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 236 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS ently negative in itself, it was positive, far-reach ing, and most salutary in its results. The service which at this crisis in public affairs he thus ren dered to the country must be accounted the great est of his personal achievements, and the most im portant result of his administration. As such, it should be placed in its true light before the reader of the future; and in this spirit, for the purpose of historical accuracy only, it is here given the prominence it deserves. His administration, con sidered as a whole, was responsive to every national demand, and stands in all its departments substan tially without assault or criticism. The ex-president died suddenly, of apoplexy, at his residence, No. 123 Lexington avenue, New York, Thursday morning, November 18, 1886. The funeral exercises were held on the following Monday, at the Church of the Heavenly Rest.* President Cleveland and his cabinet, Chief -Justice Waite, ex-President Hayes, James G. Blaine, Gens. Sherman, Sheridan, and Schofield, and the surviving members of President Arthur s cabinet, were present. On the same day a special train conveyed his remains to Albany, N. Y., where they Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, and Taylor; Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and Wilson, Pres byterians; Polk, Grant, and Hayes, Methodists; John Adams and his son, Fillmore, and Taft, Unitarians; Jefferson was accused of being an atheist; Van Buren and Roosevelt, Dutch Reformed; and Garfield was a preacher of the Church of the Disciples. EDITOR.
 * Arthur was an Episcopalian, as were Washington, Madison,