heavily upon theNatlon, Dut it had drawn all nations together by the noble bonds of humanity, Ut hud developed the Nation’s loye for a nian who stood above other men. ‘They had taken prite In his goodly nature, and apphiuded the energy wolell liad leds him ta iss. dle hit passed unseathed the most searching fuquiry, antatan hour when all had returned: to auiet, when the Nation was enjoying the sweet and anauil sepose and. release from strife, ln the hour of her greatest pros perity, when the morning of light was dawn. tus so auspiciousty npon the land, the shock stadenly came, Who lilexpected that this event, zood, and pure man would be made the mark fora coward's alae God had heard thelr prayers, but nut as they thought THe would. ‘Phey would lave rejoteed: had the deceased been smatred te them, bab tho Nution’s sui should bring with io fesson. This was nat the Urst the that God had eatled to then to return to Tha, He drew a touching pleture of the needs of our Innd today, aud ndinon- fished th peapte fo have ® nearer und more ablding faith in God, aud to drive out fraud, corruption, atdetity, and athelsia by Helin fis examples, feolaeing: the fooisteps of the Great Redeemer, aud following the foatsteys of the late James A, Gartield WISHOP CHENEY, Memorial services were held yesterday morning in Christ Reformed Eplscopat Chiveh, corner of “Michtgan aventte and ‘Twenty-fourth street. The literlor of the ehureh was handsumely decormted, Tho main window of the chancel was hung with heavy cuirtains of binck, and tho windows on elther side of It were covered with a breadth of erape, On tho font was a beautiful eros of natural Howers, ‘The vestry doors were Hidden by largo silk fags, which were wound: abont with black crape, and banners of hlaek and white were hung between the windows, On the chamteltors were blick aud white lags, artistically: grouped, and the effect of the wholo was very fine, Bishop Cheney oftelated, and preached from the fatlowhig te: Ant the King shld unto tis servantr, Know YO not that thore Js a Prince und great roan Tallon this day tn Teraelt1, Sant, (ly ds, At was thy miygzed rather than te beauti- Tul, he said, which stood the test of the, md I the Bible we expected to tind the rugged and homely stracture, but oecusfon: ally we discovered a bud of exquisit heauty springing out from the hardy walla, aud the passage he had chosen for tidy text was one at these poole beauties, ‘Me historle poitts which were connected with it ware Ike mite those whieh surrounded us today, ‘Che rev= ercnd speaker then told the story of the text, and compared ft with the sal story whiet Is in our mluds at the present thie, fe snkd he should rofer tothe National ant Individual aspects of the great ealanity: whieh hud botallen our common county, As n Nation we wore used to hearing of great ealamittes,: but such a calamity as thls one, happoning Jn the enlightened year [ssl a+ toned us, Four yours azo, when there was & panie and upheaval in the country, and when mobs afimen went about carrytns tho terrible banner, * Bread or Blood,” we might not have wontered at such an event Ait iow, When wit was peace, harmony, and prosperity, [t came with erusiing fore wpon us, Tb was now the duly of the menor Chit vazo and the men of the Coury to step. town from the supreme hights of business prosperity: wid ask whut would give moral tone to our enfestled condition. A popular sovernmont depended upon public seif-cou- rol, and this shauid be looked to ntonce, {n turning fo the contemplation of the man, Alshop Chaney sald he could offer no hotter eulogy than to repeat David's words of the test. Tle had beow great in unswerving tenucity of purpose, and the siiguiay sym try of bly churacter was remurkable. Ho Was one of God's own gentlentun, and back of hig indomitable will was a great heart as tender uaa ehild’s, Sometimes a great sore row resulted fen great blessing, and he bee ‘Ow Hoved we were no longer a divided peoplyy | i — : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SHEPTEMBISR 26, 1881—TWELVE PAGES 9 , ae _ SS re — ATIGM 2 reat but up from the t ‘Pheretor this chureh from the many paths of tho | ten nore history under tho leadersnlp ef | membered