Glow-Worm, 2017 Q3
Images of some magazines, published between 1948 and 1965, with articles about Winston Churchill. Over the years, these magazines have been collected by Jim Lancaster, who has been the editor of Glow-Worm since 2012 Q2. Jim has recently embarked on a new project, writing a book. This issue of Glow-Worm—2017 Q3—will be his last issue. To follow any of these links, hold down the Ctrl key and click the link.
The Table of Contents (TOC) The Atlantic Hugh Massingham The Earl of Swinton George Warrington Steevens Lady Diana Cooper John H. Peck Eleanor Roosevelt Sir Ian Jacob Lewis W. Douglas Ernst H. Gombrich Vannevar Bush Churchill at Harvard September 1943 Illustrated London News January 23 1965 Illustrated London News January 30 1965 Illustrated London News February 6 1965 Harold Nicolson in LIFE March 1948 Who’s Who, 1964 The special issue of the Radio Times, covering Churchill’s funeral The Order of Service for the Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill
The cover of this special issue of The Atlantic, published in March 1965, is confusing. One has the impression that the ten people on the cover wrote tributes to Winston Churchill. Only nine of them wrote tributes to Churchill, but this is compensated by an interesting contribution from George Warrington Steevens (1869-1900) who wrote an item about the young Churchill in 1898. Here is the complete list of the ten people whose tributes were printed in the March 1965 issue of The Atlantic. The ten tributes to Sir Winston Churchill were all preceded by a short profile prepared by The Atlantic Here is the list of the ten tributes, plus the Atlantic editor’s profiles of the contributors, in order of publication:
Hugh Massingham The Earl of Swinton George Warrington Steevens Lady Diana Cooper John H. Peck Eleanor Roosevelt Sir Ian Jacob Lewis W. Douglas Ernst H. Gombrich Vannevar Bush
HUGH MASSINGHAM
The Atlantic profile:
One of England’s most distinguished editors, now on the staff of The Sunday Telegraph, Hugh Massingham is the son of H. W. Massingham, himself a great editor and an intimate friend of the young Churchill. Mr. Massingham here recalls the days when Sir Winston was a frequent visitor to his home, and when, to the Tory world, he was considered a radical. (editorial note: In Massingham’s long and generous tribute, he tells of an incident during one of the terrible massacres during the First World War. His father (H. W. Massingham, (known to everyone, even to his children, by his initials ‘H. W. M.’), once told him that “having just returned from Downing Street, H. W. M. saw ‘Mr. George’ coming out of the Cabinet Room, jauntily smoking a cigar. He was followed by Winston Churchill, who was not smoking. Moved beyond measure by the fearful roll call of the dead, he was unashamedly crying.” Massingham did not give a date for this incident, but it was obviously during Mr. George’s brief wartime administration, December 1916 – December 1918. Return to TOC THE EARL OF SWINTON
The Atlantic profile: The Earl of Swinton served for more than a quarter of a century with Winston Churchill, or under him, in every government in which he was a minister. A Member of Parliament from 1918 to 1935, Lord Swinton was also president of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies. In 1935 he began a three-year term as Secretary of State for Air, and, during the war, he was Cabinet Minister President for West Africa and Minister for Civil Aviation.
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The Atlantic profile:
Famed for her beauty, and happy in her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper, who was one of Sir Winston’s favorite lieutenants, Lady Diana Cooper was early admitted to a delightful friendship with the Prime Minister and Lady Churchill. Who can better tell us of the happiness they shared in their marriage?
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The Atlantic profile:
This article—When Churchill was Twenty-Three—was written more than sixty-six years ago, in 1898. The author, a war correspondent with a position in England similar to that of Richard Harding Davis in America, met young Churchill aboard ship when both were returning from the Sudan wars. So great was the impact of the twenty-three-year-old Churchill on the veteran newspaperman that he devoted an article to the young man in a series entitled Twentieth Century Men—Peeps into Futurity. In it, Mr. Steevens predicted that the time would come when Parliament and England itself would not provide a large enough stage for Mr. Churchill
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The Atlantic profile:
For six crucial years, from1940 to 1946, John H. Peck, as private secretary to the Prime Minister, was at Sir Winston’s beck and call at any hour of the day or night. How the great man looked to a twenty-eight-year-old, and how remarkably they worked together, we see in the exhilarating pages that follow.
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The Atlantic profile:
As the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt was Sir Winston’s hostess on several occasions at the White House and at Hyde Park, beginning with that grave Christmas visit, in December 1941 when this country was still recovering from the shock of Pearl Harbor, and when Britain’s lifelines were being cut by the U-boats. Mrs Roosevelt wrote this account of her sometimes difficult guest in the spring of 1959, and revised it shortly before her death.
