The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-10-05
Two Eloquent Tributes.
Actress OK MAJOR "A. d. keilam and
sermon of ikc.. W. III. Hubbard at H..
Memorial servtcrr for the Aate t.c,,
) Z. Jenkins.at sAtmbail. Scpt.a3.
MAJOR EELLAa's ADDRESS.


MAJOR KELLAa's ADDRESS.
COMMANDER. COMRADES AND FRIENns
regret more than | can express to Won
nv inability TO say anything worthily O,
properly here to-day, With very LITTLE
time for reflection Of pfcmeditation.
shall be obliged to speak to You as ]
have written, almost at random. upon
this occasion when ! feel that every
thought should have been thoroughly
culled and every expression carefully
chosen, but am consoled in this, tina,
my duty 10 day is not to Introduce q
new character to you, whose merits !
must eXtol, who's virtues reeite. and
whose life | must make attractive tc
strangers. The light that has lust gone
out. the life that has just passed to
other scenes, was a familiar light and n
familiar life to US all. While it would
be a grateful Office for me. and one
which my personal regard for our de.
ceased comrade would gradually lead
Inc into, | shall attempt no'eulogv upon
him who is in all our hearts and
thoughts to-day. I'VE come to bury
Caesar, not to praise him.,
Between Major Jenkins and our
selves there was the ommon bond and
sympathy of brotherhood. This bond.
friends, is not severed by death. Its
chords are mystic and stretch from shore
to shore. Honoring and loving him for
his virtues while living. we will now
cherish his memory and cultivate the
influence of his example.
Was it u mark of patriotism for a
young man to leave home and college
,pI q Irirhf g-ay,,,n gu e
promises. to nIaertake a work of dan
ger and possibly of death at the call of
duty-th%h our conirade was patriotic
in his. sianhood.
Wis it a mark Of courage to discharge
with unfinchipg fidelity every duty of
the soldier through tedious camp and
weary march and fiery battle-then
our comrade was brave as a soldier.
Is it a mark of honor for a man in
every place and under all circumstances
to exhibit firmly but politely the courage
Of his convictions-,hcn out comrade
was Il man of stainless honor.
Is il a mark of uprightness and recti-
tude for n citizen to pass unchallcnged
and nncriticised through successive terms
of public ofticc-thcn our comrade was
an honest man, the nobleSt work of
God
Patriotism, courage. integrity, and
honor. What wealth of dover to the
widow What wealsh of legacy 10 the
childrenl
When the war began, Major jenkins,
then but 10 years old. was a student in
Hamilton College, New York. On the
4th day OF Sept, 1861, he was mustered
rs LIST Lieutenant, Oneida Cavalry, In.
dependent Company, but his quick com
prehension of affairs, his intelligent dis
charge of duties and soldierly bearing
soon won promotion for him, and he
was made Captain in the 146th New
York Infantry. He remained with this
regiment until the expiration of his
term of enlistment. In December, 1854.
after a little more than two months of
private life, he returned to his original
command and was mustered as a Cap
tain, and served with this until
finally mustered II at the close of the
war, June 18Th, 1865. His record as q
soldier was an interesting and eventful
one, having actively participated in not
less than seventy battles and skirmishes,
many Of which will forever remain
prominent anne in the history of our
country. He was brevettcd Major for
faithful and meritorious services on
the field, but no commission, however
faithfully earned, could SO fully attest
his vslor as a soldier, as the wounds re-
ceived in battle--these scars, which
We're ever the constant and unimpeach.
able evidence of his patriotism and his
courage. His experience and record as
a soldier nave been so recently before
you That l need not nov repeat the
story.
Comrades, n by one we go. Link
BY link the chain of our brotherhood is
often met as conrade is not with us to
day: with moistened eye, and euivering
lip. and chssteIcd heart. we can only
took our love and our goodbye into the
great future into which he has gone.
In all the wide universe there is no.
thing SO mysterious as human life. The
other unsolyed, m~atchless mystery is
what is beYona human life. These two
are the Supreme Arcana of time and
eternity.
Our Comradc has passed through the
shor night of un~consciousness which
we call death, and has awakened in the
tomorrow of the beyond. With him the
mystery of death is solved. In the new
lite upon which his freed spirit has just
entered, there may be yet before him un-
explored fields of experience, other I'M
solved problems of life, other unknown
futures, other great beyonds. But. as
our faith teaches US, we love to think
of him as Just now starting ont on a
new life, unhindered by physical pains
or a wasted body, inspired by new aspi.
rations born of new knowledge, ami
mated and strengthened by his nearer
approach to greater possible achieve
ments. We love to think of him, as
we now do, not as dead, but as Just
born into a new and a higher life, q life
in which his cherished hopes may vet
ripcn into fruition. A life IN which he
may yet frlly redeem the unfulflled
promises of this present. A life con-
stantly gladdened and made radiant by
the presence of that celestial hope that
always springs from the grave of a good
man. Not dust to dust is it with our
Comrsde, but from the life that now is
to the life that is to come. Not into the
cold and yoiceless grave, but out through
the portals of death only, into the widen
ing future. Out, out. out through the
darkness. beyond the mystery, INTO the
light. What mortal eye has never vet
beheid is now beheld by him What
mortal heart has never felt, is now felt
> ~ liza ilbitul uiNll udS never
known or thought, is known by him.
Hail, thou freed spirit, and iffrom thy
new home to-day thou canst see and
Know US, let thy sweet spirit hover near
and bless us with its henediction.
Comrades, our lights are burning low.
we only SIT q little longer among the
waning cmbers of II carnpires. We
only wait a little longer for the final
order of the day. Lights out; lights
out and when the order comes to each
and all of us. may our lights. like his,
out in peace and victory. And may the
new morning to which the new ~reveille
awake us, be frightened with the
light from this side, Of honor
nble. useful. and well spentlives; and may
our Comrade. and his loved ones.
and we and onr loved ones, be reunited
IN an everlasting brotherhood of love.
REV. Mr.. uUBBARD's SERMON.
Numbers 80: 6 ana Is. shall your brethren 90
70 the war. and shall We sit here?" W Will moi
return unto our houses until the children of isreal
nave inherited every man his Inheritance
When the children of Israel had COM
pletrd the conquest of the country east
the Jordan Rtnhpu and Cad Gndinr