Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-08
MESSAGE OF THE
MONUMENT
Address Made by Rev. L. P. Bowen, D. D..
AT the Dedication of the Memorial
To Colonel John Postley.

IH dead They have only left the
IN Shore the Eternal Shore When become oblvous
55 of the ascended and crowned we ourselves are the corses
spent the and South there has
hour when pride affection wavered from the blue skies be-
holly and laurel footprints fathers untraveed
heart and refused nquish their propetorsp in the wandeer
modesty old Pennsuar families
and whed th territories and their blood is
and have forgotten them Yet all that beautiful in this Land of
Another little quarrel with the churches which
have sighted and thrown their records Where the priceless
session books of the Makeme churches gold mines of historical and
biographical wealth they could be rerrected? What would
given precious pages while devng the dust
and dark striving revive the personality of Founder and his
tempoa cropping the fog picking jewel here and there all
century if existence would have thrown
John Pose and his fellow elders and knsnen those
One little quarrel with the living for the
heroes and heones the Eastern Shore we are not worthy Of
The faithful edas down. the sacred soil gubbed and poughed
sleep grandparents beneath the
with yours? On original Rehoboh
plantation narrowed the edge in cultivated field lies the fiat
tombstone of Judge William Stevens who wrote the letter which
brought Mackenzie to large cemetery there once filled with
regarded Founder under the filthy accuuaon cattle
And for generations the great American Presbyterian Church
made sign And this fair Peninsula which he preemped for the
light along the horizon Makeme fame has been
Holden Greek honors the living we'll
wohy recalled and commemorated Another graveyard has been
declared sacred
hundred years the good woshpng down in the
ancient brick Buckingham church wearing the hono of the edersh
For God had said through Paul let the elders that rule well be
his eternal reward taking his place around about the
having on their gold nearly years
been unmarked and unvisd Out OF his comfortable
SELF beowng goods another way graves him
self wife the tender merces of the forgeu But
membering. There is life in the old land yet
Gratitude hfds ne claims Of ow dad We thank God for
Jacob for Moses Isaiah Paul The
gave their legacy dngs
Shore has patrarch and prophets and apostles
by descent Those who sailed from amid
of Europe and patented these farms patented them
for Who founded churches court houses schools
We miserable ngrates we ignore our Indebtedness to the dead
This not be seeaan speech spec An Epseopaian father gave
orthodox and has fallen from because he married
But compelled think of him today the benches
of Presbyterian elders who have illustrated past two centuries
which they kept pryerfu proceedings mouded
Noey they watched the interests Of zion Quietly they
ensampes the flock Imagination points the dim
forms and gray s heads the , 80 @ OpeS Wn nd c %
the roll the eders And what treasures they guarded for
Today we legends. 1 tell you
little about him Would like to know his ancestry So would
Would love learn from whom he inherited his noble impulses
would Would be glad be told how from paterna
F m he Zine was ne @ @ ns G s Without
mother beginning of days and without posterity
and he country homeng a5o tie
daughters M We're there not aspiring natures
Posley of elevation dreaming his holy dreams
the The. s meu l scatter s p about ms nma a he was ns
upon the lives Of those who arise and call him
Do blush to own that was among Poseys charity scholars
told wherever went and where but for me the of
John Posey would have been heard have disguised it
my in life love of books literary fads my
youthful ambitions and the little of have attained all
recipients of his bounty proud Of church because two
Of education Of 500 pounds David pioneer
Eastern Shoreman and Presbyterian am proud OF buckingham
al goOd @ 70 pTe % @ Of Eastern en emu we % bring our sprav Of eyer
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