The San Francisco call., 1906-05-28
Memorial Sentiments
Preached From
Pu1pits,
Judge Waste Delivers
an Address in
Berkeley.

cnuFCneS unueT ulIeCllOI Vi NceCiei eilA'
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
At Berkeley, Judge William H.
Waste, of the Superior Court of Ala
media County delivered the memorial
address tonight to the Veterans of the
war. who attended
memorial services in a body at the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
South. All the veterans of the war
residing in Berkeley we're present.
Judge Waste spoke in part as fol-
lows:
1t seems but yesterday, yet few years
less than ten have rolled by since be-
loved President Mckinley sent our, ma
tons soldiers and sailors into battle to
avenge an insult to our country's nag
people. In the swiftly moving panorama
of those days from 1898 to 1902 great
events followed each other so swiftly
that the Cuban war and the Phihppine ae
insurrection are still like living pictures
in our minds.
we gather tonight to greet you. the sur.
viving actors in the great struggle or
those years, and in the name OF the
country, in the name OF liberty 70 tnanK
you. Our eyes search in vain AMIDST your
ranks for some familiar forms ana races;
You are not all here. Time and the sword
have thinned your ranks Some are
gathered and live only to their country
in her grateful remembrance and the
luster of their own bright examples. fer
them we wreath our choicest garlands
and cherish their memory as our nation
choicest heritage.
OF their deaths may we not say, IN
the sweet words of the poet
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
BY all their country's wishes blest.
When spring with dewy fingers cold.
Return to deck their hallowed mold,
She there shall dress sweeter sod
Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
VETERANS RESPONSIBILITIES
A grateful country has set apart day
on which to commemorate the glorious
deeds and deaths of our nations heroes,
an occasion upon which we may also
say unto you who are still with US: we
pray Gods richest blessings may be yours
country you may always be true!'
In those days of war and conquest you
were equal to the responsible task set
before you and an honorable peace has
followed your victories. Peace hath her
victories, no less renowned than those
of war," and in those conquests OF peace
full life your place is in the forefront
The responsibility of this Government
rests upon the people. The complicated
machinery by which the eighty million
people of the United States govern them
selves has meyer ,s,Iu ana M never VIII answer Hy
constitution seeking to devise a gov
ernment that would secure the blessing
of liberty to themselves and their pos
people, for the people and by the people.
Declaring themselves free from royal
tyranny and foreign interference in the
affairs of the new nation. in support of
this declaration with a firm reliance on
the protection of divine Providence they
mutually pledged to each other their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor
More than a century has rolled around
and the lives, fortunes and honor of
Americans have never been wanting to
make good this pledge OF our forefathers.
Today, no less than during the century
past, requires the willing and unsefish
GO operation of many minds, the COM
bination of many independent factors, in
every forward step for the general well
chinery divided by our pure minded fore
fathers of the eighteenth century to tho
complex and varied condition of this
twentieth century requires an adaptability
masses of our people. For the sake of
principle men must lay aside their diff
ferences upon less important matters and
ought everywhere battle together for the
common good.
SIMPLE LIFE NEEDED.
In these strenuous days of rapid pro-
gress. great mobilization of capital and
accumulation of wealth, the simple aims
and objects of the founders of our Gov
eminent are too often completely for
gotten. A doctrine of greed and ambition
too often misplaces our ideals of justice
and fair play. and many of US could not
give ready answer to the elf-inposed
question, Am / my brothers keeper?'
Happily for our country's honor our
nations history has been bright along this
line. May no desire for ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
for national greatness or worldly position
ever be our guiding star.
American civilization was established
and built by men of severe and rugged
virtue, who were deeply fmbued with re-
ing and God-loving people Their customs
and law were pervaded with and almost
controlled by lofty purposes and high
ton is TO continue to meet and adjust
the. great social business and national
problems in way consistent with truth
and justice there must be a return to
the simple life and living of our fore
fathers.
Who shall lead us in our advance? No
men are so capable of leadership than
the trusted leaders and men whom they
led in the time of their country's conflict.
You men Of the United Spanish War
veterans, you nave responsibility you
should not shirk. BY the campf1res In
still sentry line and in the stirring bat
ties of the war. your souls were being
tried in the fire of preparation that should
fit YOU for a fuller and more useful SER
vice to your country than that in which
you were then engaged.
IN VARIOUS CHURCHES.
The Vanishing Army was the
subject of sermon this evening by
the Rev. F. c. Gale at the First Meth
odist Church in this city.
The Rev. Richard Rodda conducted
special services at the Twenty-fourth
avenue Methodist Church.
At the First Presbyterian Church
this evening the Rev. Azel Fish OF
Islip, n. Y, preached on THE Mes
sage of Memorial Day"
International peace was the theme
Of discourse by the Rev. Miles B.
Fisher at Plymouth Congregational
Church.
The Rev. Thomas A. Boyer, pastor
of the First Christian Church, con
Quoted memorial services this even
ing at which representatives of the
Grand Army and kindred organiza-
tions were present.
Grand Army veterans and other pat
riotic bodies attended services this
evening at the Thirty-fourth street
Congregational Church.
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