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The Atlantic profile:
A career officer who began serving his country during World War One, Lieutenant General Sir Ian Jacob was Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet from 1939 to 1946. Here he pays tribute to Churchill’s qualities as a war leader, and describes the differences in his approach to Roosevelt and Stalin.
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The Atlantic profile:
A veteran of World War One, who was gassed in the Argonne breakthrough, and was decorated personally by General Pershing, and a Democratic congressman who served three years from his home state, Arizona. Lewis W. Douglas was the American ambassador to the Court of St James during the critical period of 1947-1950, years which brought him into constant and sometimes intimate association with Sir Winston.
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The Atlantic profile:
Winston Churchill was exhibiting his paintings under a pseudonym as early as 1921. We turn to London’s foremost critic for an appraisal of Sir Winston’s canvases, and for an analysis of why he painted as he did. Director of the Warburg Institute, with which he has been connected for twenty-eight years, Professor Gombrich has taught at Oxford, at Cambridge, and at Harvard.
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The Atlantic profile:
Long identified with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he served as vice president and dean of engineering from 1932 to 1939, Dr. Vannevar Bush left Cambridge to become president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington. There he was selected by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to head up the extraordinary team of some six thousand American scientists, eventually known as the Office of Scientific Research and Development. With this authority, he was brought into close touch with British scientists also working on national defense, and in crises with the Prime Minister himself.
Return to TOC EDWARD WEEKS (Editor of The Atlantic)
From his editorial in the March 1965 issue:
Anyone who ever saw Sir Winston Churchill in action will never forget it. As a director of Harvard’s Alumni Association I had the privilege of sitting directly behind him in Sanders Theater that blustery autumn day in 1943 when Harvard gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. (editorial note: President Conant had hoped that Churchill would be able to receive the honorary degree at Commencement that year, but Churchill was unable to meet the timing. So an arrangement was made for a special ceremony where Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall (class of 1914) gave the welcome, and President Conant conferred the degree:)
Churchill making his acceptance speech at Harvard on September 6, 1943, with James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, standing behind him. (editorial note: Churchill conspicuously chose to wear an ordinary pair of trousers, rather than make any attempt to look like an honorary Doctor of Laws…) Following conferral of the degree in Sanders Theatre, Churchill addressed 6,000 uniformed Harvard students in front of the Memorial Church and thousands of civilians filling Tercentenary Theatre. He emphasized British-American partnership, saying, “Nothing will work soundly, or for long, without the combined effort of the British and American people” and told the soldiers, “I earnestly trust that when you find yourself alongside our soldiers and sailors in 1943 and 1944, you will feel that we are your working brothers in arms.” (editorial note: There are two full, unabreviated texts of Churchill's acceptance speech on Anglo-American Unity—(1) pages 6823-27 in The Complete Speeches by Robert Rhodes-James, and (2) pages 60-65 in volume 19 of The Churchill Documents. Conveniently, in volume 5 of his memoirs of The Second World War Churchill provided an extract of his acceptance speech—pages 123-5 in volume 5 Closing the Ring in the Houghton Mifflin edition:
While in Washington I attended several American Cabinets… and was in close touch with leading American personalities… The President was very anxious for me to keep a long-standing appointment, and receive an honorary degree at Harvard. It was to be an occasion for a public declaration to the world of Anglo-American unity and amity. On September 6, I delivered my speech. The following extract may be printed here:
To the youth of America, as to the youth of Britain, I say, “You cannot stop.” There is no halting place at this point. We have now reached a stage in the journey where there can be no pause. We must go on. It must be world anarchy or world order, Throughout all this ordeal and struggle, which is characteristic of our age, you will find in the British Commonwealth and Empire good comrades to whom you are united by other ties besides those of state policy and public need. To a large extent they are the ties of blood and history. Naturally I, a child of both worlds, am conscious of these. Law, language, literature—these are considerable factors. Common conceptions of what is right and decent, a marked regard for fair play, especially to the weak and poor, a stern sentiment of impartial justice, and, above all, the love of personal freedom, or, as Kipling put it “Leave to live by no man’s leave underneath the law”— these are common conceptions on both sides of the ocean among the English-speaking peoples. We hold to these conceptions as strongly as you do… In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy, on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.”
