Dor Timeline 1881 1882 1883 -Isa Psycheal Exp. file] -C BDS dress 7. R. Jones Bar Harbn have - ChallElist 1st Charplast Deathof Eneron layed out (B. Forsand). Society efforts. Illness in 1880. Early in the 1880s I had a long illness with a complete break-down of nervous figor and energy. The cause was obscure. Leading doctors, physicians of high standing, were unable to help me, unable to understand it or get at its foundation. It looked as if I might not live. Then I chanced upon a book telling of some wonderful cures, well authenticated, that had been effected by suggestion, people being put into mesmeric trances for the purpose of receiving the suggestion given them. Much I found had been written about it during a number of years past and remarkable experiments had been tried by a doctor whose name I now forget, on patients in a hospital in India maintained in charity for natives. The name Braid comes back to me in this connection but I cannot be sure of it now. This, the work done in this hospital, experimentally, was at the time of the discovery of ether. The physician in charge at the hospital who was trying the experiments found that not everyone was capable of being put into a memmeric trance and that it was necessary, when he did suc- ceed, to train the patient for a time to make him, or her, subject to the influence. But when he did succeed he was able to perform operations of the most serious nature without causing pain or loss of consoiousness to the patient. Illness -2 The whole work was carried on on a high scientific plane; there was no charalatanism about it or lack of careful observation, nor lack of understanding by the physician conducting the exper iments of their profound importance. But on the publication of his experiments in England he had been attacked in the leading English medical and surgical journal, The Lancet, in the vilest manner. An account of these attacks being given publica- tion along with reports on the experiments themselves in the book I chanced upon. It made me indignant and showed me how little fair play or intelligence was to be counted on in the medical profession when brought in contact with new ideas. The result was a desire to make experiment of this new force myself and see if it might help me. At this time a remarkable new movement was taking place in Boston as a center but spreading widely out, making use of this same forde apparently but using no mesmeric or other trance to render people suggestable to its influence. A number of people had taken it up and were practicing it under different names. 'Mental healing' was that taken by one group, and it was a good descriptive term for the mind was the instrument and one knew nothing nothing more, nothing 88 to how the suggestion became effective or the physical work was done, save that it operated plainly Illness -3 through the all-readhing and controlling nervous system. Another group, combining the new force with old religious doctrines, called themselves Christian Scientists and took up Mrs. Eddy as their leader. I had an open mind but was not superstitious or ready to take up on faith doctrines I could not understand or give rational credit to. But there was no question in my mind that a profoundly interesting and important force was there, and one which very probably might explain many phenomena of which there was record in the past, such as certain well-attested phenomena at Lourdes and else- where, miracles of the Catholic church, well-attested apparently but not to be explained along the lines of interpretation given them by the Catholic church. So my mother sought out for me a practitioner of the 'mental healing doctrine I first described and made an appointment for me to go and see her --for it was & woman -- and one, I found, of good intelligence and education whom I could talk with frankly. I told her I wanted to try if their new, to me, doctrine could help me, but frankly also that such books as I had come across upon the subject, other than Braid's, and one or two besides, carried no conviction to me as to the religious basis of the cures affected and that if I needed to be convinced of this I feared it would be useless for me to try. Illness -4 Mrs. D, to call her so, said that there was no need for this; all that was necessary was to be quiescent in one's attitude and have an open mind. The power lay deeper than words. I might not be responsive to its influence but she would gladly try. And on that basis I went to her regularly at stated times for two weeks or so without perceiving any marked effects, but suddenly I realized a change and felt a new power, a new energy rising within me and th is continued for some weeks more, working a real transformation in my state, though no words had been exchanged carrying conviction to me. Whatever the change was did not enter through the gateeway of consciousness but through some influence of what I can describe only as the unconscious mind. It reached a certain point and there it stopped but it had given me the lift I needed and the improvement continued on, gradually bringing me new strength and vigor. Source BHUIA 2019 Pg loF2 The following excerpts are from VIA Minutes, Vol. I September 27, 1881: A preliminary meeting of Bar Harbor Citizens and others interested in village improvement was held at the Cottage Street schoolhouse pursuant to a published call of the meeting in the Mount Desert Herald. Dr. Hasket Derby was elected chairman and Mr. Joseph Wood, secretary. The matter of a village corporation for the better regulation of public affairs was discussed and met with general approbation. The chairman appointed a committee on Permanent Organization. October 11, 1881: A committee was appointed to introduce an article at Town Meeting that hereafter the meetings of the Town of Eden be held in the Village of Bar Harbor. The committee of three was appointed Committee to Wait-on Selectmen. October 24, 1881: Mr. C.S. Leffingwell, reported for Committee on the Constitution, with preamble and by-laws. The first article of the Constitution declares that the society will be known as the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. Constitution adopted and meeting adjourned. November 14, 1881: Proclaimed First Meeting of the Association, the meeting elected the Association's officers and Executive Committee. February 20, 1882: VOTED to insert an article in the Town warrant that all Buckboard Tax money derived by the Town be given the Association to be expended on the streets of Bar Harbor, under direction of Executive Committee. March 6, 1882: A code for the sanitary regulation in the village of Bar Harbor was revised and adopted. The Executive Committee advised that these regulations be adopted by the Town of Eden and be enforced at once. 1885: (Note of Secretary): On the 6th of March, 1885, the Town of Eden at its Annual Meeting voted "That the polling place of the Town of Eden be changed to the village of Bar Harbor". All Town meetings have since been held in the village. On Saturday, March 25, 1885, at a Special Meeting of the Town of Eden, the code of sanitary regulations, approved and recommended by BH VIA, March 6, 1882, was adopted by the Town. July 20, 1889: The first meeting was called to order at the Music Room of Hotel St. Saveur, by Parke Godwin, president of the temporary organization, and upon report ot Constitution Committee, the constitution was adopted. Officers and Board of Managers for '89-90 were elected. It was voted that the new Association be considered as a continuation of the V.I.A, formed in Bar Harbor in 1881. September 9, 1890: In regard to report on hacks and electric lights, the matter of hack drivers and public carriages carrying lanterns and the subject of electric lights burning until dawn in page 2 of2 summer was referred to the Committee to Wait on Selectmen, for consideration at Town Meeting next March. And VOTED to authorize Executive Committee to lease for the Association for one year, land near West St. Cove, owned by Mr. T. L. Roberts, for the priviledge of tearing down shanties and the place put in order. February 5, 1891: A meeting was called at the suggestion of Mr. Jesup, who thought the Association might do something to prevent the Legislature of Maine in granting additional priviledges to the Mount Desert Railway, and to send committee to Augusta. VOTED $100 to oppose the street railway scheme. W.H. Sherman, sec. September 11, 1891: VOTED that $150 be appropriated for the purpose of removing certain old or dilapidated houses in the area of West St. known as Peanut Row, or be used at direction of Sanitary Committee for similar purpose. Roads and Paths Committee reports that a rock crusher of the best and most modern construction as an implement for producing desirable material in the construction of roads and sidewalks is necessary. The matter of purchasing machinery is now under consideration by Special Town Committee. The committee and the VIA should encourage and assist the Town Committee with presentation at Town Meeting in March. September 26, 1896: Provisions by Sanitary Committee are VOTED for a VIA Board of Health (consisting of five medical practitioners) and request of Town of Eden Selectmen of appointment of Health Officer, with power to enforce sanitary regulations. August 17, 1897: Appointed committee for the establishment of a village hospital. September 20, 1898: Voted that the Sanitary Committee be requested to insert regulation of grave depth and that all coffins be lined with lead, and where burials should be allowed. July 18, 1899: The Sanitary Committee reports that a telephone was placed last fall in the temporary hospital by the VIA and has proved to be of great service and comfort for Mrs. Higgins and the attending physicians. A bill of $24 for balance due for telephone is presented. September 10, 1901: The Village Committee reports on street cleaning from Hulls Cove to the Ocean Drive. Up to September 7th, 240 days work for men had been paid by this committee, and fifty-one and a quarter days for a one horse cart. For seven weeks a boy was employed to go about on a bicycle all day from Ocean Drive to the Bay Drive and collect the loose papers which are SO unsightly, but at the end of that time he grew tired of what would have been a pleasure if there had been no idea of work connected with it, nor could the committee fill his position for remainder of season. July 20, 1902: Resolved, that the thanks of the Association be tendered to Dr. C.C. Morrison, Representative from Eden in the legislature for his co-operative effort that the Association's committee and success in securing the passage of a law prohibiting the hunting or shooting of deer on the island. