Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-29
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Memorial Services Held in Orange |
CONGREGATIONAL Church-List Of the |
Soldiers Dead, Whose Remains Are |
Buried in Orange Cemetery.
Yesterday impressive memorial services |
were held in Orange Congregational church |
Rev. H. W. Hunt, pastor, and there was
was as follows:
Appropriate recitations by Mrs. Burton An
drews and Miss Jennie Russell
Memorial discourse by the pastor.
SOLDIERS BURIED IN ORANGE.
Following is the list of soldiers whose
graves were decorated:
Reyo nf Russe Isaac c!srk
div, War Of higgs rebel sol
Treat, John b. Anthony, Jared Baldwin, Charles
Beechsr, Frederick Lowenstein, Dennis Clark.
The memorial discourse by the pastor,
Rev. II. w. Hunt, was fine tribute to the
hour and occasion. His subject was: "The
Soldier Element in Christian Life, III Tim.
2:3. "Suffer hardship with me as good
soldier of Christ Jesus" A few points
from the discourse as follows:
AS a Roman citizen and prisoner at
Rome Paul very naturally conceived of the
Christian life under the figure of warfare.
1t was more than mere rhetoric. There
was much in his own hard experiences con-
sonant with the hardships of warfare.
On the other hand the pure pacific char
acter of our religion seems to forbid such
a conception. Familiarity with war and
the false glare thrown over it in times of
peace tend to obscure It's real evil.
Not only is it destructive of material
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moral evils.
All soldiers have not been true men.
Oftimes they have been mere mercenaries
who devoid of any manly worth have sold
themselves for few pennies a day to the
| murderous business Of war. -
Nevertheless there have been many noble
soldiers, such men as Joshua and David of
| old who were want to affirm, sin the
| name of our God We will set up our ban
ners." Even among the Roman soldiery
there were true men such as Cornelius, the
centurion, who also had under him devout
| soldiers.
We may not forbear mention of our be-
loved Washington, who on one occasion
at least was discovered in thicket of the
| then unsubdued wilderness murmuring q
prayer for divine guidance and help.
Chinese Gordon was such soldier who
could say, 'The solitary grandeur of the
desert makes ons feel how vain Is the eff
| fort of man."
| There have not been wanting those who
from q sense of duty at what seemed to
them the call of God have gone forth to
battle for the right; men who knew moth
ing of hatred in their hearts, nothing of
fisndish delight.
| There have not been wanting men who,
knowing the sweetness of life, and know
ing that this life is at most but brief, and
that the supreme end of living is to do the
will of God, have dared to do and even to
die, to lay their lives willing sacrifice
upon the altar of what they honestly be-
lieved to be their country's prosperity and
peace and the good of humanity.
We delight to honor the sacred dead who
verify gave up their lives for truth and
freedom To-day we strew their graves
with flowers, the beauty and fragrance of
which but feebly figure forth their noble
ness and the overlooking gratitude of ouI
hearts towards them and towards thei,
God and ours.
It ia in such soldierhood that we find the
highest warrant for Pauls figure.