Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

> nalioBs, en, ious Oh our prosperity, may
want to give us n wrestle. During our
civil war there were two OF three nations
that could hardly keep their hands of US
1t is very easy to pick national quarrels,
and If our nation escapes much longer II
will be the exception.
II foreign foe should come, We want men
like thuso of 1919 and like those Of 1869 tO
meet them. We want them all up and
down tho coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter
in the same chorus of thunder as Fort La
fayette and Fort Hamilton. Men who will
not only know how TO fight, but how to
die When such time comes If it ever
does como the generation On tho stage of
action Will say; My country will care for
nay family as they did in the soldiers asy-
linn for the orphans in the civil war, and
ny country will honor my dust as 1t hon
ored hose who preceded me in patriotic
saCrifcu, and once yenr at any rate, on
Decoration day, shall lie rcsurrected into
the remembrance Of those for whom died.
Hero / go Tor God and my cOuntryl HUI
zaT
II foreign foo should come, the old sec
tiOnal animOsitics would have no power.
Here 90 our regiments into the battlefield
Fifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth
Alabama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsyl-
vania Tihemen, Tenth Massachusetts ar
tillory, Seventh South Carolina sharp
shooters. / do not know but it may re-
qniIu the attack of some foreign foe to
mako us forget our absurd sectional wrsn-
Cling. l have no faith in the cry, "NO
north, no south, no east, no west. Let
ali four sections keep rheir peculiarities
and their preferences, each doing its own
work and not interfering with enoh other,
each Of the four carrying its part in the
great harmony-the bass, the alto, tho
tenor, the sopranu-in the grand march Of
Union.
just One Flower.
Once more, this great national ceremony
means the Identification Of tho tOmbs,
whether of those who fell in battle OF acct
dent, or whn have expired in their beds or
in our arms or on our laps. l suppose you
have noticed that many Of the families
take this season as the time for the adorn-
ment Of their family plots This national
observance HISS secured the arbOriculturo
and Horticulture of the cemeteries, tho
up of many a slab planted
so or 40 years ago, and has swung tho
scytho through the long grass and has
brought the stOnocutter 10 call out the half |
epitaph. This day is the bene-
diction Of the resting place of father, |
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister
1t is all that we can do for them now |
Mako their resting places attractive, not
absurd with costly outlay, but in quiet re- |
You know how. IfyOu can |
afford only one flower, that will do. 1t |
shows what you would do if you could. One |
blossom from you may mean more than the |
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cannot afford to forget them. They were
so lovely to us. We miss them 50 much. /
Wo will never get over it. Blessed Lord
jesus, comfort our broken hearts. From
every bank Of flowers bruathea promise Of
,csurr, elton.
In UiOcn times tho Hebrews, returning
rom their burial place. used to pluck the
grass from the field three or four times,
hon throw it over their heads, suggestive
If the resurrection. We pick not the grass,
nut tho flowers and instead Of throwing
hem over our Leads We place them before
,Er eyes, right down over the silent heart
hat once beat with warnest love toward
Is. or over tho still feet That ran to service,
II over the lips from which we took the
.iss at the anguish of the last parting
But stopl We are not inhdels. Our
,odies will soon join the bodies Of our de-
artcd in the tomb, and our spirits shall
DIN their spirits in the land of the rising
IN. We cannot long be separated. Instead
( crying with Jacob Tor Joseph, Il will
o down into the grave unto my son,
let US cry with David, II
hall go to him.
On enc of the gates of Greenwood is the
uaint inscription, "a nights lodging on
be way to the city of tho New Jerusalem.
comfort ono another with these words
lay the hand OF him who shall wipe away
II tears from all eyes wipe your cheek
nth its sOftest tenderness. The Christ Of
lark and Martha and Lazarus will infOld
on in his arms The white robcd angels
Tho sat at the tomb Of Jesus will yet roll
40 stone from the door Of your dead in
ldiant resurrection The Lord himself
nall descend from heaven with shout
nd tho voice of tho archangel. So the
Dead March" in "Saul" shall become the 1
Halleluiah Chorus"