The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-01
Very Fitting Tribute
Continued from First Page).

following the way, the truth and life of
the Master, we may be found worthy
to be citizens of that eternal Kingdom
Heaven.
Veterans of the Grand Army, you
are with us today to assist in Memorial
service for your fallen comrades We
feel honored indeed with your presence
and we are indeed thankful for the OPP
portunity of expressing our kind re-
spect and generation to you, the blessed
remnants of a mighty army that fought
for and saved a great cause. As
government we assist our old soldiers
in a material way, with pensions and
with other marks of assistance and
gratitude. With true loyalty to the
memory of our dead heroes we out
wardly honor them as on Decoration
Day by placing sweet-scented flowers
upon their graves, emblematic of the
devotion and ardent love we have in
our hearts for them, or We place flags
over their resting places as mark OF
our enduring and patriotic devotion to
their heroic deeds. But on this day of
Memorial Service we do more. AS
sembled in our churches we offer mp to
God our humble petitions that they
their cOuntry's cause, who sacrificed
their lives that truth and right might
prevail, who fought and suffered and
died for freedom, may find favor in
the sight of God. That being denied
the earthly enjoyment of the freedom
and peace they so dearly purchased for
their country and their fellow men,
they may be granted eternal peace in
tba atarpal kip0dop1 IF God
You, Veterans of the Grand Army,
are as the golden link in the chain of
brave and noble hearts extending down
through the past to the immortal Lin
coin and into the impenetrable future
to the hosts of heroic martyrs that are,
we hope, enjoying the freedom and
happiness of an eternal home.
We extend to you our reverence and
esteem and we pray Almighty God
that you may be spared to us still
many years. And may your lives and
your presence among us be an incen
tive to all old and young to cherish that
priceless heritage of Liberty.
When one awakes on the morning Of
Decoration day, an air of something
pervades the atmosphere, which quick
ems our senses and makes our pulses
beat a tritle faster. 1t is that this day
brings surging over us thoughts of our
dead heroes, of all they endured through
the troublous war times and how we
may do honor to their memories.
Our streets were filled with people on
the beautiful morning of Tuesnay, and
about 1000 o'clock the line march was
formed in front of the Paisley Hotel
with Yale Citizens Band in the lead,
w. III. Dumphy Post q. A. r. next, Sons
of Veterans, school children and citi-
zens on foot and in carriages all bear.
ing flags. With stirring music the way
was taken to cemeteries, where the
graves were decorated with flags and
flowers and the usual ceremonies by
the Post performed.
The Exposition is requested by the
veterans to extend through its columns
their hearty thanks to Mr. and Mrs.
j. b. Paisley for the warm hospitality
with which they entertained them this
day as on other Decoration days. Mr..
and Mrs. Paisley put themselves to ex.
ira expense and trouble to make it
pleasant for the old soldiers and the
band boys.