Funeral and Memorial Services, 1905

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Address: The Rev. CHARLES R. BROWN, First Congregational Church, Oakland

Hymn: Nearer, my God, to Thee ....

Led by the Memorial Church Choir

Nearer, my God, to Thee, / Nearer to Thee! / E'en though it be a cross / That raiseth me; / Still all my song shall be, / Nearer, my God, to Thee, / Nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, / The sun gone down, / Darkness be over me, / My rest a stone; / Yet in my dreams I'd be / Nearer, my God, to Thee, / Nearer to Thee!

Or if on joyful wing, / Cleaving the sky, / Sun, moon, and stars forgot, / Upward I fly; / Still all my song shall be, / Nearer, my God, to Thee, / Nearer to Thee!

Committal: The Rt. Rev. WILLIAM F. NICHOLS, D. D., Bishop of California

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Jane Lathrop Stanford

Born in Mortality August 25, 1828

Passed to Immortality February 28, 1905

Order of Exercises for the Funeral Service in the Memorial Church Leland Stanford Junior University

Friday, the Twenty-fourth of March Nineteen Hundred and Five

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In the Memorial Church

Funeral March ... Chopin

Choral: To Thee O Lord I yield my Spirit. Mendelssohn

"To Thee, O Lord, I yield my spirit, / Who break'st in love this mortal chain. / My life I but inherit, / And death becomes my chiefest gain. / In Thee I live, in Thee I die, / Content, for Thou art ever nigh."

Prayer: The Rev. WILLIAM KIRK GUTHRIE, First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco

Memorial [?] Anthem ... B. C. Blodgett

"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."

First Lesson, Psalm 90, Verses from Job, Psalm 23 Rabbi JACOB VOORSANGER, Temple Emanuel, San Francisco

Hymn: Lead, Kindly Light ... Miss E. W. SMITH

Second Lesson, First Corinthians 15:41-58 The Rev. E. R. DILLE, D. D., First Methodist Episcopal Church, Oakland

Prayer: The Rt. Rev. WILLIAM F. NICHOLS, D. D., Bishop of California [/ Left hand side]

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Address: The Rev. JOHN W. DINSMORE, D. D., San Jose

Hymn: I know that my Redeemer liveth. Handel

Mrs. ARTHUR FICKENSCHER

"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that we shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that sleep."

Benediction: The REV. C. M. HILL, Baptist Theological Seminary, Berkeley

Organ: Ave Maria ... Bach-Gounod

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At the Mausoleum

Hymn: Sun of my Soul, Thou Savior dear ... Led by the Memorial Church Choir

Sun of my Soul, Thou Savior dear, / It is not night if Thou be near; / Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise / To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.

Abide with me from morn till eve, / For without Thee I cannot live; / Abide with me when night is nigh, / For without Thee I dare not die.

General Arrangements for the Funeral of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford

Friday, March the Twenty-fourth

The hour for the services in the Memorial Church is half-past one.

Doors of the church will be open at 12:15.

All persons who are to have seats in the Memorial Church should be in their places before the hour set for the beginning of services.

The general public, in very limited numbers, will be admitted by the west transept door. When all the seats set aside for their use are occupied this door will be closed.

All Alumni are requested to assemble in the building of the Law Department (Rooms 1 and 2, Inner Quadrangle) before 1 o'clock. Thence they will go to the church in a body, entering by the front entrances.

All official representatives (other than pall-bearers) sent by organizations should report in person at Room 55, Inner Quadrangle, in the small building just east of the church, before 1 o'clock. Thence they will be escorted to their reserved sections.

Families of trustees and pall-bearers, and special guests, should report their presence in Room 55, Inner Quadrangle, in the small building just east of the church. They will then be escorted to their reserved section.

Press representatives will be received at the west transept door.

Employes of the university and the estate, with adult members of their immediate families, should enter by the east transept door.

The faculty of the university, of the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor, will assemble in the Council Room, before 1 o'clock, in order that they may go to the church in a body. They will enter by the front entrances.

Adult members of the immediate families of the above members of the faculty will enter the church by the east rear transept door.

Resident graduate students will have a reserved section in the choir loft. They should enter by the east choir stairway.

The Freshman and Senior classes will occupy the east gallery. They should enter by the east transept door.

The Sophomore and Junior classes will occupy the west gallery. They should enter by the west transept door.

All student must present their registration cards for the purpose of identification at the doors of the church.

At the close of the services in the church, while the organ postlude is being played, all of the congregation, except the immediate funeral party, will leave the building by their respective entrances and take their proper places in the procession for the march to the Mausoleum. The procession will form in front of the Memorial Arch on the east road around the oval. Marshals will give the necessary directions.

The procession will be led (1) by the Freshman class, under the leadership of their officers. After them will follow (2) the Sophomores, (3) the Juniors, (4) the Seniors, (5) the resident Graduate Students, (6) the Church Choir, (7) the Alumni, (8) the Faculty of the University, (9) the officiating clergymen, (10) the honorary pall-bearers, (11) the pall-bearers, (12) the family, (13) the offical delegates, (14) the employes - in the order named.

Policing arrangements have been made to direct the public to keep certain walks and roads, and certain spaces around the Mausoleum, clear for the purposes of these services.

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Address

A Prayer for the University

O God, we beseech thee to bless all institutions of learning throughout the world, and especially this our University, and all its members and benefactors. Establish it to all generations to thy honor and to thy glory. Bring to it whatever it may need to carry its good designs into effect. To those to whom are committed the duties of administration and instruction give thy heavenly grace, that they may perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same. And to those who are here to be trained up for the work of the world, give a proper sense of the honor and danger of the trusts to which they are to be called; endue them with sound minds and moderated desires; fill them with a spirit of holy zeal and self-denial; and grant that they may so faithfully labor in their day and generation that when they are called to give an account of their stewardship they may not be found unprofitable servants. Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake. AMEN.

The University Hymn: "Hail, Stanford, Hail"

Where the rolling foothills rise / Up toward mountains higher, / Where at eve the Coast Range lies / In the sunset fire, / Flushing deep and paling; / Here we raise our voices, hailing / Thee, our Alma Mater

Benediction [/ left hand side]

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In Memoriam

Jane Lathrop Stanford

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Order of Service

Mausoleum

February 28

1912

I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

Order of Service

Hymn: "Nearer to Thee"

Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en tho' it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

There let the way appear Steps unto heaven; All that Thou send'st to me In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

Or if on joyful wing, Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upward I fly, Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

Prayer: Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; we give thee hearty thanks for the good example of thy servant Jane Lathrop Stanford, who, having finished her course in faith, now rests from her labors. And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory: through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

Anthem: "Crossing the Bar" UNIVERSITY CHOIR

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark.

For, though from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.