to tatest awes, he representative Uryso presented weraacranged Fo Eyory hen r IN MEMORIAM. those stutesimen “who futwa tasted soine-oF | worlds mloie Which paths Wey toon ary ale | Garetds, Shalt suet hisory, setane welt! | Atmerieun ‘Ther belt have, Geen cereale envi tie, fhe ( Hixery heurt tn the land treathed a prayer for the man whe had been Ko strangely placed in, the vacant ehalr, 5 uNiry chunott. as Memorial swvices for the lata President , were held at Unily Chitet yesterday, morn.” ing. ‘She interior was draped with. black, * and from the gallery In front of the organ, ' over the platform, was hung the Natlonal fing, covered with black crane and with the words “In Memoriam’? worked In white flowers neross tig stripes. ‘The cominunion table was drapat in black and surmounted bya cross of white towers - The service opened with tha hyinn. “Rock of Ages ?— aud to have been on favorit President Gartleld—fullowed by the. les- xo, taken frou IL Carinthians,, vee I—1, And Revelations, xxi, 1~. ‘The pastor, the Kev, George C. Min, then offered an appros late prayer, cunimending the bereavud fandly to the cart of the Guitof the fnther-- fess nnd the widow, and Invoking Is bless Ing on the futuree? the Nation. The hymn: SC would not five alway was thon sing. ni ‘ay sie throughout wis of ndirge-like ehaoracte : ‘Tha discourse consisted of a touching tiloxy of the dead Presidunt, the text ae Jerted Wein nmi, HL, oy Know ye a hot that there tga Prince anda great man fallen? THE REY. ARTHUR LILTLE. ‘The New Eaxtant Church, on. Dearborr avenue, was well led, but was not crowded. No drapery was visible exeept two Amerlous fings bordered with lack on each side of tn vestry. z A very eloquent sermon wes preached by ihe pastor, the ey, Arthur Little, He tuok hh text Trout the sixty-second psalin, clghth verse, “"Prast in itm at alf tines; ye pea ple pony out your heart before Him; God it arefuge for us, Selahe' She preacher, he sald, on this eceasion had one opti; In Wis theme, The Was but on possibte, ft confronted us everywhere It}was shown by the draped bulldings the solemn and mournful countenance o yon, IL was written onthe skies, ane the very stones eried it out, and the churel befls prociatmed It, No such nnfversal grie had ever been experienced. No such spee taele ld ever been witnessed in this coun t's varty Hoes ad been obliterated, feud dls tons forgotten, and ryhad: carning for umes As Gartletd ation was sheddlog sealding i Other great men lind died ant v ly mourned over but never be fore had grief been sa untyersnl, sa deeplt felt. Notewly did our own Nation feet thi bat sartaw, but the ather wets across the oewin shared aur comnun grlet. ‘The Ulstury of the tfe of this truly grea and good man was stil fresh before the pub: He, and needed due litte reeltal. It wast glorious career, Tow liv rose step by stey anil he reached the pinnacle ef tame] Whe atrluinphant career, what wt glorious marct fe greatness! But hls sun had set. i: svemed as if the sky lad lost tis greatest Atninary, its brightest beacon. No words 0; eloquence could add to lis greatuess, fame and worth, Nothing eoukl cover hits high fame but the heaves Mn the presence 0: this shitow and overwhelming grlef inte What channel should thelr thoughts be dt rected? Should they doubt the eMeteney o prayer or Divine justlee? Nol in ‘the words of the great nan whose death thes mourned, "Gad relgus, aud the Goverment) ut Washington stilt lives.” her shoule how to the hutletlon ina spirit of submission, and acknowledge the fustlee uf the hance Whiel after dd thhigs mendo not compre but did all things well, was Garleld's great secret af ste cogs 2 Lt was not tine intellect, Ils power ot acattsition, lls great speeches, tor ints Winiity other fine aecomplishinents, but his mordl Helots aatire. Shratigh this, with ratuiities, he had gained abl hearts, Hits Christhi He was the tree secret of his erent sttecess, and gained him the admire don of the world, AML lids ether recompllste ments borrowed thetr nehness from the ross, President Gartield woutd live as long is American institutions ved. By his death more bad probably been done tor htt, tor the country, the world at dare, and lls Maker