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UNION RECORDER. MILLEDGEVIU-E, GA-, MAY 9. 1M»
Asbury Memorial Address
Beautiful Tribute to Veterans
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK
• In thui land of pur* delight
M never been told, net* a standard
f heroism so high that you can do
Mc'lBdM tlK nit't, !H. hrtwr th.t txert .11 yourelforts
I bullish p»in." tu m.tch it If tni» Rood l.nd which
.* lomt .(to they were like they leave you ever haa to be tle-
f , in uniform who are with u» 1-nded auainat the invauon of an
You young men t ‘
in school to look b
(t picture that
you is that of
end-
hard
• te in science 1
ru* a will not find
buck through these few years
magic mirror at the end of the
rat -v only Cha— will be to
your unifor look gray and
• urselves iese hr- . old fel-
I would
i Confed-
rate Veteran as a citizen of pence,
nd i he fact that hi# career as such
arted under such a gloomy -loud
ti end# under such a brilliant rain-
•w -peaks world# for the valiant
art .ie ha# played for more than
xty y»ar# in giving u# this goodly
nd of peace and plenty from the
. I | 3rt ths | r inclin.tion to look up to it back to the destitute Chri.ti.n. at we can loam nature and ili^j "■
Hnaino from such father, nnd and wo,.hip -omethinir or body. Jonualen waa the first intornstioBtd to the aeereta of the ancient. .»*
grandfathers a. have before That ... too deeply plantedJn to- , towkw wto«M> •>*«* Now temn* to th, prompting, of ^
and -ueh saintly mothers and Brand- mBn I
m ■ ... ideas your lives with in-! nnd iv.ntusily uted by Him to irnnu (lends to surrermg every woere re- a simple sentiment which I ,
fine nee. of the purest thouttlit, that man hack to a better conception of 1 (tardies of tace. creed or color. leave with you dues not , "
reach human hearts from on high,; his correct relation and some idea Before the coming of Chrlat there -ublime conception of th Iat ^
reach ai «.
image. 'MMAm
the question* which confront you ifj Hii
you will only make the most of the
opportunities afforded you by the
toch of these tired hand# soon to be
folded in the rent they so richly de
serve. But carry ever with you the
picture of these model citizen# of
peace plodding through th<
; mount a# both young men and young
In the darkness of their ignorance women now enjoy in this very town,
after Adam had by the exercise of And in a neighboring city the oldest
that God-like trait of free will wand- institution for the higher education
ered far away, the ancients held of women bears the name of the
varying conceptions of what and founder of one great branch of the
whom they should worship, all the Christian church,
way from horrible images born of l n olden times there were no such
reck i
i th-t he foi
from the
foi
Tht i
oti
loved thi-i
just
Then they heard
which God grant may never reach ; jus
your tar*. They were not sounds of j ant
revelry by night like tnn#e which pre- j .So!
ceded the battle of Waterloo. The diti
first was a stream of oratory flow- ed
ter the Revolution
r# came home in the glory of
-y, but our Confederate Veter-
ume in the gloom of defeat. Af-
opomattox the brave boy# who
d their heads homeward were
i# ragged and hungry, footsore
weary as any Revolutionary
rs ever had been. And in ad-
, our Veterans were down heart-,
id sad; a plight bad enough ifj
ing from the balls of state in the they had been coming to happy hoi
building now occupied by your in a prosperous land; but
school The next was the call of worse when they faced fields fallow
Iheir state to go forth and fight for for lack of the plow and heaps of
its rignts. And though they were cshi# where homes should have been;
without military training, their re- and still worse when they were met
spenso was so prompt and simuitane- by mourning mothers and sad eyed
ou. that it sounded like a single foot- sisters for tons and sweethesrs who
fall when a thousand of them stepped slept in lonesome graves a long way-
out to answer the call. J of w hich they could never keep green.
