Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30
Outside OF the playing OF a dirre by the
band there were no other services.
AT ST. ELIZABETHS.
Many Participated I'm the Ceremonies
and Listened TO Rev. MIR. Smith.

ana Listened 10 Kew. MIR. smith.
The exercises at ST. Elizabeths Asylum
were witnessed by large number of peo-
pie. and were conducted almost solely by
the officers and attaches Of the institution
Soon after 0 o'clock this morning the
officers of the hospital, officers and mem
bers of John A. Logan Post, No. ID. G. A.
R.. and large delegation from the Wo-
mans Relief Corps, auxiliary to the post
went to the cemetery, where so many IN
ion soldiers lie buried, and decorated their
graves After completing their duties there
most of the persons went TO the beautiful
grove attached TO the institution 10 attend
the concluding ceremonies. Here stand.
which was handsomely decorated, had been
erected, and an abundance of seats for the
audience provided.
While the people were assembling the ST.
Elizabeths Band, composed of twenty
pieces. and under the direction of Prof
Anderson, rendered America" and other
patriotic airs.
At IL am. the bugler sounded the as
sembly, and this was followed with an
| invocation by Rev. DR.. John Chester. The
st. Elizabeth's Chorus, under the direction
of Prof: E. T. Davis. leader and orsanist,
sang Honor TO the Fallen True"
The GRAFTON was by Rev. Frank Hyatt
Smith.
Rev. F. III. Smiths Address,
After paying a high compliment to DR..
w. w. Godding, the superintendent Of the
asylum, in whose absence he said he was
privileged to address the Rssemblage say
Ing of him that ''wretchedness of body and
of mind was the first claim to his SYM
pathy and skill" Mr.. Smith said that while
the occupants Of the graves about them may
have worn the blue or the gray. they now
wear the white, and If their intellects were
curtained, that curtain has now been with
drawn In the presence of Him who is light
While our land contains no such ivied
monuments are frequent beyond the
seas, the more 1t is needful that we should
honor our patriot dead. He who looks
down into the purple lighted crypt, where
reposes the Corsican who shook the worlS
it is true, leaves the scene subdued with
awe, but he who faces the tomb of the
silent man of Vicksburg is inspired BY
higher motives, and is in the presence OF
rarer dust IF we have" he exclaimed.
no Westminster, with it's stately memoir
ials to scores Of illustrious dead, and its
long drawn aisles and fretted vaults; yet
thousands Of our patriots sleep today
In that cathedral boundless as our won
der,
Whose quenchess lamps the sun and.
moon supply; 49,
Its choir the winds and waves. its organ
thunder
Its dome the sky"
1t is well for the proud ship Of state 70
pause one day each year and cast the rsdi-
ance Of her light over the track of vic!ssi-
tuoe sne mas sailed, for only by study of
the past can the probable future be known.
The Fourth of July commentaries the ma
TONS incarnation. while the 9oth Of May
commentaries its redemption, and surely,
he thought, the redemption Of a nation Is
fraught with lessons paramount and pro-
found. So, tc the inquiring mind today
there comes the question, VIII the great
republic, founded by the fathers and re-
united by ihc.r sons. endure? Is Il proof
against the disintegration of time? Are
the great nations that have been, and are
not. Without lessons for US? Referring 70
tC:Ht:!.ued On Eleventh PaeAl