than woutd have been areomplished hy protonge urs of oxistence. Never before was a Nation so wilted in: prayer for the preservation of a life, yet God decreed that he should dle, ne donb. th ehastisn us ul te lent us to loftier thoughts anda bet fer dite, DR. WORKALL, The memorial services at the Elghth Pres- byterian Chureh, corner of Kobey and Wash Ington xtreets, were, conducted yesterday mnorning by the fev, Jolin M, Worrall, DD. pastor of the chureh, The organ aud choir loft were draped in shuple black, lit ne other attempt at decoration wasimude, ‘The hymns seleeted for the ovgasion were appro- priate, and were folned in with ferver by ue large congregation, An anthem was finely rendered by the ehulr. Dr. Worratl seleoted as his text, “ How fs tie stait broken and the beautiful rod,” and delivered an eloquent sermon, He thouglit the dfeadful erkne at Gulteat might be conshtered an tathmation or aut- smunding oof the wrong publle opiifon in regard to thy saeredness of human lite wut the supremacy of law. While It was true that there never had been so inuel @ ‘st prayer made by so many millions foy the recovery of the I'resident, yet he lay stl in death, Even some very goad peome had had thelr fulth in the eMeacy of prayer shaken by the result, Christinns when they prayed sais“ our will, but ‘Thing, be done? Tt for mon to pray, hut God possessed sovereign power to give or te withholdas ike thought be: atl ¥ ol bound to give direeL answers tw. pri rio shape Js Hrovidonee tu suit the views of men. Lo might be that it was best that Gen. Gar flold should die in the fullness of his fame. The result of these anxlous weeks of prayer could wot ‘to be of benellt ta living, and bring buck to koa Nation fast forgetting Thm and veting His laws. ‘Phe speaker alluded ingly te the Inte President's snered ude Hee to domestic tes, nnd the example of Christin life set forth by the great mau How no ntore, Te conchuded with a fervent prayer thatthe melancholy ovent might bo Dlessed as 1 lesson for the living, and that the Almighty would give strength to Mrs. Gur Hold and her frnfly in thelr sore afiietion, ‘The conzregation sang "* Nearer, My God, to ‘Thee, and the services closed with the bene dletion, 7 might SFCOND VAPTIST. The union menortat services held last eyen- Ing ot the Sveonl Baptist Church, corner of Monrue and Morgnn streets, were particl- pated In by the congregntlons of four ehurenes—the Second Baptist, Mghth Pres- byterinn, Centenntal Baptist, and Reunion Presbyterian. ‘There was a large attendance, Above the platform hung a large portrait in oll of President: Gartiell, appropriately draped, ant fram eneh sito of this United States tliga drooped to the floor. duit belaw the pleture wasa ioral ere Inelosinye the letter *G” tn calla and tub if fy Vho readlag-desk was draped in tek, Amie the clergymen who parilelpated in tho strvices and ocoupled seats on thy plit- form were tho Hey, J, Me Worrall, D, 2. the fev. A. K, Parker, the ‘Rev, J. it, Walker, and iho itey. We M, Jaysyapee, The musts was supplied by a trated choir under tho i+ reetion oF Prof, Phillips, Mrs, Carringtou, the soprano, sang the solo “Calling to the Better Sand,” and the eboir guve the chorua, ‘Lhe conmregtion sing “Asteop ia seats auth tho Hey. AK. Parker ven s portion of Seripture, ‘Phe lov. J. MM. Worrall Jed In prayer, mul, atier tho choir had rendered a, ihn, the congregation sung Nearer, My oil, te Thee.” This was fol- by addresses: uy the Rov, Messrs. we, Worrall, Walker, and Parker, and the singing of another hymn. ‘fhe collection taken durhu the evening will be applied to the benetit of the Christlan Chureh in Wash- Ing, DG, of which President Garileld was wihembor, aud wil go te ald in the erection ofaehureh buliding for that organization. UBTRANY OHURCH. In the Bethany Congregational Church on West Huron street memorial service, was hold yestorday morning, ‘The church’ was draped. ‘The pastor, the Rev. O. A. Towle, spoke from tho text, lt Is'expedient for us that ono man should die for the people, aud that the whole nation perish not.” Me guid nations! greatnvss was achieved by national sacrifices, ‘That was Wlustruted | in Gie natural world bythe fuck that (ue