Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-30

resurrected into the remembrance OF
those for whom died.
Here Go for God and Ny Country Hur-
rah"
II foreign foe should come her old sec
tional animosities would have no pow
er. Here 20 our regiments into the
battle field: Fifteenth New York Vol.
unteers, Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Four
teenth Pennsylvania Ri1emen, Tenth
Massachusetts, Artillery, Seventeenth
South Carolina Sharp-Shooters. mo
North, no South, no East, no West"
Let all four sections keep their peculiar
titles and their preferences, each doing
its own work and not interfering with
each other, each OF the tour carrying its
part in the great harmony, the bass, the
alto, the tenor, the soprano, In the
grand march OF union.
Once more, this great national cere-
mony means the Identification OF the
tombs, whether oil those who ieil In
battle or accident or who have expired
in their beds or in our arms or ON our
laps. / suppose you have noticed that
many OF the families take this season as
the time for the adornment OF their
family plots. This national Observance
has secured the arboricutture and hori-
culture OF the cemeteries, the straighten-
ing up OF .-.. ..
Many Slab
planted thirty or forty years ago and has
swung the scythe through the long grass
and has brought the stone-cutter to call
out the half obliterated epitaph. This
day is the benediction OF the resting
place OF father, mother, son, daughter,
brother, sister. 1t is all that We can do,
for them now, make their resting places
attractive, not absurd with costly
outlay but in quiet remembrance,
YOU know how. Ii you can afford only
one flower, that will do. One blossom
from YOU may mean more than the
Duke of Wellington's whole catafalque.
On, we cannot afford to forget them.
They were 80 lovely to us. We miss
them so much. We pick not grass, but
flowers, and instead of throwing them
over our heads we place them b1lore our
ewes right down over the silent heart
that once beat with warmest love
towards us, or over the still feet that
ran to service or over the lips from
which We TOOK me KISS AT Tue
Anguish of the Last Parting.
Oh, my gloriiied father! Oh, my saint.
ed mother. Oh, my beloved brother
aud sisters! Oh, my boy my boy my
boy! II you pass to morrow near the
new entrance of Greenwood you who
knew him will find new-made grave. II
you go that way drop flower on that
mound. Your grief is mine and my grlefis
yours. But stop, We are not intidels.
Our bodies will soon join the bodies OF
our departed in the tomb, and our
spirits shall join their pirits in the land
OF the rising sun. We cannot long be
separated. Instead OF crying with Jacob
for Joseph, al will go down into the
grave unto my son. mourning" let us
cry with David, 81 shall GO to him."
On one OF the gates OF Greenwood is the
quaint inscription:
"a Nights Lodging
on the way TO the city OF the New
Jerusalem" Comfort one another with
these words. May the hand OF Him
who shall wipe away all tears from all
eyes wipe your cheek with it's sottest
tenderness. The Christ OF Mary and
Martha and Lazarus will enfold you in
His arms. The white-robed angels who
sat at the tomb OF Jesus will vet roll the
stone from the door OF your dead in ra-
dent resurrection. The Lord himself
shall descend from Heaven with shout
and the voice of the archangel. SO the
dead march in Saul shall become the
Hallelujah chorus.