Among the flowers was a cross with the words, "From Helen." This was the gift of the little blind girl, Helen Keller, at the South Boston Institute for the Blind, of whom the dead preacher was very fond.
Just before noon the body, borne on the shoulders of eight strong men, picked from the various athletic teams of Harvard, passed up the aisle of the church, headed by the bishops and honorary pall-bearers. The whole congregation joined in singing "Jesus, lover of my soul," the music broken by audible sobbing. After brief services, while the people remained standing, and the organ played its low, solemn notes, the body was borne out into Copley Square in front of Trinity, and placed on a draped platform, where an out-door service was held for the more than twenty thousand persons who could not get inside the church.
A memorial service was held at the same hour in the First Baptist Church, near by.
After the Lord's Prayer, in which all joined, the hymn beginning,—
"O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home;"
was sung. Copies of it had been distributed among the people. Three cornetists led the singing.