Asheville daily citizen., 1891-09-07
REUNION OF VETERANS.
SURVIVORS, OF COMPANY KIN
CAMP.
A Large Number of People Par.
ticipate in the Excercises Yes
terday--Dr. CarroIl's se rm ON 10
the veterans.

the Veterans.
For three days, including TODAY, tn
surviving veterans of Company X, lit
North Carolina veterans, have been i
camp on the bank of the Swannano
river, Just above the water works.
AS guests of Company X, was Col.
M. Ray, Of the 60th, and coasiderabl
body of his old command, and also
number OF survivors of other commands
making altogether body ofupwards O
one hundred men again gathered on TIN
tinted field" not to fight new battle
or be stirred "by wars alarms" but tt
hight old battles over again, to recall ole
times, tell old stories, sing old songs
mourn lost comrades, and ielicitate eacl
other that they had been spared to meet
each other again.
Such scenes are always touching, thcy
are always interesting and they are al
ways instructive. They are touching
because they tell OF the ravage of wal
and the havoc of battle presenting as
with the pitiable remnant of those ex.
posed to death, standing here before us
manned and battle SCARED, living cvi.
dences of the dangers they survived, living
proof of the periIs through which they
had passed. They are interesting because
they are present links in the chain of a
momentous history fast fading in the
distance OF flying years. and in its per
sonaIity kept alive only by the presence
OF those who helped to make it. And
they are instructive because they remind
MS OF the causes which brought about
the conflict and teach us how sternlv the
principles of constitutional liberty will
always be contcndcd for by the American
people.
And their presence, cheerful, happy and
prosperous, though some Of them old
worn and manned, tell of that enviab!c
i t ., -.
anu nonoraD'c american tralt which sub
mlts with manly lortitude to the issue OF
battle, whether of bullet mr. h,llo, and
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A ''S '"'' ''''''''''y "o'o's NV
results, trait which has made possible
as it could have been nowhere else ON
earth that speedy eflacemcnt OF the sears
OF war. and the restoration Of a pros
perity in excess of what was before en-
Joyed
Readers OF THE CITIZEN on Saturday
enJoye' the address of Maj. Stedman, an
honored member of Company X, OF the
llth. 1t was impressingly delivered and
had not only the warm appreciation OF
miration of the many others fortunate
enough to hear it.
The occasion was most happy one,
and suggests the renewal of it by the sur
vivors of the commands in this section.
The event of the day Yesterday was the
sermon at II o'clock by Rev. ]. d, Car
roll, b. d., of this city. A large number
of people, estimated at between l,200
and 1 500 attended, and is'ened to and
enjoyed the discourse. 1t was beautiful
in sentiment, appropriate, and delivered
in DR.. Carrolrs elegant style. The mem
ory of his words will llngcr long with
not the "old vets" alone, but every one
within sound OF his voice.
DR.. CAROLS subject was "Enisting
for Christ, from the text:
And who then is willing to consecrate his
service this day unto the Lord Il Ghron
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The following is bret outline OF DR..
Carrolfs sermon:
Il come today to preach to surviving
veterans OF The Lost Cause, as they
assemble IN glad reunion to night their
battles DER again, renew the ties that
bound them III the days that tired men s
souls, and to cherish the tender memories
OF the conflict. And what better service
could render them than to call their at
tention to higher and nobIer warfare
that is being waged on the earth and
seek to enlist their minds ana hearts IN
its behalf! invite you, then, to JOIN me
IN the following reflections;
There is an irrepressible conflict going
on between Shrist anu satan IT. was
tOretOld III GencSiS 3.l5, And | VIII put
enmity bet wecn thee and the woman
,J ia. -, H.. ,l ,i h.. ', :,
Iii h,,,;,a ~, L.oJ ,.,d ti,,, aLol,
sha' oiuise NY neau anu tHou s"al'
| bruisc his heel. lhe one IS the repre-
sentative of light and goodness and lite
the other of darkness and evil and death.
The one is called in James Eli. "The
Father of lights" the other in Ephesians
6:12, 1.-THE ruler of the darkness of this
world" The holy angels sustains their
glorious Lord, while fallen spirits rally
around their chief. Ephesians GLE, "For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood
but against principalitles, against pow.
ers, against the rulers of the darkness OF
this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places" And it is an irrepressi
BILE conflict. / Corinthians, 6:14, "For
what fellowship hath righteousness will
righteousness And what communion
hath light with darkness? And what
concord hath Christ with Belial?" TIL,