Miss Helen Howison sang the following three verses from the hymn "Abide With Me." Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide! I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless: Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies: Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee: In life and death, O Lord, abide with me! The Chaplain of the House of Representatives pronounced the benediction as follows: May the peace of God that passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge of God and of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. And now may the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit remain with you always. Amen. At 12 o'clock and 43 minutes p. m., the funeral ceremonies having been concluded, and Mrs. Robinson and relatives and friends of the deceased Senator and the invited guests retired from the Chamber. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, in compliance with the unanimous-consent order entered on yesterday, I move that the Senate adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and 44 minutes p. m.) the Senate, under the order previously entered, adjourned until Tuesday, July 20, 1937, at 12 o'clock meridian. Tributes Address by Rev. A. Bascom Watts Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the very beautiful tribute paid to our late departed colleague and leader, Senator ROBINSON, by the Reverend H. Bascom Watts, delivered at the funeral services at Little Rock, Ark., on last Sunday afternoon. There being no objection, the sermon was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: SERMON BY REV. H. BASCOM WATTS AT THE FUNERAL OF SENITOR ROBINSON Here we pay our tribute of respect to a great representative American-JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON. I shall not speak comprehensively of his work as a public official. That has been adequately reviewed in the national press and by his admiring colleagues in official life; and what word of eulogy could I speak that would be sufficient? It is proper only that I should seek to be the medium for expressing the deep affection and high esteem in which he was held by the people of the State of Arkansas. Half a dozen years short of the threescore and ten of the Psalmist, yet few others in the history of our Nation's life have lived so tremendously and with such a varied career as this eminent statesman. We are a little too close to him now to do justice to him. Some of us admired him so enthusiastically that our praise may sound a bit strident and may thus lose its force. Time will properly adjust his fame. I think that adjustment will assign him a very high place in American history. In the decades from about 1810 to 1850 there were three dominating personalities in American legislative life-Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. Possibly it may be too early to put Senator ROBINSON in a category with them, and I am sure he would have been the last to have claimed any such distinction. But when a history of the Congress and the crucial issues before it in the last three decades is scientifically presented by careful students of the period, it cannot omit him from rank with the foremost. However, I am not thinking of him so much as a statesman, or even a great man, but as a personality. When you saw Senator ROBINSON You saw a remarkable personality. The test of personality is the human interest in the daily incidents, reactions, and manners of the man. How did he smile; why did he frown; what were his tricks of gesture and speech; in what spirit did he meet the troubles and trials of everyday life? Some men are aloof and austere— only their doctrines interest us. They are mere doctrinaires. Human contact with them detracts from their influence. No mere "glad-hander" was Senator ROBINSON, but neither was he aloof nor austere. His life, political, domestic, personal, was singularly open and so vitally human that he inspired in men associated with him genuine affection and unfeigned confidence. Among tall mountains it is hard to measure peaks. There is too much of ROBINSON, too many vividly related phases of his unusual personality, to discuss at length his great career as legislator, advocate, Congressman, Governor, United States Senator, leader of his party, representative of his Government at distinguished international tribunals, citizen, friend, husband. Certain things are outstanding in his life, however, as the memory of it hurries past the rush of our thoughts this afternoon. Let me point them in rapid succession. Ever lover of his country, through good and evil report; born and reared in the South, he was idolized all over the country, greeted everywhere he went by sympathetic crowds of the plain people who recognized that whatever his errors of judgments, whatever the impetuosity of his speech, here was at heart a man who was a true democrat in a great Republic, his mind open to their aspirations, his hand outstretched to their aid, his voice outspoken for their rights. He was sometimes a caustic critic of more cautious men and measures. He was a man of great force. And folks like force. He walked with a firm tread. Whatever his faults, the one offense which could never be laid to his charge was the crime of evasion or inactivity, of which Browning said in The Statue and the Bust: "The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost, His lamp was ever alight with the oil of activity and his loins girt for the battles of justice. Two things were predominant in JOSEPH T. ROBINSON-Militancy and sincerity. He was a fighter, but no one ever denied his courage or questioned the undoubted sincerity of conviction with which he entered the fight. "What is right?" "What ought to |