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Excerpt from In Memory of James A. Garfield, President of the United States: A Sermon Preached in the South Church, Ipswich, Mass., September 25, 1881
This Sabbath day is a day of peculiar solemnity. For weeks and months our minds have centered on that sick room where our honored chief magistrate lay in pain and sore weakness -our hearts have cried out to God to raise the sufferer to health and strength. We have come to the sanctuary feeling that the one petition that must be uttered was for this end, we have gone from the sanctuary anxious lest tidings should have come that he was already beyond the reach of prayer and sympathy. To-day no prayer is offered for that beloved ruler, no hopes of recovery beat within our hearts. Our fears are all realized. The poor, pain-racked body lies in more than royal state, in a distant city, whither it has been borne, at tended by the honors that have been lavished by a stricken and sorrowful people. The struggle is over and death has gained the victory. The wondrous physical strength, the heroic fortitude and patience of the sufferer, the skill of the most eminent physicians, the sympathy and prayer of the nations of the earth have at last been overcome, and he sleeps the placid sleep of death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