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin - TOC Page 1 of 1 The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin by Philip Schaff Table of Contents About This Book Title Page The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin Piarists Plymouth Brethren Brethren, Plymouth Plymouth Brethren Brethren, Plymouth Poeschl Praedinius Prentiss. Elizabeth Payson Priest Proverbs Psychical Vol. IX pa 350-51. Quadragesima Raamah Ratzeberger Reischle http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/TOC.htm 1/2/2003 BERKSHIRE IN THE WINTER page New York Times (1857-Current file) Feb 1881; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 2002) pg. 8 BERKSHIRE IN THE WINTER satisfy a modest gentleman-but his own house, the great desiderata; a keeper, ticket office, ex- which was entirely renewed and largely added to press agent, and telegraph office being considered last Summer. is now almost large enough to on- unreasonable luxuries, able him to indulge to their full extent even his AMONG THE SNOW-DRIFTS BY THE But now as to the Lenox season. It is an excess own hospitable inolinations. Again, we pass the of enthusiasm that says it is the Winter. if I may HOUSATONIC RIVER. pretty villa of Mrs. Hooper, widow of the gentle- judge from the snow and the thermometer of this man who represented a Boston constituency in exceptional year. Come here when the apple WHAT SOJOURNERS DO AT THIS SEASON IN Congress during the war and some years after- trees are in blossom, and stay till the russets ward. and whose financial ability was so generally and Baldwins are dropping from the QUAINT, DELIGHTFUL LENOX recognized by the advisers of President Lincoln. trees, and you can't go far wrong. And Then New-York is again represented, and this time REMINISCENCES OF THE NEIGHBOR- come at once to Curtis's, where I write. It is by by Mr. Charles Kneeland and Mrs. Thomas far the best hotel in town. The landlord is a gen- HOOD-THE "SEASON" IN BERKSHIRE Eggleston, who have delightfully improved two of tleman of the old school, and pays every attention the old-time houses and banked them in flowery to his guests. He is an angler. too, of the Cotton COUNTY. beds and velvet turf: and just beyond the corner, and Walton order, and the strings of fish that he LENOX, Mass., Feb. You may talk to the left, is the Summer home of Commodore brings home in the Summer are perfectly fabulous, Ellison. United States Navy, and his wife, the 80 great is his piscatory skill. I must say that a about Lenox being a fine Summer place," said the daughter of that eminent jurist and wonderfully better table than I have found here, or a better oldest inhabitant to me the other day, "but with acute advocate, the late Jeremiah Mason. Turning bed, or more attentive service. I have never met such a Winter as this it is a better Winter place. then to the road running south from the Post Office. with in Berkshire County. The younger Curtis, and we pass the Bishop mansion, and Mr. Shaw's too, won an excellent reputation as a host at Mr. The snow about 18 inches deep on a perfect level new villa. Dr. Field's cottage, Mrs. Tanner's and Auchmuty's Sunset-terrace houses that were over fields and roads. without a snow-drift or two or three Parsonses, when we reach the Hon. burned down two or three years since. I under- snow-bank. In fact," said he, warming up with Alfred Gilmore's. This gentleman many years stand that both these gentlemen are deeply im- since was an active and influential member of Con- pressed with the importance of providing suitable the thermometer a shade above zero, in fact, we gress from Pennsylvania, and, of course, an intimate depot accommodations for the increasing number have had no winds. The days are full of sunshine, of James Buchanan in that statesman's best days. of visitors to Lenox, and it is possible that the peti- He now lives here all the year round, enjoying his tioners in the "outskirts" may have thus accom- without the breath of a breeze stirring, and large and well-selected library in the Winter, and plished a beneficial result. when there's no wind the thermometer may overseeing in the Summer his fields and garden. score what it pleases. The air is full Having a letter to him. I called a few days since and had a very pleasant chat. He showed me of invigorating oxygen, and makes an old man some of his farm products, and I think his potatoes forget his years and feel like dancing when he were the largest and handsomest I have over seen. hears lively music." Another gentleman came The hill beyond Mr. Gllmore's belongs to Mr. Charles Lanier, the New-York banker. Negotia- into the hotel parlor at the moment, with ears and tions were on foot looking to the establishment of a nose that were rather red in spite of furs and a hotel there, but when it came to the point Mr. mufflers, but ho was evidently superior to climatic Lanier thought better of it and wisely concluded that the best use he could putsuch a property to was considerations. "I'm just in from the Furnace," to build a house there for his own occupancy. The he exclaimed. "Well," said I, "it seems to me if hotel projectors thus disappointed turned their at- I had got on the right side of a furnace on such & tention to the Comstock property, known as Inter- lachen, having in full view Laurel Lake on one side day as this I should have staid there." "I went and the Stockbridge Bowl on the other, but this down with the coachman," he continued, "who hurried up Mr. D. W. Bishop. of New-York, and he, was taking some corn and oats to be ground. The too, closed for the estate for his own residence. Between this and Mr. Lanier's (going back on our road was, very fine. I met Miss Cary and Miss steps) is Mr. Richard Goodman's fine farm. once Sands scudding along in great style, and half a the property of Judge Walker. and as the Judge dozen sleighs besides theirs passed mo on the had the pick of the real estate about here he planted his house on the very best point in the road. At the mill things looked very lively. I whole southern district of Lenox. It must be ad- counted no less than 15 sleighs and sleds getting mitted, I think, all things considered, that grain. Three men in the mill were kept busy this site. for its land and water views together, is unsurpassed, if not unrivaled. Both of all the time. There was not a drift on the road, them lawyers. and good ones, Mr. Goodman and and I trotted all the way from the Furnace to the his son are able to indulge their fondness for rural life, and take more pleasure in agriculture than in Post Office." litigation. Their Jersey cattle are known through "By the way." he observed, "I wonder if the the whole country. and attract visitors and pur- stage-coach is in yet. As WO were flying over the chasers from Maine to Texas. I must hurry on, however. and, passing Mr. Benedict's and Mr. J. level ground with a splendid all round, I saw a F. Morrell's. (and I must stop to say that his situa- two-horse sleigh toiling up the ascent yonder and tion is a lovely one,) we come on the extreme nearing the shanties and Dig-sties through which it south to the benutiful house and grounds of Mrs. Schenck and again turning on our steps pass the makes its attractive resthetic entrance to the town." now cottage recently erected on hills overlooking The stage-coach had not arrived, but I did not the lake, by Mr. Rackemann, and then the 600 the bearing of the question at that time. Very farm of Mr. Robert G which, under the admira- ble management of Mr. Seacord, is fast having its clear indeed. were the skies, and very low the rough places made smooth and its barren places winds, and very level the roads, and very charming productive. The rustic cottage beyond was pointed it was to slide over them with the merry rattle of out to me as Mr. John O. Sargent's, and from its back piazza you overlook a portion of his farm the sleigh-bells in your ear. If had left Lenox which runs along the north shore of the lako and just then I should have borne away the memories all the way up to the Stockbridge road. Next comes of a Winter Paradise. But only a few days after- the Porter estate, that has been in the family a cen- ward, and about the time that you were dodging tury or more. The adjoining country seat was laid the telograph-poles, window-blinds, and shop signs out or improved by the Brothers Dorr, so well in Lonox also saw another sight." known for many years in the social circles of New- The winds rose and the snow fell. and it was York, and whose then bachelor domicile in Wash- whirled abont by the driving blasts, and the roads ington-place almost 40 years ago, was noted for its were all blocked up. and the trees were breaking agreeably fashionable reunions. They are all gone, down with ponderous icicles, and every man who and this plensant memorial of their latter life-work. could keep within doors thanked his stars. and withit: pictures of landscape in frames of vines and there was no getting in town or out of it. The follage, is now possessed and prized as it ought to Jocal journal announced with exultation that there be by their surviving sisters. It is a place that was no traveling the road to Leo. and that it took every sojourner in Lenox visits at least once; and 12 hours to dig out the road to the Furnace, and so is Gen. J. F. Rathbone's, of Albany, hard by, a gave us to understand that by special arrangements more extensivo establishment on with Divine Providence the road from the village a hill-top. with shrubberies about it that Shen- to Lenox Station was kept open in the worst of stone might have envied," and scenery in all direc- seasons. and that this extraordinary fact ought to tions such as Shenstone never looked upon. I have only time to mention Mr. Henry Sedgwick's, at the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. be taken notice of by the Railroad Committee of summit of Furnace Hill; Mr. Washburne's, (whose the Massachusetts Legislature then in session on agricultural note rests on his Holsteins and his page the question of consolidating two of the three Silo,) Mr. Edward Delafield's (of Wall-street,) Mr. Lenox stations on the Housatonic Railroad. This Dana's Gen. F. C. Barlow's, Mr. F. Augustus reference to the Legislature explained some things Schermerhorn's, (sometime a Winter resident that I had not understood, and by keeping my with his friends, and making quick time over the eyes open (and my ears) I was able to acquire, frozen snow behind his four-in-hand,) Mrs. Ogdep in the parlor and bar-room, (with no bar,) quite a Huggerty's, Col. R. S. Oliver's, Mr. Winchell's, Mr. little insight into the situation. Lyman's, (occupied last Summer by Senator Pen- Thirty years ago. more or less, Lenox was the dieton and his family,) Mr. Rackemann again. county seat of Berkshire. It boasted of a Court- Mr. William Thomson, Judge Rockwell. and bouse, a jail, and a stage-house with a few privato the Lenox Club, whose President is Mr. M. houses, and a wooden block that contained a Edward Rogers, of Philadelphia. and Treasurer grocery, an apothecary's shop, and the Post Office. Mr. Franklin Bartlett, of Now-York. In running Some of the old-time mansions about this little over the places and their residents have omitted nucleus of a village were the white-painted, green- several that ought to be mentioned, and among blind quadrangulars that to this day, in my judg- them Mr. Henry A. Cram. who occupied last year ment, form altogether the most comfortable and the Haggerty place: Mr. W. Harrison. Mrs. Taintor, desirable country homes. This cluster of build- of Hartford; Mr. P. J. Sands, Mr. W. S. Bullard, Incs claimed to be, and no doubt was at Mrs. Tappan, Mr. Higginson. Mr. Samuel G. Ward, that time, the village of Lenox. The only (of the Barings,) whose striking aggregato of sev- business it had was its judicial business. In term eral houses in one forms the most picturesque fea- time it was frequented by the lawyers, who made ture of the Stockbridge Bowl. and the Brister place, the society very pleasant, and the hotel rang with on the same lake, occupied last Summer by Mr. their jokes and stories as the Court-house did with Coleman Drayton and his family. their drier discussion of knotty points in the law of realty, or some of the subtle technicalities by which From all this you can perceive what a wonderful they sought. as lawyers sometimes will, to rescue change has taken place in Lenox since its jail and criminals from the grasp of justice. This kind of Court-hous days. Mr. Samuel G. Ward claims to business was the only kind that brought any grist have been its first discoverer, and I believe he was to the mills at Lenox. There was what they called the first to lead the way in its foreign occupation. a furnace in another part of the town-a coal or He built what is now the Ballard House years ago, Iron furnace-but its blasts were feeble compared and then tried various places. building at Nowport, with those of the lawyers in the village, and but finally bringing up at Lenox again as the ne in figuring up the entities of the township plus ultra of Summer homes. it was literally nowhere. The jail centre All this leads me up to the agitation 'that has where the business of litigation was transacted been noticeable during my short stay at the hotel. was Lenox. and there was no other Lenox outside In its jail days Lenox had two stations on the of it. Even at that time. however, Lenox had a Housatonic Railroad-one at Dewey's. so called, few stray visitors attracted by the beauty of its and one at Lenox Furnace. To accommodate the scenery and the salubrity of its climate The only business that then flourished in the little vil- neighborhood was distinguished as the home of the lage the lawyers and litigants who came down by Sedgwicks, who had flourished there for a century. the way of Pittsfield insisted that they must have Dr. Channing, the eminent Unitarian divine, was a a station nearer to the jail and the Court-house. great lover of its charming rural retreats, and So they selected a station in a quagmire on the road preached one of his very latest sermons here." It that was supposed to be a quarter-mile nearer the was at a