The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-13


address was given by the Rev. Dr..
Francis A. Poole of the South Con-
gregational church, st. Johnsbury.
Before the memorial services the cad
cts paraded to the graves of Norwich
men and decorated them.
The Memorial Service was under
the direction of the Rev. James B.
Sargent, University Chaplain. The
program included Call to Worship,
Responsive Reading ending with the
Lords Prayer, an anthem, Scripture
Readinf, Prayer by the University
Chaplain, hymn, the Memorial Ad-
dress, a hymn and the benediction.
A part of DR.. POOLS address is:
"A memorial service may be a
acrament, or again, it may be sham.
1t may be sign of reverence and de-
lvotion, leading to the acknowledge
ment of a debt, resulting in honest
dedication to a cause. Or it may be
the easy, formal expression of vapid
sentiment, to be forgotten in a trice,
with no lasting impression on char
acter and no worthy effect on human
action.
abraham Lincoln believed in the
former kind. His words spoken at
Gettysburg a generation ago may be
applied, with little adaptation, to
thisSoccasion. at is for US, the liv-
ing, to be here dedicated to the un-
finished work which they fought in
the great war have so nobly advanc-
ed; it is for us rather to be here dedi-
Gated to the task remaining before
US, that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain"
81 assume that those who are re-
sponsible for this memorial service
agree with Lincoln. And on this as
sumption / speak.
ain the early days of the war there
was much confusion as to what the
issues were. But gradually these be-
came clear. They were defined in
political terms as, Autocracy versus
Democracy, in moral terms as, Might
makes Right versus Right makes
Might"
"And when the issues became clear,
it also became exceeding clear that
America must enter it.
"The Norwich men played their
part like heroes. The record of this
University nthe great war, as in
other wars, has been proud one. Of
living Norwich men of military age,
So and 4-10 per cent were enrolled in
service. Of living Norwich graduates
of military age I'd and 4-10 per cent
enlisted. While of these 86 and Clio
per cent were commissioned as Off
GERS. And we are met here this day
in memorial service because thirteen
valiant Norwich men yielded Up their
lives, gave their last full measure OF
devotion.
awe have no doubt that our souls
pay tribute to these men, taht we are
determined to hold them in everlast-
ing remembrance. Then our course
is clear. The greatest of Americans
points the way. 1t is for us to dedl-
cate ourselves to the completion OF
the unfinished work; it sfor us to
pledge increased devotion to the
cause of a democratic world for which
they gave the last full measure OF
devotion. To speak fervent words OF
tribute while we do nothing to make
democracy and moral right, the we'll
being of humanity and the spirit of
true religion dominant in the earth,
would be about the meanest sham, the
lowest, foulest hypocrisy of which our
kind has ever been guilty.
"The heroism of the Norwich mar
tyrs, typical of all Americans who
fought and FELL dedicates us, as we
would be worthy of them, to Demo-
.cracv'S unfinished task"