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Memorial Day Was Appropriately Observed
in Americus Yesterday.
Braving an unusually disagreeable
day for April, a large crowd of vet
erans and their friends assembled yes
terday afternoon at the High School |
auditorium to participate in Memorial j
Day exercises.
it was most fortunate in view of the
unpleasant weather that the arrange
ments for holding the exercises out of
doors were abandoned some time ago,
as the latter part of the exercises,
which must necessarily be held in the
open, gave those present a sufficient
touch of the raw, biting east 'wind that
blew incessantly throughout the day.
The military parade was carried out
in due form and the final salute clos
ed the day’s exercises.
The auditorium of the High School
building proved a satisfactory place
for the exercises, and it was appro
priately decorated for the occasion
with Confederate flags, flowers and a
touch of evergreens. The observance
of the day by local business houses
furnished an audience that filled the
building.
In a graceful and appropriate speecn
Dr. Lansing Burrows, the orator of
the occasion, was introduced by Prof.
C. C. Youmans, of the High School
faculty. Dr. Burrows discussed with
a rare sympathy and insight that
conjes from personal experience the
meaning that Memorial Day has for
Southern hearts.
After alluding to the fact that the
day was the fiftieth anniversary of
his marching forth to the camps
around Richmond, Dr. Burrows spoke
of the “Reviving Power of the Dead.”
Here is a power, yearly drawing us
by magnetic influence arofmd graves
to voice our gratitude for men who
gave up their lives for us. It is a day
set apart to think of those who have
■ain nearly a half century dead. The
affection for them is as strong as ever
it was and the heart grows more ten
der toward the lessening battalions of
grim and grizzled warriors who stand
amid the sepulchres of their compan
ions of the bivouac and battlefield.
It is not strange that out of these
graves a new life springs. The re
membrances stirred by graves that hide
away the true and noble are a kind of
resurrection. I could wish these gar
land decked graves might rise between
us and the temptation to think that all
this sacrifice was needless. The bless
ed thing about this ceremony is the
knowledge that as a people the prin
cipal motive for action was not money
getting. The page on which is writ
ten the prosperity of the South is a
glowing one, but that on which Its
devotion to duty is superb. We speak
of the times of great prosperity, a
“Golden Age,” but crimson is the
royal color. The pages that record no
bility of character and achievement
are written in blood. The Golden Age
decayed with the rot of luxury, thejan
guor of self-ease, the loss of honor,
the captivity of effeminacy. England
was redeemed by blood; Italy was
united by blood; Switzerland became
free through blood; Germany was
emancipated by blood; America was
born in blood. The great hope that
lifts us unto things invisible and
eternal came by blood.
This sacrifice of blood has not
proven useless. These men we honor
are not mistaken. In the light of
the fact that the great underlying
principles of civil war to which they
devoted themselves are most strenu
ously held today in all portions of our
common country, established by its
highest courts they cannot be called
m’staken. The sacrifice was far from
useless. It is better to have the her
itage of their devotion than the in
heritance of successful commercial
ventures. The name is better than
the estates. To descend from men
who died for principle is better than
to have money piled up by greedy and
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bloodless hands. It is better to have
bedh brave 'and to lose than never to
have been brave at all. To fight for •
deathless right is never useless. That
's the only thing that can ennoble
contention. Ambition and the lust for
power have marshalled armies, but
not Hastings, or Ivry, Jena or Auster
litz stir hearts today as the nobil
ity of men who stormed the heights of
Gettysburg, or groped amid the
marshes of the Chickahominy.
The Napoleonic wars subserve no
purpose today beyond attracting ad
miration for their magnificent strate
gy and daring. A man’s activity ends
with his life, but there may be rec
ords of them that inspire new lives.
No man aspires to be a Napoleon to
day. But Hampden has become the
energizer of every patriot, the fervor
of Patrick Henry still appeals to the
aspiring youth, the calm utterances
of Washington are still the guide of
political philosophers; and not his
military genius and his brave conten
tion against insuperable odds, but
the devotion to duty and the willing
ness to sacrifice self has embalmed in
the affections of the human race the
name of Robert Lee.