later period that Henry Ward Beecher had Court-house. The citizens protested against it as his farm here, and gave the name of Laurol Lake involving an enormous and unnecessary expense, to what was formerly Scott's Pond. But the lau- but the lawyers rode over them roughshod as usual, rels still live that vindicate its claim to the later and established their station, and, though it was title, and one of the finest floral sights in the two miles from any human habitation, they chris- country is a patch of this beautiful shrub in full tened it "Lenox" and set it down in the guide- bloom on the border of the lake in the early Sum- books as Lenox, with a population of 1,800 souls! mer. Then they were happy. There were three stations Things have changed very much since the time of in the town, and three stations in three miles, and which I have been writing. There is no more litiga this single-trac railroad was called upon to keep tion going on in Lenox. The county soat was them up. They were not expensive, and the de- moved to Pittsfield. By the liberality of the late mands of the then traveling public were not exor- Mr. Schermerhorn the old Court-house was con- bitant. I am speaking of the jail days. But. with verted into Sedgwick Hall, and now accommodates the change of surroundings and the introduction of the village library, the Ladies' Club. (a very flour- a new population, all this has changed. and the Ishing and important institution,) and affords a hall covered platform and rude shanties that did very for the hops, musical parties, tableaux, acted cha- well for a crowd of rough-and-ready citizens from rades, and private theatricals with which the Sum- the country immediately round about proved entire- mer population amuse themselves. Then the jail ly inadequate and unsatisfactory for the numerous was torn down-not one stone left upon the other. visitors who were landed in them after journeys So the lawyers left, and the criminals rollowed varying from 6 to 16 hours. This led to unhappiness. them to Pittsfield, and there really seemed to be no People, too, who were bound to Lenox Furnace, reason, commercially, for the further existence of misled by its description in the guides as a small Leuox. It was like the crater of an extinct voicano. station, thought they must go to Lenox for thereal Since that time, however, and fortunately thing, and then found they were perhaps four or five enough. the little Furnace has become important. miles from their destination. Dinners or desserts, Instead of blown-out coal works. or the like, pros- sometimes ordered from a distance, have been perous industries have been developed here. There known to go to the wrong station, and a dinner has is a grist mill, where the farmers take their oats thus been spoiled. Carriages go to the Furnace for and corn to be ground, and a saw mill that turns passengers who stop at Lenox, and, vice versa, per- out considerable lumber. There are two pulp sons stop at the Furnace who are bound to Lenox, mills and two paper mills, and any newspaper and hosts who wonder what in the world has become cashier can tell you what that means with two or of their visitors, sit down and eat the dinner that three active and clever paper-makers in Congress. nas been prepared for them and when it is under- It means money. Then the glass works employ a going the process of digestion their guests turn up good many hands. In all likelihood the manu- with an explanation that, not having found a con- facturing industry here brings in 10 or 20 times the veyance for them, (at the wrong station,) they had clear income that Lenox village ever made out of been obliged to scour the country promiscuously till its jail in its palmiest days; and the jail was the they had been rescued by some humane persons and fruitful source of income, for the lawyers, witnesses, put on the right track. They arrive hungry as and jurors came from abroad and took their money bears. and are obliged to eat the fresh-killed chick- away with them. The only litigant lodgers that ens that are spitted warm, and come up as tough stuck and brought in money were those who were as leather for their entertainment. Indeed, there locked up and could not get away. So the growth was no end to the centretemps that I listened to of the Furnace has made a great change in the in the hotel parlor. Add to this that no one of the prospects as well as the aspects of the township. stations had separate apartments for men and Another change has been effected by the influx women. or a private room for any purpose, or a of foreign visitors. At the time referred to, for in- hand-basin, or any toilet utensil of any description, stance, what is now the highly cultivated and pro- or any mode of meeting any of the exigencies of ductive estate of Mr. R. T. Auchmuty, of New- invalidism or fatigue, and is it strange that there York, far to the north of the old Court-house, on should have been a movement to reform, if possi- the Pittsfied road, was merely a run-down farm. ble, this state of things? The only wonder is that You now (and by now I do not intend to be under- any civilized human being could be found to ob- stood as of to-day) drive through a long avenue of struct such a reform. various trees and shrubs and a maze of flower-beds A petition to the General Court was gotten up by to a substantial brick mansion, admirably arranged, some 50 residents and tax-payers in the township to authorize the discontinuance of one of these sta- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 3 of with a rear corridor opening from the parlors and tions, on condition that the Housatonic Railroad dining-room, overlooking an amphitheatre of lawn, should erect improved and adequate accommo- bill, and forest, which it would be hard to match in dations for passengers at the other. Lenox Furnace the lake districts of England or Scotland. His farm was selected because all the freight of the town buildings are at a convenient distance, where his went there, and because the other station was greenhouse, stables, and granaries are arranged simply a shanty, without a ticket office, a baggage- with perfect equipments and due regard to econ- master, or a telegraph office, all of which were to omy and order. Not far from Mr. Auchmuty's be found at the Furnace. It was necessary to comes the Woolsey-Aspinwall property, perhaps choose between the stations and take one of them, even a more striking feature of the town. This because it was not reasonable to demand or a sin- consists of a series of hills covered with a dense gle-track road, not overburdened with business, to forest, with openings cut out at intervals, letting maintain three properly equipped stations within In views of marvelous beauty, and an excellent three miles. The movement was made in the inter- road through the whole leading to a villa perched est of the whole town of Lenox and of the on the most striking point of the estate, and com- hundreds of visitors who now como to it in manding an outlook of varied and consumate love- Summer as pleasure-seekers or as invalids. It liness. This villa is now occupied by Mr. E. J. is hardly credible that there should have been any Woolsey. of your City, who, with great liberality opposition to a project 80 evidently in the interest opens his gates at both ends of his magnificent do- of the township. But all the residents within the main, and thus invites the passers-by to enjoy in old jail limits turned out en masse, and sent two common with the hospitable proprietor the luxury lawyers, a Judge, a Postmaster, a hotel-keeper, a of a Summer drive in the shade of this forest col- Justice of the Peace, the TOWN Clerk, an ex-Lieu- onnade. I am told that in thinning out and in re- tenant-Governor, two Republican lobbyists of moving trees that obstruct the views a thousand great experience, a Democratic lobbyist, and six of cords of wood have been cut this Winter, and a the handsomest, prettiest, and best-dressed citizens good many more thousand might be cut without within the limits to Boston, to put a stopper on the being missed. proposed improvement. How on earth they all On the brow of the hill, as you go south, stands managed to get into the stage-coach that runs the pretty cottage of Mrs. Hartmann Kuhn, and in to the depot. is a wonder. but they accomplished the valley on the right the country seats of Dr. the feat, and presented themselves before the Rail- Greenleaf, of Boston: of Mr. John E. Parsons. the road Committee of the General Court with a re- distinguished lawyer of your City, and Mr. H. M. menstrance, headed by Judge Rockwell, and Braem. the Danish Consul-all fine houses, in the signed by 180 subscribers from Lenox, New-Lenox, latest and most tasteful styles of cottage archi- Pittsfield, New-York, and Boston. Judge Rock- fecture, and all with spacious grounds admirably well is a highly esteemed and popular gentleman, kept up. Not far from there, on the same road, who has been the tallest man in Berkshire County are the recently-built cottages of Misses Cary and for half a century. and if he had headed a petition Sands and of Miss Furness, both charmingly pic- to the General Court to hang Gov. Long and turesque, with their quaint nooks and angles and Chief-Justice Gray on Boston Common on Wash- their attractive and harmonizing colors. ington's Birthday, the average Berkshire citi- The little Italian-looking villa beyond, with zen would have had no doubt that it was the square tower. is the one that Charlotte the correct thing to do. Then there was a Rock- Cushman improved a few years since, and that she well in the Senate, and another very clever and in- occupied one Summer with her friend Miss Stebbins, telligent Rockwell at the head of the local journal, the sculptor. And this reminds me of what I once and so the Rockwell extinguisher was lifted over heard from Miss Cushman. that after Great Mal- tho heads of the 50 tax-payers and residents and in- vern. in Worcestershire, Lenox was the most continently dropped down on them. The lawyers, charming rural residence in the world, and in a too. described them as a lot of follows who lived on moment she withdrew the qualifying "after." the "outskirts," (meaning more than 200 yards Fanny Kemble to say that there was not an- from the old jail,) and consequently possessed no other such 10 miles square as was to be found in the rights which the 'village" was bound to respect. region about Lenox. And that charming actreas, Since the war that grew out of the rape of the end still charming woman, Mrs. Mowatt, (horn bucket" between Bologna and Modena, there has Ogden and dying Ritchie,) was equally enamored been no such contest as this between Lenox and of it. What a trio-on or off the stage! But am the Furnace. It is to be hoped that some result digressing. may be worked out of it for the advantage of the When we reach this point we are approaching traveling public. The obstructionists protest that the village, but are 'not yet within the magic circle extraordinary improvements are to be made on the that claims to be par excellence. Lenox. To reach shanty depot. What they are is not explicitly un- that we must pass the very beautiful estate of Mr. derstood, but large brags are made of a water- William R. Robeson. of Boston, whose gardener's closet and a telephone. which are sunnosed to ha sottage is so handsome a home that it might well Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 882 Psychical Research and the Future Life Page 1 of 2 PAGE TOC > PAGE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE LIFE: Psychical research may be defined as the organized and scientific investigation The Field of certain outlying and hitherto unrec of Labor. ognized phenomena-mental and phys ical-which are on the borderland between spirit and matter. Psychology deals with the operations of the mind under normal conditions: and many modern psychologists treat the subject from a materialistic point of view, i.e., the mind is not studied apart from organization and bodily structure. The interaction and interpenetration of mind and spirit and resultant phenomena, therefore, form the basic material for psychical investigation, which thus attempts to fill a gap in scientific re search. These phenomena may roughly be divided into two groups, physical and mental. Under phy sical phenomena are classed such manifestations as the movement of physical objects without contact, raps with no apparent cause, Poltergeist phenomena (such as occurred in John Wesley's house, in which bells were rung, crockery broken, and the like, without apparent cause), and so on. Under mental aao phenomena are classed telepathy, premonition and prevision, clairvoyance, apparitions at the moment of death and after death, trance utterance and automatic writing, and kindred phenomena. In the former class the physical world is affected: in the latter class it is not. Whether such phenomena really exist. or whether they are one and all figments of the imagination, was the question to be settled A The Prob- group of earnest thinkers gathered to- lem; the gether at Cambridge England, in 1881 Societies. to discuss this question. and in 1882 the English Society for Psychical Research was founded. An American branch was inaugurated in 1888 under the general supervision of Richard Hodgson. LL.D., and continued until his sudden death in 1905, when the present independent American Society, under James Hervey Hyslop. Ph.D., was incorporated. The founders of the English Society were Prof. Henry Sidgwick, Frederic William Henry Myers, Edmund Gurney-all of Cambridge-and, Prof. W. F. Barrett, of the University of Dublin. Prof. Sidgwick was its first president. Since that date, such illustrious names have appeared on the society's membership roll as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Prof. Joseph John Thomson, the Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour, Prof. William James. Lord Rayleigh, the Rt. Rev. