[MINISTER]
AS IT IS WRITTEN, THINGS WHICH THE EYE SAW NOT,
AND EAR HEARD NOT,
AND WHICH ENTERED NOT INTO THE HEART OF MAN, 
WHATSOEVER THINGS GOD PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM.

BUT UNTO US, GOD REVEALED THEM THROUGH THE SPIRIT;
FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHETH ALL THINGS,
YEA, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD.

BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENETH, O JEHOVAH,
AND TEACHEST OUT OF THY LAW;
THAT THOU MAYEST GIVE HIM REST FROM THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY,
UNTIL THE PIT BE DUG FOR THE WICKED.

FOR JEHOVAH WILL NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE, NEITHER WILL HE FORSAKE HIS INHERITANCE.

BEHOLD... HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM GOD CORRECTS:
THEREFORE DESPISE NOT THOU THE CHASTENING OF THE ALMIGHTY.

FOR THOU, O JEHOVAH, ART MY REFUGE!
THOU HAST MADE THE MOST HIGH THY HABITATION:
THERE SHALL NO EVIL BEFALL THEE, NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE
COME NIGH THY TENT. FOR HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER
THEE, TO KEEP THEE IN ALL THY WAYS.
THEY SHALL BEAR THEE UP IN THEIR HANDS, LEST THOU DASH THY 
FOOT AGAINST A STONE. THOU SHALT TREAD UPON THE LION AND ADDER:

THE YOUNG LION AND THE SERPENT SHALT THOU TRAMPLE UNDER FOOT. BECAUSE HE HATH SET HIS LOVE UPON ME, THEREFORE WILL
I DELIVER HIM: I WILL SET HIM ON HIGH, BECAUSE HE HATH KNOWN
MY NAME. HE SHALL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER HIM;
I WILL BE WITH HIM IN TROUBLE: I WILL DELIVER HIM AND HONOR HIM 
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SCRIPTURE

SELECT ONE OR MORE OF THE SCRIPTURE PASSAGES:
BELOVED, LET US SEEK COMFORT IN THE ASSURANCES OF GOD'S WORD.
IF WE WOULD BE ASSURED OF GOD'S CARE FOR US, WE NEED THE FOLLOWING WORDS:
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT. HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES: HE LEAD-ETH ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS. HE RESTORETH MY SOUL; HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE.
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL: FOR THOU ART WITH ME;
THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME.
THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES:
THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL;
MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE;
AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER (PSALM 23).

IF WE WOULD BE ASSURED OF ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF GOD'S PEOPLE, LET US HEAR THESE WORDS:
AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW, HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN.
MOREOVER WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE ALSO CALLED: AND WHOM HE CALLED, THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED: AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED.
WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?
HE THAT SPARED NOT HIS OWN SON, BUT DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?
WHO SHALL LAY ANY THING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH.
WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMNETH? IT IS CHRIST THAT DIED, YEA RATHER, THAT IS RISEN AGAIN, WHO IS EVEN AT
THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US.
WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION, OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR PERIL, OR SWORD?
AS IT IS WRITTEN, FOR THY SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US.
FOR I AM PERSUADED, THAT NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS, NOR PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS, NOR THINGS PRESENT, NOR THINGS TO COME,
NOR HEIGHT, NOR DEPTH, NOR ANY OTHER CREATURE, SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD (ROMANS 8:28-39).
IF WE WOULD BE ASSURED OF THE BLESSEDNESS OF TRIBULATIONS, LET US HEAR THE FOLLOWING COMFORTING WORDS:
AND ONE OF THE ELDERS ANSWERED, SAYING UNTO ME, WHAT ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES? AND WHENCE CAME THEY? AND I SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, THOU KNOWEST. AND HE SAID TO ME, THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THEREFORE ARE THEY BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, AND SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE; AND HE THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE SHALL DWELL AMONG THEM. THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE, NEITHER
THIRST ANY MORE; NEITHER SHALL THE SUN LIGHT ON THEM, NOR ANY HEAT. FOR THE LAMB WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE SHALL FEED THEM, AND SHALL LEAD THEM UNTO LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATERS; AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES (REVELATION 7:13-17).
IF WE WOULD BE ASSURED OF AN ABIDING HOME, LET OUR HEARTS BE CONSOLED BY THESE WORDS:
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED; YE BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS; IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO (JOHN 14:1-3).
IF WE WOULD BE ASSURED OF THE COMING AGAIN OF OUR LORD AND THE RESURRECTION, LET OUR HEARTS BE STAYED ON THE FOLLOWING WORDS:
BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM. FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD;

AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST; THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS (1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18).
PRAYER
HAVING HEARD GOD SPEAKING TO US IN HIS WORD, LET US NOW TAKE OUR SORROW TO HIM, BEING ASSURED THAT HE WILL HEAR US BY THE FOLLOWING BLESSED WORDS: "DRAW NIGH TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS, AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE-MINDED. . . . HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE WILL EXALT YOU" (JAMES 4:8, 10).
LET US PRAY . . .
HYMN
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ADDRESS
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HYMN
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CLOSING WORDS
THE SERVICES HERE ARE NOW CONCLUDED, AND WE WILL PROCEED TO THE CEMETERY WHERE THE INTERMENT WILL TAKE PLACE.
MINISTER TAKES PLACE IN LEAD OF PALLBEARERS AND WALKS FROM HOME OR CHURCH IN THIS ORDER TO THE FUNERAL VEHICLES. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE CEMETERY THE MINISTER AGAIN TAKES HIS PLACE IN THE LEAD OF THE PALLBEARERS AND WALKS IN THIS ORDER TO THE GRAVE.
PROCESSION TO THE GRAVE
THE MINISTER MAY SAY, AS HE WALKS IN THE LEAD OF THE PROCESSION, THE FOLLOWING:
AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, WRITE, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD FROM HENCEFORTH: YES, SAITH THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABORS; FOR THEIR WORKS FOLLOW WITH THEM (REVELATION 14:13).
THOU WILT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL, AND AFTERWARD RECEIVE ME TO GLORY. WHOM HAVE I IN HEAVEN BUT THEE? AND THERE IS NONE ON EARTH THAT I DESIRE BESIDES THEE. MY FLESH AND MY HEART FAILETH: BUT GOD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY HEART AND MY PORTION FOR EVER (PSALM 73:24-26).
LOWERING OF THE CASKET
WHEN THE CASKET HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE SUPPORTS READY FOR LOWERING INTO THE GRAVE, THE MINISTER TAKES HIS STAND
AT THE HEAD OF THE GRAVE. THEN HE MAY SAY AS THE CASKET IS LOWERED:
NOW THIS I SAY, BRETHREN, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; NEITHER DOTH CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION. BEHOLD, I SHOW YOU A MYSTERY; WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP; FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE SHALL HAVE PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY. SO WHEN THIS CORRUPTIBLE SHALL HAVE PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL SHALL HAVE PUT ON IMMORTALITY, THEN SHALL BE BROUGHT TO PASS THE SAYING THAT IS WRITTEN, DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY? THE STING OF DEATH IS SIN; AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOUR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD (1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-58).
WORDS OF COMMITTAL
MY FRIENDS: WHEREAS, DEATH HATH ONCE MORE INVADED OUR RANKS AND REMOVED FROM THE WALK OF LIFE OUR BELOVED BROTHER (OR SISTER)________, HIS
(OR HER) SOUL HAVING DEPARTED TO DWELL IN "THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY FROM WHOSE BOURN NO TRAVELER RETURNS," IT HAS BECOME OUR SAD DUTY TO COMMIT HIS (OR HER) BODY TO THE GRAVEEARTH TO EARTH, ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUSTAND OUR INSPIRING PRIVILEGE TO COMMEND HIS (OR HER) SOUL TO OUR MAKER, FATHER, AND REDEEMER, IN THE CONFIDENT HOPE OF THE COMING AGAIN OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY FROM THE GRAVE, AND THE JOYOUS LIFE RESERVED FOR THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT IN THE REALMS OF GLORY.
THEN THE GRAVE MAY BE FILLED OR CANOPIED AND DECORATED WITH FLOWERS AFTER WHICH THE PEOPLE MAY BE DISMISSED BY PRAYER OR BENEDICTION.
BENEDICTION
THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR THOUGHTS IN CHRIST JESUS. . . . NOW UNTO OUR GOD AND FATHER BE THE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN (PHILIPPIANS 4:7, 20).
