Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of John Joseph Boylan, Late a Representative from New YorkU.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 63 pages |
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American beloved colleague BULWINKLE chairman Chaplain Christ City Clerk Committee on Appropriations communicate these resolutions Congressional District copy thereof courage death Declaration democracy departed brethren devoted Died distinguished Dudley Buck duty elected eternity faith Fifteenth Congres Fifteenth Congressional Fifteenth Congressional District further mark greatest grief happy heard with profound heart Honorable JOHN House of Representatives inspiration James Shera Montgomery January 12 January 9 Jefferson Memorial Commission Jeffersonian Democrat JOHN BOYLAN lived JOHN JOSEPH BOYLAN knew late a Representative legislative liberty Lord MCGRANERY Memorial Services mittee monument nations Palestrina passing patriotism pay tribute prepare a place president privilege profound sorrow recess until 12 record Remarks by Representative Resolved Seventieth Seventy-fifth Congresses Seventy-first Seventy-fourth Seventy-second Seventy-third sincere sional District Sixty-eighth Congress Sixty-ninth soul Speaker spirit Thee Thomas Jefferson Memorial transmit a copy United United States Senate unto York Assembly York City
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Page 22 - No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.
Page 25 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 14 - Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place In all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.
Page 19 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 25 - ... there is all nature cries aloud, Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when! or where — this world was made for Caesar.
Page 24 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry.
Page 30 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free> enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 59 - Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Representative the Senate do now adjourn.
Page 18 - It is the blood-bought mercy-seat. 3 There is a scene where spirits blend, Where friend holds fellowship with friend : Though sundered far, by faith they meet Around one common mercy-seat.
Page 17 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!