Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-27

DIVINE SERVICES
Attended BY Grand Army, Sons OF
Veterans and Other Bodies.

w. s Heath Post, No. II. Department
| OF Maine. G. y. r., Garfield Camp, No.
| /, S. of v, 1. s. Bangs Circle of Ladies
| of the q. A. r., w. S. Heath Circle,
| Ladies of the G.. A. r., and the ladies
| of the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary OBJ
served Memorial Sunday by attending
| Divine service at the Unitarian church
Sunday morning and listened to an
eloquent address by the pastor, Rev.
George Dana Sanders.
The various organizations affiliated
with the G.. a. r. gathered, together
with the veterans, at G.. a. r. hall.
Co. H. ID Regiment, n. @. S. NJ, re-
ported at the armory and marched to
| the CT. a. r. hall. eScorting the various
| bodies from that point to the church.
The service was a very impressive
| ono. The singing of the quartet COM
posed Of Mrs. Flood, Mrs Hubbard, Mr..
Page and Mr.. Branch was noteworthy
Il Will Lift Mine Eyes Unto the Hills"
by E. T. Baldwin was the anthem, and
the duct, "ReiOice in the Lord by
SchennekCr was sung by Mrs Flood
and Mr. Page. The national hymn, ITO
Thee 0 Country was rendered with
fine effect. The final hymn, america"
was united in by the congregation.
Rev. George Dana Sanders announced
NJ text for his discourse. The speaker
began with a reference to the German
legend that once y year, when the moon
is at its full, the spirit of Charlcmagnc
goes forth to breath blessing over
the land. He thought that it needed no
stress of the imagination to believe that
the spirits of the heroes of the Civil
War go forth to bless our land on Me-
mortal day.
scattered along the Nile arc hun
drcds Of stately monuments built 50
early that history gives no record Of
their erection. Our own country has
erected monuments to the memory of
our fathers. Somehow we will not will
ingly let die the monuments OF the
past.
"NO one, not even IN FngliShman,
would like to see the old South church
destroyed. The fact that memorials no
longer engcndcr bitter feelings is a
mark Of the advance of the human
mind.
The men whose memory we honor
today, together with you, their COM
radcs i'll arms, saved the honQr Of their
country.
"Those men not only saved their
country from a damning Disgrace, but
they also enabled the Republic to make
better and a more glorious record. No
other nation on the earth was ever
founded on more Godlikc principles
than the United States Of America. and
no ether emblem means so much as tho
Stars and Stripes.
at is Il disgrace for how or girl not
to haze read the book, The Man With
out Country 1t is book that de
picts the worth of a country. At the be
ginning Of the Civil War we were a ma
ton without a country: for the doc
trine Of States rights had been assert
cd by many Of our greatest statesmen
States rights was bad as well as per-
niCious. 1t is an astounding fact that
history, spoken and written. should not
make clear the cause of the Civil War.
States rights was the rock upon
which the Ship of State grounded.
Freedom of the slaves was but an in
cident. The Union. it must and shall
be preserved was the motto of those
who contendcd for the preservation of
the Union. Not until Lincoln. the great
liheratcr, had been translated, We're the
slaves officially freed by proclamation
Of Secretary Seward.
an the consideration of the slave
question it must NOT be forgotten that
the South was the first to advocate the
abolition of slavery. Bristol. England
WAS the headquarters of the slave trade
interests. and Edmund Burke repre-
scented bristol II Parliament
In Washingtons time the slave pro-