Evening star., 1915-01-20
LAUDS SOUTH'S ARMY.
DRAWING A CONTRAST
DR.. McKim Depicts Ruthless Raw
ages Now Being Wrought
in War.

Comparisons between the hardships.
deaths and the characters of the in
dividual soldiers of the civil war and
of the present European conflict were
drawn by Rev. DR.. Randolph H. McKim
in an address at the Church of Our
Father last night. The meeting was un-
tions of the District, in celebration of
the birthdays Of Gen. Robert E. Lee and
Gen. T. J. (StonewalD Jackson.
Now let me draw a contrast between
one at least of the armies at this mo-
ment contending for mastery and the
army to which I had the honor of be-
longing-the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia"-said DR.. McKim. in part Here
indeed is contrast to which it is diff
ficult to do justice. 1t is the contrast
between darkness and light-between
high and glorious manhood and the in
carnation of all the brutal passions that
disgrace humanity.
Contrasts Conditions.
"As we follow the track of this army
we see realized the description of the
Hebrew prophets, Before them the land
is as the garden of Eden. and behind
them desolate Wilderness Oh, it is
an appalling spectacle that meets the
eye as we follow it's march! Towns
and villages reduced to ashes; cities
ruthlessly fired; unarmed citizens de-
liberately shot to death by hundreds:
wounded men on the battlefield dis
patched by order; cathedrals and un-
defended towns bombarded: large
cities, unresisting, Systematically pill
laged and the plunder packed on trains
and sent off; women outraged; every
where rapine, and pillage, and plunder.
s;n and cruelty: millions of people de.
then vast indemnities demanded of tho
people thus spoiled and plundered!
Such is the picture of one army today.
Now look on the other picture-the
Army of Northern Virginia. In four
conflict no single act of plunder or
pillage or outrage set down against it.
An, here you see an army instinct with
the spirit of chivalry from it's great
commander to the humblest private"
Others on Program.
Rev. A. R. Bird, chaplain of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, pronounced
the invocation. The bendiction was Of
fered by Rev. DR.. w. r. Thompson.
Capt Fred Beall. commander of Camp
III. L. c. ". made the in -roduclory
address. Miss Lillian Chenowith sang
The Little Bronze Cross" Mrs L. H.
Parkinson of Little Rock, Ark, sang
All Quiet Along the Potomac. "-''Dix-
ie,' the concluding number, was sung
by the Confederate choir with Mrs.
NJ. c. McNight as so1oist. Mrs. DOR
othy Baxter was accompanist.
Crosses of honor of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy were
conferred by Mrs. Gustavus Weber on
David c. Grayson of the Virginia In
fantry, w. A. Byesee of the Stonewall
Brigade. Robert Edward Nelson of
Mosby's men, J. B. Price of Company
X, 3oth Virginia Infantry. and Mrs.
Cornelius Boyle. widow of Maj Cor
nelius Boyle, Virginia Volunteers
Representative Hefiin of Alabama
was the speaker at ceremonies which
took place at Statuary Hall in the
morning under the auspices of the
Mildred Lee Society, Children of the
Confederacy. Wreaths of flowers were
placed upon the statue of the southern
chieftain.
E. H. Gibson and Alden Bell were
the speakers at the celebration held
last evening in the public school build
ing at Culpeper, Va. in honor of the
anniversary of the birth of Gen. Lee
Rev. John Burton of the Methodist
, Church opened the exercises with
prayer, and Rev. r. A. williams of the
First Baptist Church of Fredericks-
burg pronounced the benediction.