I could wish we might pause and
think what all this means to the men
of ’6l. We make a holiday with child- 1
ren playing amid tombs, the flower
laden air bestirred by prattle and
laughter, the reunion of fiends with
joyful geetimgs, and the dirge and ten
der word of oratory disturbed by the
mingling of voices that are not de
pressed or choked for utterance. Only
a little goup of veterans that are si
dent because Hjhey know much and still
not all of what death meant for these
men whose graves we honor.
Death now comes with measurable
comfort. A quiet home with tender
ministrants and weeping kindred and
the consolations of a man of God. The
office of the skillful physician, the
merciful ministration of opiates, the
tender touch of a nursing hand. The
death chamber becomes a hallowed
place where soft, sweet influences re
main in blessed memory, where death
is robbed of its sting and the grave
sulks, baffled of its victory.
So did not death came to these men.
There in the mud of trenches or the
shot-furrowed field, or the
death grapple, with maddened
plunging horses tramping them as
they lay panting and comrades rush
ing headlong, deaf to their entreaties.
To them came in piercing ball or
mangling shot or crushing cable-stroke
—their bones shattered and their blood
welling up in their mouths to choke
them. The air was heavy with sul
phurous smoke for hymns sung with
trembling voices were the hoarse bel
olwing of cannon. And not a gentle
hand to smooth their brows or drop of
water to moisten their parched lips.
If there was appearance of yearn
ing mother, of anguished wife, of
sweet children, it was only a phan
tom of the brain. If there was strain
of holy hymn or word of pleading
prayer, it was but the dim recollec
tion of some pious office in the old
church far away amid the whispering
p.nes. If there was pressure of soft
kiss upon the cheek it was only the
wandering delusion of a cloud of dirt,
moistened with ebbing blood. And then
the moonlight search, the hasty gath
ering of mangled men, the long un
marked trenches, the hasty sepulchres
with no word of affection for the wait
ones at home, and the unmarked
grave that spoke of one unknown —no!
Wo do not know all this sad story.
Out of these sad days will come our
own redemption. The solution of that
dark problem is even now realized.
These men were cur best heritage. We
are coming into our own at last.
"That seed which grows must seem
to die;
WAS HEARD BY THRONG
AGAIN LAST NIGHT
“The Need of the Hour” Well
Set forth
At Furlow Lawn church last night a
congregation heard Mr. Granberry in
one of the finest sermons delivered of
the series now in progres. Every seat
was taken and the attention of the as
semblage held to the end.
Mr. Cranberry’s theme was “The
Need of the Hour,” upon which he
said, in part:
Exodus 14:15—‘Speak unto the
children, that they go forward.”
“The scene which presents itself in
this chapter is a dramatic one. W*
hear clarion call to His people
to go forward. Israel faced a crisis,
and a crisis is the time for action.”
After speaking of the conditions
which surrounded the people when
God called upon them to advance, the
minister continued:
“When God said to .Moses to com
mand the people to go forward, he
manifested a great faith in God uy
his obedience: and it is about this
faith that I wish lo speak tonight.
“In the first place, this servant of
God displays faith in the face of dufii
culty and danger. The sea was before
him. In his possession there were no
boats or bridges. What a difficult po
sition! But Moses, spoke the word,
'Forward, march,’ and he did so.
"Our situation is not unlike that
which confronted Moses. There are
always peculiar difficulties which you
must face. We need faith to overcome
them. You recall that it took Israel
forty years to make a six weeks’
journey, because the people empha
ized ‘peculiar difficulties.’
You can never advance without con
fronting danger and difficulty. God
sometimes tries us in this way. But
remember, ‘Jehovah will fight for
you.’
“In the second place, Mouses mani
fested faith against the forces of evil.
As a matter of fact, all of Egypt was
arrayed against him. Satan is never
idle.
“He takes no vacation, and never
lets up in his fight for the souls of
men. If the church is to win against
the adversary, she must keep her faith
bright and clear. ‘Faith is the vie- 1
tory that overcomes the world.’
“Then, again, Moses manifested
faith in God in the midst of unbelief.
His own people did not stand by him
and doubted God. Unbelief in the
camp.
“ ‘lt is better for us to serve the
Egyptians than to die here.’ When
Moses’ people saw the cloud, they
said, ‘there is no sun.’ It takes e
strong and true man to retain faith
and courage when the conditions are
adverse.
“Environment plays such a mighty
part in our lives. The church is sur
rounded by unbelief. ‘You are in the
world, but not of the world.’ Only
Moses —but his faith prevailed.
