The times., 1901-05-27
ALL HONOR FOR SOLDIERS.
Veterans Applaud the Patriotic SEN
tfments of the Rev DIR. Bristol.


At the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church last
night the memorial service in memory
| Of the deceased comrades OF the G. a
R. was held The audience. composed al
most entirely of members of the G. y. R.
and Union Veterans Union. with their
families, completely filed the spacious
structure.
The enthusiasm of the veterans was
aroused by ar eloquent sermon, delivered
by the pastor. DR.. Bristol, eulogistic of
the heroes of the civil war, and found ex-
precision in unrestrained applause. At the
conclusion Of the discourse a motion was
made and carried to have the address
printed for circulation
The platform was embowered with flow
ers and palms, and everywhere the Amer
lean colors were displayed. Upon the
platform were seated Israel NJ. Stone,
Commander Of the Department of the Po-
tomac, G. \. R., and other departmental
officers and Gen. r. z. Dyrenforth, Com
mander-in-Chief~ of the Union Veterans
Union and other national officers of that
order.
The ceremonies commenced with a brief
address of welcome by the pastor, fol-
lowed by prayer by Chaplain Black. U.
Y, L. After the singing of a hymn, Chap
lain Stevens, D. p, G. y. r., read the
Scripture lesson.
DIR. Bristol chose for his text, Romans,
viii:I3, Render to all. then. their due,
and honor to whom honor is due" He
said, in part:
While universal peace like a shaft of
light is spread across the land, every gar
den is growing flowers for soldiers graves.
Memorial Day approaches when once
more the spirits of heroes viii mingle
with us. 1t is a blessed recollection day
1t win be Il day of wondrous memories
of haIlowed deeds.
Look again into the faces of these
heroes of '6l-65-young men just up from
the schools, out of the workshop, off the
farm. boys who stiI loved the circus,
youths who had just learned to love,
young men Just engaged. fathers fond
ling their first babes. If the companions
of those days could rise from their
graves. they would still be young men,
not like you grey-headed aged men.
.On the graves of the dear great dead
Will be placed wreaths and palms. and
garlands plucked from the home gardens
and the air viii swell with martial music,
the drum viii beat, and the bugle will
sound taps, while the village chorus sings
Elsewhere only the birds viii sing. Here
the orators will discourse at length. eX-
tOlinE the glOTies of the dead, while yon-
der only the rain Will drop its tribute to
the halIowed graves.
.Hallowed forever be that day which
the nation has cOnsecrated to the memory
of it's soldier dead. The memory which
the nation shows for the deeds of the
past is it's incentive for like deeds in
the future The descendants of ReVolu-
sireS rose from every tireside to
emulate the deeds of the sires.
Honor. and eternal honor to the living
and the dead, who, by their valor. have
saved the Union.
Without your deVOtiOns, without vour
the foundations of the Republic
would have been Vain-the discovery of
the continent, the settlement Of the Pill
less. Without your deeds history would
have had to have been done over
BATTLES are the great footprints bloody
though they are, of the worlds steady
progress in civilization. The war of the
rebellion, with all its cost, paid; it saved
the Union, the Union as il is today, as il
win be in the future. Applause
If the only way to preserve peace is
by force, If the only way to destroy
tyranny is to make war, then let the evil
of war go on, that eternal good may
come out OF il.
''All the world is better because of the
good those dead heroes have done. Dead2 I
No, they live in all the greatness and
goodness TO which the nation aspires. 1t
was the love of liberty. the love of coun-
try, the love of union, that sent them out
to the strife. We owe a debt of perpetual |
gratitude to the men who saved the Re |
public. Above all other benefactors !
should they be eXtolled
I'VE are repaid for all the trials and |
entailcd by the civil war by the