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, Andrew Lang. Prof. Balfour Stewart, and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick. Some consider it, as Mr. Gladstone said, " the most important work in the world-by far the most important." The reason is obvious. Here and only here are found phenomena that seem to prove scientifically that man possesses a soul capable of existing apart from the body and of exercising its functions in that condition. The resurrection was, after all. a historical fact. to which Christianity points as proof of a future life. In an age of skepticism faith by itself fails to convince: an appeal must be made to actual facts. Such facts are the phenomena studied by psychical students. One of the first conclusions drawn by the members of the society was that telepathy-the power of one mind to affect another otherwise than through the recognized channels of sense-was Results of a fact in nature. By an elaborate series Study. of experiments. it was ascertained that such a power exists in man, and that it can and in fact does become operative under cer tain conditions. Unsuccessful attempts were made to explain the facts. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that spirit has the power of mani festing to spirit," as F. W. H. Myers expressed it in his monumental work Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (2 vols., London, 1904). Vibrations do not seem to pass: space and time do not affect it: it would appear to be a true and di rect manifestation of spirit. The application of this to spiritual guidance and to prayer may easily be conceived. The next great advance was made when. on the publication of Phantasms of the Living, by E. Gurney, F. W. H. Myers. and F. Podmore (London. 1886), it was first proved that appari tions of the dying occur far oftener than chance would permit. Seven hundred and two cases of a [Page 351 351] 352 [Page 352] 353 [Page 353] 354 [Page 354] 355 [Page 355] 356 [Page 356] 357 [Page 357] 358 |Page 358| 359 |Page 359| 360 [Page 360| 361 [Page 361| 362 |Page 362 363 [Page 363 364 [Page 364] http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/iv.viii.htm 1/2/2003 Boston; May 1, 1882; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872-1901) pg. 1 EMERSON'S FUNERAL. ATORO and road the Boatitudes and several other the patience, the wisdom and love, for the name- appropriate Aelections from the New Testainent. lesvcharms of person and of spirit the departed, Rov. James Freeman Clarko, D., then delivered which have made him a grateful memory to the the following sermon: inwates of the household to which be belonged, the community in which no lived, and throughout Public and Private Exercises "LOST IN GOD." the world. no are grateful that we have been privileged to know, face to face and in the Inter- at Concord. Rev. James Preeman Clarko's Sermon- course of daily life, a spirit 80 Inden with the beauty of holiness. 0 God, he who has gone Emerson's Fulth. from 115 was a wise tencher of Thy truth. The This assembly has come together not only to life was a fresh revelation of the graces and Sermon by James Freeman Clarko testify its respect for one of the greatest think- virtues which shone into the world through Jeaus ars and writers of our time, but also It is drawn Christ, and 110 praiso Thy love and Thy goodness Address by Judge Hoar. which gave 118 11114 Instructor and friend to make to this place by gratitude for the strength, help, our pathway in lite more bountiful and more sure. Inspiration which has been given to 118 through And now that the work of his hands is finished, the mediation of this noble soul. It is not for since our hands can no more minister to A. Bronson's Alcott's Tribute- me, it is not for this bour, to say what ought to his comfort and his needs, 110 would be said of the genjus which has kindled the tires commit to Thing infinite love the Aptrit which Scenes at Church and Grave. of thought In two continents. The present mo. Thou gave without repluting, trusting again ments belong to reverential love. We thank to reclaim all that 110 have lost whon Thou last God here for the Influences which have made 114 cill 118 to the home which Justis has prepared for The funeral of Ralph Waldo Emerson occurred all better. The voice now hushed nover spoke osout. We pray Thy blessing upon household but to lift 118 to a higher plane of generous soll. III which he has lived, that thy Apirit may more at Concord yesterday afternoon, and a large num. timent. The hand now still never wrote except than make good the loss which has hefallen 60 ber of friends and neighbors congregated in the to take us out of "our droary routino of sellse, many sensitive and loving hearts. May the lips bistorio town to pay the last tribute of love and worldliness and ain" into communion with what now silent speak to us forever of the divinity of respect to the memory of the great poet and over is noblest, purest, highest. By tho side of which the earth 18 full, that 110 may be 80 this revored torm wo thank God that through norfectly awaie of Thy presence hero as to philosopher. People came In throngs from all those years we have been made better by his know that we can never atray beyond Thy various parts of the county, SOME nirry. words and his life. llo has been a preacher of love and care, and that sucportion in Thy spiritual 10g as early as 10 n. III., while) by righteousness to this and other lands. When he universe shall be endless life and unconsing love. the time of the public services, at 3.30, fully left the pulpit, he said in his farewell sormon Thus, o God, make the great words which 1180.0 that he did not relingulan his profession- stlent lips have spoken to us, and which will live 5000 people, most of them visitors, had that he hoped whatever was his work to lonz in the pages of men's books and upon the assembled in the town square. A special be still a teacher of God's truth. How well has tablots of their hearts, make the fragrant memory train of ten heavily-loaded cars over the Fitch- no kept that promise No one can say, till the of this pure, complete, saintly life tend to make burg railroad, under the charge of Conductor day of judgment declares It, how large a part of all nion better through all time to come, and to the genuine faith in the things not seen but keep all souls in the way of leternal II We ask Sargent, arrived at 3 o'clock with about 700 eternal has como to us from the depths of his it ns disciples of Christ Josus, and for IIIs infinite people, including many distinguished literary spiritual insight. He was one of God's scors, and meroy's sake. Amen.' friends of the poet and members of the elergy. he was sont to us at 11 time llko the one of which Judge Hoar then asked the congregation to Join This train returned to Boston at 7 o'clock. it 19 written, "The Word of the Lord was in another hymn, after the singing of which A. precious in those days there WAS no open Bronson Alcott read the following poom: Nearly every town within A radius of tifteen tniles vision." Mon lived by past Inspira- IIIs harm is silent shall successors rise, sent a representation, and the feeling of sorrow tions, with no faith In the possibility Touching enturous hand at the death of Mr. Emerson was shown to be of any now revelation to the soul of the Ktudie glad raptures. visions of surprise, divine will. No doubt they did well to resort to And wake to eestasy each slumbering thing? not morely local and transient, but universal the words of aucient propnets until the day Shall If and thought flash now in wondering eyes, and abiding. MADY of the stores In the should dawn and the any star arise in their own when the seer transcondent, and wise, centre of the town had appropriate mourning World-wide his native melodies emblems in the windows, and, through the hearts. That day dawnon anow whom the sight of Flushed with fair hopes and ancient memories? thoughtfulness of the ladies of the Concord Club, the divino truth kindled n light in the solemn Ah, not That mateliless lie; eyes of Channing and created a now power which None hath the vanished inhustrol's wondrous skill every house was provided with A neat rosette of spoke from the thps of Emerson. Yot the young To touch that Instrument with art and will; mourning emblems, frour which depended stream. and hopeful listened with joy to this With him Winged l'ocsy and die. ers of black and white. This simple yet graceful decoration was placed upon the door of each morning song-they looked gladly to this While ardullage, left volcologs, must lament auroral light. When the little book, The bard high heaven had for Its survice sont, house, and seemed to denote that those within the doors had suffered a personal loss. Aud so It "Nature," was published it seemed to some of 118 a now revolation. Mr. Emerson then DUST TO DUST. WJS-no was more loved and honored by the townspeople than Mr. Emerson, and the occasion said what has been the text of his life, "Lot the yesterday WAS an uprising of the people ID testi- single man plant himself on his Instinots, and the Performance of the Final Sad Rites-Neenes mony of the deep grief at his death and their great world will como round to him." He aid not at the Burial, genuine appreciation of bis character and ser- reply to his critics. He wont on bis way-and to- At the conclusion of the services in the church, day no seo that the world has como round to him. vices. Services were held at the late residence of Mr. He is the preacher of spiritual truth to our age. an opportunity was Afforded to the friends of Mr. We understand through him what Jesus meant Emerson to view the body. The features of 1110 Emerson, on Lexington street, at 2.30 o'clock. It was the intention or the relatives to have the ser- when he said, "You must eat my flesh and drink philosopher appeared very natural, and death had vice of a private nature, but the spacious parlors my blood. Our souls have been fed by his life. We have been nourished by his character more not made any serious change. After half an were filled with friends and nelglibors. The ser. hour bad been thus occupied. a line was tormed, vices were of a simple nature, quite in keeping than by his words. He has been broad and wine the solemn processioning Bedtordstree with the unostentations life of the deceased, and to us-the broad of strength, the wine of joy. to the cemetery. The social circle of which Mr. consisted of a ferveut prayer by Rev. Dr. Furniss The Saying of the Liturey in True and Wiar, Emerson oldest member performed oscort of Philadelphia, and some brief remarks of an eulogistic nature, by the same gontleman. The that "in the midst of life we are in death." But duy. and the following members preceded the hearse: Messrs. Henry 1. Walcott, Richard Bar- body was in a plain waluut cashet, with heavy it Is still more true that "in the midst of death rett, R. M. Rice, 11. M. Grout, Samuel