Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-05-28
A. D. BROWN
n. WIS President Delivers an
Excellent Address
ON MEMORIAL SUNDAY
Other Exercises Appropriate
to the Occasion.

Memorial Sunday was tittingly OBJ
served yesterday afternoon in the
opera house by the G.. A. r., and
Spanish American war veterans.
The city hall was very nicely deco
Grated, flags and bunting being dis
tributed throughout the room, and
along the front of the gallery, and
made into many beautiful designs.
The stage was in keeping with the
rest of the house, there being two
American flags standing on either end
and the front of the stage, relieved
by pottcd ferns. At the back could
be seen the picture of Abraham Lin
coin and Maj. II. b. Crandall, both be-
ing draped with the national flags.
The program was not lengthy one
and being we'll selected was very well
thought of. 1t was as has been al.
ready published.
The sermon by the Rev. Allen d.
Brown, president of Norwich Univer-
sity, was very interesting one and
and was listened to very attentively,
as it dealt not only with the history
of our wars and revolutions, but also
of matters of daily occurrence which
pertain to the establishment of a law
to govern ones self. The text was
from Prov. 29-lS: "Wherc no vision
is, the people PERISH
The sermon was a grand production
and it is source of regret that space
will not permit the publication of it
throughout. 1t was in substance as
Sollows:-
AS the years roll round and we
grow older, the twelve months seem
shorter than of old, and the annlyer.
sarleS which serve to mark the great
events of our lives seem to come with
greater frequency, the days run into
weeks, and the weeks into years, with
greater rapidity than they did in the
hey-day of youth. And with each
recurring anniversary there comes an
added sense of the importance of
that for which it attends, for we APP
preciate more and more that it is not
simply that another year has been
registered in our lives, but that the
birthday or wedding anniversary, or
whatever it may be, means more than
it has done before. Each anniversary
has it's own message to u.s. and we
ought to fcelits Importance tobe great
err with each recurring year, and, as
we of the Grand Army, assemble upon
another Memorial Sunday, we gather
up once more the lessons included in
that anniversary, lessons of patriotism
and of chivalry, lessons of vision and
of service.
Whoever was the author of the
aphoriSm contained in the text. stat
ed profound truth: truth applica-
BILE not only to nations but to individ-
uals. When we reflect how many
years ago this must have been uttered
and of the deep spirituality cnshrlned
in the words, we must realize that
they involve greater degree of near
ness to God, than we ordinarily think
was to be found in those days.
1t is the presence of the vision at
all stages in it's history that has been
given to the great Anglo
Saxon race, not only in it's island
home, but in its later continental eX-
pansion, where under the skies of
new world 1t has become a great ma
tion, possessing the marvellous power
Of fusing into one homogeneous body,
people of different tongues and of
different political ideas, though the
task has seemed to be difficult one at
times and is pressing most hardly upon
us just now.
1t was this vision which led Column
bus to discover America, which
the first settlers to Virginia
md Massachusetts Bay. 1t was the
vision of future well being of ma
lion yet to come into existence that
ed these settlers through all their
difficulties, until all at once, almost
before they knew how it was done,
they were bound together in their re-
'istance to the oppression of the
mother country. The same vision led
all through the seven
weary years of that war, through the
sorrows of Valley Forge to Yorktown.
A generation ago it was the inSpira-
ion of Lincoln's vision which kept