\\ ith little training and no exper- it was a sad spectacle, boys. Their
knee they were thrown on the field livestock had been stolen, their wag-
to .. .. fieri.r-t battles because «,ns were worn and their implement*
of t.it dire distress of their devoted wasted. Their one time willing slaves
cause; and each boy took a full man's were soon to be fired into fury by-
part for four long years. Towards the diabolical device# of that most
the end they suffered privations, damnable combination that ever
never before known to soldier# in ruised a country; the scalawag and
war. ; : ware cut off from every th< carpet bantr. They w n soon
where except what their dear home- lo be over?run by Union troops to
land I produce and send to them carry out the orders of Sew-aid and
since they ceased to be soldiers of fear of natural forces which they institutions for the care and relief
war. and apply their principles of did not understand to the beautiful 0 f t h e afflicted as that which stand#
right and justice to the problems that figures created by the Greeks in their j u *t south of this city. The un-
iri.»e. culture. But their conceptions al- fortunate one# of those days had to i
Remember it is into your hand? ways attributed to tneir deities attri- bide themselves in enves and live on
.he keeping of the country will soon, butts like theii own, mostly selfish crumbs from the camps of nomadic
commuted. I hope that each of and revengeful. shepherds, and die In despair with-
k'«>u may *«me day visit the capitol j n their high state of mentality the out nnv effort to care for their bodies
n Atlan:a and in the rotunda read Grecian philosophers ascended to a or re.-tore their mentalities,
ind rtr< ad until it is burned IndelHb- conseption of spirit like* beings on Governmental and living conditions ;
y into your brain the passage from high mountains and in the clouds for are better every where according to
•i.e of the speeches of Ben Hill that their gods; and finally reasoned out the extent of the teachings of the
< caned on the pedestal of his to tneir ow* satisfaction the immor- soldiers of the cross and its permea- |
tatuc: : tslity of th e soul, and that there was tion of the lives of the citizens of the j
"He who lets his country die, lets another god of whom they did not country. In such countries cieanli- :
dl things die, dies himself ignobly; know, and buiit a temple to the Un- ness mentally and physically prevail;
md all things dying curse him. He known God, about whom Paul told more than in others. There is a
them when he came to them with the greater regard on part of such
true light of the world. citizens for the rights of their broth-
Other people had other conceptions ers, and people feel more secure in i
as illustrated by the dreams of Amer- the pursuit of peace <and happiness,
ican Indians of happy hunting Phillips Books expressed it most
grounds in the other world, and the beautifully as covering the whole
practice of the Chinese to bury food range of humanity; in his well known
ith their dead to sustain the spirit lines to the birth place of our Great
n its journey to the unknown land. Teacher.
Oh little town of Bethlehem,
as u.vmg your enemies.
furnishes a pretty good pr , c ‘J
start toward# the mulation of tj,*
am pies of these veterans in un
for the ultimate goal.
“Live for those who love you,
“Whose hearts are kind and t
“For the heaven that smiles a |
“And the (food that
>° u Ca n do.-!
who saves his country, save.* all
things, saves himself, and all things
saved do bless him. 1
Krxt picture of the Confed-
•teran present.* him t
all ” the * kni, *' ht °f RaHnntry. Here also
look too far and too much to fiction
for fancy tales from the Latin races
and old time English knights, when
the real basis for all chivalry is the
regard of the men of any race for
iheir women and Lie practice day by
day of the principles govern that re
gard. I commend to you these
Veterans coming from a time when
mat** gallantry was the prompting of
cry
heart
that '
and Stevens to the effect
se brave heroes should have
* even in their local go-
that a few of the more manly of thei
generals who had fought through the
v Orleans, and v
than be u party to i
me rath*
i outrage.
It took courage of a difj
id fortitude unfaltering
ture so full of insults a
Some of the leadci
erent kind
d indigni-
; principles made them
feet t samples of the art.
V© will rest long and <:row rusty
•uch of us waits for staring time*
! thrilling scenes to illustrate the
L t.iat we are worthy sons of these
sires. Our opportunities are
re frequent because our associu-
is w ith our women ar© more con
it and more common place than
our grandfathers. We will be sad
ly out of practice, ill at ease and
probably miss the opportunity for a
grandiloquent display it we wait for
such a time to show the spirit that
we huvv inherited from these worthy
examples of knighthood who ure fast
passing from our view.
Iruw a line, if possible, be-
i arising from the prompt-
spirit of innate chivalry
and the parade of a grundstund plny-
Rescuing a prr*tty girl for hero-
i and possible write up in
wspapers. But in such un instance
is hard to tell where the right
rupplie. and ahelb while the enemy fu |', hil < klv. in Yankee pri.i.na. To,"'"«ve end, and ne vain apirit of
ha. the r. source, of the world at it, Iht f Drm ,. r ( aIll ..(raid J have never bravado begin.,. But helping ar
command. It rpeaka eloquently for the b( . pn ^ Kivi , |lropeP credit for n ni1 P°'' rl >’ clad ' v °n> a n with
valor of all concerned that the bniv- wh , t lhl . y „n„y did during the war market banket surely springe from
cry of three boy, and Lev’, leader- lH . cauM , „ f my rcaemment for their P ur eM chivalry, and ,o doe, nr
.hip hr Id back the mighty horde with deaertion of toe ahip of the South hmdne,, to a little child when not
heavy artillery and unlimited sup- „ ht . n thl . y ,hought it wa, .inking and’ ‘n ™ht "f it, mother or big eister.
