Semi-weekly herald., 1908-06-01
THE DEAD
HONORED
Patriotic Services Held
in Court House At
tended by Many

tenue0 ny Many
PROGRAM.
Music ...............C Columbia Band
Invocation. ............. Rev. Scruggs
Grand Army Service.
Roll Call
Song-"No More the Bugle Stirring
bidst Lewis
Song-"Star spangled Banner.
Quartet and Audience
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address .....
.....-............. w. Moody
Battle Hymn Of the Repub-
lie ..........-....... Quartet
Address ................R Rev. Morrell
Song-''The Flag of Our Union For
ever r.--.........-... Quartet
Recitation-"Ameri
-................. Mrs. Hutchinson
Song-"Columbia, the Gem of the
ocean Quartet
America. ...... Quartet and Audience
Benediction .........-.. Rev. Frazier
Taps.
The forenoon was fair and ideal for
Decoration day. AS the parade start
ed on lower Main avenue people lined
both sides of the street, many having
been anxiously waiting for an hour or
more for the parade to start The
band led. then came the Grand Army
of the Republic. followed by membe. 9
of the city council, marching, and
these were followed by the Woman Is
Relief Corps In carriages. The fire
wagon and a number OF people on
horseback brought mp the rear. The
march was continued up Main avenue
several blocks. then the parade turned
eastward to Second avenue, then south
to the court house, where the exercises
were given. The large court room
was packed, every stationary seat hav-
Ing been taken Immediately after the
lines had filed In. Then large mum
bers Of chairs were carried In from
the various Offices in the court house,
and these were set In the aisles, and
still many people stood up, In the rear
of the room and along both sides by
the walls.
The program as published yesterday
was carried out, and the songs render
ed by the many.voiced chorus made
the blood of the audience tingle with
patriotism. The list of dead members
of the local G. A. r. post was read by
Mr.. Wingate and was a long one, show
ing many more members to have passed
on than is generally supposed. Among
the group of gray heads was noticed a
few whose hair is still black
After the G. A. r. memorial serv-
Ice the address was delivered by Rev.
Morell of the Presbyterian church.
He said in part:
War is justifiable and war is nee
essary. War. SO far as we know, is
the method of the universe for secur-
Ing permanent ideals. Whether war
is Christian Is another question, but
then Christianity was the religion OF
the kingdom of heaven, and we are
far from being perfect yet. Most wars
have been carried on for the defense
of a principle and the promulgation OF
an idea. Especially was this the case
with the American civil war. where
two opposing ideals, political social
and moral, met to determine which
should be dominant In the future his
tory Of the people. We are met today
to honor the dead. Everything peril
nent TO the occasion had been said
once for all with matchless precision
by Lincoln in his Gettysburg address.
There 1t was affirmed that the people
present on that occasion could not
honor or dedicate-they could only be
then before them. Expand this thought
and you have the Decoration idea.
We are met TO get the wave OF in
spiration and to feel our pulses stirred
to nobler feelings and our hearts nerv-
ed to more arduous deeds This is
an age Of materialism. We are In
danger Of losing the finer and higher
feelings"
Mr.. Morrell told the story OF the
Greek boy who could not rest the day
after Marathan was won, but kept
exclaiming, Il cannot sleep; the tro
phies of Miltiades will not let me
sleep"
Does such a feeling ever animate
us? 1t would be sad TO think it.neve,
did. Every true American, young Oh
old. foreign or native born, has the
privilege today OF feeling better anc
grander because his own kith and kir
has met In the tremendous conflict
with such imperishable bravery. AND
the dead-do they sleep foreverf The
thought, know. Is not 30. The SOU