Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-24

No. 10, T. V. u, accept your gracious and
very beautiful offering, and 1 want to as
sure you that it could not have been made
in a better cause, nor at more fitting
time. Our command. yet q very young
one, and few in numbers, has need of it to
lead us in our meetings by day and night,
just as that other flag of the same pattern,
but with less number of stars, led us in
our marchings and fightings by day and by
night And how often We have gathered
under its swaying folds amid the crash Of
shot and shell, and the singing of the dead
ly messengers that were seeking US out
and alas, finding all to many of US, as the
marble slabs on our neighboring hillsides
testify.
We at last brought it through in tri-
umph to glorious victory. And. my COM
rades, we will all join In thanking the fair
donors and Wen rally round this flag, boys,
Wen rally oft again, shouting the battle
cry of freedom. "
A Bible Presented.
A handsome Bible, the donation of Major
Worden, was presented on his behalf to
the command by Rev. Sam w. Small, who
in the course of his remarks said 1t gave
him great pleasure to take part in the
program. He commended the teachings of
the Bible to the members Of the order. In
concluding his remarks Mr.. Small quoted
Gladstone, when he referred to the Bible
as The impregnable fortress" He also eX-
pressed his pleasure that the people of
America ARE now one glorious Union
Comrade Ripley accepted the Bible, and
in a short speech said among other things:
Il am glad the Bible Is a rock. 1t tells
us of the right way of living here and it
tells US of the consequences of wrong liv-
ing also The Bible tells all organizations
how to do their work right"
After referring briefly to the times be-
tween 1S61-65. Mr.. Ripley said:
I'VE are here tonight, many of us at
least, as the veterans of that struggle, but
new era has dawned. thank God! Here
is our friend from Georgia who spoke of
our glorious Union. 1 come from a New
England state, and 1 say it with feelings
of thankfulness that our country was never
so united as now.
When Fitzhugh Lee organizes his bril-
sades there will be found side by side a
regiment from Georgia, a regiment from
Missouri another from New York and
orders charge each will vie with the
other to see which will go the farthest and
stay longest.
Address by Rev. Small.
Rev. Mr.. Small, who was called on by
Presiding Officer Balm for a speech said:
II feel much complimented in being ask
ed to take part in the celebration of the
magnificent victory won by Admiral Dewey
at Manila, but I believe that the inten-
ton in inviting me to do so was more of a
compliment to the ection of the country
from which L come-Georg1a-than to my
self. All honor to that great American
sailor, George Dewey, of the Green Noun
tain state.
II thank God that 1 have a right, as a
fellow-American, to take part in this cele-
bration. and 1 predict that there will be
many more victories now under the grand
old flag"
After relating the manner In which the
ancient Greeks acted after the close of a
foreign war or an internecine strife In the
matter of perpetuating the achievements of
the victors. Mr.. Small said:
II believe that We are more magnanimous
and more chivalric than were the Greeks
believe that Americans possess more good
horse-sense than the people of any other
nation"
The speaker next referred to the attempts