The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-04-29
Parade One of the Splendid and Interesting
Features of the Day and Successfully
Made--Business Session One'of
Success--Address of Wei
come by Mayor.

visiting comrade. Then followed spec
ial music by the choir of the church: then
responsive scripture reading; next the
singing of the hymn, Am Soldier Of
the Cross?"
Grand Chaplain Taylor Richmond. who
conducted the services, requested the
reading of memoirs by the Woman's Re
lief Corps and the Ladies OF the G. \. r.
The chaplain of the former read very
beautiful tribute to a member Of tic
Corps, who died within the year past.
Mrs. Mary Hall, of Wheeling. in be-
helf of the latter made short, but feel
ing address and received much applause.
The Rev. Richmond then delivered an
appropriate. mastery sermon, the main
outline OF which was as follows:
Divine revelation makes known to US
our origin. We are not the creatures
of chance, but of design divine design.
God IS our creator. We are by creation
the sons of God and however great the
variety or beauty or gradeur found in
all the works of God, man Is the MASTER
piece; on man is placed the crowning
glory OF all Gods handiwork.
Man. with his superb physical organ
ism. within which is bound up The pos
,ibilities OF long life, even t. a. much
IS century of years. His remarkable
mental powers. by which he grapples con
fdently with the most subtle problems Of
nature. surveys the earth and the seas.
computes their dimensions and diseov-
crs their properties, explores the depths
Of the seas and brings up from their
hidden chambers and from the bowels Of
the mountains their treasures. and with
these enriches and adorns his habita-
ton: asecnds the heavens and inyesti-
gates the sun and moon and stars; dis
overs their systems, measures their
magnitude and learns their relation to
ZACH other. approaches familiarly the
storm cloud and in its deep toned thun.
Ter hears sweet music. and grasps the
ightning Of heaven and makes It his
servant.
But these physical and mental quail.
les are but the minor parts Of his high
r and trucr nature. He is an immor-
tai being, possessed Of spiritual ma.
turc BY which be ascends to the very
throne OF the Almighty, claims relation
ship with the Diety. and makes himself
familiar with the everlasting babitation
Of the angels. If at all man be lower
than the angels of heaven. he is only
little lower. Oh, what a dignity, what
an honor to be a man!
] believe If We could, or rather would.
but appreciate what it means to be
man. the question OF what kind Of men
we are to be would be settled II we
would but understand the grandeur of
the career which our Creator has de-
signed MS for. no man could afford to
live on low plane. or sell his birthright
At any price. But in the midst Of all
the splendor of our nature and the glory
Of our surroundings, there comes 10 us
the consciousness that the seeds of death
are sown in our mortal bodies read
1T is appointed unto man once to die"
Here cloud overcasts our way, our day
seems sinking into impenitrable night;
but from without this cloud and COON
God speaks to reassure US. He reminds
us OF our Immortality of spirit, and an.
nounccs the resurrection of our bodies,
and thus opens to US larger possibili
ties OF achievement, broader fields Of
activity. an eternity of glorious useful
ness and felicity. in a world of eternal
duration, associated with angels and re-
deemed spirits immortalized and gIori-
fed.
The sum, the substance Of all this, and
more. is embraced in two words in our
text-Eternal Life. What a world! Eter-
nal life. 1t means death forever van
quishcd; death, the conqueror, conquer.
Cd. Life. unmarried by weakness or pain.
uncIouded by. sorrow, life with all the
glorious possibilities which can be bound
up in or grow out of life. Life, Peren-
nial. eternal life, IS the prize set before
every man.
!. This prize Of eternal lie may be
won BY every man. but only by earnest,
hCoric fidelity to God and righteousness.
The conditions under which we are to
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