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{[circled; at upper left:] 125 [circled; at upper right:] 2}

{Delivered at the memorial service for President Garfield
Sept 26^th 1881.
It was published in the Jewish Record}

Heavenly Father! Our minds are troubled, and our
hearts unutterably grieved. We had prayed and
ardently hoped for a cause of thanksgivings, but amidst uni-
versal gloom, lamentations resound through the land.
At this hour of national anguish, we fly unto Thee
for relief. Oh! teuch us to understand how the
distressing bereavement forced upon us by a loathsome
wretch is made to agree with Thy paternal design.
A rag of Thy infinite wisdom will~~may~~ chase away the cloud
that hangs over our spirits.

Not because Garfield was eminently virtuous do
we sigh and mourn at his departure. Surely.
his righteousness has walked before him and pre-
pared the way to the glories in wh~~[ich]~~ereto Thou hast
uplifted his soul. The loss we deplore is the
deprivation of a Chief under whose lead the Re-
public of Thy godly Washington, would have been
cleansed from dross, and have reached a higher
standard of public morality.

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LIFrancophone 4 months ago

The Library of Congress's Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries includes a page -- online -- devoted to a newspaper published weekly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1886 entitled The Jewish Record; this was probably the "Jewish Record" in which the text seen in this and following pages (spoken in September of 1881) was published.

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