A few' with God are as many. Do
not look about you, hut up: and into
that region which is black with unbe
lief you carry for faith. ‘Go far
ward.’
’“And in the next place, I want you
to notice that when Moses said, Go
forward,’ he displayed a faith Inde
pendent of natural means.
“The natural way would have been
for MoSes and his followers to have
been destroyed. The supernatural way
was for God to step in and deliver
Mose did not stop to calculate —God
had spoken and that was sufficient.
“After all, the religion of Jesus
Christ is a supernatural power. We
believe in miracles. And what is a
miracle? It is a good directly at
work; that’s all. Regeneration is a
miracle.
Above all and in all is God. And
when we cannot sea how or when, Hod
can—and he will never fail you.
‘Man’s extremity is God’s opportun
ity'.”
In closing his sermon, Mr. Granber
ry called upon the people to manifest
faith in Almighty God and to trust
His Son.
“This is our need,” said he. “What
will you do? Will you honor God,
or dishonor Him? Will you rest on
your oars and drift, or row and rise
Whither? Gods says, ‘Forward’.”
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New York, April 26. —The cotton
market opened firm at an advance of
6 to 14 points this morning on an
active general buying movement in-,
spired by higher cables and unfavor
able weather in the South, including J
reports of heavy rains in the South- 1
west. Realizing was heavy but offer
ing demand on the advance, which j
was led by new crop positions, with
July selling up to 15.33 and October;
to 13.21, or about 14 to 19 points net
higher. Numerous private wires were
received from the South complaining
of delayed planting and with the out
look for more or less genereally un
settled weather, there was not only
active covering of new crop positions
but also fresh buying through com
mission houses.
While calling for rains in Arkansas
and unsettled weather and showers
in East Texas, the western belt fore
cast appeared to read -more favorably
than had been anticipated, and after
the first rush of buying orders, the
market became less active, with prices
easing off slightly from the best un
der realizing or selling for a turn.
The market ruled steady at midday
with active positions still showing a
net gain of about 6 to 17 points, and
with the new crop remaining relative
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Spot quiet. Middling uplands, 15.15.
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MANY NEW CHURCHES.
Albany, Ga., April 26.—Albany Bap
tists are in a church building mood
this year. Several months ago dirt
was broken for the Byne Memorial
church, the walls of which are now,
nearly up to the parapet, the hand-,
some building being one-third com-'
pleted. It stands at the corner of
Jackson and Society streets, and is
being constructed of reu pressed brick
and gray Georgia granite. When com
pleted it will be one of the prettiest
houses of worship in this section. It
is being built as a memorial to the
late G. M. Byne, of Albany, by his
widow.
The congregation of the First Bap
tist church is also to have a new
house of worship, and it is expected
to cost about $30,000. The -ladies of
the congregation some time dgo began
a systematic campaign to rßise funds
for the church, ahd have been so far
successful that more than $6,000 In
cash is in hand. To this was re
cently added $1,500 by societies of the
church, and now a general canvass
of the church membership is to be
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New Orleans, April 26.—Cotton fu
tures opened steady at an advance of
11 to 14 points on the old crop months
and an advance of 15 points on the
J new. The storm sweeping the cot
ton belt was the main feature of the
market, and it caused the wildest trad
| ing seen in many months. Buying
[ was heavy for both accounts but
frightened shorts were the best bis
ters. The new crop months were
quickly sent over the 18c level, at
13.10 for December offerings from the
bear side became heavy again, the
stronger shorts putting out fresh
sales to average up the price of their
holdings. It was the first notice day
for May, but no great number of no
tices were reported in the early trad
ing and they were quickly stopped. At
the end of the first half hour of busi
ness the old crop months were 17
points over yesterday’s closing and
the new crops were 20 21 over.
For 4he first time in many months
the new crop was stronger than the
old. Many new crop shorts stood
calmly /by and watched the market
go up on the weather forecast promis
ed more rain on top of what had al
ready fallen, they sent in orders for
covers and the increased demand
jumped the price of the new crop a
dollar and a half a bale over yester
day’s close.
made for subscriptions. It is believ
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ed to $25,000 before dirt is broken for
l the new edifice, and that the remain
[ ing sum will be raised by the time it
is needed.
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ian Association building, for which
ground was broken three weeks ago.
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