A Sermon on the Death of President Garfield Preached in the First Church of Hartford Classic Reprint

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And other lands have felt with us. Courts of ancient monarchies have made our President's condi tion the theme of enquiry and uttered hope. The depths of the ocean have been alive with messages of transmitted sympathy and sorrow. The sable insignia of mourning ordered by the Queen of England, and Kings of Holland and Spain, to be worn by their respective Courts as for a brother monarch of Europe, bespeak more than an official grief. T here can be no question that the sympathy is human and sincere.

This awakening of fellowship in our land and in other lands is something to be thankful for. It is, indeed, something over which it is easy to gush and grow extravagant. A good deal of extravagance will doubtless find public utterance on this matter to-day. Many pulpits today will speak, and many orators tomorrow will declaim, as if this hush of partisanship at home, and this response of sympathy from abroad, were a pretty sure token of the millennium at hand. It is not quite so. The political Ethiopian does not so easily change his skin, or the ofiice-hunting leopard his spots, as this implies. England is still a good way off, and has very positive interests and prejudices which will not wash out in a few sympathetic tears.

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