The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-07-05
ISHES OF GLORY.


Above its place of rest.
No trumpet's note need harshly blare,
No drum beat funeral roll,
Nor trailing sables drape the bier
That frees dauntless soul.
1t lived with Lee and decked his brow
From Fate's imperial Palm;
II sleeps the sleep of Jackson, now
AS spotless and as calm.
1t was outnumbered, not Outdone;
And they shall, shuddering, tell,
Who struck the blow, its latest gun
| Flashed ruin as it fell.
Sleep, shrouded Ensign not the breeze :.
That smote the victor tar
With death across the heaving seas
OF fiery Trafalgar
Not Arthur's Knights, amid the gloom
Their knightly deeds have starred;
Not Gallo Henry's matchless plum,
Nor peerless born Bayard-
Not all that antique fables feign,
And Orient dreams disgOrge;
Nor yet the silver cross of Spain,
| The lion of st. George
Can bid thee pale. Proud emblem, still
Thy crimson glory shines
Beyond the heightened shades that FIJI
Their proudest kingly lines.
Sleep in thine own historic night
And be thy blazoned scroll:
A warriors banner takes its flight
To greet warriors soul.
TWO REMARKABLE PRAYERS.
When the old Confederate Chaplain
General, the Rev. William Jones, de-
livered the opening invocation at the
Confederate Soldiers reunion at Mem.
phis and prayed to the God of Israel,
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
God of Jefferson Davis, Sidney John.
son. Robert Z. Lee and Stonewall
JacksOn-God OF our common country
God of our Southland" the whole
country went wild over the event,
and it was quite an innovation.
| After referring to the great Confed-
crate commanders, Chaplain Jones
prayed that the Lord would bless all
Confederate Veterans, "make them in
the future, as in the past, true to duty;
forbid that they should ever forget
the hallOwed memories OF the past, or
fail to teach their children of the
great principles of constitutional free.
dom, which our fathers established,
and for which we fought in the brave
old days OF '6l'65."
There was about this prayer an elec.
trio thrill that stirred every heart in
the South. But, after all, it was ex.
pected that the old chaplain, who had
lived all his life in the South, and
followed the flag OF the Lost Cause for
four long years, would speak most
kindly of the heroes of his native land.
Still, the prayer was most extraordi-
nary, and was received with applause
throughout the whole country. The
South admired it for its patriotism,
and the North applauded it because
OF its beauty and audacity.
Now we have another remarkable
prayer, that delivered by Archbishop
Ryan, OF Philadelphia, Pa, on the
occasion OF the Industrial Convention
held in that city. The sentiment OF
magnaniinity and patriotism that pre-.
vades the entire prayer, Is beautiful
and SINCERE, and especially will the
handsome reference to the people of
the South be appreciated in this sec.
ti0n.
1t is printed in full below. Read
and preserve II:
"Oh, Eternal God, who hath so loved
the children OF men as to teach them
to call Thee Father, who hath declared
that If Il woman could forget the child
she bore Thou wouldst not forgive us;
Who hath said that We should ask OF
Thee, Oh, Bountiful Father, our daily
bread; Behold the representatives OF u
great people, who today ask Thee for
that daily bread, and ask Thee To
bless and fructify the vast resources
OF the land which Thou didst give to
them, and to develop these resources
with industrial cooperation Of the
| Northern brethren. Thou knowest,
Oh God, that when these people OF
the South did seek 10 separate from
these Northern brothers they did 1t
not from mercenary motives. but i'm.
PEELED by the belief that loyalty To
their own State required the act; that
no dishonored stain has soiled the
conQured banner, and that after the
conquest, after Thy council and ac.
cording to thy example, both North
ern and Southern men met tn forgive
and forget. with II magnanimity, with
a readiness, unparalleled In the his
tory Of the human race.
"Therefore do they come, Oh Lord,
to ask Thy benedicMon on hands that
but yesterday were lifted up In strife,
and now grasp each other Ia fond ai.
fectlon. Bless these Joined hands.
Bless and enlighten the deliberations