Evening journal., 1894-05-28
WITH The OLD SOLDIERS.
The Annual Memorial Service Held In st.
Paurs M. Il. Church, Yesterday-Isev,
Dr..Hulburd's Sermon to the Veterans.

Paups M. Il. Church, Yesterday-Rev.
Dr..Hulburd's Sermon to the Veterans.
The Grand Army Of the Republic held
memorial services in ST. Paurs NJ. 4
Church yesterday afternoon. The audi.
torium, where the services were held,
was decorated with flags and banners.
Joseph Pyle presided
In his address Of welcome he said in
part: 'rhis is to be a memorial meeting.
What a grand thing memory Is. You
have heard the cannons roar and have
seen the flash Of sabres and have left
dear ones on the battlefelds. All these
come to your minds at such a meeting as
this Let your minds not only wander
back to the scenes during the war, but
to God, who watched over you during
the battles Of war and also during the
battles of life. Trust in God"
Rev. j. ID. c. Hanna was the next
speaker and said
"There is not body Of men that take
more delight in speaking to than a meet
ing of Grand Army men. / cannot
imagine an American citizen who could
look upon old soldiers without a thrill Of
admiration. The saddest thug l see
from year TO year is that your ranks are
thinning out. II Is something to be en-
gagged in a worthy cause-one that is
worthy Of your manhood-and as look
back through the years since the war
closed and during the four years of the
war l find that your cause was a worthy
one. Nothing but laurels can be placed
on your brows for keeping the Union to.
gether. l believe TO day that in the
minds of Southern people there is real
q f..1. q TT
not broken
This meeting to day is called to bring
to our memory the boys in blue who did
not come back from the war aud those
who did come back, but have been called
home to God. May our tongues cleave
10 the roof Of our mouths when we for
get TO do honor to the men who fought
to save this country"
Rev. Thomas E Terry also made few
remarks.
Encsmpment No. "a. Union Veteran
Legion, and Phil Sheridan Post, No. %,
g. A. R., attended Grace M. Z Church.
Rev. DR.. Hulburd preached. He said in
part:
"Gentlemen Of the Veteran Legion, of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and
Fellowcitizens: l am here TO speak for a
little oltwo of the most marvellous trans.
formations that ever took place in a
nations life, namely. that by which the
citizen became a soldier, and the Other
not less remarkable by which the first
soldiers Of the world became the best OF
citizens.
The amounts per capita expended by
various governments for military and
educational purposes by the most recent
II Al, loo d. F.I1 g. 4
itary, 20 cents for education; England,
SO ~. 60; Holland, SO 5S, 81; SRxoDy,
81. .3S, 3S; Wurtemberg, 81 3S. 40
Bavaria, So 3S 40; Prussis, 50 04, so
Russia, 81 o. 3; Italy, 81 o., Sc; Bel
Switzerland, 50, "a; United States, 80,
81 80. Thus It will be observed that the
only nation expending more for educa
tion than for military purposes is also a
republic I and that our own expends five
times as much for education as for train.
ing in the art of war, while Russia gives
almost one hundred times the other pro
portion"
In speaking OF the soldier OF the late
war he said
"Class aud condition were lost, fused
/ in bre they melted into one. From homes
II OA luxury anu ncAln VI AoAA lnNl nlNNN
shoulder to shoulder; scholars and
dullards, masters and men, gentles anC
simples. as they merged into the army
of the Union.
The republic calls now for men to liv'
for it, and know none so likely to re-
/ spOnd as those who were ready to die fol
IL. God grant she may never need thi
soldiers sword; but she will never ceasl
TO need the soldierly qualities Of lofty
courage, fervent patriotism, self-control
obedience to constituted authority anC
discipline.
"The dead soldier asks nothing Of us
and the living remnant asks littl'
enough, aud will not ask that long bu
we shall be traitors 60 all that is true an.
good if we forget them aud what we owl
them, or shall fail to keep what they pre-
served to us and hand it down intact t
the generation following"