The morning call., 1894-05-28
OUR DEAD HEROES
Interesting Services in
Their Honor
AT THE TEMPLE EMANUEL.
Rabbi Voorsanger's Patriotic
Sermon.
T THE TEMPLE EMANUEL.
DEBT OF A GRATEFUL NATION.
Veteran Guards and Grand Army
Posts Attend Divine Services at
the Jewish Church.

Every year the Grand Army Of the Re-
! public holds special memorial services in
honor of their dead comrades. The Gus
tom has been each year TO select a differ
ent church in which to hold the services.
This year the Temple Emanuel was Sc
lected as the place of worship and COM
memoratiOn.
Rabbi Voorsanger's church never looked
so beautiful as it did last night when the
evening exercises began. The chancel was
decorated with thousands of flowers.
Back of the pulpit were draped five large
Silken American flags around the pictures
of Lincoln and Grant, while large festOons
of flowers and evergreens adorned the
walls. The decorations were both taste
ful and elegant.
The temple was early packed by Grand
Army men and their friends. The first to
arrive was the Veteran Guard, G. A. r.
After them came the different aTmv posts.
There were large delegations from Lincoln
Post No. l. George II. Thomas Post No. 2.
Garfield Post No. 81 General Cass Post
No. 46 and General Meade Post No. As.
The Women's Relief Corps also attended
in a body.
The church was hardly large enough to
accommodate those who desired TO attend
Army representatives were provided with
seats there was little room for many
others.
Rabbi VoOrsanger conducted the ser
vices, the Hebrew portion of which was
very impressive. The cantor's singing
was remarkably impressive.
a splendid patriotic sermon was
preached by Rabbi NOOrsanger, who was
more than usually eloquent in dea ling with
the theme of the dead soldiers, who laid
down heir lives for the preservation of
the Union. The speaker took a lofty view
of the subject, and as his voice rang out in
earnest 6ulOglum OF the dead and iaureled
heroes, his hearers were deeply affected.
Rabbi NoOrsanger said that no nation
should forget its heroes. Remembrance of
them was but a slight national debt in
return for the sacrificial nobleness OF
those who laid down their lives on the
altar of their country He said there
were no services more ennObling than the
commemoration of martyTed soldiers, and
when blended with religious worship the
memorial service reached the sub
lime in human nature. He drew a
touching picture of thousands throughout
the land annually placing wreaths and
flowers on the graves of soldiers who died
unknown, now perhaps forgotten as ind-
viduals. but whose deeds are immortal
lied and whose spirits are revered by a
grateful nation. 1t was not alone the gen.
erals and those whom history preserves as
monuments of valor that should be re-
membered, but the great armies of men
who died unknown on the battlefield that
their country might DE preserved.
The remarks of Rabbi VoOrsanger on the
great Civil War and his views on that
struggle which resulted in the emancipa-
ton of the slaves and the qualification of
the American nation, were listened to
with marked attention by the veterans
and 1,
what he said was manifest by the high
manner in which they complimented him
on his address subsequently.
As Wednesday will be Memorial day,
there will be no other special church sery-
ices by the Grand Army men.