Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-04-25

exercises, - land that all flags be put
at half mast -
The Sunday preceding the 30th of
May is known as Memorial Sunday. 1t
is the practice for POSTS tn attend divine
service ON that day and acknowledge
their debt o. gratitude to Almighty
God. Let this practice be carried out
by every pest in this department, and
it is urged on post commanders that it
is their duty to get full attendance
OF the comrades and march TO church
in body on that day. The posts of
Wilmington will hold memorial services
in the Grand Opera House on Sunday,
May Goth, at 2.30 p. In. Comrades are
requested to meet mt their posts and
march tn the Grand Opera House 10
body in uniform.
In order to give an object lesson on
patriotism to the youths of our nation,
details of comrades in uniform from
each post in this department are OK
pected to visit all the schools in their
vicinity at the school session next pre-
ceding Memorial Day, 10 make ad-
dresses to the children, impress their
young minds, and prompt them to
emulate in their maturer years the
chisalry of the men of 1861 to 1865.
1--WE should guard the graves of our
comrades with pious vigilance, lot no
wanton foot tread rudeiy on such
hallowed ground; let pleasant paths
invite the coming aud going of revefent
visitors ard fond mourners; let no
vandalism Of avarioe or neglect, no
ravages of time, testify to the present
or to coming generations that we have
forgotten as people the cost of free
and undivided republic.
From the programmes, the PRO.
cessions, the music, the flags and
patriotic addresses OF the day, lessons
comes hallowed influence which
tends to make all who enter into the
exercises of the occasion better citizens
to keep pure the sources of national
life, and to strengthen the nation by
increasing our love of country. Let our
services at the beginning of the
twentieth century be of the hest. Dc
not hurry the decorating service toe
much, quiet moment spent in re.
Election in the presence OF the graves
of our comrades is in keeping with the
purposes Of the day. Invite the soldiers
of the late war, the State troops anc
citizens all to take part. Decorate
the graves of our soldiers Of all the
wars our country has been engaged 10.
Following is President Lincon's ad
dress at Gettysburg, November 10Th,
1863: -Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon thii
continent new nation, conceived il
liberty ana dedicated to the proposition
that all men were created equal. Nov
We are engaged in a great Civil War
testing whether that natiUn or an,
other nation so conceived and so dedi
Gated, can long endure. We are met OF
great battlefield of the war. We ar,
met to dedicate portion of it as tn
final resting place of those who hav,
given their lives that tire nation nigh
live 1t is altogether fitting and prope
that we should do this, but, in a large
sense. we cannot dedicate, . we canno
consecrate, we cannot hallow thi
ground. The brave men, living an,
dead, who struggle here, have con
secrated it far above our power to adj
or detraot. The world will very lIttl
: note, nor long remember what we sa
here; but it can never forget what the
did here. 1t is for US, the living, rathe
to be dedicated here to the unfinishe
work, that they have thus far so nobl
carried on.
! 1t is rather for us to be here dedi
: Gated to the great task remainin
before us; that from these honore
/, dead We take increased devotion [
1 that cause for which they here CAV
. the last full measure of devotion; tina
= we here highly resolve that these dea
: shall not have died in vain-that th
. nation shall, under God, have ne
birth of freedom, and that goyernmer
= of the people, by the people, for ii
q people, shall not perish from Ii
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