The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-08
TO VETERANS
DIR. RICE SPEAKS TO MEMBERS OF
 CAMP LoMAx.
Methodist Minister Made Eloquent AL Iusions to Confederate Soldiers, and Declared Their Cause
 Was Not Lost.

Rev. John A. Rice, D. D.. pastor of the Court Street Methodist Church yes- terday afternoon at S:30 o'clock ad- dressed the members of Camp Lomax, United Confederate Veterans, at the camp headquarters in the office of Com mander J. B. Fuller on South Court Street.
 A goodlx number of the camp, mem, bers heard a scholarly. forceful ana Dr. Rice was introduced by Major B. M Washburn, Secretary or the Camp. who presided. Several hymns were sung by the In nrsye9 We,eer"S ana
 pr. Rice's topic was that although the Confederacy Is spoken Of as the Lost Cause,'' the cause was not lost In that 1t was a good cause. He said that all were moved blythe return Of the battle flags, and 1t forcibly remind ed one that the war Is over and there is nothing to remember but lost cause."
 He asked if the carse was lost or are there any lost causes? The success or failure of a cause has nothing 10 do with the value of the cause success is irs is not getting what we seek, put IS m giving what we have in a cause which will reflect creditably in the eyes Of the Heavenly Father. l.,
 The soldiers of the Confederacy Tn the early sos heard an important call, he said They realized that a great world movement was atoot. Many oI them had nothing to gain by entering the army. The rank and file had few negroes and less wealth to lose Tn the service and they could have been seI- ishly indifferent to the call. But oe- ing men of the sta%P sg2srwars wafch to 'nsy be they could not be indifferent.
 Dr. Rice urged that the Veterans De just as brave and unseltsh In these days as they were forty years ago. lie Saia That many world movements are on foot now. The observant people afe alive to this fact. Everything IS changing. The old theology Is being changed and thinking men are revis. ing and adding to and cutting out things from the faith of our forefath- CTS There are racial and social ques- l tions, the question of capital ana Iapor' ,,, , tegrity. All changes of importance | come from honest convictions and peo- pie of this day and time are looking men of iron. who forty years ago fough: | a losing fight, but a fight that is now
 recognized as just. the world over. He urged that while we honor the; the cherish the living. The measure oi success is determined by the unreaiized dreams of success. He cited the case
 of Moses. who, aiter fofty Sys goi Tonised d land, was never allowed to do more than see 1t from a, distance. He elo-
 quentiy declaie ed that the auusicns
 were the blessings He said that Moses never regretted his having led the children of lsraSl | from Egypt. because he himself did noS see the promised land, nor did Lee and | Jackson and the men who fought their
 battles regret their fight because they | lost. .1S>,,o1.,, o, | impressing on a young man, the trials | of life. when he viewed the future hopefully. He closed in an eloquen: anpeaI for a constant striving for the | perfect state which can never be at-
 The camp was dismissed with a ben
 diction by Chaplain Dix.