Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Olin DeWitt T. Johnston, Late Senator from South Carolina

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - Government publications - 178 pages
 

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Page 89 - Clerk will report the remainder of the resolution. The Clerk read as follows : Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the House do now adjourn.
Page 76 - Let us not deceive ourselves — the very essence of a free Government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party...
Page 164 - More homelike seems the vast unknown, Since they have entered there ; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare. They cannot be where God is not, On any sea or shore ; Whate'er betides, thy love abides, Our God, for evermore.
Page 3 - Res. 197) were read, considered by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows : Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon.
Page 74 - Venice, gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Page 160 - Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Page 132 - Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Page 60 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time: Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 90 - 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...
Page 26 - I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day, I'd rather one should walk with me than merely show the way. The eye's a better pupil, and more willing than the ear; Fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.

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