Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-06-03
MEMORIAL
SERVICES
Mineral Point Shows a Patriotic.
Grateful Spirit.
SERMON BY REV. w. C. BOND:
ADDRESS BY TN. PRIESTLEY


gationaI Church on Sunday; and in
the Park on Monday.
Memorial tide was observed this year
in Mineral Point with increased inter
est and tenderness.
Friday, May %.
On Friday appropriate exercises were
held in the schools. The High School
had its own program, while the grades
in the second ward building joined in
one program, and the grades in the
fourth ward building joined in another
program.
Sunday, May 80.
Sunday the Veterans and Relief
Corps, together with others of large
congregation, attended services at the
Congregational church. The pastor
took for his text Exodus XII, IA,
'And this day shall be unto you a
memorial" and preached very able
memorial sermon, which applied dis
tinctly to the war for the preservation
of the Union and the great results
thereof. A few brief extracts follow:
lit is not an easy task at a time, when
half the world, or eight hundred mil
lions of the sixteen hundred millions of
human beings are engaged ia deadly
conflict, to fully observe the proprieties
this morning by confining our remarks
to a consideration of events which be-
long to half century ago. But | must
not forget that this is the annual
memorial service for those who i'll that
never to be forgotten period of our
national history went out from the
cities and villages and homes of Ameri-
ca to save the Union by the arbitrament
of arms.
1--WE have met on this last Sabbath of
May to think of those days-of that long
prolonged civil conflict which resulted
in the new era of the Nations life. We
have met to acknowledge God, to bring
tribute to the dead, to memorialize
deeds, to deepen patriotism in the
American heart, to keep the fires of
nationality alive.
AFTER many years God gave the Ma
ton the immortal Lincoln AS truly as
He raised up Moses to carry out His
will in Israels history, God gave us
Lincoln, the man who was ever con-
cerned with being on the side of
Jehovah. I ask you in this memorial
service to let your thoughts go back
along the lengthening pathway of the
years to that dark hour in the hitherto
sunlit sky of American history that
marked the beginning of the blood
period of rebellion. It was in that dark
and terrible hour that the world was
called for the first time to look upon
people who were rebellious while max
ing and administering their own laws.
Nations have been rent assunder by
civil strife because of tyranny or unjust
oppression, but never before did treason,
so dark and foul, raise it's unsightly
head.
1.-The Ancient Romans used to place
the statues and busts of their distin
quished ancestors in the vestibulas of
their homes that they and their children
might be reminded of and led to initiate
their noble deeds. In these days we
have something more impressive in such
gatherings as these, when heroic deeds
are recounted and the principles of true
patriotism are proclaimed in every
hamlet, village and city throughout the
land, and the results will be just as
happy and more so than those flowing
from that honored Roman custom.
Women of the Relief Corps, your
religious interest in the comfort of the
aged soldiers speak volumns. You are
the Red Cross messengers of loving SER
vice to those whose days of earthly
warfare lie in the past. Let me assure
you that she which giveth out cap OF
cold water to the thirsty, weary pilgrim
shall not fail of divine reward"
Monday, May 81.
Monday morning all of the soldiers
graves in the city were decorated with
flowers, by members of the Post and
the Corps, who were taken to the Gem
eteries in automobiles.
At 2 p. M, headed by the Mineral
Point Band, the procession consisting
Of the Veterans, Mayor, Speaker OF the
day, Boy Scouts, under the command
of Capt. Shepard, between 300 and 400
school children, marched to the city
Park, where the following exercises
were held:
Music-Band.
Song-"T Tenting Tonight" Miss Knight and
Girls Glee Club.
Prayer-Post Chaplain d. E. Jacobs.
Song Boy Soldier and Red Cross Nurse
Jack Jeuck and Dorothy Ralph.
Address-Post Commander James A. Hoare.
Reading of Orders-Adjutant.
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech-W. H. Bennett.
Song-.Patriot's Pledge, "-7th grade pupils.