Staples, E. silver handles, and on the silver plate the inscrip- we are in life." Do we ever believe so much in C. Damon, E H. Hoar, Lorenzo Eaton, Georgo P. tion read: immortality AS when we look at such a dear and How, Jonathan F. Birrett, George Keyes John 8. noble face, now so still, which a few hours ago Reyes. James B. Wood, 11. J. Hosiner, J. M. was radiant with thought and love? "Ho is not Smith, H. F. Smith, Nathan 11. Slow and Georgo here; be is risen.' That, power which 110 knew Heywood. On either side of the hearse, -that soaring Intelligence, that soul of Are, which was drawn by two black horses, that ever advaucing spirit-that cannot have were Messrs. Charles Emerson, E. W. Em. been suddenly annibilated with the decay of erson, 11. Emerson, N. E. Forber, J. E. Cabot, these earthly organs. It has left its darkened J. B. Thayer, R. Forbes and W. acted dust behind. It has outsoared the shadow of our as pall bearors. Four carriages containing mem. The casket was taken by loving hands and borno night. God dora not trifle with his creatures by bers of the family were next In order, in the rear to the hearse, whence It was taken to the Uni- bringing to nothing the rino fruit of the ages, by of which were about 200 ladies and contlemen tarian Cnurcb, where Mr. Emerson a constant the lesson of a corobral cell, or some bodily tissue. who walked with bowed head and measured step attendant during the latter years of his lite and Life does not die, but matter dies off from it. The to the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, so called. When from whose pulpit he has often addressed words of highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit the procession reached tho cometery It moved commont, hope and Inspiration to his neighbors In which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, through the main avenue to Hillsido avenue, and friends. As R tributo of respect, the friends hope, love, purpose, Insight-this agent of Itt- whore the last sad rites were performed. who bad gathered at the house formed in line and monse resource and boundless power-this has The crave in which Mr. Emerson was buried followed the family to the church, where several not been subdued by its Instrument. When we Is In a very romantic portion of the picturesque thousand people were gathered inside and out- think of such a one as He, WO can only think of city of the dead. It is the family lot of the side, many of whom were unable to obtain even lite, never of death. Emersons, and there repose the remains of all standing room in the spacious auditorium. Such was his own faith, as expressed In his the members of the taintly who have departed paper on "Immortality." But he himself was the this lite during the last half century. The tiral THE PUBLIC SERVICES best arguinent for Immortality, Like the greatest wife of Mr. Emerson and his eldest son No here thinkers, he did not rely on logical proof, but on and the husband and father was laid at rest by Distinguished People Preseut-Appropriate the higher evidence of universal instinct-the their side. The spot 18 on a ringo In the highest Offeringe-Address by Judge Hoar. vast streams of belief which flow through human portion of the cemetery, in closo proximity thought like currents In the OCORD-those shore- to the graves of Hawthorne and Henry D. A vast crowd thronged the Interior and stood less rivers which forever roll along their paths In Thorean. The grave was very shallow, only four about the entrance of tho Unitarian Church. At the Atlantic and by banks feet deep, and by a singular coinsidence was due 3.30 the casket was borne down the alslo and but guided by the revolutions of the globe and and arrauged by Mr. Michael Carney, who per- placed in front of the pulpit. It was then opened, the attractions of the sun. formed a similar service at the funeral of aboving to those in the gallery the calm, waxlike Mr. Emerson stated such Indications of Immor- Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the box that received features of tue Illustrious deceased, A simple tality AS these: All great natures love stabli. the casket containing the remains of the departed bunch of violets and a book of white flowers, with ity and permanence. "Everything here," no says, pullosopher were placed a bed of hematock leaves, "is prospectivo. "The mind delights in Im. arranged by the teachers and pupils of Emer-on the last leaf turned down. a tribute from the scholars of the Emerson School, lay upon the mense time." Wo are not Interested In any. School who also placed about the four sides of 6110 thing which ends.' "All have seen tonches me grave tributes of respect and Feneration to: their coffin. The pulpit was covered with evergreen, in the centre of which was a to trust the Creator for what I have not seen. departed triend. Alver the body had been low. "All the ways of virtuous living lead upwards ered Into the grave, Rev. Mr. Haskell of the barp of yellow flowers. There were several clus- ters of roses on each side of the pulpit, but the and not downwards." Episcopal Church of lpswich read the commit. ment service of the Episcopal Church and pro- floral display was rather tasteful than elaborate. nounced n fervent benediction. The last prayer In the pulpit were Rev. Dr. Furniss of Philadel- had been offered, the last word had been said and phia, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, and Rev. the last tributo of love and honor had been paid Howard N. Brown of Brookline. Among to the memory of the greatest thinker of the age, the many distinguished persons who had and,in the presence of those who know and loved assembled were ladies and gentlemon eminent him best, all that was mortal of Ralph Waldo in literature, education and the sciences, and n Emerson, poet, scholar and philosopher, was more notable gathering is seldom seen. Among gently Jaid to rest. those who occupied seats in the body of the church were Oliver Wendell Holmes, General N. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. P. Banks, ex-Governor Talbot, Hon. Thomas In his "Threnody" he shows us how the Deep Russell, Alexander Williams and II. O. Heart said to him Houghton, the publishers, George Wil- When the scanty shores are full liam Curtis, Colonel T. W. Higginson, with Thought's perilous, whirling pool: Professors Hill, Norton, Plorce and Horsford of A Strong, bad Harvard. Rev. C. A. Bartol, Rev. G. W. Briggs, Her. E. A. Horton, a successor and present pastor My servant Deathowith solving rite, of the church (the Second) over which Mr. Emer- Than son was ouce settled, Rev. W. H. Foote, Rev. Mr. law Haskell of Ipswich, John S. Dwight, A. Brouson Pitts 1682 Alcott, Abby W. May, Sarah Jowett, Louisa M. four Alcott, Mrs. John T. Sargent, Rev. Thomas Muin- nist stearch ford, Rev. J. H. Ward, Rev. W. P. Tilden, Rev. admis Woman did graie Chandler Robbins, F. W. Lincoln, George Put- who came to be fed, and never Dain, Professor W. T. Harris, President O. W. went away hungry. After that were the days of Elio of Harvard, Mr. Charles 11. Slack and many the Transcendental Club, which WO called the others. "Likeminded," 1 suppose because no two of us thought alike. One summer afternoon we came Judge Hoar's Address. to Concord and had our meeting in bis par- When the pall-bearors were soated the familiar for. There was Georgo Ripley, admirable face of Judge Hoar appeared at the left of It. 110 talker, most genial of men, and Orestos A. Brownson, full of intelligence, courage and in- spoke as follows: dustry, who 80011 wont over into the Roman The beauty of Israel is fallen in its high Catholio Church, and James Walker, of whom places. Mr. Einerson has died and we, his Mr. Emerson once said to me, "I have como to friends aud neighbors and townsmen, with this Boston to hear Dr. Walker thunder this even. Borrowing company, have turned aside the pro. ing," Theodore Parker and inany others. Disa cession from his home to his grave, to this temple of enthusiasm and youthful hope, when the world of his fathers that we may hero unite in our seemed so new and fair, IIIO so precious, when parting tribute of reverence and love. There is now revelations were close at hand as WO thought, nothing to neura for him. That brave and soine new Plato or Shakespeare was about and manly life was rounded out to to appear. We dwelt In what Balleok calls "the the full length of days. That dying pillow dear charm of life's Illusive dream," and the was softened by the sweetest domestic man who lind the largest hope of all, yet joined affections, and as he laid down to the sleep with the koonest eye to detect every fallacy, WAS which the Lord giveth lile beloved his face Ralph Waldo Emerson. We looked to him as was as the face of an angel, and uis our master, and now the world calls him Its smile seemed to give a glimpso of an opening master-In Insight, judgment, charm of heaven. Wherever the English language 18 spoken speech, unfalling courage, endless napiration. throughout the world his Inine Is estalished and We any of him as Gloethe of Schiller, "Ln, ho secure. From beyond the soa and throughout went onward, ever onward for All these years- this great land will como Innumerable voices of then, Indeed, he had gone far enough for this BORROW for this great publicios for we, his neigh. earth. For care is taken that trees shall not bors and townsmen, teel that no was ours. lie was grow up to heaven." His work, like that of the descended from the founders of the town; no chose apostie, was accomplished by the quantity of soul our villagoas the place in which his life-long work that was in him, not by mero power of intellect, was to be done. It was to our fields and orchards but "by pureness, by knowledge, by long suffer- that his presence gave such value. It was In our Ing, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love un. streets in which children looked up to him with feigned, by the word of truth, by the armor of love and the worldly did blun reverence. He was righteousness ou the right hand and the left.' our ornament and pride. 110 has gone-ho, the Lot us then ponder his words: more fortunate, yea lie bath vanished. For him Will thou not one thy heart to know there is no longer any future. His 1110 is bright- What rainbows teach. and sunsets show? bright without stain-and cannot coase to be. Volco of earth to earth returned. No ominous hour knocked at his door with Pray ors of saluts that July burned- tidings of despats. Whatever fortunes awail our saying- What is excellent, future tolls, the beautiful 18 vanished and returns As tiod lires, is permanent: not.' That lufty brow, the nome of all wise Hearts hearts loves remain; thoughts and lofty aspirations, those llt's of eto- Hearts love will meet theo again. quent music, that great soul which trusted In House and tenant go to ground, God and never let go its hope of Immortality Lost in God, in Goilhead found. that great heart to which everything was wel. comet belonged to inau, that hospitable na- PRAYER AND POESY. ture, loving and tender and gonerous, having no repulsion nor scorn for anything but meanness Rev. Howard M. Bnown Addresses the and basenes. On, friend, brother, father, love. Throne of Grace-A. Bronson Alcott's teacher, Inspiror, guide. Tribute. Is There no More that We can do Now Then followed this prayer by nuv. Than to Give Thee Our Farewell! Brown: "() God, most holy and most moreiful A secret, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Thou, thegiver of all life, and who makes Continual comfort In the face, the angel of death A message of Thy will, will The elements of (lospel books, I trow that countenance cannot 110, Thou heln us, Tby children, when Th Whose thoughts arelegible In the eye. decree takes from 118 the doarest of nl " There is one byma of Dr. Watts which Mr. Em- treasures-the life that has grown to of our past 1110-walt Thou help u erson especially liked, and which It scens appro- priate should be read at his funeral: still part to say, Blessed he the name of the Lord who doeth all things well. We would humble ou Lord, when quit this earthly stage, Where shall lly but to Thy breast? spirits before Thee, confessing that In the pres For I have sought other home, once of Thine intinito wisdom, by which all thing For I have learned no other rost. Icannot live contented here should be done, acknowledging that it is not for have been made and are sustained, our sorrow Without some glimpses of Thy face, mont with Thino Almighty will. But Thou, God for us, the creatures of a day, to enter into judg And heaven without Thy presence there Would be is dark and Irresome place. hast made 'Thysolf known to 118 AS a loving and My God, and cinan hamble child Recver from Thy face exited, sorrow como in upon our shuts. 