Evening journal., 1907-05-27
VETERANS HONOR
DEAD COMRADES
Hear Sermon in ST. Paul. S
Church Then Conduct
Memorial Service
DEEDS OF VALOR RECALLED


comrades Of the G. A. r. memoir
iali4cd yesterday IN st. Paurs NJ. g.
Church and in @. A. r. Hall those
comrades who had passed away during .
the year. solemn and tender were the
tributes paid TO the dead.
The veterans marched TO the church /
In a body, and listened to an impress
sive sermon by the Rev. Or G.. a. Hm /
the pastor, from the subject, "Thc Ma
tion and us Heroes.
Dr. Hili'a text was Second samuel /
{. NlN, and he said In part.
"fiiinga or lsraels terrible loss az
the battle OF Ait. Gilboa overwhelmed /
David and taking his harp, he poured /
forth lamentation which has been
pronounced the finest, as ID is the most
ancient of an dirges.
ut commentaries the virtues OF
isracrs fallen heroes. and have /
chosen itH opening sentences as appro-
pirate to this mornings service, The /
beauty of israel Is slain upon thy high
places; how are the mighty fallen?'
We have no memorial dirgc. but we
have a Memorial Day whose purpose
Is 20 keep green forever the memory
of those who fcll ON the battlehelds
of the Republic. on the day so soon
TO dawn upon u.s. the nation viii pause
In the rush and hurry OF life and give
itself up TO beautiful thoughts OF these
departed heroes
Heard country's Call
"ln the greatest crisis that ever
arose % our national life, when the
union between the states was impcriled
they heard and answered with their
lives their countrys CALL Their pa
trlotic service through an the years OF
the war was most heroic The armies
of the Union Ia the four years In which
they were in the field. counting All the
conflicts. great and small We're In two
thousand two hundred and siXty-fve
engagements, an average, says Mr..
Blaine. OF nearly eleven per week.
There W. three hundred and thirty
ongagcments in which the Union loss
exceeded one hundred, or an average
says the same author. Of one for every
four and one-haif days,
"Every step IN the progress OF the
race seems 20 have been won only at
| the cost of blood and treasure; life has
| come oui of death. and agony has been
| the price OF gain Great truths have
been rescued from peril in the heat Of
/ IWAANA"f anu hANNIN lAtfNh 'lA'f' ft''fN f'
| restcd on foundations ccmented in
| blood He Is a hero who for the sake
| OF truth and right can say Neither
J count ] my life dear unto me- and this
was the spirit that animated the men
who went 10 the front from 1851 TO
1866. Their sacrifice was perfect, for
they went as volunteers and died that
liberty might be proclaimed through
= out the land unto an the inhabitants
y thereof. and that the blessings OF con-
sutuiional government as they had
been received by them from their
ht fathers might be handed on by them
or 10 their children forever
,, "frhe world wondered at the readi-
ncss with which the citizens Of this
D" nation gave up their business pursuits
ld for the drill Of the camp and tho
iic hardship and suffering Of the field
co They had the courage and Intelligence
and patient endurance which speedily
transformed them into an army OF as
good soldiers as ever faced a foe, and
when the great service to the govern
~ ment for which they had volunteered
~ was performed. they came again TO the
". social and civil duties OF the citizen as
~, quietly and as perfectly as they had
four years before taken on the habits
m and duties OF the soldier. They were
~, not partisans but patriots, and theh
a., spirit was not impacable and unfor-
- giving. but they were generous and
-, merclful in their treatment Of the foe
~. General Fitzhugh Lee has declared
that not even Washington at York
-, town. was as careful and considerat,
of the feelings Of CORVALLIS and his
~ men as was General Grant at Appo.
mattox. He did not demand Lees
sword. as is customary but actual,
apologized to him for not having hi!
own saying he had left II behind in th'
wagon
n Was Not in Vain
VI "Their sacrifice was not in vain Th'
purpose for which they suffered an,
fought was achieved. the Union wa
nd preserved. We have lived long enough
ID to see that 1t is not only a union o
rd territory. but union Of hearts as well
ne In 1898, when President Mckinley coll
TO- ed for volunteers for the war will
nt Spain, the response was generous an,
sss general from all the States. Thei
there was neither North nor South. bu
all as citizens OF common countrl
N were enthusiastic in It's defense. 1t d
the purpose of the people that the sol
dier heroes Of the early SOS shall no
IN be forgotten. Let us hold i'm sacre'
and perpetual memory their toll ans
sufferings and sacrifices. Strew thei
nd graves with flowers. and may Coz
for grant to every one of You old soldiers
or. their survivors, that when You ar
mustered out Of tho ranks here yol
Ell. may be welcomed by the King Eterna
las land Immortal 10 the rest that remain
for the people of God"
ed, Afternoon Memotia
ted In G. A. r. Hall in the afternoon tn
.he Rev. F. +. Carpenter, the Rev. Alonz
nd w. Davis and the Rev. William Skin
ner. OF washington, eulogzeG tn
ere memories OF the departed soldiers
ct BENJAMIN d. Bogia presided
The meeting opened with the sound
ing Of the assembly call and close
with the sounding OF taps" by Com
to- lrade Stewart
the The music was furnished by IN
stls choir OF Delaware Avenue Baptis
Ella Church. It YVES a most solemn service
the