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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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l, Emerson andNorton—may well be added a fourth,Phillips Brooks. I Phillips Brooks was minister of a)church in Philadelphia at the tmie ofthe assassination. On Sunday, Aprii23 1865, the body of the slain Presidentlay in state in Philadelphia, on its wayto its final resting place in Springfield,111 Mr. Brooks had been preaching aseries of sermons on a passage takenfrom the eighth chapter of the Gospelof St. John, and had delivered five ofthis series. But the occasion of thelying in state of the body of the greatleader was so overwhelming that Mr.Brooks broke the continuity of the seriesand delivered a most powerful andtouching address on Abraham Lincoln,taking his text from the Seventy-eighthPsalm, verses 71, 72 and 73. This address, delivered under suchcircumstances by that youthful preacherwho was destined to become himself soeminent, is inspiring reading today. Sothe name of Phillips Brooks may wellbo added to the list given in your fineeditorial. Z. W. COOMBS, Worcester, Feb. 13.
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The Lincoln Catafalque SIR: I thought Bulletin readerswould be interested in a photographtaken 76 years ago today of thecatafalque which bore the body ofAbraham Lincoln through Phila-delphia. The picture was takenstanding before the undertaking establishment of Edward S. Early,near the corner of 10th and Greensts. The catafalque had made ajourney from Washington by wayof Harrisburg. Lincolns body rest-ed in state at Independence Hall,April 22, 1865. Reader rnoc .»♦»> o <^fl Ki.t Hi.o* *«»• oWnrt . PHILADELPHIA /3^ A fttvr nfhar SoVtnAl* / hj 7 ----- 7 I LINCOLNS FUNERAL TRAINpassed through the West Philadel-phia depot of the Pennsylvania R. R.on Apnl 22, 1865, and proceededto Broad and Washington sts., wherethe coffin was removed and carriedin procession to Independence Hall.There the body lay in state until1.30 A. M. on the morning of April24, when it was again carried inprocession to the Kensington depotwhere the funeral train left forNew York at 4.30 A. M.—(W, R. K.

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