Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30

cation from the Home, headed by the
band and a drum corps, met joint
delegation of Frank NJ. Thomas post
and w. II. c., and, with a large num-
Der of school children, at the court
house and marched to Riverside, where
the children decorated the graves. "A
service for the unknown dead, in
charge of the w. r. c.. and along the
prescribed lines of the corps ritual,
was conducted.
The Afternoon Program.
The afternoon program at the Home
was largely attended. and the recep-
ton to the town delegations. on the
part of the Home officials and MEM
bership. was most hearty one. Ar
engagements were made by Colonel
Horton, so that IL the weather inter-
ferred for the out door exercises at
Cottage Grove Park. the assembly
hall could be used. Rev. o. n. L. Ma
son, of Boone, formerly pastor of the
Congregation church of Green Noun
tain. ex-chaplain of war, Company II.
of the Forty-ninth Iowa, now chaplain
OF the Fifty third infantry, delivered
the Grafton. The program for the at
ternoon was as follows:
Assembly call at lao.
March to the Home gate to meet
delegations and citizens.
March to the cemetery. the Home
members acting as an escort of honor.
Prayer-William Goemans, chaplain
Phil Sheridan post No. ASP.
Reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg
speech-Comrade John L. Woy.
Strewfng of flowers on the graves by
pupils OF the Hartwell school.
Services In honor OF the unknown
dead-Frank NJ. Thomas w. r. G. Nc.
Salute by firing squad and taps by
bugler.
March to Cottage Grove Park led
by the band.
Prayer-Rev. Nathaniel Pye.
Music-Soldiers' Home band.
Song-Home Glee Club.
Memorial Address-Rev. o. H. L.
Mason. Boone, chaplain Fifty-third
Iowa infantry.
Song-Home Glee Club.
Music-Soldiers' Home band.
Benediction.
Chaplain Mason's Address.
Chaplain Mason took as his subject,
THE Continuity of Events" or Historic
Settings He did not follow the lines
generally accepted and pursued on
Memorial days. by extolling entirely the
deeds OF valor of the veteran soldiery
during the war. In a general way he
paid a glowing tribute to those who
made the great sacrifices and fought
for the country they loved so we'll In
his introduction, Rev. Mason endeavor-
ed to show that in the last analysis all
history is one and connected, and not
a series of isolated incidents. The
civil war, he said, was the logical out
growth of events back even further
than the magma charta. as We're also
the declaration of independence in our
own history, and the constitution of
the rights of man in the history of
France He said that the emancipation
proclamation was really declaration
of personal liberty, as the declaration
of independence was of national liberty.
The second thought advanced by the
speaker was that there had been but
q few great moves or great men or
great events, but that behind all has
been history of preparation, of which
these conspicuous incidents are as the
flower to the seed, or the result to the
cause.
In concluding Rev. Mason showed
that every soldier of the civil war links
himself in actual historic fact with the
brave men OF Runymede. with the sol
diers of the revolution. and with every
other list of heroes who have stood
for human liberty in the past, or who
may in the future fight for the same
great cause.
Rev. Mason's address was received