The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-10-31
In Menorian.

! Ill IuC lUlSI y. D. y, UOIH Ill oCdIIic,
Wash, Dec. %, 1894, died in France on
the Field of Honor, Sept. IL, 1918. He
was the son of Ben and Annie Ourham
Hazeltine of Belfast, and a grandson of
the late Charles B. Hazeltine. He grad
uated from the Yeates School, Lancaster,
Pa, and was senior at Bowdoin Col
lege when he entered the Officers Train
ing Camp at Plattsburg in the spring of
1917. There he received a lieutenant's
commission and when volunteers were
called upon to 60 to France he offered
himself gladly with many others.
September 7th he received his second
chevron for years foreign service, and
fell fighting at the head of his command
five days later.
Memorial services were held in the
First Parish Church, Belfast, Me-, Oct.
27, 1913 The pulpit was draped with
the flags of America, France and Eng
land, while below were red roses from
the family, and white lilies sent by Lieut.
Hazeltine's two boyhood friends, Ensign
Kenney Burgess, U. S. N. R., and Lieut..
Donald S. Clark, now in service over
seas. Rev. Arthur E. Wilson officiated,
speaking as follows:
Friends, we come today to do honor to
the memory of one who was such war
rior as Wordsworth describes; who had
the gentle, generous, honorable, humble
spirit; who would harm no one OF his own
accord, or condescend to any meanness;
whose soul leaned to homefelt pleasures;
and yet when the great crisis of our age
approached felt it his duty to take his
place in the heat of conflict, there rose to
station of command, and there on the
Field of Honor, paid the supreme sacri-
flee. How true it is that these young
men, pouring out "the red sweet wine of
YOUTH" giving up their right to those
experiences we call life, dying, leave Gus
rarer gifts than gold" They put us in
their debt. They make us take the
measure of our own selves to see if we
are worth their sacrifice. Too often we
see we are far short of the standard they
set. For these young men, giving up
all, have come into better heritage of
nobleness and honor, of service and holi-
ness, than we who living longer in the
flesh have not fought the good fight, fin
ished the course, and kept the faith.
Frank Durham Hazeltine, leaving
home in his 23rd year for service over
seas, there serving long enough to win
his one years service bars, has in his
Gath year left our worldly sphere with all
its troubles and strife for his heavenly
home. But he has left an imperlshable
memory behind. This church in COM
mon with his preparatory school and col
lege will ever hold his name in grateful
memory and will enshrine it on the honor
roll of those, it's sons, who, in this great
cause of freedom for humanity, gave
their lives.
His former teacher, John Schweke,
Head Master of the Yeates School, Lam
caster, Pa, writes:
Cant we say Glorious and then go
aside and cry? Your sad message fills
me with pride and grief so mingled that
first one comes and then the other. Proud
that another of our boys has not flunked
in the moment of supreme trial, and filled
with grief at the loss of dear friend and
brother"
Pres Stills of Bowdoin writes
'sHe was always open and honest, and
he had deal of personal charm. re-
member so well how eagerly he took part
in the preliminary drilling for the R. O.
T. C. some months before we went INTO
the war, and what a good student officer
he made. He was clean, honorable,
manly lad, and his ambition to win the
bars for years service was very char
acteristic You may be sure that Bow
don will cherish his memory. l am
having the flag half-masted tomorrow in
his bonor and his name will be forever
carved on the roll of those sons of Bow
doin who have given their all-no less!'
His former pastor, the Rev. Adolph
Rossbach, pays the following tribute to
his character:
GAS boy and young man Frank was
full of adventure and overflowing with
life, but through it all l always found
him reliable. He never dissembled, and
lie was impossible. While he possessed
great muscular strength and high animal
spirits, never discovered him amid the
affairs of his boyhood cruel, coarse, or
underhanded. He eapproached the revela-
tions of manhood with ethical spiritual
concern. need not strain my vocab-
ulary in praise of him, but there is
one thing l must say. Few perhaps in
the outside world would have called him
a mystic, simply because the spiritual was
hidden current in his life. The follow
ing incident reveals this.
'In his young boyhood wehad organic
ed in our church, Castle Claiming of the
knights of King Arthur. We had cele-
brat ed communion in our church and the
sexton after service had temporarily hid
den the box of silver communion service
! in dark closet under the stairway, Dur
| ing the following week, Frank, evident
| ly boylike, had been rummaging about
and had gotten his first glimpse of such
hoy things in such queer situation. He
came and called me with eyes dilating
and reverent voice saying, "Mr. Ross
bach, have found the Holy Grail" |
saw the sincere spiritual meaning it had
for him and my arm went round him in
speechless love. How little did dream
| then that in less than decade of years l
| should write of his death, and that he