The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-30
SHOWS TRIUMpHS OF ARMY
Annual Memorial Service Held at Park
Avenue Church Sunday Evening At
tracts Large Audience Regardless of
the Inclemency of the Weather

The Rev. Peter Stair, pastor of
Park Avenue NJ. E. church paid
great tribute to the soldiers of the
civil war on Sunday evening and at
the same time made an earnest plea
for higher patriotism. The sermon was
the annual sermon preached before the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
service ushered in the annual observ-
ance of Memorial Day Despite the
inclement weather a large crowd gath
cred at the church. Members of the
grand army and the various allied or
CARNATIONS in the city attended the
service in body. Mr.. Stair said in
part:
Memorial day is an appeal to the
remembrance of a grateful people.
To some of you, to you who were
part of the tragic scenes of fifty years
ago, to you who recall those days as
though they were yesterday, to you
these memories have a pathetic and
glorious significance not possible. to
others.
To most of US the events of q half
century ago are but matters of history
but they make up history which has
a deep and lasting meaning to every
one enjoying the benefits of citizen
ship in this great country.
Think of the contribution the PEG
pie made in the point Of numbers!
Out Of population of thirty million
there went forth an army of three
million, or one in ten, of the total
population. The death loss for both
north and south is estimated at not
less than one full million, or nearly
seven hundred day for four weary
years. In the Arlington National
Cemetery on the Virginia hills just
ton, d. G., sleep 10000 soldiers who
died in the war for the Union. No
one can fully appreciate what Wash
ington means without Arlington. AS
one stands in that great city of the
dead and casts his eye down the SER
ried ranks of stones, each marking the
resting place of one who gave his, life,
a young life so full of hope and prom
Use, patriotism is quickened and love
of country swells the heart Yonder
stands the Temple of Fame bearing on
its cornice the names OF Washington,
Grant, Lincoln and Farragut, and on
the columns those Of Thomas, Meade,
Mcpherson, Sedgwick, Reynolds, Gar
field, Humphreys and Mansfield. About
the grounds are to be found bronze
tablets inscribed with the stanzas Of
{ The Bivouac Of the Dead.
'On Fame IS eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
Near the Eemple of Fame, bearing
the names of distinguished patriots,
stands another memorial, the monu-
ment of the Unknown Dead. Two
thousand one hundred and eleven
nameless soldiers are gathered here
n one common grave; their names,
their homes, their friends all unknown
Thank God, though the record here Is
in that record. where are
enrolled the deeds of love Of honor
and self sacrifice without loss and
without error their names are rec
orded
Our children need this Memorial
Day that they may know that the
glory of this land is not in its vast
wealth, but in the tears and blood
shed in it's behalf
The foreigners coming to these
shores by the million every year need
this day. They need to know that this
nation is dear to its people, not for
what they have taken out of it, but
for what they have put into it. ;"