Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-18
GRAYs, MEMORIAL DAY.

Watson l.. Phillips-The Decora.
 Ii0n of the Graves In the After |
 noOn-List of the Dead of the
 Command in the Various Ceme-
 teries.
 The annual Memorial day of the Grsys, Company F, 0. N. G., was observed yes terdsy with appropriate exercises. This Is the third year that the Memorial day observance has been held in September, to the rule which was passed that the observance be held on the Sunday following their anniversary, which falls on September IS.
 Csbe assembled at the Second Regiment ar- moryat 9:30 o'clock in tho morning in the Grsys' full dress uniform and marched to the Church of the Rsdeemer, corner of Wall and Orange streets, where they ocou- pied tse seats in the body of the church. The pulpit was beautifully decorated with golden rod, marigolds, gladiolas, hy- drangas, roses and other flowers of the season. On either side of. the pulpit mus kets were stacked, and on the right side the blue banner of the Grays was drsped, while an American flag decorated the other side.
 Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips, the pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, preached a most excellent sermon from the text q have fought good fight have kept the faith" II. Timothy, 4-vii His subject was "The Knight of the Twentieth Cen. tury," and he spoke in part as follows:
 s'The knight of to day, he who is to fight the battles and settle the grave questions of the future, has constant struggle with self-the struggle to subordinate the lower, baser self to the higher and intelligent bs- ing. It is the same struggle of the spirit which Paul so often speaks of. Only obe- of the soul will aid in the struggle to rise to higher plain and to grasp higher de- velopment. It is our constant struggle to submit ourselves to this higher voice of the soul. It is hard struggle, for our lower nature is impudent, urgent and loud mouthed.
 "Again, the knight of the twentieth century is he who Is true to conscience, and the crusades on which he will bs en- gagged are on the battle fields of religion and politics.
 "In the second place this obedience which the true knight must school himself
 
 of all. That voice must be obeyed. And it has much to say of duty-duty to one's self, duty to the community, duty to the Supreme Being, who rules over all. Duty is @ hard word, but 8 most necessary one for the soldier to understand. Until the soldier has learned the meaning of that word he has not half learned how to live. Unquestioning obedience is the duty of every soldier.
 ob oto risfi of{ {his ;o e manly tenderness and gentleness toward the weak and unfortunate. He knows that sneers and injustice will not drive them to his own higher and more intelli- gent manner of life. But he does know that they can be pulled up by the cords of love and sacrifice. He will win some men to better things and will conquer in the war he is waging against sin and super stition.
 "And 1t is not always the sinful, the expectations and the ignorant that the knight has to help. But he finds weakness and disability, men cast down by mis fortune, disadvantages brought about by poverty. He has to humor their oaprices and their not always righteous attempts to better themselves, always striving to show them how to fight for themselves in the right way and attain at last the higher life.
 "Gentlemen-I have spoken to you as soldiers-members of that organization, whose record you are justly proud of. The men who have worn your colors have left name for themselves in the community. You have indeed inherited glorious legacy. But you go forth to face foes which your fathers never dreamed of. Questions, social, political and religious which are already heaving under the mass
 of society and making these last days of the nineteenth century heavy with orable fields and 1t becomes you to fight like men.
 "This is your day when you go out to l strew with flowers the graves of your hon | ored dead Remember always that it is | the example of those who have gone be- | fore that you must emulate, and as you strew their graves with the tributes which the season gives, remember that those who conquer must conquer by truth. Thus fight always as men and dc your duty as heroes. Fight good fight. Keep the faith"
 The patriotic hymn "Anerica" was l sung in closing and the congregation kept their seats and the company marched out THE DECORATION OF GRAVES. The active and veteran Grsys met in the armory at 2:30 yesterday afternoon for the annual decoration of the grave. of theil deceased members The friends of the company had sent very large number oi beautiful bouquets as we'll es 8 great qusn tity of loose flowers. Headed by the Sec ond regiment band the actives, commanded by Capt. Charles McCabe, and the veterans | under Gen. E. E. Bradley, took up ths march at 2:45 up Meadow street to Church l to Chapel, to College, to Grove, to the Ole ! cemetery, where the graves were decorated During this work of love the band played I several selections. After halt of an hou1 l the march was again taken up, the rout'
 being through Grove to York, to Chapel to Sherman avenue, to Winthrop avenue l to Sylvan avenue, to Evergreen cemetery The whole company assembled around thu grave of the late Colonel L. L. Morgan where taps were sounded. The return ! march was through Sylvan avenue to Howe to Chapel, to Church, to Meadow, to thu
 armory.
 LIST OF GRAVES.
 The following are the names of the de
 ceased members of the Grsys buried fl Evergreen cemetery: Abel B. Jacocks Colonel George R. Whiting, Ssrgeau | Augustus Sharp, William H. Coolidge | Stephen Sanford, Sergeant E. P. Fox
 Musician H. O. Thomas, Sergeant R. H | Fowler, Lieutenant Albert Sharp, Captain
 Albert 0. Nash, Joseph T. Fitch, Charle
 F. Lindsley, A. M. Foote, Corporal George
 E. Edwards, Corporal W. A. Goodwin Augustus Bodwell. William B. Catlin
 IT,, William Mccoy, E. 0. HozEard
 Edward Bradley, 0. W. Bradley, Lieuten
 ant Augustus Roderique, General S. R | Smith. Captain W. G. Howarth. Joseph A
 Latham, Daniel s. Glenney. George H
 Manville, William 0. Coburn, First Order | ly Sergeant s. P. Bolles, Frank Beeeher Albert B. Mallory, Frederick F. Douglass Milo Peck, Benjamin Beecher, Lieutani
 John Draine, Sergeant Daniel Car
 penter, Harry 0. Bowers, Sergeant
 E. B. Munson, Henry E. Pardee Captain George s. Arnold, Lieutenant
 Henry Fl. Bunnell, John E. Chard, jr.
 Sergeant E. W. Hotchkiss, John Frisbie, William Hofer, Sergeant John E. Daley
 George E. Edwards, Captain George L.
 Northrop, Colonel Lewis L. Morgan, Alvin
 P. Sanford, James P. Barker, jr., Sergeant
 Robert Bacon, William Peck, Lieutenant
 Singleton Darlington.
 The deceased members buried in the
 Grove street cemetery are Captain Charles Bostwick, Captain George P. Stillman, E Townsend Mix, William 0. Baldwin, E. s
 Hitchcock, General Dennis Kimberly, Sam
 uel G. Huggina, ex-Csptsin Philip s. Gal
 pin, Ainott A. Thompson, Leverett Can
 dee, Joseph Mix, Captain Elijah Thompson
 Lieutenant Colonel Henry 0. Merwin
 Charles B. Brintnall, J. W. Dem
 ing, Judge Charles A. Ingersoll, Ellsworth M Punderson, Captain
 Raymond A. White, William M. Ander
 son, Frank Chatterton, Corporal George