St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
DIR. Tiffany on the Fallen Heroes
and the Lesson Taught.


The John A. Rawlins and George n.
Morgan G. \. R. posts were in attend
ance at the memorial services at the
Hennepin Avenue NJ. E. church yester
day morning. The posts assembled at
the West, and, headed by the Sons Of
Veterans drum corps. marched to the
church in a body, where they we're as
signed seats directly in front of and
next to the pulpit. Besides the q. A.
r. representations, the church was
filled TO the doors by persons who were
anxious to hear Rev. Dr.. Titfany's
memorial sermon. The reverend
preacher took his text from Daniel, tx,
80: Tine people that do know their
God should be strong and do exploits"
From this text DR.. Tiffany preached
a most eloquent sermon, in substance
as follows:
The dawn of this life is a struggle for
being, its growth a constant warfare
with antagonisms; its maintenance is
by continued defenses. And each and
all of these occasion crises of destiny
which may retard or advance, destroy
or establish the whole. Our national
birth was a conflict with physical diff
cultieS. our establishment victory
over political antagonisms; our last des-
perate struggle was a conflict of ideas, Il
contest of moral principles, and we rec
OgniZe to-day that its issue has been
prosperity and peace,
The great war was such as the world
never before witnessed; it was fought
bv such armies as never before were
marshaled Oh the field. But the end
came. The great armies returned
crowned with hOnOrs. and laureled with
renoWn. They merged in the business
and activity of life; they disappeared
from view as the snow IN the spring
time. or the dew of the morning in the
summer sun. Now and then the halt
ing step of man upon the sidewalk.
here and there an empty sleeve. remind
us in our daily walks of the stern reall-
ties of war. But to-day the tribute
which we pay the sad eountenance OF
surviving comrades. the presence OF
this asSemblage. make us pause to feel
how dreadful thing war IS, ana at
what price peace may be purchased,
We witnessed many sad scenes dur
ing the war. Those who were remote
from the field of actual strife felt its
desOIatiOnS and Its sorrows. They list
ened to the busting tread of busy feet
marching on to the front. They babe
our boys goodbye, as they fastened on
to ioin them. They waited patiently
for tidings from atar. They scanned
with anxious eyes the list of casualties
after each battle. They saw the return
of the manned and wounded men. We
were called ever and anon to bury the
noble dead whose forms could be recOv-
cred. All these events went to swell
the tide of woe. which broke with its
heaviest wave when the form of our great
chieftain. the martyred president. was
sadly borne through our silent streets.
Ina few days we shall perform duty
which, precious as it is. brings back
these memories of war. We shall pay
lust tribute and fit honor to the memo
ries and remains of our heroes whose
| lives were given to their country in its
hour of peril. To-day it may be we'll to
read some lesson from their lives, While
! the voice of prayer rises from humble
| hearts to God, who led and strengthened
them. As the graves are annually Wis
| tied it seems like the call OF the death
roll. Some died in battle. some died III
hospitals. Sad scenes of suffering III the
HOSPITALS are all brought up before US
| by that roll-call of the dead; and be it
| always remembered that IN all this war
And would to God there were no darker
scenes than these. But sadder than
battlefields, sadder than hospitals. sad
der than grass-grown graves, darker
than death in strife, sharper than an
guish from wounds is the scene called
up by the mention of the prisons where
some suffered, and we turn with cold
shudder from its brutal ferocity, its
coarse murder, its scenes of destitution
and its starving skeleton forms to othel
thoughts. But we can never forget how
plainly we are taught in all this strife
the infeXibility of the laws of justice
and retriDution.
DR.. Tiffany then went into the history
of John A. Rawlins post, and of the
heroic deeds performed by its members
and continued:
Though our hearts are sad when we
think that such price had to be paid
even for national interest, let all honor
be given to those, living or dead. Aftel
war. peace! These have fought theil
last fight Peaee-white-robed an(
Olive-crowned-has come to us who lin
ger. Let us welcome it and be worthy
of il"