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The covers of some of the magazines in Jim Lancaster’s collection:
The Illustrated London News for January 23, 1965
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The Illustrated London News for January 30, 1965
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The Illustrated London News for February 6, 1965
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A Special Issue Supplement to LIFE (Spring 1965) on
THE EPIC OF THIS CENTURY’S GIANT: WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Return to TOC The cover of LIFE for the March 15,1948 issue was a portrait of Sir Laurence Olivier as Hamlet—no Churchillian connection.
Harold Nicolson’s article about Sir Winston Churchill written for LIFE and the New York Times On April 16, 1948, LIFE and the New York Times planned to start the exclusive publication in the United States of the first volume of Churchill’s Memoirs of The Second World War. By way of a forward to Churchill's own account of the war, Harold Nicolson wrote an account of England’s feelings towards Churchill during the war.
Harold Nicolson’s account makes for splendid reading….
His closing paragraph:
At his home in Chartwell in Kent he (Churchill) is at his simplest. It is there that he dictates his memoirs, dressed strangely in a siren suit or dungarees, striding with his cigar up and down the room. It is there that one best feels the courtesy of this happy man, and senses his simple, pervading devotion to his wife, his children and his grandchildren. And it is there, if you are lucky, that he will take you and show you— approaching gently, very gently—Do-not-make-so-much-noise- you-fool—a moorhen’s nest mong the reeds.
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Who’s Who, 1964
Churchill, Rt. Honourable. Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer), KG (Knight of the Garter). 1953; Privy Councillor, 1 May, 1907; O. M (Order of Merit), 1946; C.H. (Companion of Honour), 1922; F.R.S (Fellow of the Royal Society), 1941; M. P. (C) Woodford since 1945; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, Oct 1951 to Apr 1955, when he resigned; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports since 1941; Elder brother of Trinity House since 1913; born 30 Nov 1874; son of Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph Churchill, third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough; married 1908 Clementine, daughter of late Col. Sir H. M. Hozier, KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath), 3rd Dragoon Guards, and Lady Blanche Ogilvy, daughter of the 9th Earl of Airlie; one son, three daughters. Educ: Harrow; Sandhurst, Entered Army, 1895; served with Spanish forces in Cuba, 1895 (1st class (Spanish) Order of Military Merit); served, attached 31st Punjab Infantry, with Malakand Field Force, 1897; (despatches, medal with clasp); served as orderly officer to Sir W. Lockhart with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1898, present at the Battle of Khartoum (medal with clasp); contested Oldham (C) 1899; served as Lieutenant South African Light Horse; acted as correspondent for the Morning Post, South Africa, 1899-1900; taken prisoner 15th Nov but escaped 12th Dec; present at actions of Acton Homes, Venter’s Spruit, Hussar Hill, Cingolo, Monte Cristo, and at the battles of Spion Kop, Vaal Krants, and Pieters; engagements of Johannesburg and Diamond Hill, and capture of Pretoria (medal with six clasps); late Lieutenant the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars; Major, Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, Lieutenant- Colonel commanding 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, France, 1916 (medals) retired 1916. MP (Member of Parliament). (C) Oldham, 1900-06; (Liberal) North-West Manchester, 1906-08; (C) Dundee 1908- 1922; Epping Division of Essex, 1924- 1945. Under-Secretary-of-State for the Colonies, 1906-08; President of the Board of Trade 1908-10; Home Secretary, 1910- 11; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-15; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1915; Minister of Munitions, 1917; Secretary of State for War and Air, Jan 1919- Feb 1921; Air and the Colonies, Feb- April, 1921, and for the Colonies until October 1922; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1924-29; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1939-40; Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Minister of Defence, Oct 1951- Jan 1952. Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, 1914-18; of Edinburgh University, 1929-32; Chancellor of Bristol University 1930; Hon Fellow Merton College, Oxford. 