The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-29
Memorial Service Was Held at
Hedding M. E. Church
SERMON BY DR.. E. 0. THAYER
Members of Crandall Past. G. A. R., Also
Sons of Veterans and Woman's Re-
lief Corps Attended Pre- Memorial
Exercises in the High School.

Members of R. B. Crandall post, No
SO, G. A. r., Major L. A. Abbott camp.
No. IA, Sons of Veterans and Col. j. B.
Mead circle, No. |, Ladies of the G. A.
r, attended the Hedding Methodist
church in body at the morning services
yesterday. The pastor, Rev. E. o. Thay-
er. delivered Memorial Sunday ser
mon that held the close attention of the
congregation throughout The pastor
took the text of his discourse from
Paufs epistle to the Corinthians, l6 ch.
1874 vs., watch We, stand fast in the
faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Let all that We do be done in love-" He
said in part:
The bravest, best and strongest sol.
diers of all ages have been those who
have been able to love their enemies
after the smoke and din of the battle
had subsidized. The purpose of Memorial
day is not to stir up bitterness, but
rather to Teyerently remember the brav.
cry and selfsacrifce of the men who
last their lives upon the altar of the
country's liberties
Here the pastor paused to read a poem
that appeared in the Atlanta Constitu-
tion on the occasion of the encampment
of blue and gray veterans in the Georgia
city a few years ago. The verses ap-
propriately showed how completely the
old differences between the North and
the South have been swallowed up since
the war
s.The Civil war has not been without
its inspiration to the growing genera
tions that have risen since that awful
struggle ended The inspiration to give
freely of love and self-sacrifce for the
betterment OF the nation in civil life as
well as on the battlefield becomes more
and more apparent with each recurring
Memorial day God forbid, however,
that any nation shall ever descend to
a plane where men who preserved it in
time Of peril shall go down unhonored
and little remembered. Honoring the
survivors of the nations great inter
necino strife and paying reyerent tribute
to the dead is not accomplished by OBJ
serving the day with horse races, ball
games and picnics."
lie spoke appreciatively of Vermont's
to the war and said that
statistics show that soldiers OF the Green
Mountain state had larger death rate
than the majority of other states,
fact which proves that Vermont's boys
are always to be found in the thick of
the fight We gave the very flower of
our youth to the cause and S2b per cent.
of Vermont's soldiers were native born.
"0ut of the maze of greater and les
ser issues for which the war was fought,
two great principles have been evolved /
First, that a great nation must stand
or fall on the solidity of its own union.
God meant the territory embraced by the
United States to be forever one and
The second principle has
to do with universal liberty. The Civil
war enunciated new doctrine that all
men, regardless of color, are entitled to
equal liberty, thus wiping out the one
dark blot on the nations
From this principle, which /
was born amid the smoke of battle, has
grown a world wide movement for uni
yersal peace"
In closing, the pastor, gave parting
'harge to the congregation. If we are +
o perfect and perpetuste a nation of
Sod fearing, liberty loving people, we
must come to a realizing sense of our
responsibilities The duties of citizen
hip are as paramount and urgent to-
lay as were those of the soldiers who
,ffered their lives for the preservation
# the Union just half century ago"