The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-04

with tho brave and true oil our little
band. ralsod OH high Hehe's cup filled
with the good Falernan wine, in mem
ory Of the absent brothers.
On this solemn day, "We write their
faults upon the sandi their virtues upon
the tablets Of love aud memory" We
place garlands Of flowers upon our
affairs. and their memories as Il sweet
incou.c III our halls.
1.-The Evening PRAYER" sung by the
quarIette mentioned above, was very
fine.
Rev. DR.. W. H. Cooke, OF the Second
Presbyterian church, delivered an ad.
dress, which was very eloquent, aud
visibly affected the audience. DR.
Cooke said:
They who respect the dead, respect
themselves. They bear our likeness;
they are subject to our inirmitie'. and
tho possibilities OF our greatness belong
to them. We do well tN give them y
place Of honorable sepulchre. When
buried it was earth to earth, dust to
dust, ashes 10 ashes, with the cxpeCta.
ton OF blessed Immortality. 1t is well
from year to year to keep their memory
green by gathering as yonder the beau
tiful flowers from tho bosom OF earth
aud depo5iting them around this typi'
cal sepulchre to express still your hope
that thoir memory being fragrant on
earth, their services are fragrant with
holiness in tho worship of tho upper
and better sanctuary, the brighter and
holier world.
Whatever recognition you make oil
Gods service to ANY man, that recog'
milton honors Him. When, therefore,
you honor tine living or the dead whom
God hath created TO serve Him here
and hereafter, you magnify His name
who is their creator. In all ages OF the
earth mon have paid resnect to the
place OF the sepulchro nf their departed.
They were right in so doing. II that
be go concerning the body, much more
concerning the memory,f for themomory
brings back to us the life OF those who
have conc before us TO the eternal
world, all that they were to their
friends, all that they were to their kim
dred, all that they were TO their own
career, all that they wero in their rela-
tons 10 man and things aud the God
that made them. aud this afternoon We
arc rightly gathered 10 cherish the
memory OF these departed brethren OF
this order.
But, brethren, you do it once year.
Suffer mo to suggest it to you, rs citi-
zens Of Wheeling, what has come into
my mind to-day, that while this is
beautiful object lesson, teaching re-
specs for the departed, there is every
day exposed 10 our view an object
lesson that is not beautiful, that is
not suggestive OF respect to the depart
ed, that is, ii yon suffer me to say ms
one OF your citizens, reproach 10 us;
it is the condition Of the cemetery on
the corner OF Sixteenth aud McCol!och
streets.
All these exercises hero to-day are so
suggestive OF rGspec: and veneration
aud love, and teach such important
lessons, while what We SEQ every day at
the place have indicated teaches just
the reverse. Shall we persist in edu-
eating the rising generation IN senti-
ment Of dsrespect for the dead? Shall
We not IN some way protect this place
ofsepuicher for those who seem to have
no relatives here, no rights that the liv-
ing deem bound to respect? Shall we
not do for those what is appropriate to
protect what is left there from further
dissertation, aud prevent the rising gen.
Grafton FROM concsiving sentiments oil
dIsrespeCt and srorn. Ii there be no
statutes, let us make statutes; ii there
be 10 police regulation, let us insist
upon police regulation so that what we
do here once year shallnot be reversed
as lesson by whatwc suffer to be done
every day in the cemetery to which
refer.
Brethren what shall We do to have
our own memories cherished? l only
know OF ono way. BE true to God; be
true to your fellows; be true to your
selves, according to the method indi-
Gated in this open book that you so
reverence. Let us so live III all tho
Centlaness and meekness, sincerity and
truthfulness, honesty and justice, and
holiness indicated in these scriptures,
with all charity to man, with malice TO
none, that men shall say I'VE have met
with loss incalculable" when we fall
at their sides, and at the place OF
sepulchre they shall say "a just man
ndtll GspuIleu IIOIl NllohS NO tSllONo'
"Oh, my friends, lie is only worth
living whom in the spirit OF seli.donial,
in the spirit of seli.consecration, NO
live TO God in tho way Of His appoint
mont, so that men shall take knowledge
of us that wo are like our Heavenly
Father. Let us make life significant by
going about doing good, destroying all
forms Of evil. You havc devised n
touching rite in commemoration of
your departed dead. yea have done
wisely in appointing special day in
memorial Of them. You gather the
beautiful of earth in song, in flowers.
and in rite, and thereby you thank God
for the light OF the departed, and eX-
press the hope concerning yourselves
that mon will honor You in rite and in
heart when you. too, like your fellowU,
these brethren, shall depart from earth,
praying God that you may leave behind
a blessed, holy memory.
Messrs. Will B. Day, Dana Guyer,
tenors, and Charles Zulauf and Harry
Sweeney, bassos, formed a qusrtette
which sung 20, That Had Wings" in
good style.
The violin solo, reverie, by Mr.. Alfred
Gail so. opot of tba musinol fantt1Fna of