0 Thou, who are appeal for comfort and help when the arrows of compassionate Father, and to Thy favor do WI That loves Thee with an humble sigh, Without the pity of Thine eye? Impossible! lor Thine own hands Have tied my heart no fast to Thee, intirinities, help us, we pray, to lift up our hearts the Father of our souls and who teachest 118 0111 And III Thy book the promise stands, That where Thy heart Thy friends must be. Theo with an unwavering constanov when Thy can see and know of Thy goodness, and may trust to Theo, that WO may DO thankful for all we That glorious life will well repay This Ilfo of toll and wear and wee; Theo with a deep gratitudo for the hope of end. purpose is hidden from our sight. Wo do thank Oh. Father joyful on my way, To driuk Thy bitter cup I PO. Judge Hoar then asked the congregation to of a world where WO shall DO free from the losses less life which Thou has set before us, the hope join in singing the following nyinn: and pains that burden our spirits here, and where Thy will be done: I will not fear shall regain the loved ones who have passed The fate provided by Thy love; out we of our sight into the valley of the shadow of Though doubt and darkness shroud me here, death. The nearer and dearer the dead ones, the I know th all is bright above. more blessed their presence has beon to us, the The stars of hear are shining on more do we thank Theo that, through Jesus Though there frill eyes are 'm with tears, And though the hopes earth be gono, herven and the now oarth that are to no Christ, our eyes have been turned toward the HOW Yet are not ours the Immortal years? Father, forgive the heart that clings the homo of the soul, and the more earnostly do Thu. trembling to the things of time, we pray Thee for Increased confidence in the And bid the soul on angel wings realley of that immortal house of many mansions Ascend Into a puter clime. in which the Master has prepared a place for us. There shall no doubts disturb this trust, and beauty of the nobio life that is here ended. We thank Thee, o God, for all the gracea pence No BOLLOWS dim celestial Jovo: But these allitions of the dust Thou, o God, art the great life of which our Likeshadows of the night remove human lives are feeble Images and reflections, After the Binglug of the hynn. Rev. Dr.Furniss and 10 Tuce our thanksare due for the kindliness. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE LAST SAD RITES Boston Daily Globe; Apr 30, 1882; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 1901) pg. THE LAST SAD RITES and a trinit irian, too. I need not nibble folover at one lons. but out it and thank God for it, and earn another." Emerson was much respected in England as Over the Doad Poet to be Per- well as 11) Germany and Frameo, into which latter countries his worls had nde their way by trans. Intina, and perhaps MOIO distinguished foreign- formed Today. ets have crossed 1118 threshold than that of any American auth it. 11e once rent a poem before the Pbi Beta Kappa Society AL Cambridge, and suddenly sat down in Emerson as a Reader and a List the must of 11. As he read he became dissatis. lied with it and could not go on It was this de- of Favorite Books. mand for perfection of expression which made him so rights exacting with his essays. and caused him to write them over again and again. Another Chapter of Reminiscences In his earlier years Linerson tried to speak without manuscript, but no found he could not and Interesting Notes. do it well, and afterwards attempted it but holdom. 1118 most CINIL addresses were usually carefully prepared. That on Lincoln, apparently written with the greatest care, was prepared III- All that 18 mortal of the philosopher, most and tween 10 o'clock and 1 of the night before its scholar, Mr. Halph Waldo Emerson, will be latd delivery. to rest this afternoon In Sleepy Hollow cemetery. Mr. Emerson used to relate the following anec- Private services will be held At his late residence doto of Goethr, "not without keen hympathy for the appressed Hon": "A lanatical admirer and public services in the Unitarian church. A built Into the bedroom of an mn where Goetho special train leaving Boston at 2.15 11. m., and was undressing, and throwing wimself ocatationly stopping only at North Cambridge and Waltham, sit his feet, poured forth at the same time a bot will reach Concord in time for the public service. speech of adoration. Goothe blow out the canule and jumped into bed." "Yes, Mr. Emerson's form has beon very familiar There nover was but oue woman who could to 118 here," said n lady-like attendant at the match Emerson, and that was Margaret Fuller, Athenrum yesterday, in response to the inquiries who was some live yours younger. Her birthday of a GLOBE reporter, "Our library and reading- was very near that of his being May 25 room, you know, AID the favorite haunt. of month and hers May 23. Mr. Emerson and Miss Fuller all hollterath of the city and the country round once attended one of Fanny Cilsier's dancing ex. about. A low years N.KO Mr. Emerson spent n hibition, on which occasion the philosopher WHIR great deal of his time here. His daughter, M144 so completely carried away by the EGena that no Ellen Emerson, generally camo in with time, car- exclaimed: Margarot, this is poetry." "Ralph," rying his papels and books in her anchol. They was the reply, Is more-it 1, religion." would sit in the chairs by the window yourel and Thin effect of the agitation Incident to the make arrangements 119 to how they should spend Alcott system of teaching III the Temple school at their day in 1110 City, I remember that she would Boxton, referred to, on Emerson 18 In- sometimes try in induce him to accompany her on dicated in his relations to the church in East a round of social calls. 110 usually seemed rather Lexington. This church was anxious to settle averso to 80 doing and would give HS an exense him as its pastor, but he did not wish to ell- that no had some epretal subject which be was ter ngaln July upon the duties of a elergy man, 80 very destrous of looking up." no urged upon the people the calling to their "Does Miss Emerson résemble her father?" pulpit of one of his friends. When n lady of the "O yes, there was n family resemblance. She 19 society was asked why they did not settle this not as tall ny he was, but has some of his charac- pureun, the reply was: corro are a very sumple peo- toristics. Her face is particularly clear and swert pic and can understand no ono but Mr. Emerson. in expression. Together they were, In personal Appearance, a couple who attracted attention and remarks, even W on their Identity known. It IS rarely one ares such R womanis daughter chaperon A vonorable father 80 tenderly and de. votedly. In n thousand little WHVE, here ninong the books, I have observed her provisto for his comfort and anticipate his every want. I AII) told she was his amanuensis, his private secretary, his reader, his arrand-goor, and has oven attended to his business affairs with his publishers. There are very few aged literati Blessed with Such n Daughter. Longfellow, indeed, was fortunate In this respect, but I don't call to mind any others. The Cam- bridge poot came in to 800 us rather rarely during his later years. Onco 1 remember on n summer Afternoon several 30 180118 since he and Mr. Emer- son, who were always the warmest of friends, atood and talked together in the alcove near the and of the hall by the window that looks out over the Granary burying ground. The author of "Illawatha' was RS erect, and sprightly and smiling ns usual, while the transcendent allst, taller in stature, lounged back with shoulders against A set of "Men.org sur la Fraucaise Revolution," and regarded his vivacious companion, his strong-eut fentures beaming with pleasure nt the encounter with his long-time friend and sympathizer. They had not been together n great while when James T. Fields espion them from the reference alcove, where of a summer alternoon no sometimes passed an hour at a time. 110 came across the hall with his long strites, "Allibune" in hand, and then fol- lowed all interchange of the greetings of con- genial spirits. Longfe.low and Fields did most of the talking, for even at that time the philosopher folt hardly sure of his atterance, and his memory often failed him. From the fragmentary ru. marks audible at the other side of the hall, where I was engaged in numbering books, Professor Longfellow scened to be irs. ing to permittle the others to dine with him at Cambridge that evening. What decision was arrived A1 in the matter did not Appear, but the trio wont out together. That was the only OCCASION on which I ever B.W them In the library At 11:0 same time. The visits of Emerson un to the first of this year were at least weekly r lort- nightly. Ho has been In but once January.' "Call you tell nie what cla-8 of books he was in the habit of taking from this llurary?" "Like Many of the Older Literary Men who 1140 our shelves, he was wont to look over a large number of books while here, but carried home comparatively few. These he frequently kept for several weeks, sometimes even after they had become due. 110 evidently road or had them read 10 him very thoroughly. He had a habit, too, or drawing the SAME book several times in the course of a season. Our present s)stem of charging is such that 11 is difficult to ascertain what works he has taken recently. We have >Ollie old records, honeror, which will show the volumes registered to his traine In years post. lits 1110- rary taste experienced very 118110 change, 1 be- lleve; that is as Inr as could be interred from the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. class of literature he supplied himsell with here. It is not fair of course to conclude that every book charged to him was draw for his own reading. It is custom iry for all the members of a family to 11311 the name share " they desire to do do so, though 1 think that In tills CANORO one took advantage of the privilege, unless It way Miss Emerson on rare occasions. Hero you may find the list of books charged to each shareholder of the Boston Attensium III the year 180% And retere uco 11.15 made to a ponderous leather- bound Youuno or that date. Following are the there registered under the name of Emor. son, Halph Waldo: "Rovue des deux Mondes," Polgrave's "Essay on Art, "North American, Polgrave's "Arabia," Ritter's "deography of Patestine," "Causeries du Lundi," Lessing's "Schritten Logge," "Chinese Classics," Wheeler's "History of India," (i. Sand's "Laura," "Memoir of Wilkim Hazlott,' Hersonel's "Familiar Lec. tures," Muller's "Lectures on Language." "Memoirs du Duo do Saint Subon," White's "swedenberg," "History of India, Ainolet's "Our Celtic Literature," Hugo's "Chansons des Rues et des Bots, "Chesterfield's Letters,' Dalton's "Phy-tology." Thiers' "Consulat at Empire, Cornoille's "Querries," "Life of Lord Hothert," "Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," Voltaire's "Ouurres" and Southey's "Hook of the Church.' Tue 11-1 for 1872 includes Skone's "Anctent Water," Wordsworth's works, G. Sand's "Murllo Merquen," Paton's "Poesle Latino." "Science of Religion," J. Hookham Frere; Skene's "Four Ancious Books of Wales," "Consin Jacqueline Peseal," Will's "Danta Forchunger," Ware's "%enobin," Lowell's poems, Hawels' pooms, Taine's "Notes," reports of the D pastment of Agriculture, Lewis' "1,110 and Works of Guetue," Stephen's "Story of My Career," Ruskin's "Queen of the Air." Phelps "Hedged In," Kanaragh's "Odele," Plagetuncher YOU Vambagen YOU Ense," "Bergidam San Grall," "Lyia Apostolica," Reside's "Cloist. and the Hearth, Conlanger's " Ite Antique," "Revno des deux Monder," Hux- loy's "Lay Sermone, "All of Protonging Life," Dryder's works, "Dante Opere," "l'andari Car. mina Heyne' "Puritan Commonwealth," "Bas- banville Satonad'autrefols, Holmes' "System of Surgery," "Illeury of Otterdingon," "llorating ed. Staltator," Lord Brook's works, "New West,' Hittel's "California" and Blackie's "Ger- man War Songs." A mone the Books Taken Out in 1877 were: "Marilee Geheinitz," "Jean Paul's Works," Ruskin's "Etbics of the Dust," "Sights