Arizona republican., 1906-05-28
THE MEMORIAL SERMON
 Al FIRST M. F. CHURCH
Large Audience Listened to Words of
 Truth and Wisdom.

| Rev Alexander R. MacLean of the 1 First Methodist church was never | heard to better advantage by a Phoenix congregation than last evening, when he delivered a Memorial sermon replete with illustrations. sayings and thoughts most appropriate to the occasion. His listeners were the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Women 8 Relief Corps, SDanish-American War Veterans. members of the National Guard and several hundred men and women not affiliated with these organ izations. Preceding the address, a quartet composed of E. P. Wilson. J. w. Todd, T. M. Donnell and Karl Dowd sang two selections and MT. Will son, with Prof. Elmer Todd accom- panying, sang q solo Forever With the Lord" Chaplain Scott read the scripture lesson and offered a prayer
 The church had been decorated for the occasion with flags and flowers.
 Taking for his text the seventh verse of the fourth chapter of Joshua, And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever" MT Mac Lean likened to the lessons gain ed from the Civil war through the acts of the soldiers participating unto the rocks of monument similar to
 
 on a rivers bank many years ago, which monument was built in memory of the passing of the children of Isra- eI dry-shod over the river Jordan into the land ct their possession. To the speaker, Memorial Day was different than other holidays in that other Oc- casiOns praised institutions while Me morial Day gloriies men.
 Too true to him were the words of the immortal Lincoln. who. in the fam ous speech delivered at Gettysburg, said that future generations would have little care for what he said there, but would pever forget what had been done there. In the presence of the empty sleeved veterans. weanened arms and limbs. dimmed eyes, the wid- OWs and the orphans and the women and the men who wait and watch for the check provided by the government for a part of their sustenance, never could one forget the injuries they suf- fered. Such occasions as the one of last evening were. in the mind or the speaker held to emphasize the princi- pies for which the Grand Army of the Republic fought and died and to keep ever fresh in the minds of the nation the history of the great war.
 MT. Mac Lean recalled the writings of Sir Walter Scott. who described "OId Mortality as going through the graVeyards of Scotland chiseling anew the names ObIterated by time, and ! when he was asked to explain, the old man replied he wished to see the he roes of yesterday march forward siCe by side with the youth of today One ! is liable to think that a soldier iu a grave fOrty-five years is hardly de- serving of decoration by flowers. but
 quoting some unknown author the speaker recalled Time but freshens the
 laurels of our Republics great defend CTS.
 The custom of the day. particularly | the decorating of the last resting place., ! of the dead. should never be given up. 1 The speaker called attention to tho fact that for three hundred years the pupils in the schools of Greece were required to speak over the names of the three hundred Spartans who held the pass of ThermOpylae against the ! invading hosts of Persia. Young Amer ica to his way of thinking, could not afford to forget the mighty achieve ments of the c. A. R. the greatest of all armies
 In the preparation of that army. ac- cording to the speaker, the Lord had given fifty years of peace and years of ! unprecedented prosperity. Schoo. | houses were all over the north. and the manhood of that section was edu- cated. A free press had discussed un- trampled, every issue before the coun- 1 try of that day. Out of this. the sol - 1 dlers of the army came. It was not U | nm surprising that the United State should be chosen for the place where peace between nations yt-a- eoc,,,.,I Cr the nations of the old world Israel was l the law maker. Rome tended to organ lzatton; modern England was the most aggressive in the work of christianity. but the United States is all these com bined and more. too. Such a country was made possible by the victories of