The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
PAID TO MEMORY Of
IMMORTAL R. {. lee
REV. w. r. HAo0ARp DELIVERS
BEAUTIFUL EuLooy TO
cHlEFTAlN.
U.D.C. HOLDS MEMORIAL SERVICES
Crosses Of Honor Are Awarded to He
roes Who Wore the 0ray-Fine
Program Of Music and Reeitstions
10 Rendered at First N. {. Church.


OF the birth of the immortal and he
roic Robert e. Lee, the idol of the
Southern people, appropriate exer
cises were held this afternoon in the
Sunday school room of the FRS
Methodist church by the local daIgh
ters of the Confederacy. There wai
large assembly present, includ
ing members of the Maury Chapter
and Winnie Davis Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, the
members Of the local bivouac of Con
federate veterans and Confederate
soldiers.
The following program was render
ed:
Opening prayer, Rev. J. c. Molloy
Address, Rev w. T. Haggard.
Vocal solo, Mrs. Charles H. Sharp
Recitation, Rogers George, of the
c. M. A.
Vocal solo, Vance Carpenter.
Recitation, Ashley Sowell, of the
High School
Hymn, How Firm a Foundation -
Bestowal of crosses of honor. by
Mrs. Frank H. Smith, president of
the Maury Chapter.
The address Of the occasion was
made by Rev. W. T. Haggard, the pas
tor of the First Methodist church.
The tribute of DR.. Haggard to the
great Lee was eloquent and beautiful.
DR.. Haggard spoke as follows:
"The life Of great man is a sub
ject which usually commands the at
tention and admiration of every
thoughtful mind. Alexander on his
Eastern expedition, spreading Gre
clan civilization over the Asiat-
ic and African shores Of the
Mediterranean; Julius Caesar,
contending against the Gauls and SUBJ
DUNG the barbarians of Western Eu-
rope, to the order and discipline of
the Roman government; Columbus,
sailing westward over the blue Allan
tic in search of a new world, that was
to be civilized and Christianized by
the arts and religion of an old;
Moses, the illustrious legislator and
leader Of Israel; st. Paul, the impe-
rial apostle of the Gentiles; Glad
stone, the great English statesman
and Christian; Henry Drummond, the
inimitable thinker and theologian, are
some of the illustrious characters
that have stamped the impress Of
their greatness upon the annals of
the centuries in which they have liv.
ed. Nor are these all by any means,
for our race has been most prolific in
its yield of great men.
Such man was Robert E. Lee.
No man ever stamped the impress of
his military genius and greatness; his
love and leadership upon any gener-
alton and section, as he has upon his
own beloved Sunny South
Il was amongst the infantry at
home while Lee was commanding the
cavalry at war Hence | am unable
to speak of him today, only from his
tory and hearsay. Sometimes | wish
was veteran. It is a goodly COM
pany, glorious heritage.
"The land of promise was judged
by bunch Of grapes which was
brought back to Moses by the spies
sent out by him, and our Divine
Teacher asked a very suggestive
question one day: do men gather
grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?"
And then announced an unvarying
and universal law: by their fruits |
ye shall know them"
And so the flower garden of the
Sunny South is known by this rarest |
and richest rose-Robert E. Lee.
5unlit the atmosphere, balmy every |
,reeze, and rich the Virginia soil |
which produced this fragrant flower
II Southern chivalry.
THE world does not know as much /
II Lees ancestry and native land as
t does Of the soldier general himself.
But for time we might study these
% profit. His was an honored ances-
.ry. There Is nothing in 1t that any
me would want to hide. Senator
doar, while he said many bitter
Kings about the South, in his tender
sweetened by pers Jnal
contact with some Of her honored
IONS, had this to say: The people
II the South had some qualities which
canot claim In an equal degree for
he people among whom I dwell; they
ave an aptness for command which
makes the Southern gentleman where
'ver he goes not q peer only, but
,rincA alan Thay havo a love fnr