Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-05
THEIR SACRED TRUST
MEETING or THE LADIES' HOLLY
WOOD ASSOCIATION LAST NIGHT.
Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniver-
sary-Report OF Work Done-Addrosses
of Major stiles and DIR. Hoge.

Ladies' Hollywood Memorial Association
was celebrated last night by meeting in
the hall Of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation. The auditorium and gallery
were filed to oyerfowing.
Promptly at half-past o'clock Rev. DIR.
Moses ID. Hoge, Judge George l.. Christian,
Major Robert Styles, Judge Z. @. Minor
and Mr.. Robert II. Bosher appeared in the
hall and took seats on the stage.
The Richmond Light Infantry, Blues,
Band played for an overture medley; Red
White and Blue, Dixie, and My Maryland,
after which they rendered Rally Around
the Flag, and the Bonnie Blue Flag, which
was received with great applause.
REPORT OF WORK DONE.
Major Stiles read report of the work
that had been. accomplished by the asso-
citation since its orCani zation, at st. Pauls
church, May 3, 1866. up to the present
time. The report shows receipts and dis
bursements and q general history Of the
association.
Major Stiles then said: what can
add. what indeed, need be added TO such
a report? Holy watch over the graves OF
the fallen brave--loyal care for the record
of their mighty deeds. A people indiffer-
ent 70 such work who could prove re-
creant to such trust would not deserve,
nor could they long maintain, place among
the self-respecting peoples of the earth.
On the eastern boundary of our beautiful
city, between it and the great battlefield,
out of tho midst of 5000 graves, rises
simple granite shaft with this inscriptions:
80 The epitaph of the soldier who falls
with his country is written in the hearts or
those who love the right and honor the
brave What is the meaning OF this IN
scription? IL memorialiZes a dark fate,
but it makes a noble appeal. For
these men no grateful country lives; no
government hand IS outstretched TO gather
their scattered dead.
WHERE THE TRUE STORY Is WRITTEN.
The true story of these heroes fallen
with their country can be written only on
the heshy tables Of hearts as true a.
theirs.
"Where are the hearts that love the
ri0ht? Whose are the hearts that honor
the brave?' Where are the souls great
enough, not to test principles bv results?
Where are the souls brave enough, lofty
enough impractical enough, sentimental
enough TO stand by principle and feeling
and sentiment to the very latest syllaole
of recorded timer Men of Richmond,
men of to-day, young men grown mp since
the spring burst of1s65, old men for whom
IIhL sDflnE DuTSL III utlehL anu ut6Dhlls
such hearts. such souls are not In US. No,
it takes a wOman's soul to rise 20 such
height and TO stand there. These women
have done it, and they will continue to 10
it for us and for our children and for their
great dead.
BELIEVE IN THE DEAD AS LIVING.
"I believe in the dead: believe in them
as the really living. believe in a life at
ter death IN every sense. How will you
measurelife for a spiritual being? ls 1t not
best tested by influence, by fever in and on
men? Tell me those who exercise most
power in the world to-day-the mortal liy-
ING or the immortal dead? Where are the
living who to-day 80 inspire and control
men as do Moses and David and Isaiah
and Paul or Plato and Aristotle, Caesar and
Cicero, or Copenlcus, Luther or Bacon or
Shakspeare or Cromwell or Washington?
Who lives in YOU to-day? who mos, pow
erful? who lives in this entire generation
Is 1t not the generation that is pastp Not
only does death not put stop to all
lives, il often greatly adds to their power.
1T canonizes us. 1t puts ali end TO our
mistakes, il makes utter failure no longer
possible. Tell me do Robert Lee and
Stouewall Jackson exercise less or greater
influence this daY than they would if to-
day they lived among us? Was their
greatest work done during or has 1t been
done since their liyesI"
Major Stiles's speech was q beautiful
tribute to those ladies and the great work
that they have accomplished.
Captain Frank Cunningham sang Lorena,
a song very popular during the war and
a quartette composed of Captain Cunning
ham, Captain w. Kirk Matthews, and
Messrs. Galpin and Lohman rendered
"Gone TO their Rest"
Address of DIR. Hoge.
After the singing Major Stiles intro
duced Rev. DIR. Moses ID. Hoge, who had
been iryited by the ladies to deliver an
address. DIR. Hoge said:
Were asked TO account for the brill
| liant throng which makes this hall over
| flow tonight / think / could give the
reason. One of our city papers stated that
this would be a Confederate OCCASION
and when did "a Confederate occasion
| fail TO excite the enthusiasm of our peo-
pie? Next, 1t was announced that Captain
| Cunningham would sing some of the most
popular war-songs: and who does not
| know that when Captain Cunningham is
announced TO sing the people always come
TO hear2 [Applause.l
"tThen, again. we have q representation
| of Lee Camp with US to-night-the Leo
! Camp. guardian and friend of the Soldiers
| Home. grieye TO remember that 1t has
| recently lOSL OIit fl ltS illObb
| bers-one who was the president of its
board. one whose devotion TO the Confed-
| crate cause is all the more memorable be-
cause it separated him for time from
| members of his own family who took the
| other side in tho conflict. One whose
| modest merit and unfaultering devotion TO
| duty won for him the grateful regard OF all
who knew him. We deplore his loss; we
| tenderly cherish his memory.
NOBLE WORK IN SACRED CAUSE.
"Once more we cannot wonder at the
great gathering Of our people tonight
| when we remember that il has been called
| by the ladies Of the Hollywood Memorial
| Association, whose pious care OF the re-
mains of our Confederate dead and whose
| continued efforts in the preservation and
| decoration of their graves have illustrated
| the sentiment Of Washington Irving when
| he says: The grave should surrounded
| with all that can inspire tenderness and
yeneration for the departed, or that can
win the living TO virtue
"All Christian nations and some who are
not entitled to that designation pay honor
| to the places where the great and good
have found their last repose. The. most
| spacious cemeteries of the world are
| around the city of ConstantInople, where
vast forests of cypTesS-treeS oyersbadow
| the white marble stones capped with tur-
bans, marking the resting place Of whole
generations of departed Mahommedans."
| Further on the Doctor said,
"In the environs of London two ceme-
| teries are worthy of attention, Kensal
Green, where we find the tombs OF Sydney
Smith, Murray (Byron's publisher). DIR:
Valpsey, Leigh Hunt, and Thackeray; and
! Bunhiil Fields, the Campo SdTlto of Dis
senters, containing near together all that
| is mortal of Isaac Watts, Daniel Defoe, and
John Bunyan. IApplause.l But there IS
another cemetery the very mention OF
which awakens our tenderest memories,
and which is endeared to US by our most
sacred associations.
THE ASHES OF GREAT MEN.
hollywood and other cemeteries
around Richmond enshrine the ashes OF
men whose memoirs, if written, would
furnish a noble contribution 10 the history
of Virginia, history already the noblest
among the States of the Union-for where
in the political ornament can such a con-
stellation be found as that formed by the
names of Marshall, Madison, jefferson,
Henry, Washington. Loe, and jackson
| [Applausel And where else is there a
Constitutional history with SO sublime con-
u 4. n A