The National tribune., 1895-05-23

The brother winning the prize need not acs
cept another challenge under one year. and has
the privilege Of wearing the badge for one year
Any brother winning the prize. and after.
wards winning it.in three consecutive contests
shall become tho sole owner.
The contests are to take place annually at the
Division Encsmpments-
RHODE ISLAND.
This Division has issued the 1895 roster.
Apply to Division Commander Arthur B. Sphinx.
Room Al, Woods Building, Providence.
Division Chaplain Coles Memorial Day Or
der contains this paragraph: Through Gods
mercy, our Order was never in better condition
than at present Notwithstanding the slurs,
the maliguity, the caustie epithets of bIatan =
OratOry, it still lives aud hourishes because
the safeguard of National existence, whatso-
ever Nation it may be, is its living principle.
Patriotism is the core of its life. Not con-
servatiye bond of union, but broad platform
on which all men able to unite, and to
which all men may agree. A patriotism which,
meath the warm zeal of an honest heart, bursts
into the thresfold flower, Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity. If the unity of National life is to
be preserved, in the face of existing differences,
North. South, East and West are to come TO q
perfect indivisible reality. it is only by work
ing on these lines; by protesting openly what
these words imply-the Fatherhood OF God
and the Brotherhood Of Man."
VERMONT.
A revised roster of the Division has been
prepared and will be Issued in a few days.
With regard to the Observance of Memorial
Day, Division Commander Frank l.. Greene in
General Orders, says: " The day is near at hand
which our fathers have consecrated to the men,
DRY of their brave comrades who have gone on to
their rest. Memorial Day should be the sweetest,
saddest anniversary of all the year to u.s. because
it commentaries the herOism and the MARTYR
dor If 0ur ha 0Iid linz
swiftly by, and the time is not far distant when
this service of love will be to render alone.
1t is a peculiar privilege that for yet little
while father and son may, side by side, pay
their tribute of aHectionate remembrance to
the Nations heroic dead. Let US give album
dant evidence of the pride and pleasure we
feel in being admitted to the Utmost fellowship
with our fathers in their most hallOwed service,
and thus inspire in them the firm confidence that
we will be faithful to their memory and their
sacred trust when their helpful presence is no
longer with u.s."
The annual Eneampment of this Division
will be held at Vergennes, June Is, 10 and 20.
WEST VIRGINIA.
A. NJ Bennett, Chaplain of this Division, in
q Circular Letter to the brothers. says:
1.-THE greatest day of all the year to our Or
der will soon be here. If we fail at this time to
do our whole duty to both living and dead, We
had better be obliterated as an Order, and the
quicker the better. But | believe that the
brothers of the West Virginia Division appre-
ciate their hOnored position as the lineal de-
scendants and proper representatives of those
who by the sacrifices of all that man holds most
dear in this life. put down the great rebellion.
Therefore, never forget that you are honOring
the memory of your fathers, both living and
the dead Let every Camp religiOusly observe
Memorial Sunday as well as Memorial Day. IL
not in vted to any service on that day, then in
yite by q vote OF your Camp some Clergyman to
address you. / wish to raise my voice and hurl
my in huence against the tide which sets toward
the secularization and dsbasement of the day
set apart sacred to the memory of our fathers,
both dead and alive. The fashion has been 20
make Memorial Day day OF excursions, dane
ing drunkenness, and in many cases one of wild
debauchery. Let US use our utmost influence,
so far as it may be exerted both in our Order and
wherever We may have utterance and audience,
to turn the current in the channel of q respect
able, decorus and solemn observance of this
day, so sadly sacred to many lonely hearts
throughout our land. Let me urge upon the
Captain and Chaplain of each Camp the neces-
sity OF a prompt report to me Immediately after
Memorial Day."