The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-30
In MEMORY OF TWO HEROES
OF THE BEACH-OS.
BORN MEMORIAL Tablet.
Impressive Services at st. Paul's Church
and nj the ArmOry Where the Bcauti-
fuI Tablet Was Unveiled-Rev. MIR.
Phillips Strong sermon-Col. Burpoo
Accepts Tablet for Second Regiment.

Phillips Strong Sermon-CoI. Burpcc
Accepts Tablet for Second Regiment.
| Beautiful military ceremonies over
the unveiling of the memorial tablet to
two of the members of the Second regi-
ment were held last evening in ST.
| Pauls church, where a splendid sermon
was delivered by Rev. George W. Phil
| lips and later at the armory where the
unveilng of the handsome tablet took
place.
The dead comrades who gave their
lives for the country in the Spanish war
and for whose memory the services last
night were held, are First Lieutenant
and Battalion Adjutant Rodman ver-
non Beach and Sergeant Allan Merwin
Osborn.
Lieutenant Beach, it will be renlem-
bered, died in Porto Rico with fever
September 2S. 1898, while in the ser
vice of the First regiment, United
States Volunteer Engineers, and Ser
geant Osborn died In this city October
l, 1898, when a member Of Battery c,
Connecticut Volunteer Artillery He
contracted fever in Mantle. Both were
prominent members Of local companies
and were beloved by all, not only fell
low comrades, but by everyone with
whom they were acquainted.
AT 6.45 the local companies assem-
bled at the armory in fatigue uniforms,
with caps and white gloves and with
out leggings and bayonets. The off,
GERS wore their sidearms. There were
hnr nf nj Offi az "a
ceremonies besides many ex-members
of the. various companies who paid
their tribute to their dead comrades.
A few minutes after 7 o'clock the
companies. headed by the Second Regi-
ment band, left the armory and march
ed to st. Pauls church, where the i'm
pressive services were held and where
the sermon by Rev. Mr.. Phillips was
delivered
Besides the members of the regiment, /,
there were large number Of outsiders
present and the capacity of the church
was taxed to it's utmost. The interior
of the church presented an imposing
spectacle and the services were very
impressive, Mr. Phillips sermon being
an exceptionally strong one, and showed
the beautiful characters Of the dead SOL
diers. His text was taken from st.
John 15:12.13, and was as follows:
This Is my commandment, that ye
love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friepds."
Rev. Mr.. Phillips began by saying
that great many people think they
can get love and affection outside of
Christs church and that they need not
look to God but to the people for them.
He showed how these people were in
the wrong by giving examples of the
various teachings of religious leaders,
taking the different branches one by
one and showing that they were full
Of all sorts Of Immortality and that no
between the love Of God
and the love of man could be drawn.
Mr.. Phillips said that if you can get
the thought that men have of God you
can determine what they think Of men.
In Mohammedanism there is power as
with God, but there is no
love of God as there is in the true
Christian. In the teachings Of philos
ophy the preacher said that there were
-wo accepted systems. One is that
men ought to be Indifferent to pain.
ETC., and the other system is
hat the gods did not trouble themselves
With the Affections Of men and that
accordingly there was no space for
owe. If there is Indifference to the
of others there can be no
owe in such life.
The preacher gave some examples Of
Christ's teachings on love saying that
hey were not confined to one body of
men, but that the arms of his infinite
owe encircle the whole world. He loved
nan as man, and we should do the
anne.
Rev. Mr.. Phillips referred to the
leath of the beloved members Of the
second regiment, and said "How far
re those deaths and the acts of sacri-
Ice in war practical exemplifications of
he text-'This is my commandment,
hat ye love one another, as I have
1ved you Greater love hath no man
han this, that man lay down his life
or his friend You may call it pat
lotto, but there Is sentiment existing
4 the heart of men, an image, the
mage of God and love. What state,
that country, what great buildings,
ldt WOlhS VI al WIidt OOOhS IUGEG
re but that are the works of men, but
that value are they? No value except
S to their value to man. Mr.. Phil
ps offered as an example of love- the
uban campaign when the great heart
the American people was bleeding
or the starving natives and was unset
sh to releave them from the bonds of
orture under which they have been for
ears There is voice of duty in
le lives of these men. On one side
lere is the home. the family, pleasant
and everything pertain
lg to happiness. On the other there
the inconvenience of camp life and
lere is the possibility of death, which
as the case with our young heroes.
he voice of duty overcame the voice
pleasure and comfort, and noble lives
ere sacrificed for the love of their
)untry'
At the conclusion of the service the
.giment marched back to the armory
here the ceremonies of unveiiing the
blet was held.
The chaplain of the Second regiment,
ev. Mr.. Phillips, presented the tablet
the regiment on behalf of the COM
ittee in charge of the affair and the
blet was accepted by Colonel Burpee.
n the tablet was inscribed the follow
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