[organ music playing] is we remain standing, we prepare now for the wharq servant, theublic honorable Elijah Eugene cummings. It shall be done in a few draping ofter the the coffin by the honor guard. [horn sounds] amen. Was a cummings churchman. We sing to the glory of thgod this morning that opening hymn that meant so much to him. Bishop thomas you may be seated. Let us pray. Lord, we thankyou for your servant, Elijah Eugene cummings, assiduously, sagacious, and with integrity to preserve and protect the sacrosanct founding document of this country, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Lord, we thank you for one who stayed the same wherever he was as he ironically embodied kiplings command to walk with kings yet not lose the common touch. For ruthe praise you and robert cummings. You, thatt, we bless you lived in him, spoke through him, and strengthened him to do the work of kingdom building in the guise of a congressman and committee chair. Father, whereas we come to pay rose tha
These stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was on and a of years later, she started to really rise up in the office and she said, you know what, i want to give you an award. Its called the gid
Now the good part starts. Lets begin to talk about something before we start the id like to talk about something thats inspiration on and i have these stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was
Prof. Coombs all right. Good day gentlemen. We have talked about up to this point, the development of a regional basis of the different colonies of english america. What i want to do today is take a step back, more of an imperial approach and talk about the maturation of the english empire. You might be curious about the date. It doesnt say 16071713, and hopefully the reason for that will become clear over the course of this lecture. As a point of departure, most people may think about english mainlandparticularly north america, Something Like this image is what comes to mind. The whole coastline filled in with colonies from massachusetts and maine in the north to georgia and the south, large and expensive. About with respect to other empires in north america, maps are dispersive. Arguments, assertions of pretensions of claims to territory. Theeality, in the middle of 17th century, the english empire looks more like this. Clusters, you can barely see it. There is a dark patch around ch
Prof. Coombs all right. Good day gentlemen. We have talked about up to this point, the development of a regional basis of the different colonies of english america. What i want to do today is take a step back, more of an imperial approach and talk about the maturation of the english empire. You might be curious about the date. It doesnt say 16071713, and hopefully the reason for that will become clear over the course of this lecture. As a point of departure, most people may think about english mainlandparticularly north america, Something Like this image is what comes to mind. The whole coastline filled in with colonies from massachusetts and maine in the north to georgia and the south, large and expensive. About with respect to other empires in north america, maps are dispersive. Arguments, assertions of pretensions of claims to territory. Theeality, in the middle of 17th century, the english empire looks more like this. Clusters, you can barely see it. There is a dark patch around ch