Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choir sang: "Fight the Good Fight," by Parker; "Ho, Every One that Thirsteth," by Martin; and "To Thee I Lift Up My Soul," by King Hall...
...Apsey cited the civil war as an example of his meaning. Into this war men entered, banding themselves into different armies. They did not always agree with their leaders as to methods and means, but believing in the main principle they fought with their whole soul, and there came out from the struggle great and noble men and a new nation. So it is with parties. Out from the struggle between them emerge the grandest national characters and the greatest national reforms...
...they were his mother tongue. It is not pessimistic to say that they will never be given so again. All these, however, were qualities of the exterior. He would not have been the actor he was if he had not been able to get at the very soul of the character he was representing; and it was this wonderful ability which won his fame...
...friend of Mr. Bolles, lead the procession into the church. After the choir had sung "Abide With Me," Professor Peabody read from the Scriptures. Words more fitting and suggestive on the occasion could scarcely have been selected: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he restoreth my soul." "Ask of the beasts and of the birds and of the fishes and they shall tell thee." "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor and the causes which I knew not I searched...
...Addison then read a few words and offered a prayer. A solo by Master Willie Macdonald, and again the audience rose as the choir sung "Hark, Hark my Soul," and the procession moved slowly down the aisle. Then with the deep harmonies of Beethoven's funeral march, the people went quietly away, having paid the last tribute to the man whom so many had found a friend...