Funeral Services WEDNESDAY, April 12, 1939. The Senate met at 2 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m. The Chaplain, Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the following prayer: O God, forasmuch as without Thee we are not able to please Thee, mercifully grant that Thy holy spirit may now guide and direct our thoughts; and may the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts in this sacred, holy service be acceptable unto Thee, O Lord, our strength and our redeemer. Amen. The casket containing the body of the deceased Senator had been previously brought into the Senate Chamber and placed in the area in front of the desk, surrounded by many floral tributes. The committee appointed by the Vice President, on the part of the Senate, to take order for superintending the funeral of the deceased Senator, consisting of Senators Lucas, Barkley, McNary, Borah, Ashurst, Pittman, King, Capper, George, Wagner, Vandenberg, Bailey, Austin, Clark of Missouri, Gerry, and Minton were seated to the right of the Vice President. The committee appointed by the Speaker of the House to attend the funeral of the deceased Senator, consisting of Messrs. Sabath, McAndrews, Parsons, Beam, Keller, Kelly, Schuetz, Allen of Illinois, Dirksen, Kocialkowski, Schaffer of Illinois, Arends, Church, McKeough, Mitchell, Reed of Illinois, Arnold, Fries, Mason, Barnes, Chiperfield, Johnson of Illinois, Maciejewski, Martin of Illinois, Smith of Illinois, Wheat, and Miss Sumner of Illinois, entered the Chamber and were seated to the left of the Vice President. The VICE PRESIDENT. The invited guests of the Senate will be escorted to the places assigned them. The Members of the House of Representatives, preceded by the Sergeant at Arms and the Clerk and by the Speaker, entered the Senate Chamber. The Speaker was escorted to a seat on the left of the Vice President, and Members of the House were given the seats provided for them. The members of the Diplomatic Corps entered the Chamber and were seated to the left of the Vice President's desk. Members of the Supreme Court of the United States, accompanied by the Marshal and the deputy clerk, entered the Chamber and were seated in the area to the left of the Vice President's desk. The Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard entered the Chamber and were seated in the area to the left of the Vice President's desk. Mrs. Lewis and relatives and friends of the deceased Senator entered the Chamber and were seated in the area below and to the left of the Vice President's desk. Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, D. D., Chaplain of the Senate, and Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., Chaplain of the House of Representatives, took their places at the Secretary's desk. The President of the United States, accompanied by his military and naval aides, and the members of his Cabinet, preceded by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, entered the Chamber and were seated in the area in front and to the right of the Vice President's desk. Mr. Arthur O'Brien, representative of Hon. Henry Horner, Governor of the State of Illinois, and five Members of the Senate and six Members of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, appointed to attend the funeral of the deceased Senator, were seated in the west reserved gallery. Miss Helen Howison, of the city of Washington, sang Lead, Kindly Light. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou I loved to choose and see my path; but now I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost a while. The Chaplain of the Senate recited from the Episcopal burial office as follows: I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though this body be destroyed, yet shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. |