El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-29
MEMORIAL ~ : - Z
! SERVICES / !: !,
Opera Hoy House Crowded el V ed with
An AppreciatiVe Audience
MANY LADIES .1'1] ! s. lP Pre- EN-
The Many Numbers On PI ogram Well
Rendered.-Rev. w. o. Millican's
aSermon.-AII the Chu eches United.

9Sermon.-Al1 the Chu schesG United.
overlooking last evening with large
andlEppreciatiye audience, to witness
the nemUri al ser vices of the G.. A. X.
by Emmett sCrawford Post No. 49,.
Long before the hour for the services
to begin, every available seat was oe-
cupied. III + HI :
IA one looked back on the audience,
mostly made up the fair sex, it present
ed s5ihost animated and beautiful APP
The boxes were festooned with ever
e. espahd shestagee e'gtHgs FsEecS very
Shortly before the services began.
the g. A. r. veterans led by -Jude'
Falvey, General MaIloy and Past
tered the building followed by q num-
Der Of Rough Riders, under the charge
of Major w. n, Villas. and occupied
the Yeats in the. fret three 70 u sffn the
orchestra of the theatre.
The services opened with the sing
ing of an anthem by a chorus under
the direction of Mrs; E. 2. Ba kerrrr,,:1
Post Cnaplain e. p. Lovefil'2 Zj"of',l . o
Post Commander A g. Malloy d oliver
ed "a short address and then Mrs
Msggi sang the Star Spangled Banner,
in avery pleasing manner. . g 10 tE4i
TIE remaipfDg numb ers on the pro-
gramne were all we'll rendered as fol-
Iows:u0,J 4snoiss. r1rIl.J - uo.tcm 4
Recitation Extract from President
LincOln's Gettysburg Speech. 80.
l.p. Past Post Command der w. T. 4
Kitchens. foaiiitW 10 I'D 3ds -
Scripture Reading, Psalm 1925, ~, -;
80. ~ i. Rev. a., M! 4Bum pkin.
Prayer 49,. -. Rev. H. W.. Moore. |
Recitation, ''Blue and the Gray.
ILL., - u -,:.:..II. Mr.. w. H. Tuttle.
Music, "Soldiers' Chorus.' y. = ! =
.... .Mrs. E. E. Bakers Chorus
ermon ..aa.........Rep. w. o 5 NIillican.t
Music, 5'5Tenting on the old Camp
Ground, '"... ...: lQuartette.
Reading, America, '...!. Rev. r. D!
Schults. .......--.---.1 ~ t'.tt.5 '-e'5
-: ReV.. ). + French.
The sermon of Rev. w. o. Millicanf
MR.. MILLICAN's SERMON. T.
Rev. W.O.5 Millican, pastor of the
First Baptist church preached the SER
mon at the G, Ar. memorial .sersice,I
in the opera house, Sunday evening. ,
things for u.s.. ,;"tQuit. You like men,.
Ps. CXXVI:3;, Cor. XVI13. The fol t
lowing is the text of the sermon: The 1t
custom of memorial days reaches as {
far back as the food. Z. When Noah I i
and the, small nation OF eight O souls e
from the ark he built an 1 I
altar to the Lord, and thst day the d
Lord pledged perpetual blessings on /
,he landa5EOnlt the night ofIsrael,s de- | 8
iverance from Egyptian bondage they lie
Instituted great feast and God conf
nandedthat il should be perpetuated as t
|. memorial lfs.forever'''.ED, When 4 thetf I
Jews, under Ahasuerus, gained Q great a
7ictory over their enemies Esther 81
The queen secured memorial day for b
hem, the rejoicing of which II lasted | fl
whole month. The psalm v
If our text Is q memorial psalm of some / q
from captivity. And so 1t Ia
S eminently appropriate, cody and n
wise that the greatest nation the world b
las ever known should .f9hsve a
memorial of the greatest struggle ii
yer known and the greatest recon-
iliation ever effected. We come then, II
no north no south. but as one q
rand Army of the Repub lic, to pay trip a
tie of respect and deepest emotion to our n
recious dead; to cheer the hearts of e.
heir noble survivors; and above all to ft
dore the name Of Almighty God for is
ne way that he. hath wrought in these e,
fairs of men: all Of which we trust n;
ill inspire US to noble action in the bt
onfiicts of life yet to come. Hence TT
1r theme: The goodness of God in OF
ationaI fairs an incentive to noble re
,tioD.@ his first inauguration, of
Gorge Washington used these words: 81
No people can be bound to acknow- E
dge and adore the invisible hand BIO
hich conducts the affairs OF men more b1
ian the people of the United States" h(
ow forclbly- do these words come to Eba
today From fhe! day our fathers 10
nded on the rock, until dtodayC the1 D
ord hath wrought mig ntly for us. So ri'
at we-mig hit say as a nation what nj
aul ofTarsus said, "By the grace OF tn
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