Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-28

5toucned all hearts in the large con ssregation at a special memorial ser lyice at Park Corgregatiorial church, at ;ss ;s. o'clock on Sunday Iftsrnoon, Rev.
 Dr.. Samuel H, Howe, the pastor. paid tribute to the Ives of four Norwich
 oeceased soldiers, all of whom had fof- lnerlyy been associated with the church and Sunday school. sss
 The noble lives so honored were
 those of Sergeant Major Robert Og- den Fletcher, Supply, Company, 56th
 Artillery, Coast. Artillery Corpa. A, F. F., killed in action Aug. 15, 191Ssss Cor tboral William 1Aug1istiile .Weeden, Ishead dquarters company, 3Sth coast ar tf1lery corps. who died at Fort Ham Hilton, IN. r.. on Oct. ?, 191S;;' Private | William Enderly Perry.A who died, at I!the,. officers training. school at Camp Lee Va zs9E on oc5. @ jg1$1 ;s;,il and PFi5 d5 ldied at the engineers tra1ning school at Newton. Mass, on Sept. SG,. 1918.
 The progr'arnrie of the service con 1ained pictures of Sergeant Major
 Fletcher and Private Perry, ,.- l. Just before the service began First IySelectnian Casper K. Bailey. ran the lifag on Chelsea parade. near the. I,church, to half mast Two sailors lgWh6 happened to he there stood at 1.atteEtion, as he did So and the flag EMas ,!; Kept Kept 1 at half mast until the ser ! Members of the families of the Sol lidiers occupied. seats. at the front of Ethe church. while there. were seats re-
 iserYed also for 9, delegation of twenty Efrom the Norwich Bulletin, where Sergeant Major Fletcher. was employ Fed when he enlisted. for delegation Sof forty. from Norwich Lodge. No. 4Sp,'
 E. P. o. E.. of which he was a mem
 ber. for a delegation from the post, of led, and for a delegation from the class. Eof 1912. Norwich Free Academy Of fWhieh. he. was a member. s5,. | Members of the Norwich companies I of state, guards attended tho ssfvice fin uniform and acted as: ushers. and 1.-the Boy Scouts. and Girl Scouts of the Fchtrch were present in uniform. After the organ prelude. Maestoso 'E (aIacDowe1D, the church quartette lI11- epressiveiy rendered the anthem. The t Souls of the Righteous (Foster), which Twas. followed by the Scripture reading Eiy the pastor. preceding the memorial raddress. | Memorial Address.
 i In the, memorial address he spoke las follows. .-.
 was intended to be a memorial for our young soldier beloved and hon kored by us all; who was. called to make the supreme sacrifice on the far fields Of France. three thousand
 miles away. Laid by the hands of
 comrades. in his resting place with Tout the religious rites We. would have Ebeen glad to render it seems most , Hitting that we should gather here to render this richly earned. though be- lated service; and, now since. this service. was. planned, another young
 life from the same household, be loved and honored by those who knew him has been exacted by this
 world tragedy which brings. the war
 home to .us..- We. could not. think of the first sorrow without associating ii
 tMith. the second, Without doubling our , Esympathfes for the stricken house hold.
 And now, think, as we meet here i today, two almost. conflicting, emo ] ! tioTs press. for utterance. One ..is | almost d protest to. that inevitable | ordering of events that demands. tht choicest young lives as the inexorablf
 Eprice for the ransom of the world , It seems almost a. strange irony o1 fate that orders so costly a sacrifice
 1t takes rnthIessfy. away ones chancS Ito live ones life and from one anglt , of vision seems the inpoverishing. Q 5 tthe future of the world. We depend . l. ed on unIfved lives, and these strohs
 Ehands and these gifts of leadershiI
 flor the building of society. and tn, } state and the world-a gigantic tasl s from. Which their hands are nov z withdrawn.
 I Bdt We have to remind ourselves : that world advancement has alway' only been dearly bought and ha i never come and can never come, ex 7 eept at this costly price. Withou : the shedding of blood and the purest 7 without the great sacrifice hun1anit, ' can never achieve it's freedom.
 ' And yet with this half articulate'
 protest against the supreme saerfhc ' there. comes. rushing upon us tn
 thought of the supreme glsry Q lputting human life to a service s : tsurpassingly great and we hold bac : four protest to give joy to the. bray
 young men who can tender to thei , tage, and to coming ages, so splendf [ a contribution It is the sorrow 0
 many of us. that we were born to [ Eearly. and thus disqualified, have los
 our great chance. We wish we ha e come later to share the. suprenl
 distinction of living or dying for tn
 N 7 EChrist like it seems, to die. not fo !. country merely. but for the whoi 7. life Of the world. To these youn | men this distinction has. come, " ' in q very real sense deplore this sac
 rifice of. young life. and vet in on 2 such sacrifice we can crowd the ser 5. vices and possible achieyements of Y long life. We remember. that. th l. divinest and most achieving, of 2 r lives. that has ever been lived finish 1. ed. His work. in the fawest of days aa
 went from the world On q blood l., cross. Life's supreme lessons .... hay l. been learned by these young friend $. and it's noblest results attained wtA , these young lives are. laid down. fe : the whole humanity for which Jesu V, Christ died, and. we may well be I. lieve that. life has little more to teae
 a young man when he asks this su
 preme. sacrifice for himself Onl
 He who died t9 centuries ago the bloody tree. can surpass tn K surrender of life made today, tha l. the. world shall have it's great chanc n, to become a free and. redeemed worI al Fletcher, was this chance given an y he grasped eagerly his opportunit > and went forth a true knight n Christian .cfivaEyy; to. have share i q. this worlds redemption. and this d, > of self dedication was the consum
 mate flower of a true manhood e2 h pressed in every relation of life r. which he moved for which he had a ,k his life been in preparation. A nc to ble. soul, nobly patternedi ,a true If q- worthily lived. is the. record Robe se Fletcher has left, from which V | expected great, things in. moral Ieat It ership and definite achievement fl C. whom the gates Of a larger. oppol
 tunity than earth can furnish hal