The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-05-12
SERVICES AT ROSEMONT.
Memorial Services Held Sunday Al
tern00n-tddreSS BY DR.. Jones.
Beautiful Flowers.

! cemetery Sunday afternoon, Nnen the
graves OF the Confederate dead were
! decorated with wreaths and flowers.
The exercises were simple and i'm
pressive, consisting Of two hymns,
Nearer My God to Thee and Rock
! of Ages" beautifully rendered by the
choir. The Rev. E. D. Kerr led in a
! fervent prayer and DR.. E. Pendleton
Jones paid a short eulogy to the Con-
tederate dead.
Dr. Jones spoke in part as follows:
Ladies and gen ,lemen: When the
green sward of spring creeps over hill
and valley and the bud bursts into the
flower and all nature is covered with
sleen Of glory, it is fitting that
we should gather and pay tribute to
our sacred dead
l am % pronounce a =ulogy upon
those who barred their breast to the
s,orm in he days that tried men s
souls. While the theme is large and
| inspiring my task is hard, COR the
most beautiful flower, o. ear h Have
been weaved into yarland5 TO lay up
On their tomb, the scdip.Jr mas CHS
eled into purest marble immortelles
OF story, the painter has, with deli
cate ;ouch, put on canvas their sloT-
ious deeds, the orator has culled the
, choicest flowers of rhetoric and WeaV-
ed them into a cnaplet to place on
their tomb and can scarcely hope
20 add anything new to n" eulogies
of nearly hal; century.
But We can call to memory this af-
ternoon their glorious deeds. AS |
mink of them | would that my tongue
could utter the thoughts that arise in
me.
1--WE sigh for the touch OF the absent
hand,
And the sound of the voice that is
still;
But the tender grace OF the day that
is done;
Will never come back again
I, has been charged in some quar-
ters that these men tried TO destroy
the Union. But | maintain against all
comers that they preserved the union,
the principles for which they gave
their lives live today and we are en-
joying the fruits of their glorious sac
rifice, their cause was not lost but
lives in this glorious country Of ours
today. AS we recall their deeds to-
day, le. US emulate all that was noble
and chiyalric in their lives and ever
keep their memory sacred through the
years.
Today, by proclamation of that
splendid sen of the South, who now
occupies the chair OF chief executive
of tle nation, is mo hers day and |
feel tha my task would not be COM
plete without an humble tribute to the
mothers of our Southland They sent
their so2s forth armed for the fight,
and brea he'd into them that splendid
/ cnivalry that has been the marvel 81
the world. have Of,en stood in the
capitol of the nation and gaZed on the
monuments erected to the heroes of
The nation, and as I remembered that
they were erected by legislative en-
&C ment and paid for out Of the ma
tional treasury l could not get up such
enthusiasm as when | see the monu-
ments erected in nearly every ;cwn in
our Sou hland built by tender hands
and loving hearts of grateful peo-
pie.
1t is sad to think that 5ne thin
grey line is passing away, in few
years noae will be left. Ours be the
task to perpetuate their memory and
see that heir deeds are recorded
truthfully in the history C: cur nation.
"On flames eternal camping ground
Their silent tens are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead
REST on embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glories be forgot
,Whiie tame her record keeps,
Or ho@or points the hallowed spot
Where ya,or proudly sleeps.