had looked, he said, as "a Father in Israel" from his boyhood.
William Howard Day, then came forward, saying, he understood
that it would not be considered inappropriate for one of his
race to say a few words on this occasion, and make some attempt
to pay a fitting tribute to one to whom they owed so much. He
did not feel to-day like paying such a tribute, his grief was
too fresh upon him, his heart too bowed down, and he could do no
more, than in behalf of his race, not only those here, but the
host the deceased has befriended, and of the whole four millions
to whom he had been so true a friend, cast a tribute of praise
and thanks upon his grave.
Rev. Alfred Cookman, of Grace M.E. Church, next arose, and said
that he came there intending to say nothing, but the scene moved
him to a few words. He remembered once standing in front of St.
Paul's Cathedral, in London, and seeing therein the name of the
architect, Sir Christopher Wren, inscribed, and under it this
inscription: "Stranger, if you would see his monument look about
you." And the thought came to him that if you would see the
monument of him who lies there, look about you and see it built
in stones of living hearts. He thanked God for the works of this
man; he thanked Him especially for his noble character. He said
that he felt that that body had been the temple of a noble
spirit, aye the temple of God himself, and some day they would
meet the spirit in the heavenly land beyond the grave.
Lucretia Mott arose, and said she feared the claim might appear
to be made that Quakerism alone held the great central principle
which dominated this man's life; but she wished it understood
that they recognized this "voice within" as leading and guiding
all men, and they probably meant by it much the same as those
differing from them meant by the Third person in their Trinity.
She did not wish, even in appearance, to claim a belief in this
voice for her own sect alone.
T. Clarkson Taylor then said, that the time for closing the
services had arrived, and in a very few words commended the
lesson of his life to those present, after which the meeting
dissolved, and the body was carried to the grave-yard in the
rear of the meeting-house, and deposited in its last
resting-place.
THE TRIAL OF THE CASES, 1848.
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