Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-02
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Important Action Taken by Holiday Pc

sos 49, Last nlBnts
Holiday Post No. IL, @. A. r., at their
meeting last night, adopei . programme
for the memorial exercises next Saturday
afternoon at the Academy of Music, which
we give below. The stage will be sppropri'
stely draped and set in handsome man
ner, and the Committee of Arrangements
were authorized to solicit donations Of floral
emblems, evergreens aud other appropriate
decorations for the catafalque t. be erected
on the stage. Around this win be formed
three sides of abollOW square by the G. A. r.
Post, while the responsive service is held BY
i and the cha plain. Donations may be left
on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning at
either Grubbs jeWelry store or at Sheib, 8
music store, and it is hoped the request will
meet with generous response. Arrange
mems for seating the ladies will be made as
well as members of Council and other in
vited guests.
Following is the programme, as finally
arranged:
l. Invocation...... .....Rev. ]. T. Mcclure, d. D.
2 Placing the Vacant Chair appropriately draped)
g. SOng-"Vacant Chair .......Choir.
l. Brief Announcement of the purposes OF
the assemblage .........-.-Hon. u. W. Atkinson
g. Responsive Service, by Chaplain and Members
OF the J. ". Holiday Post No. -, G. A. r.
6. Hymn -"Nearer My God to Thee"
Z Eulogy upon the Heroic Dead General
Ulysses s. Grant Hon. I. II. Logan.
By Miss Flora A. Williams.
o. Original Poem. by the Poet, VIM. Leighton, Jr.
IN AmPFicap Choir and ASsemblaQe.
l.. BenedetiOn................ ....ReV IT, NJ shou'
The responsive service, which makes No
of the programme, is as follows:
Chaplain-Whst man is it that live,h and
shall not See death? Shall he deliver his
soul from the hand Of the graveP fla man
die, shall he live sgsinH
Comrades--Jesus Christ said: / am the
resurrection and the life. He that belieyeth
in Me. though he were dead, yet shall he
live again. And he that iveth and beiev-
eth in Me shall never die.
not your heart be troubled
Believe in God; believe also in me. In my
fathers house are many mansions. l 60 to
prepare place for you.
Comrades-Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord. Yea, saith the spirit, that they
may rest from their lsbors.
Chaplain-They shall hunger no more
neither thirst any more.
Comrsdes-Neither shall the sun light
on them, nor any heat.
Chaplain-For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them and lead
them unto living fountains of water.
Comrsdes-And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes.
Chaplain-There shall be no more death
neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there
be any more pain.
Contradiction the former things have
passed away.
The Post, at its meeting last night, also
adopted the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, In the death of our former
leader in war and faithful comrade in peace,
Gel eral Ulysses S. Grant, our country loses
one of its grandest heroes and noblest men,
and our order one of its brightest orna-
ments; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death OF General
U. s. Grant we mourn the loss OF a COM
mander whose fame had reached the utter
most limits of the civilized world, whose
achievements were the pride of his country
men, and whose career in peace as well as
in war had won for him the greatest honors
and proudest positions in the power OF his
people to oestow.
Resolved, That in his lingering illness
the traits of character he exhibited and his
utterances were such as to still further en-
shrine his name in hehearts Of his country
men, as we'll as of all the enlightened peo-
pie of the world; and cause him to be loved
as much for the depth Of his pride in his ma
ton as for his great services in maintaining
its honor and integrity.
Resolved, That the Grand Army OF the
Republic, so many Of whom have preceded
our illustrious and beloved comrade to the
eternal camping grounds" mourn his loss
as heavy one to its living membership, YET
whose death brings to the surviving yeter
ans the thought that on the shining plains
of heaven they must all assemble in th'
course of the passing years. with all then
leaders, to Join in songs of love and prais'
to the Supreme Commander, the Lord o.
Hosts.
Resolved, That the members of JOIN
Holiday Post No. II, department of West
Virginia, g. A. R., tender the bereave1
family their afectionate sympathy IL
their great afliction.
Resolved, That our hall and charter b.
drsped with suitable mourning emblems TO-
sixty days, and that each comrsde drap
his membership badge for the same period
Resolved, That copy of these resolu'
tons be forwarded to our department head
quarters, copy sent to the family Of Gen
Grant, and that they be spread upon thu
records of the Post.
The members Of the Post will meet a
Sheib's music store Tuesday morning fol
practice in the responsive service. Tn
choir selected will also meet Tuesday o.
Wednesday evening for practice.