and Insights," "Buxton's Notes," Darwin's "In. sents and Plants," Savago's "Rollgion of Lyolu. tion," "Lafe of Ticknor," "Horace's Works," Gruj'a "Miscaken Atms," Gleig's "Gleat Prob- lem," "Fredrika Breiner," "Llfo of Macaulay," "lieck Novelleig" "Dowdon's Shakespeare," Landor's "l'amous Women," Taino's "Ident in Art." Walker's "Faith and Duty,' "Prossia 88 It is," "Nations of Russia," "Our Place in the Infinite, "Wesley's Poems," "W, sloy's Sacroil Poetry," "Schucking Romano," "Un Coin du Monde, "Adl-Greutii, "Goothe Briof. weansel," "II. Imanu's Funtasio Stuche," Ellot's *widdlemarch," Balz.c's "Illusions," "Life of Herbert," Butler's "Year of Consolation,' Trow. bridge's Vagabonds," Dib-tin's "SOA Songs," "Holines" pocus, "Walter's DO "Moote's Doems," English sonnets," Goodwin's "Pin. larch and Morals," Howell's "Forgono Conciu- sion," "Vambagen von Eure," "Rioita et Not. volles," Wieland worke," Allerbach Waltried's "Miths of the Rhine," "Moggrimige's works," "Lexervo's Confession do l'Abbess and Goothe's "Ipliequie." "Ill Is a bibilographic maxim," said the young lady attendant, "Lint from the character of the books a person draws from a large library, one may infer the nature and extent of his private collection. Halph Waldo Emerson could not have had is very large or complete assortment of books in some departments of literature at least, or he would nover have taken out Moore, Dryden, Holmes, Gotho, Corneille, George Eliot's "Middle- march" and several other authors In the lists. Most literary men have the complete works of all these writers close at thanks. "Did Emerson In his use of the library exem. plify the advice given In his ossays-not to read any book until it is n year old." "You, I should think so, substantially. As n matter of fact our now books would have been rather Inconvenient for him, as 1110 regulations are that Liny shall not be retained over seven days, and no often destred to keep a book In his hands month or more. " shether e1ilscircumstance had anything to do with the origin of his advice can hardly be told. 110 was always very kind and courteous tow.ords all with whom he came In con. lact here. There 18 no place In Boston where the pleasant face of the old philosopher will be missed more than in the halls and alooyes of the Athenium." LITTLE THINGS That Show the Character of the Immortal Philosopher. It was Mr. Emerson's habit to devote the morn. in hours to study and reading. 11) the afternoon R walk to Walden, about a mile distant, and to other places with n friend, and in the evening he would be "ut home" to his weighbors and friends, A theological student from Harvard once went to him with an necount of the differences of opinion there amoug the Unitarian divinity students. "I am not much Interested In these discussions," said he, "but still is does seem deplorable that there is such a tendency in people to cloeds which would take man back to the chimpanzee, 1 waye very good grounds for being a unitarian, Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE FUNERAL OF EMERSON Page of New York Times (1857-Current May 1, 1882; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. THE FUNERAL OF EMERSON love. The voice now hushed never spoke but to lift us to a higher plane of generous sentiment. The hand now still never wrote THE POET LAID TO REST WITH except to take us out of "our dreary routine of worldliness and sin into com SIMPLE CEREMONIES. munion with whatever is noblest, purest, MANY OF HIS OLD FRIENDS AND DISTIN- highest. By the side of this revered form we thank God that through all these GUISHED MEN IN ATTENDANCE-AD years we have been made better by his DRESSES BY THE HON. E. ROCKWOOD words and his life. He has been a preacher of righteousness to this and HOAR AND THE REV. JAMES FREEMAN other lands. When he left the pulpit he CLARKE-A SONNET BY MR. ALCOTT. said, in his farewell sermon, that he did notre- CONCORD, Mass., April funeral linquish his profession; that he hoped, what- ever was his work, to be stiil a teacher of God's of Emerson here to-day was in every respect truth. How well has he kept that promise no the simple and unostentatious ceremony ex- one can say till the day of judgment declares pected. The public exercises in the old Unita- it. How large a part of the genuine faith in the things not seen, but, as eternal. has man church, following the private service at come to us from the depths of his spiritual the house, consisted mainly of addresses by insight. He was one of God's seers, and he was Judge Rockwood Hoar, Mr. Emerson's old sent to us at a time like the one of which it is written, "the word of the Lord was friend and neighbor, and James Freeman precious in those days; there was no open Clarke, of Boston, with reading from the Scrip- vision. Men lived by past inspirations, with tures by Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, and no faith in the possibility of any new prayer by the Rev. Mr. Brown, of Brookline, revelation to the soul of the divine will. No doubt they did well to re- the young clergyman who has been supplying sort to the words of ancient prophets until the pulpit here. A sonnet by A. Bronson Al- the day should dawn and the day-star arise in cott concluded the service. The singing of their own hearts. That day dawned anew when the sight of the Divine truth kindled Pleyel's Hymn at the request of the Emer- a light in the solemn eyes of Channing son family, and the reading of one of and created a new power which spoke from the Watts's hymus, constituted the other lips of Emerson, when the little book as a new revelation. Mr. Emerson then said what has features of the public exercises. At been the text of his life: Let the single man their conclusion the congregation and plant himself on his instincts and the great the townspeople were allowed to pass world will come round to him. He did not re- by the coffin, and then the burial in the old ply to his critics. He went on his way and to-day we see that the world has come round to village cemetery followed, a portion of the him. He is the preacher of spiritual truth to Episcopal service being read at the grave by our age. Himself was the best argument for the Rev. Mr. Haskins, a relative of Mr. Emer- immortality. Like the greatest thinkers, he did not rely on logical proof, but on the son. During the day the town was in mourn- higher evidence of universal instincts, the ing. Every dwelling, bumble and prominent, vast streams of belief which flow through every store and public building, was draped human thought like currents in the ocean, those with black and white, caught in folds by ro- shoreless rivers which forever roll along their settes, with black and white emblems, ar- paths in the Atlantic and Pacific, not restrained ranged by a committee of Concord ladies. by banks, but guided by the revolutions of the The flag on the town flagstaff was hung at globe and the attractions of the sun. half-mast and the library was extensively At the conclusion of Mr. Clarke's remarks draped. There was a great throng present prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Brown, of from out of town, the special train from Bos- Brookline. The beginning How blest the ton bringing several crowded cars and people righteous when he dies, written by Mrs. Bar- coming in from neighboring towns. Among bauld, was sung again by the congregation to the more distinguished were Oliver Wen- the favorite old tune of Hebron and Mr. dell Holmes, George William Curtis, Presi- Alcott's sonnet, with a benediction closed the deut Eliot, of Harvard College, and exercises. The sonnet was as follows: Profs. Charles Eliot Norton. Pierce, Horsford, His harp is silent. shall successors rise, and Hills, of Cambridge: the Rev. Francis Touching with venturous hand the trembling Tiffany, of New-York; the Rev. Chandler string. Robbins, who succeeded Emerson as Pastor of Kindle glad raptures. visions of surprise. the Second Church 171 Boston, and the Rev. And wake to ecstasy each slumbering thing? Edward A. Horton, the present Pastor, with Shall life and thought flash new in wondering eyes As when the seer transcendent. sweet and wise, ex-Mayor Lincoln, S. W. Crosby, and George World-wide his native melodies did sing. B. Hagar, the present Standing Committee of Flushed with fair hopes and ancient memories? the church, and ex-Gov. Talbot and other mem- Ah. no. that matchless lyre shall silent lie, bers of the parish; the Rev. Henry W. Foote, None hath the banished minstrel's wondrous of King's Chapel, Boston; George W. Cooke, skill the author of the recently published critical To touch that instrument with art. biography of Emerson; representatives of And with him winged poesy doth droop and die, While our dull age left voice!ess must lament the Boston publishing houses of Hough- The barb high heaven had for its service sent. tou, Mifflin & Co., James R. Osgood Co., Roberts Brothers, and A. Williams & The services over, the congregation passed up to and by the bier, and the people outside Co., of the old corner bookstore; the widow of ex-Gov. John A. Andrew and her daughter, who were unable to get into the church during the progress of the services were admitted as Mrs. John T. Sargent, in whose Boston parlors those who had been inside passed out. This the Radical Club so long met; ex-Gov. N. P. occupied a long time, and it was nearly 6 be- Banks, the Rev. Mr. Green, of Montreal, Canada; the Rev. Dr. Briggs, of Cambridge: fore the procession moved to the cemetery. The procession to the grave was led, as was the Rev. Mr. Tilden, of Boston: Mountford that from the house to the church, by the mem- and Julius H. Ward, Judge Russell, and sev- bers of the Social Club, the hearse immediately eral leading members of the Suffolk Bar. Dr. following. Few carriages were provided for Hedge, who was expected, was prevented from Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. attending. those of the relatives and immediate friends 20f3 The services at the house were conducted en- who felt unequal to the short walk, and many tirely by Dr. Furness. They were attended of the congregation that had crowded the by the immediate family and the near neigh- church, with the townspeople, followed in bors. Dr. Furness's address was brief and the line. The grave is on the hill-top, tender, concluding with those lines of Long- east of Sleepy Hollow, under a tall fellow, read at the latter's funeral, closing pine. Pine boughs were thrown upon the with the oft-quoted words: mound of forest eartb by the grave side, and There is no Death! What seems 80 is transition; hemlock sprigs surrounded the mouth of the This life of mortal breath grave and lined its sides. When the procession Is but a suburb of the life elysian. had reached the cemetery the coffin was borne Whose portal we call Death." by the pall-bearers to the open grave, aud Brief passages from the Scriptures were soon lowered into it. The company grouped then read and a short prayer said, and thus itself about the spot, and the Rev. Mr. the services ended. A final look was then Haskins read the brief service, closing taken at the features of the departed, and soon with the Lord's prayer, ending with the after the procession to the church was started. words, And deliver us from evil," in which It had been decided to employ a hearse, and all joined. The benediction was then carriages were provided for the relatives and pronounced, and then the grandchil- more immediate friends. The Concord Social dren of the revered departed passed by Club led otf, and then came the following, the open grave, each in turn throwing into acting as pall-bearers, all relatives of Mr. it a bunch of flowers. So ended Emerson: Charles and Haven Emerson, bis the simple ceremonies of the occa- nephews; William H. Forbes, his son-in-law sion. The procession passed out of J. Eliot Cabot, who is to be his biographer; the cemetery between lines formed by the Prof. James B. Thayer, of the Harvard Law members of the Social Circle, who stood until School: Dr. Edward Emerson. Ralph Forbes, all had passed with uncovered heads. The en- son of W. H. Forbes, and W. Thayer. tire ceremony in the church and at the In the church in front of the pulpit there grave was most impressive. and was devoid of were a few simple decorations. Boughs of pine sad or sorrowful features. The day was covered the straight lines of the desk. and a pleasantly warm and bright. harp of yellow jonquils was in their