Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Dwight Laing Rogers, Late a Representative from Florida

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 62 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 47 - FOUR things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow-men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely.
Pàgina 62 - Res. 642) and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution as follows : Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon.
Pàgina 14 - Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
Pàgina 26 - For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. 38. And the king said unto his servants, -Know ye not that there is a prince and a ^rcat man fallen this day in Israel ? 39.
Pàgina 14 - It next assembles, and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Representative the Senate, at the conclusion of its business today, do adjourn.
Pàgina 25 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Pàgina 34 - DWIGHT'S life and his kindness remind me of the words of the poet, "that best part of a good man's life — those little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Pàgina 5 - State house of representatives in 1859 ; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as a private; promoted to the rank of colonel of the 18th Texas Infantry ; assigned to duty in 1864 as an adjutant general of the State of Texas with the rank of colonel ; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1864 ; elected...
Pàgina 62 - ... we have none from whom to seek light save those who are our declared opponents, pronouncing judgment on us without knowledge of cause. Yet as our salvation and the duty we owe the King are the things most important to us on earth, and as we hold them to be inseparable the one from the other; and as nothing is so certain as death, and nothing so uncertain as the hour thereof; and as there is no time to inform his Majesty of what is passing and to receive his commands; and as our soul, though conscious...

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