Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of James Percy Priest, Late a Representative from Tennessee |
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Page 28 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 23 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office in Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.
Page 54 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen! Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Page 4 - I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 48 minutes pm) the House adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, November 21, 1922, at 12 o'clock noon.
Page 4 - ... be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. The resolution was agreed to.
Page 7 - If I can do some good today, If I can serve along life's way, If I can something helpful say, Lord, show me how. "If I can right a human wrong, If I can help to make one strong, If I can cheer with smile or song, Lord, show me how.
Page 42 - I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. l^et me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 59 - Budget be, and they hereby are, urged and requested to release the funds for construction of the aforesaid hospitals ; be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be mailed to the President of the United States, the Surgeon General and to the appropriate congressional committees dealing with health and welfare.
Page 59 - General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, the Senate concurring, That this tribute to this outstanding Tennessean be enrolled on the Journals of the House and Senate and that as a body we extend to his bereaved family our sympathy and sincere condolence in the great loss sustained by them and all the people of Tennessee.
Page 61 - Dyck, four things a man must learn to do if he would make his record true — to think without confusion, clearly ; to act, from honest motives, purely ; to love his fellow men, sincerely ; and trust in God and Heaven securely.