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Title: The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Crooks, George R. (George Richard), 1822-1897
Subjects: Simpson, Matthew, 1811-1884 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist Episcopal Church Bishops
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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tand sympathy, the funeral procession which was then wend-ing its. way from the capital of their nation, over plain andmountain, through country and city, to the former home ofthe late president, on the banks of Lake Erie. Whereverthat procession moved thousands of heads were bowed intears. They likewise bowed their heads and dropped tearsof sympathy as they thought of the illustrious citizen whohad been taken from the land of his birth and his glory.The ocean is between us and our home, but the American,in sjanpathy and in thought, is never far from home. Hemay love the land in which he sojourns, he may be dehghtedwith the voices and the sights around him, but, after all, heturns back to the land of his birth—to his home—and hissympathies gather round the fireside there. There is good reason to-day why we should participatein the general sorrow which afflicts our people. A greatcitizen has been cut down in the strength of his man-hood and of his matured intellectual power. He has
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THE GARFIELD MEMORIAL MEETING AT EXETER HALL, LONDON. WONDERFUL EFFECT OF HIS SPEECH. 459 been smitten without provocation, and seemingly withoutmotive. I take no exception to the habits or customs of otherlands; it would neither be fair nor generous to do so, butI do feel that in our land a poor young man has opportuni-ties which no other under heaven can afford him. Presi-dent Garfield rose from a boyhood of povert) to a life ofculture, and did not stop until he was placed at the head ofa great nation. When he falls it is not America alone thatmourns. Kings and princes gather round his bier, and thequeen of the greatest empire in the world drops a tear ofsympathy with his widow, and lays a wreath upon his tomb.God bless Queen Victoria for her womanly sympathy andher queenly courtesy. (The whole meeting at this pointrose spontaneously and responded to the sentiment of thespeaker by giving three prolonged cheers.) But it is not only a lesson that young men may risethat I read in the l

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