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Program of commemoration services for Charles Sumner

Archives Number: 1002/9.3-158#013

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Services in Commemoration
Life and Character of Charles Sumner At Music Hall,
On Tuesday, June 9, 1874.
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Services.
Organ Voluntary. Dudley Buck.
Chant, …Rhodes. Temple Quartette.
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
Prayer,…Rev. James Freeman Clarke.
Aria,…Handel. Clara Louise Kellogg.
“I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
“And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.”
Poem,…J.G. Whittier. Read by Prof. Churchill.
Aria,…Mendelssohn. Adelaide Phillipps.
“O rest in the Lord—wait patiently for Him and He shall give thee thy heart’s desires:”
“Commit thy way unto Him, and trust in Him, and fret not thyself because of evil-doers.”
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Introductory Remarks,…A. H. Bullock.
Eulogy. George William Curtis.
Quartette,…Mendelssohn. Miss Kellogg, Miss Phillipps, Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Ryder.
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord; and He shall sustain thee: He never will suffer the righteous to fall; He is at thy right hand. Thy mercy, Lord, is great, and far above the heavens. Let none be made ashamed that wait upon Thee!”
Benediction.
Wright & Potter, Printers.

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