The age-herald., 1900-06-04
SERVICES IN MEMORY
 OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
Exercises Held in Reunion Hall to Celebrate Ann-
 versary of Birth of Confederate President

tesy and a heart as tender as womans, notwithstanding the sternness of the life" General Lee said the southern people loved Jefferson Davis because he had suffered for them. "He was a Prometheus, chained to a rock" said General Lee. "The clumsy cruelty of putting irons on MT. Davis thrilled the south and she has not yet re- covered from the shock The fierce light that beat on the life of Jefferson Davis re-, vealed no blot or blemish, but showed only the image of a spotless life on the white screen of history"
 General Lee said MT. Davis underwent all his suffering for every Confederate sol- dier, for they were all as much to blame as MT. Davis.
 The Rev. Carter Helm Jones of Louisville read the 12th chapter of Hebrews, from the first two verses of which, immediately after the reading of the Scriptures, the Rev. J. William Jones of Virginia, chaplain-general Of the United Confederate Veterans, preached the annual sermon. MT. Jones, after telling how Napoleon exhorted his soldiers at the battle of the Pyramids, and how, later, the French soldiers were ani- mated by being told that the eyes of their emperor were on them, said the soldiers of Lee were iliSplISu HI lIS way 1AS then told the well-known incident of Spott- sylvania, when, after Hancocks charge, 1t seemed that the Army of Northern Virginia would be cut in two, General Lee had ridden to the front as if to lead the charge of the Confederates; how General John B. Gordon, grasping the bridle of "Old Traveller" had cried, Men, is it necessary that General Lee lead this charge? You have never failed me; will you fail me now?" After the soldiers had replied with a cheer, Lee to the rear," General Gordon said, Charge, and remember that the eyes of your chief are on you"
 The Conft derate Veteran The Rev. MT. Jones then applied his text, saying that the Confederate Veterans of to- day were compassed around with witnesses and eyes are. them. And then, elaborat- ing, he remnd,1 them of their duties in the present day. He said that he wished to pay special attention to the rank and file of the Confederate army, for he believed that the world had never seen such sol ders. He said the north had twenty mill lion population; the south, five million whites; the United States enlisted two mill lion eight hundred thousand men, the south
 
 north had factories, armores, equipment, transportation and the world as it's store house, while the south had only leadership patriotism and bravery Yet" he said, the south maintained the fight for four years and yielded at last, not conquered, but weared out with victory"
 He would not disparage the leaders, but they could not have accomplished what they |. did without these men. General Robert E. Lee had said that the real heroes of the war were not the men of rank, but the men of the ranks. When General Gordon was cheered at the banquet in Richmond on the occasion of the unveiling of the Lee statue, he had replied: Comrades, you cheer the wrong man; cheer the men who made Cor don.'
 Christian Soldiers
 Saying that among Cromwelps round heads or the crusaders, there were not as many Christians as in the Confederate army, the Rev. MT. Jones spoke at great length on the religious life of the Confed- crate soldiers. He said pastor often went to the front with majority of the male members of his church. Among the first | regiments that came to Virginia from 1cOISid lItTe WdS one that Hdu IIIy mem- bers of the same church in one company Another regiment had 400 men of the de- nonination Another, five ministers of the gospel in the ranks. The Rev MT. Jones described in detail the services that were held in a Confederate army often on the eve of a great battle, at the end of a long, hard days march, when the tired soldiers would rise from the ground to gather under the trees and listen to the chaplains. He then gave figures from the minutes of the Chaplain's association as to the number of conversions in the Con- federate army, and paid tribute in turn to the lives of the leaders of the Confed- eracy, beginning with Jefferson Davis, whom he called "the Confederacys Christ ian president" He said he would not speak of Jefferson Davis as a statesman, an orator, a soldier or a cultivated gen. tleman, though he was all of these, but he would speak of him as a Christian. He then told of MT. Davis connection with St. Paurs church in Richmond during the war and quoted from Dr. Minnegerode's me- morial address on MT. Davis. He called attention to the fact that Lees message announcing that Richmond would have to be evacuated reached MT. Davis in pew at St. Paul's church He described how MT. Minnegerode had administered the sacrament to MT. Davis in the casemate at Fortess Monroe after having waited until MT. Davis could say that he had forgiven his enemies. "And," added the Rev. MT. Jones ingeniously, he showed more Christ ian spirit, am afraid, than could show even at this day"
 He also told how Jefferson Davis asked Dr. Minnegerode to pray with him after they had returned to his hotel when MT. Davis was released on bond after the war, and concluded his sermon with an exhorta- ton to his old comrades of the Confeder- ate army, who he said, with Dayis and Lee and Jackson must soon "crOss over the river and rest in the shade of the trees"
 The exercises closed with the benedic- ton by the Rev. Mr. Jones.
 Mrs. Gladstone In ComatOse Condition
 London, June 3.-It is announced this afternoon that Mrs. Gladstone is in a semi-