The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-09
REMEMBER THE MAINE.
Hedley R. Woodward's Pa
triotio Address in the
West Side M. E
Church.

The evening service in the West Side
NJ. E. Church yesterday, took the form
Of memorial service in honor of the
heroes who lost their lives in the Maine
disaster. The offering went to the Maine
Monument Fund. The members Of the
Second Jersey City. Company, Boys
Brigade attended the service in a body,
marching in while the first hymn, THE
Battle Hymn of the Republic" was being
sung. They had assembled at the First
Presbyterian Church. Their intention was
to march to the church., but the rain
forced them TO take the trolley cars VIII
| liam H.. Cummings, of the West Side
Church., had charge Of the meeting. There
were several patriotic hymns sung and
Pastor Little prayed for the success OF
the American arms and for the relatives
of the Maine victims. Mr.. Cummings
read a passage from the scriptures and
then introduced the speaker OF the even
ing, Hedley r. Woodward. who made an
! eloquent and beautiful address which
stirred his hearers and which was greet
ed with tremendous applause at its con-
clusion.
There is a history in almost every
home in this fair lane which may never
be written, but the memory OF kindred
has embalmed it forever. Almost every
and wooded hills Of our country has its
sacred memories of dear ones. In almost
every village graveyard there are green
mounds that need no marble pillar or
granite shaft to clothe them with that PEI
culiar conservation hat commands the
r~everenced step n hushed voice as they
whisper the attributes of those whose
dust IS mingled with Mother Earth.
."The most beautiful building in the
world is a tomb, and is known as the Tai
Mahal, the wonder of Agra-the crown of
| of two thousand men for twenty-five
years, and erected at a cost OF ten
millions of dollars-a peerless tomb that
a wife, the wife of the Sha Jehan, Fifth
Mogul, Emperor OF India. A beautiful
tomb; here love has almost immortalized
those entombed BY hate. but as the years
roll on and century follows century the
TAI MAZDA will be known only as a tomb,
while those about whom we are to speak
tonight will live as long as the race.
1T was during the last days of January
that the Washington Government ordered
that a United States vessel should make
a visit of courtesy to Havana barber, and
so aroused Spain, that government with
| whom our relations had been SO strained
Tor a year past. The infamous plan Of
feet by Weyier the butcher, was reaping
/ a harvest Of death all over the unfortun-
ate island. outrage. robbery and murder,
| three furies eff Spanish adoption were eat
ing cut the vitals of suffering Cuba.
| American mercantile interests were dead.
| American citizens were in crave peril,
an American Vessel Of war. The Second
class batfleship Maine was chosen as the
| Gavsrnmsnfss representafiye manned BY
e-ajlant Canta;n Siesbee and 40 men. II
E niei.t ana The shin tugs at her anchor
chains as If longing to Sc free, as if She
would once more kiss the waters that
| wash the shores Of her native land. but
| It is rot to be. Some where on the shore
wonder The Spaniard is adjusting the wires
and making sure that the electrical APP
/ paratus IS IN working order, and then
| waiting until the moment arrives for
| death dealing action, the fluid is let loose,
| ard springing for the bottom of the har-
! Dor winged by some fury and guided by
some demon. it reaches the submarine
mine over which the Spanish pilot so hos
| pitably anchored our ship. The terrific
! explosion that followed wounded her to
her death
mo priest stood here to pronounce a
burial service; an ocean grave, no snroud
but the mists ard the clouds: no tears
but the spray; down. down they sank
until the quick returning waves srnoothed
out every ripple. and the Maine was but
a memory. Oh, We dark. designing
knayes, ye srandees and matadors OF
bloody Spain. We murderers and parri-
cides, you well contrived and executed SO
foul a crime. No conscience pangs of
| fright or fear pierce your guilty bosoms;
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