The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-31

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officials was occupied by officers of
the army and navy. In the galleries
sat a number of personal friends oi
the Pauncefote family. \ notable
feature of the attendance here was
10 servants from the embassy, for
whom Lady ~Pauncefote had made
special provision.
The services at st. Johns church.
in their general contour, were very
similar to those which marked the
memorial service held at that church
in honor of the late Queen Victoria.
The large choir of 40 men and boys
took part in the service, at Lady
Pauncefote's request, and the three
hymns sung in the body of the serv-
ice also were of her personal selec-
ton.
As the funeral party approached
the church the music of organ and
harp were blended in splendid har-
mony as Mr.. H. H. Freeman, the or
ganist and choir director, and Miss
Anita Cluss played in solemn rythm
Chopin's grand funeral march. Then
through the choir door on the left
came the choristers in their white
and black vestments, singing the
hymn For All Thy Saints" followed
by Bishop Satterlee and Mackay-
Smith. The choristers marched up
the ckancel steps and took their GUS
tomary places in the stalls, and the
two bishops proceeded to the door
of the church to meet the remains.
The casket was borne up the en-
trance steps and then, turning about,
Bishops Saterlee and Mackay-Smith
preceded it back into the church,
reading the scripture verses begin
ming Il am the resurrection and the
life saith the Lord" and Il know
that my Redeemer liveth." At the
foot of the chancel steps the casket
was lowered to the waiting stand and
then the first of the hymns selected
by Lady Pauncefote. THE saints of
God, their conflict past" the music
by Sir John Stainer, the famous En-
glish composer, was sung by the
choir. The burial anthem, taken
from the Psalms, was then sung 20
the old Gregorian chant by the
choir. When this quaint old English
chant had ended, the officiating bish-
CD advanced and read, in a firm, even
tone, the lesson for the burial of the
dead, taken from the fifteenth chap
ter of the First Epistle of st. Paul to
the Corinthians, beginning "Now is
Christ risen from the dead" and end
ing with the comforting words For
asmuch as We know that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord" When the
lesson was finished, the choir sang
the HYMN "On The Resurrection
Morn. Soul and Body Meet Again."
and then chanted the apostles creed
to music by Sir John Stainer.
The bishop, a splendid figure in his
white vestment, advanced to the
front of the chancel, and, standing
above the casket, pronounced the last
words that will be spoken over the
/, remains before their interment at
the ancestral home at Preston. En-
, Gland. As the solemn words MAN
that is born of woman = y y = is cut
> down like a flower and I'm the midst
of life we are in death" were spok-
en-. the church presented a most
beautiful and impressive picture.
The entire chancel was filled with
I magnificent floral tributes, vast
wreaths of the rarest orchids and Ill
les of the valley. among which the
tribute of the diplomatic corps was
+ particularly noticeable, and a design
: in scarlet immortelles, setting out the
= cross of St. George, which was sem
nv the local and national representa-
tives of the Sons and Daughters ..
St. George. On the casket, which was
draped with a time-worm Union Jack
lay a spray of magnificent hhes o
r the valley and orchids. the persona
token of King Edward VII, and jus
beside it rested a cushion of roya
: purple plush, upon which glittered tn
many orders which had been be
slowed on the deceased diplomatist
II With this solemn ceremony over, tn
d choir sang Il heard a voice from
r Heaven and afterward the hymn
" Now The Labourcr's Task is Ger.
y Bishop Satterlee raised his hand
4. and pronounced the benediction. an
Le then followed an unusual and wha
f. was perhaps the most touching fea
lie ture of the service. Through tn
If church there floated the soft strain
h Of Taps" played by Il bugler sta
D. toned at the side entrance-thc so
~ dier's last tribute to the dead. The
the choristers took up the strains Q
lie Abide With Me-" and marched i
ly slow cadence down the chancel step
il and out of the door to the left
I'd Meanwhile, the stalwart body
bearers had lifted the casket agaiI
re and carried it slowly out of the doc
al to the right, followed 10y the tW
lie bishops. As ii was being placed
al the hearse the mingled strains of o.
We gan and harp again sounded throug
at the church. this time in the gran
IN solemn measure of the Dead Marc
from Saul"
W, AT the sound of a bugle the hea
of the funeral escort swung up II
IS, street leading the march to Roc
he Creek cemetery. At the expire
w wish OF the family, the escort fro
IT. 4bo ol,trcb ~ the cemetery was lii