The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-31
HONOR The DEAD.
Memorial Services Held According to
Custom at the Baptist Church
Sunday Evening.
A TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS.
Rev. Corey Delivers an Eloquent Sermon,
Lessons From Life of Apostle st. Paul
Large Crowd in Attendance.

Lessons From Life of Apostle st. Paul
Large Crowd in Attendance
The annual Memorial services under
the auspices of the Fred S. Lowell Post
of the q. A. r. and the Womans Re.
lief Corps was held on Sunday evening
at the Baptist church, and notwith.
standing the busy time that the old
soldiers are passing through at the
present, a large number of them turned
out to pay this, the first tribute of the
decoration day season, to the memory
of their fallen comrades. The mem
bers of the G. A. r. Post and the corps
gathered at the hall at seven O'Clock
and with flags and banners waving,
marched in silent procession to the
to the church. AT the church special
places had been assigned for the sol
diers and the crowd of friends of the
boys in blue filled up the entire capa-
city of the church. Marching with the
soldiers were the old friends z. G.. Sim
mons and c. A. Dewey.
On account of the presence of the
! veterans special music had been pro.
vided for the choir and while the
soldiers marched into the church Mr.
Bailey, who presided at the organ,
thrilled their hearts again with the
old melodies made sacred by the memo
ries of many bloody battlefield. The
sermon was preached by Rev. l. w.
Corey, pastor of the church, and he
paid touching tribute to the memory
of the dead and the undying fame OF
the living,
Mr.. Corey said in part:
There is nothing more fitting than
that the old soldiers should gather in
the house of God to honor the memory
of their fallen comrades, and it was
just as fitting that the Women's Relief
Corps should gather with them, for by
your 1abors of love and he1pfulness
you have endeared yourselves to the
hearts of the old soldiers and your work
for them and for the wives and chill.
dren Of the boys who fell have given
you honor and reputation among all
men.
Mr.. Corey chose military text for
his sermon, taking the words of St.
Paul to Timothy: Eight the Good
Fight of Faith, Lay Hold on Eternal
Life" He said that it would be use
less for him to call up again the i'm
agery of war, for the old soldier knows
too we'll what war means. That there
was no reason to rehearse scenes to
which he was so familiar. These me-
mortal days carry the minds back to
other scenes-the struggle of anticipa-
ton when you hurried to the city to
see if war was certainty-the time
when you considered the probability of
your taking part in the confict-the
emotions of enlistment, of the recruit
ing station, and the memory of that
other day when tears came unbidden to
your eyes as you went to say farewell
to home, to kiss a mother, wife or
sweetheart and then marched away to
the battle to fight for the liberty of the
slave and the preservation of Union.
Those were exciting times. The beat
of the drum, the falling into line, the
booming cannon, the bursting shell,
the flowing blood, the fallen comrade-
that was the conflict.
The speaker then drew a picture of
the contrasts and simi1arities between
the fight of the earthly and the spirit
ua1 and drew lessons for the old sol
der. In the course of his remarks Mr..
Corey took up the important questions
of the day. In part he said:
cat the close of the Revolution God
planted the tree of liberty on our
shores, not that this people alone
should be free, but that the seeds
should be swept across the seas to
other benighted countries. That
statue of liberty en1ightening the
world is becoming to be reality, and
to Columbia the whole world looks for
the great lessons of human liberty.
Your work in the civil war has made
this spread of liberty possible. It was
not possible for country half slave
and half free to teach liberty to a
world. The release of the slaves made
it possible for this country to stand on
the right basis and say that every land
should be free. The cry of suffering
in Cuba was waited across the seas and
the sound of it was heard in the work
shop, at the pillow and in the Offices and
in tin1e an army was marching, not to
war of se1fishness, conquest or gain,
but to a war for liberty of conscience,
liberty of worship and liberty in all
things. Cuba was released from the
tyranny of Spain and it is the duty OF
this nation to give them absolute free
dom as soon as she is able to assert a
self government. The civil war made
the Spanish war possible and the free
dom of Cuba was only another of the
fruits of the great struggle"