Evening star., 1901-05-30
M E M 0 R IAL DAY
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graves were in charge of the following
committees:
Committee Of Geo. H. Thomas Post
Post Commander VIM H. Honn. chairman;
Edward Webster,W. F. Reed. H. H. House.
Edwin Sherman, Andrew Luki, l.. B. TOO
ley, Theophile Tieverney, j. j. Stretch,
Wesley Kitchen. Theo. Fitzgerald. Samuel
Beight, A. H. Feathers.
Sons OF Veteraus-Edward K DePuy,
Harry Honn, Samuel Croft.
Woman's Relief Corps-Mrs. Matte P.
Mcclure. president Emma V. Webster;
agnes & keeler s,a @ LIZZIE Crisp Frances ssnsE E.
Mary Thatcher. Rosa B. Meecham.
Program of Exercises.
1t was shortly before II o'clock when
Commander William H. Honn of George
H. Thomas Post called the assemblage in
Glenwood Chapel to order. Adjt. Samuel
Beight then proceeded to read the general
Memorial day orders issued from head
quarters of the Grand Army at st. Louis
and the supplementary orders issued by
Commander Israel Stone of the Department
of the Potomac.
The audience Joined in singing three
verses of America" with Prof. Wilson
Harvey as precentor. The G. A. X. me-
mortal ceremonies which were to have been
conducted by the officers of Thomas POST
were omitted, and instead Rev. B. N. Sey-
mour offered an Invocation. Lincoln'S Get
tysburg address read with impressive
ness Dy AUJC. belSHt, ana Ine bdttlc
Hymn of the Republic was sung by the
audience. Commander Honn then intro
duced Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster. who delivered
a brief but very effective and interesting
address.
First of Twentieth Century.
Mrs. Foster declared that each cycle OF
time a debtor to former cycle and a
creditor of the cycle to come. On this
first Memorial day of the twentieth CEN
,trJy
what is owed by the present generation to
former generations. by this century to the
nineteenth century. Mrs. Foster declared
that whereas the nineteenth century was
given over almost entirely to materiality.
the twentieth century would be spiritual
cycle.
1t was not necessary Mrs Foster de-
clared, to recount the deeds of valor done,
the greatness of the country. its expansion.
its trials and its triumphs. She said 1t
was not necessary to repeat the story of
the civil war.
For you all know 1t, and know it we'll
she continued. Were you an audience of
children | would repeat the story of that
strife. We must not let charity dissolve
the gray matter of the brain that we
cannot understand differences. There 1s
difference between loyalty and disloyalty,
and we must let our children and our
grandchildren know the story.
Created Standards.
Resuming. she spoke of the fact that the
last century and the men who worked in it
had created standards. Standards, she de-
clared, are the marks of distinction be-
tween the savage and the civilized. The
twentieth century opens with higher stand
ards of public and private character and
national duty than have heretofore been
known. She spoke of the pretty tributes
that are being paid today to the soldier
dead. and said that the magnificent, mystic
rious flowers reflect the standard of senti-
ment which has been raised.
money-mad.' said Mrs. Foster, that our
lives are given to the pursuit of the al
mighty dollar. On Memorial day our dol
lars are poured out. L thank God for the
means He has given US for having money
and making money and the spirit that does
not let our advantages go to waste. And
while make money and have money, we
also spend money. There standards
in everything.
What was it that led our sons to go into
the war of 1898? Why were they not de-
tered by the story of your hardships and
suffering? Just this. my friends: There was
in them the standard that had been set in
the COS. and it could not help but show it
SELF
Mrs. Foster said that the flag was a
standard and that wherever it floats a
standard is raised.
The audience sang Nearer. My God, to
Thee and Rev Mr.. Seymour pronounced
the benedictfon.