1942; Chairman of the Trustees, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1959; Hon Bencher Gray’s Inn, 1942; Grandmaster Primrose League, 1943; Hon Academician Extraordinary of the Royal Academy, 1948; One-man show at the Royal Academy, 1959; Hon R. B. A.; F. R. I. B. A. 1941; Hon F. R. C. S., 1943; F. Z. S. 1944; F. R. Ae. S 1944; F. S. E., 1946; F. R. S. L, 1947; F. R. G. S., 1948; F. J. I. 1950; Hon. F. R. C. P. 1951; Hon F. I. O. B. 1962, Hon. A. R. C. V. S. 1955; Hon F. I. O. B. 1962, Hon Member of Lloyd’s; of Instn. of Municipal and County Engrs; of the Royal Instn. of Naval Architects; of the Instn. of Mining and Metallurgy, Hon Pres U. N. Assoc; President. Constitutional Club; Vice- President. R. A. F. Benevolent Fund, 1919; Vice-President, London Library, 1948; First President of the Victoria Cross Assoc, 1959; Liveryman of Mercers’ Co; Hon. Freeman of Shipwrights’ Co, Hon Life Member of Assoc of Men of Kent and Kentish Men; D. L. Kent, 1949; President, Franco-British Soc, 1951; Patron, Bucks’s Club, 1952; a Vice-President, Soc of the friends of St. George’s and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, 1953; Hon President. Amateur Fencing Assoc 1953; Hon President Westerham Branch of the British Legion, 1953; Col The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars, 1958; Hon Air Codre. No. 615 (Co of Surrey) Fighter Sqdn, Royal Aux A. F. 1939; Hon Col 63rd Oxf. Yeo. Anti-tank Regt; R. A. (T. A.), 1947; 299 Fd. Regt. (Bucks and Oxf Yeo.) T. A.; 4TH/5TH (Cinque Ports) Bn , Royal Sussex Regt; 1941; 1st/4th Bn, Essex Regt., 1945; 6th (Cinque Ports) Cadet Bn. Buffs. Special award, Sept. 1945; Grotius Medal (Netherlands), 1949; Sunday Times Literary Award and Medal, 1938 and 1949. Member of the Jockey Club, 1950. Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953; Charlemagne Prize, 1955; Freedom House Award (USA), 1955; Williamsburg Award, 1955; Franklin Medal of the City of Philadelphia, 1956; Humanitarian Award for 1954, 1956; Grand Seigneur of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1956; Hon Life Member. Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Company of Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 1960; C Lit, 1961. Hon. Degrees: D. C. L. Oxford 1925; Rochester USA 1941; Doctor of Laws, Queen’s Belfast 1926; Bristol, Harvard USA 1943; McGill Canada 1944; Brussels, Louvain 1945; Miami USA, Westminster College USA, Columbia USA, Aberdeen, Leyden, 1946; St. Andrews 1943; Liverpool 1949; University of New York State 1954; D. Phil and History, Oslo, 1948; D. Litt., Cambridge, 1948; D. Lit, London, 1948; D. Phil, Copenhagen, 1950 Freedoms: Edinburgh, 1942; City of London, 1943; Wanstead and Woodford, Brussels, Antwerp, 1945; Aberdeen, City of Westminster, Luxemburg, Blackpool, Birmingham, Beckenham, Stafford, 1946; Darlington, Ayr, Woodstock, Brighton, Manchester, 1947; Eastbourne, Perth, Aldershot, Cardiff, 1948; Kensington, Strasbourg, 1949; Bath, Worcester, Wimbledon, Portsmouth, 1950; Sheffield, Aberystwyth, Malden and Coombe, Deal, Dover, 1961; Leeds, 1953; Poole, 1954; Rochester, Londonderry, Belfast, Harrow, 1955; Douglas (IOM), Margate, Hastings, 1957; Hon Citizen: Cuba, 1941; Pinar del Rio (Cuba), 1942; Paris, 1945; Athens, Marathon, Thebes, Aeglion, 1945; Naupactos (Greece), 1946; Jacksonville, Florida, 1949; Nancy, 1960; Roquebrune- Cap-Martin, France, 1956; USA and individual states of Maryland, Hawaii, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Tennessee, North Carolina, 1963; Hon Mayor: Cap d’Ail, France, 1952; Gold medals of the cities of New York, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1946; Member, National Congress of American Indians, 1963; Foreign Decorations: Knight Grand Cross, Order of Leopold of Belgium; Order of the Netherlands, Lion; Grand Cross, Ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de Chêne, of Luxembourg; Grand Cross with Chain, Order of St Olav, Norway; Kt. Order of the Elephant, Denmark,; Danish Liberation Medal; French Croix de Guerre avec Palme (1914); Belgian Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (1915) ; Médaille Militaire of France; Mil. Medal of Luxembourg; Spanish Order of Mil. Merit (First Class); D. S. M. USA; USAF Pilot’s Wings, French Croix de la Libération; Order of Star of Nepal; Grand Sash of the High Order of Sayyud Mohammed bin Ali al Senusal Publications: The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1898; The River War 1899; Savrola 1900; London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1900; Ian Hamilton’s March, 1900; Lord Randolph Churchill, 1906, 2nd edition 1907; My African Journey, 1908 (reprinted and revised 1962); Liberalism and the Social Problem; The World Crisis 4 vols., 1923- 29 (abridged and revised edition in one vol, 1931); My Early Life 1930; The Eastern Front (5th vol of The World Crisis, 1931); Thoughts and Adventures, 1932; Marlborough vol 1, 1933; vol 2 1934; vol 3 1936; vol 4 1938; Great Contemporaries 1937; new edition 1938; Arms and the Covenant (speeches), 1938; Step by Step 1936-1939 (articles); Into Battle (speeches), 1941; The Unrelenting Struggle (speeches), 1942; The End of the Beginning (speeches), 1943; Onwards to Victory (speeches), 1944; The Dawn of Liberation (speeches), 1946; Victory (speeches), 1946; Secret Session Speeches, 1946; The Sinews of Peace (speeches), 1948; Painting as a Pastime, 1948; Europe Unite (speeches), 1950; In The Balance (speeches), 1951; Stemming the Tide (speeches 1951-52); The Unwritten Alliance (speeches, 1953-59); The Second World War vol 1 The Gathering Storm, 1948; vol 2 Their Finest Hour 1949; vol 3 The Grand Alliance 1950; vol 4 The Hinge of Fate, 1951; vol 5 Closing the Ring 1952; vol 6 Triumph and Tragedy, 1954; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples vol 1 The Birth of Britain 1956; vol 2 The New World 1956; vol 3 The Age of Revolution 1957; vol 4 The Great Democracies 1958; Frontiers and Wars, 1962 (reproduced in one vol The Malakand Field Force, The River War, London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton’s March (all four books slightly abridged). Address: 28 Hyde Park Gate, SW7, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, Clubs: Athenæum, Carlton, Buck’s, Boodle’s.
