The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-24
STREW FLOWERS
DER HEROIC DEAD.
Memorial Address at Hebrew Gene
tsry by Or. E. N. caIisch,
JEWISH SOLDIERS IN WAR.
The Speaker Pays High Tribute 70
phcm-Thrce salutcs Fired Over
Graves of Hcrocs-a Largo
Gathcrin. Present.

A large gathering of people attended me
exercises of the Hebrew Ladies Memorial
Association at the Hebrew Cemetery yes
te.day afternoon at O'Clock. In adoi'soh
to the large crowd there were numerous
Confederate veterans there TO assist in
the exercises. Delegations from the Holly
wood and oakwood Memorial Associations,
Lee and Pickett Camps, and the Sons OF
Veterans were also present.
Three salutes were also fired by the
Walker Light Guard over the graves OF
.E,e departed heroes. The graves were
decorated with flowers. Sacred music was
sung by Messrs. VIII Triblett, a T. Car
dozo, Moses May and Mr.. Lehman. Three
beautiful selections were sung by these
gentlemen, after which all present joined
In singing America.
Rev. DIR. E. n. Calisc.l, of Beth Ahaba
Synagogue delivered the memorial ad-
dress. which was highly enjoyed. DR..
Calisch said. in part:
DIR. CALISCHS ADDRESS.
Dear Friends,-Again have the circling
wears rounded 10 us Tie beautiful Memo
rial Day. The wheel Of time may bring
many sweet memories 10 us, but none
more precious than those here recalled;
none more tenderly appealing than tbs
hour OF sanctified remembrance. We
stand at the graves Of heroes, whose love
of liberty was greater than their love of
life. We honor them for the supreme
sacrifice which they laid upon the altar
of their country. For the love of life Is
strong in The human breast, and the i'm
pulse of self-preservation is among the
deepest and most tenacious of its pos
sessions. Men will suffer much, they will
iaf-- Yn,-:r, NF
body and distress Of mind, If the flame
Of life be allowed TO flicker, ever SO family.
That these heroes freely sacrificed what
men so hungrtly guard demonstrates the
boiler heights TO which we may aspire;
the kinshp TO the angels that is ours when
we dare proclaim it. For howsoever dear
is human life. howsoever sacred and tender
are The ties that bind US TO this fair world.
yet life were base and those ties were
sordid and false did they uphold an eye
that was blind to truth, an ear deaf to
the call of duty, or a heart that could
send no patriotic thrill coursinS through
HE frame.
However much we deplore the horrors
OF war. and sigh over Ihe sad fact that
the bullet is still to a great extent the
arbiter of the deStinieS of nations, yet it
is this bloody monster that gives oppor-
1unity for the display of splendid and
heroic virtues. These men, whose bodies
are here resting, felt the thrill of noble
daring, they were animated by lofty and
unselfish purpose, and they gave proof
by their soldiers death Of the heroic
motives that gathered them for the fray
They made the great sacrifice. They laid
the homage Of their lives upon the altar
of their country. and the incense Of their
devotion shall be waited undying fra
GRANGE through the temple Of humanity
for ages yet TO be.
LOVED THEIR COUNTRY.
But l may add that these soldiers, as
Jewish soldiers. did stand for two things
the love of their country and the vindi-
cation of their people. Since the destruc-
ton. of the Jewish nationality, nigh
nineteen hundred years ago, the Jew has
suffered above all things from being mis-
understood. In reality the hero of his
tory. he is regarded as its victim, its
william. Possessed OF sublime courage,
the courage that can suffer and be silent,
he has been charged with cowardice-a
charge that until this century was unre-
lieved. because he was prohibited the op-
portunity to prove its falsehood Denied
the right of home in every land under the
SUM- he was charged with wacI Of patriot
ism.
So we Irvine double wreath of rose
mary and bay, the bays to laurel their
graves. the rosemary for remembrance,
that We may be ever mindful OF their
holy action. May these brave memories be
q priceless. precious possession to us, in
dicating that the path OF honor and OF
glory is the path for us to tread, cen
though it be the path that leads TO the
grave Let this hour be TO Us the in
SEPARATION of the poet:
sound sound the clarion, fill the fife,
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One hour of crowded, glorious life,
Is worth an age without a name"