Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31

tery; Jeremiah H. Pourjee, member Sedg- wick post buried at Allentown, R. l..
 Ludwig Zeigelmeyer, member of Sedgwick
 post, buried at Middletown; Henry L. r. | Andrews, member Sedgwick post, buried at Yantic cemetery.
 Lincoln's Gettysburg address was deliv-
 cred by George A. KeDpler with fine eff
 feet. after which the decorating of the monument by George A. Turner tool, face The response was made by Mir
 KeppIer. This is the sixth year that MT. KcppIer has been infyted to deliver the
 Gettysburg address.
 Memorial Address.
 The address of the afternoon was deliv- cred by Rev. Charles H. Ricketts, pastor
 of the Greeneville Congregational church. , Rev. Mr. Ricletts spoke in part as fol- lows:
 , The transient is usually the conspicu-
 ous because it lies on the surface and is the fad of society for the time being It is the thing being tried out and if it
 stands the test it is the thing that abides it leaves the transient, and joins those
 forces that becomes an organic part of the | life of the people. A careful study of our political history from the days of
 the Mayflower when it landed it's pre-
 cious human cargo on Plymouth Rck to the present hour, show that the transient and the permanent have been coordinate forces in all our national life
 In this address want to show clearly
 that, while man the worker is always the
 transient, the work he does. if worthy of himself and his opportunity is always the
 permanent. For illustra tons 1 shall re-
 fer to those noble men-and they have ' never been wanting, who lived. suffered n and died to put America into her right ful place among the sisterho3d of na- . tions. And throughout our entire poIfti- |. cal history no men have done more tc 1 enthrone their country than the veterans : of the Civil War. How forcibIy is i V borne in upon us on this Memorial Da1
 that the actors of that great civil ssriff
 the the passing who belong to the worlc
 of the transient! Sixty years ago For , Sumter was fired upon, which was tn j. first overt act of the seeding south. Bu l. where are those who participated in tha event? Three generations have playet is in this human theatre since 1861. |her d is the majority of those who responde a to President Lincon's first call for vol
 unteers? Where are those mostly wh r at different times marched into the south .5 land teeming with rebellion, durin .6 which the Union was trembling in tn ,4 balance? Deadi l indignantly spur ,3 that word Translated is the bette IT term They have simply exchanged tn IT noise of battle" which is for this da K only because it is the transient for ''th 33 victor's song Alich is the permanent. IA During these sixty years they have bee 70 falling out of the ranks in the sier ,3 battle of Winchester and Gettysbur, 1T They have only lost '1ifes f1eeting day 1I they have gained the immortal
 3fi Let me give you a local illustration l7 the fact that while the individual soldie }5 is passing. the things that the old vel l5 eran stood for and fought for are stayini te That is, while the one is transient tt s9 other is permanent Twenty years az qo you honored me for the first time with 2 1e invitation to be your speaker on NJ 41 morial Day. On that occasion. accordir 55 to report there were four hundred an o0 sixty members of the Sedgwicll Post IT the parade. Ten years later I was vol -2 speaker, when only one-half the nun qG ber were in the ranks. But as I face Aq the great crowd from this platform q6 that occasion it was impressed upon n n4 very thoroughly that the great underlyir 9q facts for which Memorial Day stan, 65 were taking hold of our peo1le as nev n before. Of course the time is not So f.
 distant when the last survivor of u 90 Civil war will have gone to his final r = ward and it may be that these exercis % will be somewhat modihed. But 1 ca
 not help feeling as 1 stand before v lat for the third time as speaker, that ( nd things which MCmorial Day stands to- will be perpetuated, and the people ar America will no more forget it than tn
 will forget the Fourth of July of Bunk
 Hill. As long as the names of Linco
 and Garnt, Sherman and Sheridan a As held in grateful memory by the Americ lch people the rank and file will not fora ln- those brave men for the political inhe Is-i11 ba 19I .y-i ng those great leaders back in the ts nd days of the sixties.
 J. want now to unfold the glorious fs
 that past action, in all of our histo lal that has been sincerely put forth, h 'iiA tended to strengthen the fundamen TOT principles of democracy. We have ar ways had enemies to contend with a ,ae. we always shall, and we have seen led pcatedly that eternal vibilance is en- price of liberty" The Pilgrim Fathe CTS who came here to create a state wher zen they could worship God according to 1 ave dictates of their own consciences, a or where they could govern themselves 4lA liberty, equality and fraternity-e1
 they, on these bleak and desoIate sho ere had enemies to contend with, in adve !oI urers who came here from the old wo ilVa urged only by a mercernary spirit. IT CHS had to meet the opposition of the aboT 'lh- inees who did not understand them, g uy who ignorantIy and selshly supposed |
 they only numbering less than two ii
 dred thousand, had the sole right of D
 session mighty land capable of s RY porting two hundred million of inha nc tants Those adventurer, being worl +bo and selfish, proved to be the transie ravU They. soon passed away and were entir
 forgotten. The Red Man, also prov and inadequated for the higher purposes ,,+e civilization has been slowly pass siou away as an important factor in the DO fo- teal life of the world. But those men o7d blood and iron who came to establisl of free commonwealth and free Repul ,ocn of God have not passed away. W
 they were and what they did have becc m embodied in the permanent life of the +bo ton. It is the men and women of be7 tense sanctifed passion who did the thi hfIo immortal.
 iti1e tbe But there is abundant o~tdonca t tbe the early settlers of New England fo many things unworthy of inmorto ,eo, Many of the things they did struggled
 for awhile and then died because { ,,,+1, ha no contribution to make to the I
 os manent strength of the country We .orI beginning to appraise the Pilgrims will Purltans at their real Falue' They |
 friends through the bestowment of in
 criminate praise as they have thro
 the unjust attacks of prejudiced enen May They are neither saints nor devils T with were strong. stern, God-fearing folk, Geer labored hard for a free church in
 state and succeeded in beth. When