New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-03-19

ner Of the room, were to-day gwen the second
row of seats on the right oil the President
D,o tenn. Among those present were Sir
Edward Thornton, Admiral Polo, Mr.. Won
Srhoozcr, and others, besides many attaches
of the several legations. Mr.. w. w. Corco-
ran sat in the seat adjoining that formerly
occupied by Mr.. Sumner.
Before the Senate was called to order the
Massachusetts delegation entered and took
the chairs assigned them ut the left Of the
Vice-Presidenps desk. With them were
Mr.. Summers housekeepcr; Major Ben.
Perley Poore, for many years one of Mr..
Summers most intimate and trusted friends;
Dr. j. Taber johnson, Mr.. Summers WASH
ington physician; Mr.. a. Il. Johnson, for
merly private secretary of the Senator, and
Mcssrs Frank V. Balch and T.. l.. Pierce of
Boston. At about the same time the cata-
falque was brought in and placed in front of
the Sccretary's desk.
The Senate was opened, as usual, with a
PRAYER by Chaplain Sunderland, and then,
after motion by Mr.. buckingham, that
when the Senate adjourn it shall not meet
again until Tuesday next, and the reception
! OF n message from the House announcing the
passage of resolutions touching Mr.. Summers
| death, business was suspended. The process
sion entered at about 1920, and was an
nounccd in the following order:
First: The House of Representatives.
which, headed by Speaker Blaine aud Clerk
Mcpherson, and marshalcd by Serreant-at-
| Arms Ordway, entered the Senate Chamber
| in n body. Mr.. Blaine took the seat provided
for him by the side Of the President of the
Senate pro tem., and the members filled the
vacant seats on the floor and space behind
the bar. Second: The Supreme Court Of
the United States entered headed by Mar
shall Nicolay, Clerk Middleton and Reporter
Wallace. The Justices wore their Official
gowns. and were assigned front seats at the
right of the desk Thjrd: The President
and the members Of his Cabinet, accompa-
med BY Gen. Babcock, Were announced and
were seated ut the right III the Supreme
| Court
The coffin was placed on the catalalqIe
and then the religious ceremonies began
The Rev Dr. Butler, Chaplain the House
! of Representatives, read from list Corinthians
chapter lG, verses - to 81. After which he
offered the following PRAYER:
| Great God, we bow revercntly in Thy pre-
Scncc. Thou hast done il. Teach us wisdom
as we walk among the open graves. Bless
the millions whose hearts gather tendcily
around this coffin to-day. Bless our own
great land and give unto Us continued glory,
victory OF truth aud righteousness. We ask
these merces in Thy name and for the sake
film who hath taught us when we pray, to
say: "Om Father which art in Heaven, Hal
| lowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come.
| Thy will be done on earth Is it is i'll Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive
us our trespasscs as we forgive those who
trcspass against us and lead us not into
temptation. but deliver lis from evil ; for thine
is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory
! forever. Amen.n
The Rev. DIR. Sunderland, Chaplain of the
Senate, then read from the 59th Psalm, be-
| ginning at the 9Th verse, and from the 10Th
| Psalm, beginning at the ID verse, and offered
the following prayer:
Almighty and Ever lastingGod. before
whom this world and all that it contains Is as
the dust of the balance, before whom change
and time flee away like a shadow. Yet art
Thou the confidence of all the ends of the
earth, for it is in Thee that we live and move
and have our being, because Thou hast made
of one blood all men who dwell on the face Of
this earth because Thou hast formed and
fashioned us and placed us in our lot. Thou
hast appointed the bounds Of our habitaton;
and Thou hast numbered all our days and
has pleased Thee, Oh Lord, our God, in the
fullncsS of Thine own time, to send among us
Thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ, our Lord
and God manifest in the flesh, to bring us the
expectation OF light and Il life OF Immortality,
and so with Him in the successive centuries
it hath pleased Thee to raise up the prophets
and Apostles, the heroes and princes of the
world. 1t has pleased Thee in the conflict
and turmoil of this, onr mortal state, to send
forth the ministers OF Thy grace and provi-
dcncc, endowed and pauoplied for their
mighty task; and so, in all the crises of the
times, when enormous evils had to be SUI
mounted, when the old order Of things had to
he withdrawn, when the ncN conditions for
the new energies Of the human race had to be
created, Thou hast planted Thy workman at
every point, and guarded and upheld them
with courage and with strength.
IN I f,i, ,gl IT,,
Thy works and ways. How marvellous dost
Thou still continue this day before us and be-
fore all men, as much in removing away Thy
servants from their field Of labor as in send
ing them into it. The day of death is fuller
ofmeaning that the day OF our birth because
it is the 9rander lesson of our manhood be-
cause it is Il chapter far advanced in the book
OF human destiny. And now, Lord, Thou
hast removed away from Us Il man who had
stood so long as prince Oft earth-a man
whose name, and life, and character. and
fame arc forever linked with all that is sacred
in human hearts. Oh Lord, our God, we are
all bereaved tOgether-thc Senate, the Con-
gress, the Capital, the country-all have been
made desolate, and the old Plymouth State,
where SO long ago the Pilgrims came She sits
to-day i'll mourning, Il mother weeping for her
Frustrated son aud the white man and the
black man, and all men Of every name and
race throughout the world, shall this day be
touched with the grief Of this sudden stroke of
Thy providence. But we can say nothing
against it before Thee, oh Thou Righteous
Judge and Supreme Ruler of mankind. Yet
peradyenture, Thou wilt vouchsale Thine ear
to hear the prayer of Thy servants now for
all those who have been afflicted in this dis
pensatOn; for the surviving but scattered
members of his own family and kindred for
those who were SO near to his person and in
his presence through all the phase of his pri-
yate and public life; for those children of that
enduring race for whose advancement his
great powers had been so long employed; for
all his companies and contemporaries or in the
high and lofty circles of human civilization
both at home and abroad; for his colleagues
and fellow-Senators in this Chamber, and for
The Representatives, the people andauthori-
ties OF his native State, and for all those in
every condition who this day sincerely lament
his loss. OH grant to all these Thy grace
and the consolation Of Thy spirit. Sanctify
to them and the nation this most impressive
Instruction of Thy providence.
And now we bescech Thee, oh Lord, bless
Thy servant the President of the United
States, and all the members of his Cabinet:
bless the Vice President now absent from
his place in this hall bless the Governors
t and Legislatures of the States, and we be-
seech Thee bless the Judges Of the Supreme
Court OF the United States and all the magis-
trates in the land bless the officers and men
| Il Of l,a lr,ff n1 Sinfn