12 THE FUNERAL,. 



sisting of selections of Scripture, by the Rev. Dr. JAMES H. 

 CUTHBERT, of the First Baptist Church, and prayer by the Rev. 

 Dr. BYRON SUNDERLAND, of the First Presbyterian Church. 



The leading officials in every branch of the Government, men 

 eminent in science, in literature, in diplomacy, and in professional 

 and business life, assembled at the church. Among them were the 

 President of the United States; the Yice-President of the United 

 States; the Secretary of State; the Secretary of the Treasury; the 

 Secretary of War; the Secretary of the Navy; the Secretary of the 

 Interior; the Postmaster General; the Chief Justice and Associate 

 Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; the General 

 of the Army ; the Admiral of the Navy ; the Senate and the House 

 of Representatives of the United States; the Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution; Officers of the Army and Navy; the Clergy of 

 the District; the National Academy of Sciences represented by ks 

 officers and others; the Philosophical Society of Washington; the 

 Alumni of the College of New Jersey; the Trustees of the Corcoran 

 Art Gallery; the Washington National Monument Society; the 

 Examining Corps of the Patent Office; the Superintendent and 

 Trustees of Public Schools ; and the Telegraphic Operators' Asso- 

 ciation of Washington. 



Only a small portion of the vast concourse of citizens and strangers 

 could gain access to the church. 



The services in the church were begun with Mendelssohn's 

 anthem Beati Mortui, which was impressively sung by the choir of 

 St. John's Episcopal Church. 



The fifteenth chapter of first Corinthians was read by Rev. Dr. 

 SUNDERLAND; prayer was offered by the venerable CHARLES 

 HODGE, D. D., of Princeton, N. J.; and the address was delivered 

 by the Rev. SAMUEL S. MITCHELL, D. D., pastor of the church of 

 which Professor HENRY became a member when he removed to 

 Washington, thirty years ago. 



