Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of J. William Stokes (late a Representative from South Carolina), Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, Fifty-seventh Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 93 էջ |
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6th day ability ADDRESS adjourned Alliance April 26 ask unanimous consent beautiful believe better career character Christian gentleman church citizen Clerk communicate colleagues committee communicate these resolutions Congressional conservatism constituents contest Corinth dead death deceased devoted wife district duty earnest election envy esteem eulogies faithful farmers feel Fifty-fourth Congress Fifty-seventh Congresses Fifty-sixth Congress funeral gentle grave happiness heart honor House of Representatives human husband interest intimate JANUARY 13 knew late a member late a Representative late Representative STOKES Lee University LEVER live manhood manly mark of respect memory Mississippi mournful never noble o'clock Orangeburg Orangeburg County paths of glory political Presidential elector PRESIDING OFFICER public questions Resolved rest rural free delivery seat served soul South Carolina SPEAKER spirit sympathy Tennessee things thought TILLMAN tion to-day tribute true trust Vanderbilt University virtues Washington and Lee WILLIAM STOKES worth young
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Էջ 88 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Էջ 45 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro...
Էջ 88 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou...
Էջ 87 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Էջ 60 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Էջ 29 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Էջ 59 - There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed the hungry moss they bear; The forest leaves drink daily life From out the viewless air. There is no death!
Էջ 56 - tis to pity and be pitied; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope, I blush, and hide my sword.
Էջ 65 - And ever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is Life — there are no dead!
Էջ 7 - Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished public servant, the House, at the conclusion of these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.