The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-05
WORLD PAYS HOMAGE TO WILSON
WHILE NATIONS CAPITAL MOURNS
Words of Funeral Services
viii Be Broadcast by
Radi0s
By LAWRENCE MARTIN


son will be laid to rest tomorrow
while representatives of the Ma
ton bow at his bier.
The funeral plans were com
plete today. Simplicity will be
the keynote.
Neither at the home nor the
chapel, where the body will be
placed in crypt, will there be
pomp or ostentation of grief.
The radio will carry the words of
the final rites to fifty thousand peo-
| pie who are expected to gather in a
| natural ampitheater on Mount Stall
! bans, on the site of the new imposing
| Episcopal Cathedral of SIS. Peter and
| Paul. 1t is in the small Bethlehem
| chapel of this cathedral that Mr. VIII.
sons body will rest temporarily. When
the cathedral is finished he will lie
| in the nave
Millions TO Hear
/
| day are completed. the seSvices will be
carried by radio to millions in other
| cities.
Mrs. Wilson today gave her approval
to the funeral program and to the
list of those invited to the. services
at the home.
The small company which will
! gather in the S st. home for the pure
/ ly private services viii include Presi.
dent and Mrs Coolidge. Chief Justice
| William II. Taft of the Supreme Court.
few Senators and other officials who
/ were particularly close to the late
President and the members Of the fam
| lily who are here.
| The company to be admitted to the
| small chapel will number fewer than
! five hundred. President and Mrs
| Coolidge will attend these services,
also. as will all the members of the
| Cabinet, the committees OF Congress
and representatives of foreign govern
ments.
! Scores OF wreaths and other floral
offerings were arriving at the Wilson
home today. These expressed the
sympathy of millions of Americans
as we'll as from foreign nations. Mes
sages from foreign potentates came
to Mrs. Wilson, expressing both the
official and personal sorrow Of the Of
ficials and peoples Of other nations.
From Wilson's Book
From the same devotional book
which Woodrow Wilson read every
night, as he communed with God be
fore going TO sleep, will be read to-
morrow, the words committing his
body to the dust, his soul to the eter-
nal.
This book, thumbed and worn by
tanning Scriptural passages, with am
Publications. and interpretations.
From it's pages Bishop James e.
Freeman Wednesday will read some
of the same passages which strength
ened and comforted Mr.. Wilson dur
ing his trying hours as President,
and in his long seclusion as an in
valid.
The detailed program of the funeral
services. made public today. showed
that simplicity would be the keynote.
I
! s St. at D. M, will open with the
reading by the Rev. James H. Taylor,
pastor of the Central Presbyterian
| Church. OF the twenty-third psalm
''the Lord is my shepherd
Then the Rev. Sylvester Beach, the
late Mr., Wilson's pastor at Prince
ton, win offer a prayer. This will be
followed by Bishop James E. Free
man. of Washington, reading extracts
! from the late Presidents personal de.
votionaI book
Military Guard
Then the body will be placed in a
hearse. behind which win walk eight
soldiers. eight sailors and eight mar
ines, all privates from the rank, who
will typify the men over whom Mr..
Wilson was commander-in-chief during
the war days.
At the Bethlehem chapel, as the
.hree preachers walk down the aisle,
Bishop Freeman will read verses 25
and 26, chapter two, Of the Gospel
of ST John, opening with the
sentence. 'I am the resurrection and
| the life
] Following IniS, Ut. IdylOT Will ISdu
| the Ninetieth Psalm. Then the choir
will sing.
Bishop Freeman after this will read
1.-The Ordeal for the Burial of the
Dead from the Episcopal >prayer
book The choir will sing "The Strife
Is Over, the Battle Won
The service will be concluded with
| the reading Of the benediction, prob
ably by Bishop Freeman.
! Out Of respect for the memory of
Mr.. Wilson, President Coolidge today
directed no work shall be required in
the government department after
1890 p. m, on Wednesday, the day
of the funeral
1t has been virtually decided that
when the cathedral is finished Mr..
/ Wilson's body will rest permanently
| in the crypt. Mrs. Wilson desires this.
/ officials at Richmond, Va, who asked
that Mr.. Wilson be allowed to rest in
the soil of his native State, have been
natsfed that Mrs. Wilson wants burial
to Ee in the Capitol.
MIR. Wilson thus becomes the first
President to rest within the limits of
the Capitol. George Washington lies
nearby, but no other chief executive
sleeps his final sleep withln the boun-
daries of the Federal district,