Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. [ARTICLE]

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

Imposing Services, Attended by Many Americans. The Grar t memorial service in Westminster Abbey, says a London dispatch cf the 4th inst., was an imposing event added’ to the history of England. The edifice was crowded with a congregation nearly every member of which was a distinguished p rson, many Americans being present. The order of the service was as follows: Schubert’s "Funeral March”; the funeral procession up the nave of the cathedral to the choir; the opening of the burial service; the ninetieth psalm; the day’s lesson; funeral sermon by Canon Farrar; Spohr’s anthem, "Blest Are the Departed"; Handel’s anthem, “His Body Is Buried in Peace"; two concluding prayers; the burial service; blessing; the dead march in Saul. The funeral address delivered by Canon Farrar was most impressive, and was listened to in almost breathless silence. Canon Farrar took his text from Acts, chapter xiii., verse 36. He said that he desired to speak simply and directly, with generous appreciation, but without idle flattery, of him whose death had made a nation mourn; that he would touch only upon his public actions and services. The speaker then traced Gen. Grant from boyhood to manhood, compared him with the great men of the world, andranked him with the foremost. In the course of his sermon Canon Farrar said: Gen. Grant has been grossly and unjustly called a butcher. He loved peace and hated bloodshed, but it was his duty at all costs to save the count) y. In his silence, determination, and clearness of insight Grant resembled Washington and Wellington. In the hottest fray of battle his speech never exceeded “yea, yea,” and “nay. nay.” Among the distinguished English personages present were Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, the Earl of Iddesleigh, Earl Cranbiook, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Forster, and a great number of peers and m mbers of the House of Commons. There were also pre-ent Prime Minister Salisbury, the Duke ot Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British army; the Marquis of Lorne, Gen. Lord Wolseley, Senor Martinez, Chilian Ambassador to England; Cnief Justice Waite, exAtty. Gen. Brewster, Senator Edmunds, Senator Hawley, and other prominent Americans. Queen Victoria was represented at the service by her equerry. The Prince of Wales, the Duke ot Connaught and the Duke of Edinburgh were also represented by equerries.