The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY
At THE
FIRST BAPTIST
Special Musical Program
Well Rendered at After
noon Meeting.
MANY GATHERED
FOR THE SERVICE
Address was Delivered rs
the Spirit Dead?" BY the
Pastor.

Many gathered at the First Rap-
tist church yesterday afternoon for tho
Memorial Day services conducted
there. commencing az $3.50 o'clock. The
congregation listened 10 an interesting
program. including many excellent
musical selections and heard an adj
dress In The Martial spirit IN Amer
lea 2" b. Rev r. n pendleton. the pass
tor. The latter said IN part:
The occasion il unique IN two re-
Epects. First. IN being held In a church
and on Sunday. second. In having for
spokesman not only the SON o. a Con-
federate sire whose blood mingled with
that ~ the South In the conflict. but
whose veins arc quickened with thu
same blood which warmed 70 action
Lees chief of artillery. General VIM.
Nelson Pendieton. taking him out %
the pulpit % Join his great paFishoner
on the field % glory.
1t would seem therefore that this
memorial day In a great degree marks
the disappearance Of the last vestiae
u luminosity, and betokens common
desire for peace and such being the
occasion, have chosen n subject which
dwells not o. much upon the de-d
81 the llvanG; II the martial spirit ia
America dead.9
"So. Il ia not dead. but sleeping tho
/ boys and men, defbyhattee and we'll
Eroomed may look little luizEled vet
/ Grams, but they are not 40 unlike the
/ boys who. IN 81. marched down the
, yard walks and formed IN battle ar
fay along the limo u northern Vir-
ginia, Their fresh young faces awiow
with patriotism. their nostrils lnhaling
/ the perfume 81 azalea and Wildwood
whilst their step quickened - the tunes
| OF Hail Columbia and Dixie.
ONE MILLION GONE.
Those boys expected confidently 90
achieve their countrsss Independence
aad be back home before cotton pick
/ ms time. Fifty years III verdure II
/ spring and SNOW in winter have man
Z tied over the graves 81 more than one
/ million of those youths. most ~ them
/ under twenty-five, and these who ara
| left are grizzled and gray We have
I almost forgotten that 35Op 600 4.en
/ were marshalled In those hostile
/ armies. and that more than gio,0o0 900
/ 000 Ga treasure and money were ex-
4 pended and destroyed in one uf the
| worlds greatest wars. have forgotten
I the sacklng II our cities and the up
heaval or institutions which followed
In the wake 81 that conflict let it
/ pass. but LEI no man forget that tho
same blood flows IN the veins q Amer
icas sons. In the sixties, one Il the
bl0odieat regiments In the Southern
army came from Nashville and was
called IN ridicuie the "kld glove regi-
ment" because 0f the eneminate ap-
pearnnce. Dress and appearance DO not
make the soldier nor unmnko him.
Yet n The Dead Could speak.
If Lincoln and Grant n Lee and
Jackson. and the million dead among
blue and gray, could call back to ua,
believe. with one mighty voice. they
wouid cry "iay down your arms ]
feel confident that IL these heroes were
living "a cur day they would be- among
the leading advocates - peace. Each
would say with Webster Cod grant
that when my eyes behold gor the last
time the sun la heaven, they may not
see him shining upon the fragments %
a once glorious but now dismembered
union"
We have barely lived long enough
10 see disappear the dire consequences
~ that war. nor shall We vino are set
alive ever see the complete end
Europe h suffering now tile tortures
81 the damned. but deaths bony fn-
/ ger points % yet greater trials IA the
| dreary years ~ reconstruction set to
come, The babe nora IN It's mother
arms Is born upon a battlefield Tar
worse than the field 0f blood
In America we have learned. we
! trust our lesson; Our glory Is not IN
arms and conquest Maintaining vast
armies q not t. our notion"