LEADER Brothers and friends in Sigma Chi. We are gathered here to pay our tribute of love and respect for the memory of our beloved Brother Craig Anthony Murphy.

RESPONSE BY ALL All honor to his name.

LEADER We meet because of his passing from our circle to the Chapter Eternal; and yet in our hearts is the confidence that his living spirit hovers near. To his dear ones and friends present, we would bring our expression of sympathy; and to his memory we would offer our homage for his qualities of heart and mind. As a neighbor, friend, brother, son, husband, father, and as a man of integrity, we have known him as loyal and devoted to the high ideals of the White Cross of Sigma Chi. His friendship was enduring; his generosities were large; and his life was an inspiration. He loved his friends and his family, and he loved his fraternity, but he knew that its helpfulness and sympathies were meant to be broader than the bounds of the high ideals of Sigma Chi. His loyalty was grounded in the faith that fraternalism stands literally for better citizenship, for a more noble civilization, and for the higher ideals of life in its service to man and reverence to God.

In this sacred place and reverent moment the thought is dominant that life and its true friendships are indestructible. Because of the spirit in man, death cannot have the victory. That which we call death is but the gateway to the life immortal; for the life of the spirit does not die.

LEADER Inasmuch as our dearly beloved friend wore over his heart the White Cross of Sigma Chi, whose immaculate whiteness symbolized to us the purity of his motives; therefore, it is most appropriate that he now bear above his heart our emblem; and that we lay white roses upon his casket in token of the sweet memories we will always cherish of him we loved so well.

LEADER Let us pray.

LEADER Almighty God, with Whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly bodies, we humbly commend the soul of this Thy servant, our neighbor, our dear brother, our friend, into Thy hands, Who art our Creator, most humbly beseeching Thee that it may be precious in Thy sight.

RESPONSE BY ALL Amen