The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-11
BLUES ATTEND SERVICE
AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Excrciscs Commemorate One Hundred
and Twcnty-Fifth Anniversary
OF Command.
REV. w. II. BowIE MAKES Address
Speaks on ~Thc Mornl Equivalent OF
War" Emphasizing the Importance
of Moral Courage nnd Trust.

Religious exercises commemorative
OF tho ono hundred and twenty
anniversary OF the Richmond Light In
fantry Blues Battalion. organized In
1889. were held last night in 81. Paufs
Episcopal Church The battalion. with
nearly every man answering roll call.
marched from the armory to tf"
church. Hundreds OF churchgocrs
lined the streets To watch tho militia
men pass. and then fell in behind to at
tend tho services. The soldiers were
in full dress uniform, and made n line
military spectacle with their FURNISHED
helmets and their whito-vcStcd coats
The pcws thanking the middle ai3lc
on either side were given over TO the
Blues. and the regular congregation
went 10 the gallery, which was a.
crowded az the body OF the church. 1t
waI one Of the largest CONGREGATIONS
ever to attend st Pauls. for the his
tory of the battalion Is SO closely en-
tn,ined with that OF tho city that
celebration of the one Is looked upon
as a celebration OF the other also.
The services were conducted by the
rector. Rev W. Russell Bowie, and a
large choir rendered music appropriate
10 the occasion. MIR. Bowie spoke on
uio subject. Thu Moral Equivalent Of
war comparing the physical impulses
mctI to those moral motives which i'm.
pei men To engage in moral warfare
against evil. In his opening remarks.
Mr. Bowie called attention to the
grave crisis now confronting, the
American nation, and warned the con-
grcgation that the call TO arms might
come on any day or at any moment
Should the call come he said, and
should it be necessary to march from
Vera Cruz to Mexico City, II will
rican untold sacYifce and tremendous
loss OF life. 1t VIII mean, probably,
that the Blues Will go into service
again. as they ala in 1872 1929, in
1861. in the Pocahontas coal mines
strike. and in the street car strike In
Richmond in 1908. II will be the cali
TO duty to which every man must re-
arond"
WAR MAKES APPEAR. WHICH
HAS EFFECT on MORAL UPLIF'r
Inc preacher said that war Is now
looked upon by many as a relic of tho
i'ark Ages and II brutal past, and that
IL Is now being reSar led as an anon
aiY. But there are. he said. three an
peais which war makes and which
nave had their effect in the moral nm
M OF the nation. llo characterized
these appeals as shat which calls unou
thf hardihood ana virility of men, that
winch amDlifieS their trust and tbcir
I"!th ana that which summons all their
,,'"'"i courage. And II Is, he said
"ese same appeals which tho moral
warfare against wrong and evil pro-
ciaiins' liardihood OF purpose, trust in
inc divine order of things and moral
courage are as much prerequisites OF
MOI nj warfare as they are OF armed
conflict between nations.
mo battalion marched out to the
accompaniment OF the occasional
hNmh, and the CONGREGATION held bock
u'itii the militiamcn were in line on
tne street From the church the bat
I'LL, MAJOR Il. W.. Bowles leading,
swung up Ninth Street and into Rron1
ana so back TO the armory.