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Show BODY OF CULLOM IS SENT HOME 1 Will Lie in State in Illinois State House Where Funeral Will be Held. Washington, Jan.: 29. After a brief funeral service at ;the Cullom home here, the body of' former Senator Shelby M. Cullom ' was started for Springfield, 111., on a train leaving at 11:45 a. m. After funeral services, during which his body will Ho in the Illinois state house, ";he will be buried there. Dr. Charles ' Wood, a Presbyterian Presby-terian clergyman arid a close friend of the former senator, told today how Mr. Cullom had changed his belief In eternity, after writing his own memoirs. The former senator concluded con-cluded that work with an expression of doubt that he had found anything in his reading of the Scriptures to warrant belief In a hereafter. "In the last few months, his feelings feel-ings changed completely," said Dr. Wood. "He told me1 he believed in God and Christ-and immortality, and added: " 'I want to make at the first opportunity op-portunity a statement- of my simple creed, to bo, InseriftclLafter the last -chRpraTW'Td rect the doubt expressed on a dark day when the light was dim.' " To honor the memory of Mr. Cullom, Cul-lom, for many years chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, that committee today postponed its deliberations on the general arbitration arbitra-tion treaty witli Great Britain and other powers. The senate does not appoint official committees to attend funerals of its former members, but the entire membership mem-bership of the foreign relations committee com-mittee attended the services at his house. |