Who’s Who 1964 A and C Black Ltd., London, and St. Martin’s Press, New York.
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The details of the Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill were obtained from my copy of the issue of the Radio Times for January 28, 1965. Return to the TOC
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR THE FUNERAL OF Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill K. G., O. M., C. H.
At the cathedral Church of St. Paul in the City of London Saturday January 30, 1965
THE ORDER OF SERVICE
As the procession moves through the Nave, the Choir shall sing:
THE SENTENCES
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.
We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
When the Coffin has been placed upon the Bier, and all have taken their places, the whole congregation shall sing this hymn:
Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather; There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
Whoso beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is. No lion can him fright; He’ll with a giant fight, But he will have a right To be a pilgrim.
Hobgoblin nor foul fiend Can daunt his spirit; He knows he at the end Shall life inherit. Then, fancies, fly away; He’ll fear not what men say; He’ll labour night and day To be a pilgrim.
Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity: We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world; beseeching thee that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Almighty God, who through the only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen
Then shall all stand to sing this hymn:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement-seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea; With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! Glory, Glory Hallelujah! While God is marching on.
Then follows the lesson, read by the Canon-in-Residence
Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits: afterwards they that are Christ’s, at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; but God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Then shall all stand to sing this hymn: : Fight the good fight with all thy might! Christ is thy strength, and Christ they right: Lay hold on life, and it shall be Thy joy and Crown eternally.
Run the straight race through God’s good grace, Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face; Life with its way before us lies; Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.
Cast care aside, lean on thy guide; His boundless mercy will provide; Trust and thy trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life and Christ its love.
Faint not nor fear, his arms are near; He changeth not and thou art dear; Only believe, and thou shalt see That Christ is all in all to thee.
Then, all kneeling, the Minor Canon shall say:
Lord have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us Lord, have mercy upon us.
Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen.
THE COLLECT
O merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who also hath taught us (by his holy Apostle Saint Paul) not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth; and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight; and receive that blessing, which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world: Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, and giver of all comfort: Deal graciously we pray thee, with those who mourn, that casting every care on thee, they may know the consolation of thy love, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord, who didst give to thy servant Saint George grace to lay aside the fear of man, and to be faithful even unto death: grant that we, unmindful of worldly honour, may fight the wrong, uphold thy rule and serve thee to our lives’ end: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Then the Choir shall sing:
Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy Saints: Where sorrow and pain are no more: neither sighing, but life everlasting
Then the Archbishop of Canterbury shall pray in these words:
Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and the gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.
Then shall all stand up to sing THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Then shall be sounded THE LAST POST and REVEILLE And Handel’s Dead March be played upon the organ
THE WITHDRAWAL
As the coffin is carried out of the Cathedral, in the same order as it entered, all present shall sing this hymn:
O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home:
Under the shadow of thy throne Thy Saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is thine arm alone, And our defence is sure.
Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.
O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.
FINIS