Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-05-29
An Eloquent Sermon by Chaplain
G. o. Day. Go. b Turns Out
In a Body to Hear their
Beloved Chaplain.
Commander George Il. Conner Presents Company n
With Beautiful Banner.

The annual Memorial Day season
is here once more, and the Mem
orial Sunday service is over. The
Congregational church was filled with
loyal citizens Sunday afternoon for the
observance of the Memorial Sunday
exercises. The organizations present
We're Crandall &. A. r. Post; Company
K of the Vermont U. S. V. and the
Ladies of the &. A. r. the Spauldng
Battalion was also present as escort to
the old and young veterans.
The interior of the church building
was decorated in a very tasty manner
with the Natianal coors and the gar
lands of nature. Col. O. d. Clark, and
Adiutant A. G. Eaton of the First Yer
mont Regiment were also present. The
Invocation was by Rev. J. A. Sherburne
followed by The choir in ns,s ,as'.Our, Land !
Rev. A. e. Atwater conducted the Res
ponsivc Reading. The Ten Command
ments were read by Rev. DR.. Harris with
responses by the choir. ''The Sleeping
Hero" by Mendclssohn was touchingly
rendered by Mrs. c. N. Field. Rev, +.
M. Fuller followed with Scripture read
ing, and quarlette compased OF Mrs
Field, Mrs. Gale, Mr.. Mitchell and Mr.,
lnglis sung Taps" Prayer and Res
ponse Rev. Thomas Mitchell. Singing
"America" by the Audience. Rev. DR..
Jackson introduced Rev. c. o. Day ID.
d., of Boston as the Speaker OF the
afternoon. Mr.. Day was Chaplain OF
the First Vermont Regiment during the
recent war with Spain and the members
of Company Z are always loud in praise
of the big hearted Chaplain of the Regl'
ment. He came all the way from New
Mexico that he might fulfill the engage
ment and deliver the sermon. Inc
Chaplain wore his Army uniform.
Rev. MIR. Day took as his text th'
words from the 1877 Psalm sixth verse
"If forget the O Jerusalem let my rlgh
hand forget her cunning. If | do no
remember the let my tongue cltave t.
the roof of my mouth if prefer nc
Jerusalem above my chief JOY"
would be impossible to do either Kew
Mr.. Day or his address justice withou
publishing his words in full, but space
will not permit. Mr.. Day held the clos
a,tentian of the audience for 80 minutes
He said in part
..Some of the best graves in thl
world are the unknown graves. Moses
Grave is unknown. No one can tell tn
resting place of John the Baptist l
this land there arc thousands of unknow
graves that will not be decorated wit
flowers. have often thought that 10
with his own hand decorales the unknow
graves. | am pleased to come an
speak to you on this Memorial sunday
r.. r. are two great forces al work D
which TIE patriotism Of tie country
knd], d and increased. The Pnlilo'
,|l in the words of the text shows IN;
these ;wo forces were pr, dured ny III
hand ard the tongue. The hand is ih'
whi!h dcvelopes the industrial the me-
haui,a and the artistic growth "t
,,un,r>. The tongue that which speai
t>c :, ntimen,s of people both by wore
aud we might include also the writin
of a people. These two great forc'
are kent at work in the home in II
school and all about us making love
country that in time Of peril they a
J found to be of great good to the Repu
lie, home, in the school and all about
making love of country so strong that
time of a great crisis they are found
he the result of this influence of Il
- hand and the tongue. The youth of Il
., country respond t Dc fend and save
country. Some weeke ago | was in t
State of Missouri at an evening not