The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY !.
SERVICES
Union Memorial Services Conduct
ed at NJ. E. Church Last Sun
day Morning-Excellent Music
by Male Chorus Of Nine and
Choir Of Eighteen Voices

Choir Of Eighteen Voices
The following very appropri-
ate serm On was eloquently and
forcefully delivered by Rev.
Hutcheson.
We are gathered here today
to pay a merited tribute to the
Grand Army of the Republic.
TO those who are gone by go.
ing to the public cemeteries
and private garden corners aud
running streams and casting
our hands full of fragrant bios.
SONS on the green and grow
ing sod'and moving waters that
seal their last resting place. To
those who remain, by gather
ing together in our churches
and halls and assuring them Of
our appreciation of their SER
vices, of our devotion to them
as the in bringers of a new free
dom and a new republic, and
to certify to them our loyalty to
the Union which they thru the
Civil War presented to the
American people.
We take our flowers and cast
them on the graves of those
who are sleeping, because a
flower is that upon which ma
ture has expended the most
pains, because a flower is the
emblem of all that is beautiful
and pure even as a weed is the
type of all that is corrupt and
impure. Because a flower com.
ing ON the world outside as it
does after the storms and cold
of winter is prefigurement of
the resurrection.
Flowers have always h a d
their mean ng for men. They
have tried to write a "Language
of Flowere" and have informed
US that:
In every flower that blooms around,
Some pleasing emblem We may trace
Young love is in the myrtle found,
And memory in the pansy's grace.
Peace in the Olive branch we see,
Hope in the halt.shut iris elows,
In the bright laurel victory,
And lovely woman in he rose.
They remind us Of our nothingness and Gods
greatness.
"F.ower in the crannied wall pluck YOU out
of the crannies.
hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little tlower-but if could understand
What you are root and ALL and all in ALL
should know what God and man is
The civil war can only be
rightly understood when we
have correct knowledge of the
condition Of things as they then
existed. All glory is measured
by the odds overcome. The
glory of education can only be
properly measured by the Oh
stacles overcome in acquiring
it. The glory of commercial
prosperity can only be rightly
estimated when we have true
conception of the difficulties en-,
countered. The glory of the
civil war is not in the uniforms
worn, the banners that were
flung proudly to the breeze. or
brought home riddled with shot
and shell, not in the numbers
slain, or in the territories con
quered, not in the exaltation
given to successful generals, or
to regiments made famous by
deeds of daring. This is the
side too often gazed upon. This
10 the eide of which the histor.
ian writes and the. poets tell in
lines made musical BY genius.
This 10 the eide Of romance.
The side which appeals more
or less to us all. But there is
another side. A side that gives
the only satisfactory foundation
upon which we can build the
edifice of history. The side that
tells of the obstacles met and
|overcome. What were the odds
encountered7 What the difficul.
tiles .overcome7 In 1880 the