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Title: Christian herald
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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ed all were used. It is quite cer-tain that the little church never before held sucha distinguished gathering. Men whose names arehousehold words as the leaders in their arts, pro-fessions and callings were present to pay the lasttribute of friendship and respect to the late Mr..Morgan. Thirty-five national and civic organiza-tions were represented and almost every departmentof American life was shown in these groups.There were artists, men of letters, men represent- ing great business interests, historical and nationalsocieties, church organizations and scientific bodiesas well as social organizations. During the days that elapsed between the arrivalof the remains of the late Mr. Morgan on the steam-ship La France and the date of the funeral the bodylay in state in the library of his Madison Avenuehome. The great tribute of flowers was dividedbetween the library and the church. Among thethousands of these tributes, both large and small,there were many showing the high esteem in which
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Copyriirht, American Ir<-*H8 Association CASKET OF THE LATE J. PIERPONT MORGAN BORNE FROM ST. GEORGES CHURCH Mr. Morgan was held in Europe. At the librarywas an immense sheaf of lilies knotted with whitesatin ribbon embroidered with the folden fleur-de-lis of the royal house of Bourbon, and held togetherby the coronet of the princes and princesses of theroyal house of France. There were also tributes from art societies andorganizations in Europe, from men prominent inthe governments of many lands, and in two casesofficially from the governments themselves. A tinystream of red, white and blue ribbons that held to-gether a great spray of palm leaves indicated thegift of the French Government. A wreath of lilies of the valley and orchids came from the ItalianGovernment. These were at the church, togetherwith a wonderful wreath of American Beauty roses,the green, white and red ribbon of which showedthat it was the gift of the King of Italy. The trib-ute of Emperor William of Germany wa

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