FUNERAL SERMON 



BY REV. ALLEN JUDD 



Mr. Judd used the beautiful burial service of the Epis- 

 copal church, which Mr. Lacey loved. "I am the resur- 

 rection and the life, saith the Lord, he that believeth in 

 me though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever 

 liveth and believeth in me shall never die. " ' ' Lord Thou 

 hast been our refuge from one generation to another." 

 ''For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this 

 mortal must put on immortality. So when this corrup- 

 tible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall 

 have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass 

 the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in vic- 

 tory. ' ' 



The choir, consisting of Messrs. Evan Morgan and 

 Warren Kalbach, and Misses Helen Kalbach and Jo 

 Boyer, sang those touchingly beautiful hymns, "Lead, 

 Kindly Light, ' ' and ' ' Now the Day is Over. ' ' 



The people had assembled in vast numbers, filling the 

 house and the spacious lawn and even the streets beyond 

 with a silent, reverent, grief-stricken throng. The sol- 

 emn occasion and surroundings were far more eloquent 

 than any human words could be. Mr. Judd said in brief : 



There is little left for me to say which your hearts 

 have not already said. Had it been thought fitting at this 

 time to pay verbal tribute to the memory of our brother 

 there are those here from the highest councils of the state 

 and nation, representatives of the bench and bar and of 

 the press, members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 

 and of other civic and benevolent bodies, fellow-citizens 



