The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-06-30

higher duties and responsibilities of life,
"Why may / not succeed with the plans
have devised for my guidance l will
answer you, because they may not be
consonant or coincident with the reali-
ties of life. This brings me back to that
great factor and lover of society Fellow
ship, if you do not succeed or have
already come short of the workings,
along the line of your points of view, it
may be because you have not taken
counsel with your fellows, admonition,
instruction and direction from your
parents or those who were your keepers,
has been regarded as threadbare and un-
stabbed. You have, in your young
spirited earnest zeal set up your own
standard. You we're lacking in that
friendly fellowship which was taught you
from your cradle up, discarding all coun-
sci you are left like a ship without a
rudder in midocean. You founder
about, now striking in this direction,
then in another, all without fixed pur-
pose. My young friends, success attains
by the counsel of the multitude, for
therein is wisdom. Scof not the counsel
and advice of your parents or those who
have your destinies in hand, they have
lived before you. Exercise the true
spirit of fellowship toward them, remain
close by them extol companionship.
While your elders are by you, submit
your designs to them, take heed of their
words of wisdom aud assure you, your
mistakes in life will be less and even,
though mistakes, they will be fraught
with less evil results.
Because of the teachings Of fellowship
and compantonship in our youth, we
were happy. THANK God for those days.
Parents do not burden your children
with old age duties, in childish inno-
cence alone can true happiness be found.)
say in our youth and childish caprices
we we're happy, knowing little of other
worlds, beyond our own little circle.
Since then other worlds opened up to us
with their mysteries. Little did we
dream that we should be called upon to
unravel them and take upon our should
ers the responsibilities Of operating the
machinery which moves these worlds,
but how without special effort the ever
helpful hand of the fraternity of man has
met us and aided us in the performance
of duties as they presented themselves
to us, how prescribed and narrow our
sphere for good would have been but for
the hallowed influences of the fellowship
of man.
My kindred and friends, l cannot too
strongly emphasize the great factor
regulating our lives. True Fellowship
and that feeling of human fraternity
which if acted out as handed down to us
by our parents, elevates us and our as
sociates to higher order of living. Do
we to-day in this our family association
make it the earnest of our desire Are
we better for the remembrance of our
hallowed dead and our silver haired be-
loved elders around us, aye have they
not inspired our lives with the Divine
principle of this fellowship, this spirit
Of goodwill to men. If we do honor and
reverence to our sainted parents and to
those who had the shaping of our charac-
ters and lives, we shall have a restful
peace of mind and our coming together
will be followed by more intense de-
sire for a closer and still more intimate
Inspired with this thought
we shall go forward with increased
pleasure wishing for the return of the
day when we shall reune again.
My young kindred and friends, I ask
you, have you the fellowship and faithful
of your associates, if not
let me ask of you to knock at the door of
your own heart and make glad the re-
sponse you meet there by emulating the
which make for you life
worth living. Add, by your Jealous
efforts golden links in the chain of hui
man fraternity, so that your children
growing up around you may catch the
same spirit of goodwill to their fellows.
Our chain of progeny is the product of
one great link wrought and forged near
y one hundred years ago, when under
extreme difficulties of the then peculiar
and trying times our parents was the
light of day. Should we not ask our
selves to-day, have we been faithful to
The trust placed in our keeping, by
the honor Of our family re-
alton, have we each of us added a link |
IF worth and strength to that chain
Here refer to the conditions which con-
,ronted our parents and elder of our
,amily)
Our family is numerous and I believe
we all have added to its lustre. The
voices of some have been heard in legis-
atiye halls, in schoolroom and in college,
n the pulpit, in the house of merchand-
se, in the shop, on the farm and in the
ousy MAJ 10 VI lllS CNSI yWucIS. aye SOIlc
Of the links of this chain are embellished
with an honor of which the whole family
may be justly proud, from 1861 to the
best portion of the lives Of some of us
was given to our country, that flag was
followed under the fiercest and most ap-
palling circumstances to which mans
life can be subjected, by reason of our
exposure to forced marches under
blazing southern sun, amid the storms
Of winters sleet and rain, oft times
rest with bodies bathed by
rain or snow, camping in the miasmatic
jungles of the Mississippi, starved in
prison pen, shot, sabered, charged over
by wild and maddened troops, the mid
night assaults, the outpost and the battle
field, nerves shaken. sight blind and
hearing deafened by the terrific explo-
sion of artillery, aye the very heart
strings rent asunder by ten thousand
of wars carnage. BY these hard
ships was maintained the honor and in
tegrity of that flag the ensign of
sovereign liberty loving people,
that flag made the true emblem
Of liberty and independence that flag
made sacred by the sacrifices and blood
Of our ancestors, that flag known and