Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23

The principal address was by Commander
Seton, who said:
"On the 18th of December, 1898, Garfield
Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Republic.
held memorial service in this church,
and since that time the reaper of death has
claimed twenty of our comrades. 1t is now
permitted us, by Divine providence To
again meet in this sacred place and hold
another memorial service IN grateful and
devOut commemOration of these departed
comrades, who in life were united to their
surviving comrades in the bonds of frater-
nifty, charity and loyalty. and unti the
Grand Army of the Republic shall be re-
gathered above.
we saw them as they thronged at the
summons to duty around the unfurled ban
ners Of the republic. We heard the glad
music Of their march. We gazed upon the
Slistening steel and the waving banners as
thy fluttered away from our s-raIning
sight and with throbbing heart, ouickaned
pulse, quivering lips and fearful eye we
commended them TO the guardian care of
our Great Creator.
Through four years of alternate success
and disaster and weary toll they bravery
pore the banners of our unity and power,
Many who went from us in the pride and
manhood of life died the battlefield and
were laid to rest in the crowded and shall
low trenches of the field made immortal
by their constancy and valor. Many MAIN
ed by shot and shell, returned to their
homes. Others, wasted by disease died un-
der southern skies The field of Gettys-
burg, that immortal field where our troops
rolled back the advancing legions of the
cCnfederacy, broke its power and blasted
Its hopes forever, faved the way for their
surrender at Appomattox.
The confederate soldiers fought bravely
and stubbornly every inch of ground, and
their heroic efforts We're worthy Of a better
cause. They were Americans, too. and foe
men worthy of our steel. The guiding hand
OF providence was with US IL all our UNI
Lincoln helm Of
state. Grant, Sherman, Thomas, MeClel-
Ian and Hancock at the head of our
armies, and Farragut and Porter of our
navy. But with all their strategy and
science military and naval, they could not
have succeeded had it not been for the
prowess of the American soldiers-the men
behind the guns
Tribute to Woman.
ITO the American woman we cannot pay
too high a tribute for the part she per-
formed during our late civil war Pause
one moment and think of the mother who
offered her fair-hatred boy in the bloom of
youth, and the wife who sent forth the
husband of her love and hope, to defend
their country from destruction. To all the
women of our dear land who encouraged
and cheered our men in the field We should
pay homage
Ladies and gentlemen, and comrades to
US old soldiers it is glorious sight to see
our country united and prosperous as it is
dL present, ana L nave no doubt that every
living soldier of the late confederacy cher
ishes the flag of our country which unites
us all, as evidenced by the troops N the
field in the Philippines and the West Indies
from every state in the Union"
The List Read.
Adjutant Smith read a brief history of
each of the deceased comrades whose
names are given in the foregoing. A bugler
stationed in the front part of the church
sounded taps, following which Chaplain
Bradford offered prayer, the surviving
members of Garfield Post and the members
of their own families and those who had
been bereaved standing during that period
at his request.
The choir of the church sang a selection
and DR.. Caiver, surgeon of the post, read
an original poem written for the occasion
Chaplain Bradford made an address found
ed on the incident in the life of Queen
Esther which led up to the hanging of
Haman. After relating some of the scenes
In the life of Esther he took up the subject
of the results of the civil war and said no
nation in the world has made such progress
during the same period as has the United
States during the last thirty-eight years