The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-27

George R. Doran, Treasurer, Ladies Me morial Association.
 Second Carriage--Rabbi A. J. Messing. Chaplain; Colonel W. l.. Martin. Chair | man: Miss Katherine Ely, Recitationist Third Cariage-Judge W. H. Thomas, Orator; Miss Nomia Carter. Songstress. Ladies' Memorial Association. Daughters of the Confederacy. Daughters of the Revolution. Mayor Joseph and Council. The Cemetery Reached. The approach of the procession to the cemetery was announced by a salute of cannon fired by a detachment of the Montgomery Artillery, stationed near the gates.
 The big procession reached Oakvood Cemetery shortly after o'clock. Piloted by the platoon of mounted police. the string of carriages. followed by the mar shals on horseback and the military com panies, wended their way through the main entrance which was appropriately decorated with miniature Confederate flags and a streamer which bors the let
 tering. Their Path of Duty Led to Their Glory"
 As the procession entered the cemetery. | the Montgomery Military Band began playing funeral march. On by the pa vilion the procession went and the mem bers of the Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confectionery applauded the battle-scarred heroes as they began | to arrive in the carriages and tailyhoes. The band took up a position near the | pavilion, and as the ladies and veterans alighted from the vehicles. softly played Nearer, My God, to Thee When Col W. l.. Martin, acting as | chairman. arose to call the assembly to order, he looked out upon an inspiring scene. Hundreds of men. women and chil-
 dren crowded near the pavilion and stood with upturned faces. The incense of sweet spring flowers was in the air and soft balmy breezes swept across the beau | tiful city of the dead.
 Invocation by MT. Messing. After calling the assembly to order. Colonel Martin introduced Rabbi A. ]. Messing. Jr., who offered the following eloquent tnvocation: Almighty God: Here around us in that peace which the world cannot give or | take away. lie the unnumbered dead. Un- | arshalled save by their own deeds. the mystic armies sweep before HIS wearing | their wounds like stais.' Watered by | our deepest tears are these silent mounds | of earth in which our warriors sleep wrapped in the stainless knighthood of | the old gray jacket.
 We thank Thee for the imperishabale
 grandeur of their self-sacriflcc Theirs | the unutterable glory to hunger, to sui | fer and to die in brave defense of right as each one saw the right. but we thank 1 Thee that for everyone that died a thous- | and stood ready to die.
 May their story never bc forgot. while Fame her record keeps or Honor points ! the halIowed spote where Valor proudly | sleeps.
 "Graciously bestow Thy benediction | upon the patriotism. devotion and con
 scieutious convictions of Southern wo- l Thnir fO
 offer their lives: they gave instead their | happiness. May their example remain ! through all ages as precious a memorial | as the rich libations of blood poured out by their brave husbands. brothers and | fathers on the field of battle. "Praise be unto Thee for reunited people Standing on this consecrated soil,
 we thank Thee, Our Father, that we are at peace as they who sleep beneath the | sod with one flag overhead and not & single star dropped from it's place. These | gentle flowers with which We crown our | martyrs tombs, know neither side in | arms Mute emblems of our undying | love, they draw no lines. They give their
 fragrance freely to the Blue and the Gray, asleep beneath the soil made richer by their blood and watered by the tears of | North and South No mother weeps the | less because her boy was Blue or Gray. ] He was her child. That Is enough and now she gives him all her tears. remem- | bering only this that he is dead | For the sake of the indissoluble union | of the American States, for the sake of | the deathless brotherhood of the Ameri- can people. may North and South, Blue
 and Gray. one in nature. of one substs nee bred follow on beneath the one flag | that has never yet dropped in defeat or 1 been folded in dishoner and may that ban ner of the stars bring to all men every | ! <fa~-4s~unS o,n DawM IA.