1149:
The Bishop of London said: "Nine-year-old
David wrote to say, 'last night when we were saying prayers, my daddy
said everyone has done wrong things except Jesus. I said I don't think
you have done bad things because you are the prime minister. Am I right
or is my daddy?" Perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the PM
replied in her own hand in a very straightforward letter which took the
question seriously. "However good we try to be, we can never be as kind,
gentle and wise as Jesus. There will be times when we do or say
something we wish we hadn't done and we shall be sorry and try not to do
it again… If you and I were to paint a picture, it wouldn't be as good
as the picture of great artists. So our lives can't be as good as the
life of Jesus."- 1139:The congregation join together for Charles Wesley's Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, reflecting Baroness Thatcher's Methodist upbringing.
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1138:Quoting the poet T S Eliot, the bishop concludes: "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
He ends his sermon with: "Rest eternal grant unto her O Lord and let light perpetual shine upon her." -
1137:The dominant note of a Christian funeral service, says Bishop Chartres, is that after the sorrow and the memories comes hope. Margaret Thatcher "had a sense of this", he says.
1132:
Baroness Thatcher's remark while in office
that there is "no such thing as society" has been misunderstood, says
the bishop. He says: "It refers to some impersonal entity to which we
are tempted to surrender our independence."
1131:
- 1130:Bishop Chartres says it must be difficult for members of her family and close associates to recognise the wife, mother and grandmother in the "mythological figure" of Lady Thatcher.
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1129:The bishop's accounts of Baroness Thatcher's ability to reach out to people, whether members of the public, or himself, draw a laugh from the congregation.
Bishop Chartres says she once warned him at a serious City function: "Don't touch the duck pate Bishop, it's very fattening." -
1128:Bishop Chartres notes Lady Thatcher's Methodist upbringing "to which this country owes a huge debt". She once described her religious upbringing in a lecture saying: "We were taught always to make up our own minds and never take the easy way of following the crowd". The Bishop says that in the past it was so often the Methodists who took the lead.
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1127:The Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, delivers his address.
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1126:Bishop Chartres reminds the congregation that Lady Thatcher had the common destiny of all human beings. "Lying here, she is one of us". The bishop says today is "neither the time nor the place" to debate her legacy.
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1125:Delivering his sermon, Bishop Chartres, says: "After the storm of a life lived in the heat of political controversy, there is a great calm".
25萬人送別鐵娘子 4千警維安防「爆」
英國昨為上周中風過世的前首相柴契爾夫人舉行喪禮，約2300名賓客出席，除英女王伊莉莎白二世，還有全球170國代表參加，全英國降半旗致哀。
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國已故首相「鐵娘子」柴契爾夫人的喪禮，今天在倫敦的聖保羅大教堂舉行，包括英國女王伊莉莎白二世以及首相卡麥隆等政界高層，還有170個國家的代表等，約2300人都出席這場喪禮，場面肅穆隆重。
柴契爾夫人的靈柩，在英國三軍儀隊的護送下，緩緩繞行倫敦街頭，沿途還有四千警力負責維安，，有鐵娘子之稱的柴契爾夫人，在這個月八號病逝，享壽87歲， 靈柩所經之處，聚集好幾萬人鼓掌致意，不過還可以聽到零星的噓聲，顯示柴契爾夫人的主政期間，引發的爭議，並沒有被人遺忘。
柴契爾夫人的喪禮，在聖保羅大教堂舉行，雖然不是國葬的規格，但跟已故前首相[邱吉爾]一樣隆重，顯示英國政府對柴契爾夫人的尊崇之意，同時包括女王伊 莉莎白二世，首相卡麥隆等英國政界人士，以及來自全球170個國家的政要代表，約2300人出席了這場喪禮，場面肅穆哀戚。
而在喪禮結束後，柴契爾夫人的遺體將進行火化，並依照她的遺願，葬在丈夫丹尼斯的旁邊，英國第一位女首相，豐富精彩的一生，正式劃下句點，至於功過就讓歷史去評斷吧。
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英國前首相柴契爾夫人的喪禮，今天在倫敦聖保羅大教堂舉行，來自全球170個國家、兩千多位各國政要都來參加，送柴契爾夫人最後一程。
由於柴契爾夫人生前婉拒最高規格的國葬，因此喪禮改以比照黛妃等級的禮葬。
由於波士頓馬拉松爆炸才事隔兩天，加上倫敦馬拉松周末就要登場，英國今天出動四千警力，特別提升安全警戒層級，嚴防任何突發狀況。
柴契爾夫人的喪禮今日在倫敦聖保羅大教堂舉行，現場冠蓋雲集，世界各國政要齊聚一堂，氣氛莊嚴肅穆。
柴契爾夫人這個月8號因中風逝世，享壽87歲。
柴契爾夫人1979至1990年擔任英國首相，11年任期力行政經改革，以「鐵娘子」著稱。
柴契爾夫人是英國唯一一位女首相，喪禮採取僅次於國喪的規格進行，英國女王及王夫菲利普親王親自參加。
喪禮上面，柴契爾的孫女跟首相卡麥隆分別朗讀一段悼念詞，這段聖經經文是柴契爾生前親自挑選。
波士頓爆炸案2天前才發生，倫敦馬拉松3天後也要登場，英國警方動員四千名警力加強維安。
喪禮過後，柴契爾夫人將與她的丈夫合葬，英國政壇一代鐵娘子從此長眠。.
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