centre, the gift of Louise M. Alcott. At the left was an open volume of flowers, one page white, the other rich in color. Upon the white page was the word, in blue flowers, Finis." This was the gift of the teachers and scholars of the Emerson School. By the sides of the pulpit steps where white and scarlet geraniums and pine boughs, and over the pulpit, high on the wall. a lgurel wreath. The pail-bearers entered the crowded church, and the coffin was placed before the pulpit with the lid turned back. Judge Hoar then rose and spoke as follows: The beauty of Israel is fallen in its high place. Mr. Emerson has died, and we, his friends and neighbors and townsmen. with this sorrowing company. have turned aside the procession from his home to his grave to this temple of his fathers. that we may here unite in our partigg tribute of reverence and love. There is nothing to mourn for him. That brave and manly life was rounded out to the full length of days; that dying pillow was Boftened by the sweetest domestic affection. and RS he laid down to the sleep which the Lord giveth His beloved his face was as the face of an angel and his smile seemed- to give the glimpse of an opening heaven. Wherever the English language is spoken throughout the world his fame is es'ab- lished and secure. From beyond the sea and from throughout this great land will come innumerable voices of sorrow for this great public loss. But we. his neighbors and townsmen. [here Mr. Hoar's voice trembled with emotion,] feel that he was ours. He was descended from the founders of the town. He chose our village as the place in which his life-long work was to be done. It was to our fields and orchards that his presence gave such value; it was in our streets in which children looked up to him with love and the older did him reverence. He was our ornament and pride. That lofty brow. [turning to the open coffin of his friend and visibly affected.} the home of all wise thoughts and lofty aspirations: those lips of elo- quent music: that great soul which trusted in God and never let go its hope of immortality; that great heart to which everything was welcome that belonged to man; that hospitable nature, loving and tender and generous. having no repulsion nor scorn for anything but meanness and baseness- oh. friend. brother. father. lover, teacher. inspirer. guide, is there nothing more that we can do now than to give thee our hail and farewell? 'A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face the lineaments of Gospell bookes. lrow that countenance cannot lle Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never efe did see that face. Was never eare did heare that tong. Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long; But eles and eares and ev'ry thought Were with bis sweete perfections caught." There is one hymn of Dr. Watts which Mr. Em- erson especially liked and which it seems proper should be read at bis funeral. It is as follows: Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 3 of3 [continues From preceding page, col.1] Lord, when I quit this earthly stage. Where shall 1 fly but to Thy breast, For I have sought no other home, For I have learned no other rest. I cannot live contented here Without some glimpses of thy face, And Heaven, without Thy presence there, Would be a dark and lonesome place. My God, and can an humble child That loves Thee with a flame so high. Be ever from Thy face exiled, Without the pity of Thine eye? Impossible, for Thine own hands Have tied my heart so fast to Thee, And in Thy Book the promise stands That where Thou art Thy friends must be. Judge Hoar stood by the side of the coffin while delivering his address. At the conclusion the congregation sang a hymn, and then Dr. Furness, from the pulpit, read selections from Matthew, V. : 3and9: John, ii. : 21 and 26; Acts. vi.: 8 and 15; Second Corinthians, iv. : 17 and 18, and First Corinthians, XV. : 53 and 58. Then the Rev. James Freeman Clarke addressed the congregation. It was not in this hour, he said, to say what ought to be said of the genius which has kindled the fires of thought in two continents. The present moments belonged to reverential Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission 25 OPENING REMARKS AT THE EMERSON 1882? COMMEMORATION [14] 16. FOR the special exercises of the school made the outward appearance symbolize in commemoration of Ralph Waldo the inner feeling toward the departed. A Emerson. the town hall of Concord was portrait of Emerson as an old man hung in opened. Forenoon and afternoon sessions front of the desk. One representing him were held, and a large audience was pres- in middle life was on the wall behind the ent at each, including many of Emerson's speakers. and upon an evergreen-covered townsmen and many persons from abroad. table was French's bust representing him Evergreen decorations upon the walls and in advanced years. In the forenoon, after platform, the national colors behind the prayer by the Rev. R. A. Holland, Mr. desk, and constant reminders of Emerson, Sanborn read the opening address. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. BY MR. SANBORN. FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS:- what that method was. But. in the chief I is three months today since we began purpose of our School- to cultivate in the to dwell with earnest fear on the men and women of our time a serious con- thought that our Concord poet and philos- templation of the most serious and lofty opher, whose name and fame had become, questions which confront us in the morning as it were, a part of our own, and far the or the evening of our days, and to ap- greater part, was passing from this haunt of proach these problems, not doubtfully and life to another. Even then we imagined, with timid or malevolent apprehension, contrary to what we had known of the high but with a loving and brave confidence-in singularity of his career among us, that his this purpose he was not only united with departure would be like that of other men, us, but he had been for half a century our period of illness more or less extended, leader. in which we might become familiar with In vain for us to say what thou hast been the thought of death, and habituate our- To our occasion- selves to what this town and this nation This flickering nation, must be without his gracious presence. This stock of people from an English kin, But he, with the speed of genius, made And he who led the van, haste to be gone and, when the moment The frozen Puritan, came, we felt in his death that surprise We thank thee for thy patience with his faith, When thou must teach him what God's spirit which the achievements of his life had so saith. often given us. Emerson existed, indeed, to surprise, as the poet does, and to con- sole and strengthen, as does the philoso- So moderate in thy lessons, and so wise, pher. He was poet and philosopher in To foes so courteous, To friends so duteous, one, and as such we wish to celebrate his And hospitable to the neighbors' eyes; memory today. It is peculiarly fitting Thy course was better kept, that the School of Philosophy should thus Than where the dreamers slept; commemorate him who was and must Thy sure meridian taken by the sun, always remain its most illustrious teacher.) Thy compass pointing true as waters run. He did not hold, or else, holding, he did The smart and pathos of our suffering race not value greatly, some of the opinions Bore thee no harm; announced in our yearly conferences; his Thy muscular arm method was his own, and we shall hear it The daily ills of living did efface; so well described this morning by Dr. The sources of the spring From whence thy thought took wing, Bartol, and this afternoôn b5 Dr. Harris, Unsounded were by lines of sordid day; that I need not delay you even to hint Enclosed with inlaid walls thy virtue's way. 26 The circles of thy thought shone vast as stars; upright face of thought, his deep sympathy No glass shall round them, and fellowship, beneath an exterior some- No plummet sound them, times cold, with all that was human and They hem the observer like bright steel-wrought bars; aspiring. His friend Jones Very once Yet limpid as the sun, said, in an essay on poetry too early for- Or as bright waters run gotten : "The fact is, our manners, or the From the cold fountain of an Alpine spring, manners and actions of any intellectual Or diamonds richly set in the King's ring. nation, can never become the representa- Out of deep mysteries thy goblet fills; tives of greatness. They have fallen from The wines do murmur the high sphere which they occupied in a That nature warmed her, less advanced stage of the human mind, When she was pressing out from must the hills, never to regain it." But this remark, like The plains that near us lie, almost everything in daily American ex- The foldings of the sky; Whate'er within the horizon's bound there is, perience, found its constant contradiction From Hades' caldron to the blue God's bliss. in Emerson; whose manners represented nothing else than greatness, and that not in a dazzling, overpowering way, but with It is not given to us, and to few men the sweetness of sunlight. Let me not can it be given, to measure the height detain you longer with these words of and depth of Emerson's genius, either as mine, but present to you those who will poet or as philosopher. But there is an carry forward your thoughts toward the aspect of his philosophical character which poetry and the philosophy of our towns- we cannot too often dwell upon - his man. flowing, unfailing courtesy to all men, his 1 From William Ellery Channing's "Ode," written hospitality to everything that bore the about 1817. HEBREW, GREEK, PERSIAN AND CHRISTIAN ORACLES [15] ORACULAR POETRY AMONG THE HEBREWS, GREEKS AND PERSIANS. MR. SANBORN began by defining has learned the character, he will find. as poetry, in the words of an old Per- it were, secretly inscribed, look where he sian saying, ascribed to Zoroaster X hose will. not only in books and temples, but name signifies best of poets"), in which in all waste places, and in the dust of the poets are called "standing transporters earth. Happy he that can read it for he whose employment consists in producing will never be lonely or thoughtless again. apparent imitations of unapparent na- And yet there is a solid pleasure to find tures," as Mr. Sanborn said in other those who know and like the same thing.- words, "Poetry is the alternate inscrip- the authors who have recorded their inter- tion and deciphering of symbolism on the pretation of the legend: and, better far, visible universe, by means of that erea- the living friends who read as we do, and tive and piercing imagination, in virtue of compare notes with us." Emerson's poem which (next to love) man stands nearest called Berrying" was read, in which he to his Maker." This symbolism. again, is hints at this same secret language of na- what Emerson meant when he wrote to ture :- Mr. Albee. in 1852. as quoted at the Emerson Commemoration: 'There is a Caught among the blackberry-vines, super-Cadment alphabet, which. when one Feeding on the Ethiop sweet, October 18, 1938. 14 day That discovery of the cause of Malaria was one of the epoch-making events in the whole history of mankind. Tuesday Evening Malaria hung like a curse, dreaded and mysterious, over the Roman campagna and all southern Italy in those days, rising from the ground at night fall, none yet suspecting its true cause and nature. Their discovery soon afterwards,along with that of yellow fever and the whole brood of germ diseases. I remember reading at some time in the 1880's as I recall it, when knowlddge of it was first spreading, of two young English doctors who risked their lives to give proof of it, going out to one of the most fever-stricken little settlements on the Campagna where the native herdsmen and their families were down with it every summer and renting a native hut in its midst where they lived the summer through, first cleaning it out thoroughly and then screening doors and windows and every chink where a mosquito might find entrance. There they shut themselves up an hour before sundown every day and stayed within till an hour after sunrise in the morning but otherwise going freely about among the fever-stricken inhabitants and suffering no attack. For one night-flying mosquito only, the anopheles, carried the infection. They were not the discoverers but it was a dramatic and daring