plies four year, in the short hundred ljk(J Qn „„ rl (, y captain, tried to save I And what has this to do with Col
and twelve nyle. between Washing- tbeir own hilU . s ao d left the crew federate Veterans? Just thin; they
ton and RUhmond; and that Lincoln un d their families to save themselves.; have ao long and constantly practiced
hud to try u long list of mimand- -p () t j 1( . ( a tter my honor and praise is; these things before our eyes that
ers from Scott to Grant until »ur mvrr ending. All honor to our hey have become common place and
on nnd wasted against | br j liioi , t Hill who was the first to | w. fail to give them the emphasis
ie ever increasing tide well clothed. - railM . hi , voice lo pghten the load of j and emulation they deserve in our
td and armed which was "”1 ,hamc from our fathers; and to our every day lives An illustration came
rail!St them.' own beloved Alex Stephens who came j to me recently. Mrs. Asbury wrote
What would the grand sons of such r Hi| p 3 hL .l p „Ae n released from a note to a member of Georpc Dole
icn do if the necessity should arise? 1 j. orl YS'arrvn in Boston Harbor. f Camp who mixes among you daily,
our i,r brother, acquitted them- j the >Wp of ^ s , ut h wal-^ "»« nxprMMd her thanks for a
Mirnei, | t j , , u „ real kindness which meant much to
All this groping for something to
vorsaip was in utter darkness as
rompared to the light that shone in
the hearts of the Hebrew prophets
and Broke forth in a brilliant star
l the hilL of Judea to announce
ie coming of Him
isociated fro:
Creator and ^ent in human foi
tl to men not only the God of
•r and creation of all, hut the
God of love who had created man in
“How still we sec the He.
“Above thy deep, and dreamless
“The silent stars go by.
“Yet in thy dark street* shineth
“The everlasting light.
the spirit of the “T** ho P” »nd fears of all the year.
in human form to “ Are " H '> in thl -
This covers the fears of the ignor
ant from the earliest ages and
reaches to the best hopes we can
image for high nnd noble 1,uUd ( " r thl ' futur >- b “^ d on
purpose, ulumnteiy to be reached ‘_ he bl ““ d revelation direct from the
by the exercise of those traits
WEAK, RON-DOWN
T» Fed Stronfer After
T*ki»g Cardai.
Loxley. Ala.—'a was In on
bad state of health." says Mn.
Charles Jerkins, c' this place.
was all run-down and weak cs cooid
be. I did not have the strength of
a kitten. Some days I could hardly I
lift my head from the pillow
“I looked like a skeleton. I tu
so thin and haggard. It took tH
my will power to drag myself around I
the house. I never walked any far
ther than I had to. for it hurt me
to stand on my feel
“My back and sides hurt me untJ
I thought I could not stand it
“I saw myself growing gradually I
weaker and I did not know what to
do. I tried several things but
nothing helped me.
“One day I read about how other 1
women had been helped by taking 1
Card ill. so I thought I would try it
I found it a splendid medicine. Af- I
ter I began to take It, I socn began ■
to feel stronger and able
things.
“From that time to the present I
I have taken Cardul several times
when I was run-down ln health. It
has never failed to help me.".
Cardul should help you, too.
bottle today.
Creator and confirmed by all that
which i
had
by the work of the faithful negroe
slaves under the direction of tht old
men ami the noble, #elf sacrificing
women who were so wonderful in the
part they played.
It wa. not the fault of these brave
boys that the Federal Army broke
through »n the west and laid this
land in waste. It i* one of the
striking evidence# of the heroism
o' the Confederate soldk-r that he
fought a# fiercely under faulty lead
ership as he did under Lee and Jack-
ton. It take# two things to
a winning army; brave yoldiei
able leaders. And the two to
overwhelming
was like his Father, which
so long been abused to
detriment and God's dis-
boy# had a right to look fled to
itpe and left them in the lurch.
i*r# of a different stripe to wnom
they might have looked wore shame-1
•leasure.
And when this Son of God came £
o make this demonstration and re- O
•elation of living in the light of a ^
•etter knowledge and closer relation
o the Creator; there were those V
miong the rate cha.en for toe pre- V
mration of His coming who were so v
jealous of their prertige und power ^
and so afraid "he might supercede X
i in authority that they crucified §
cross the human hull which con- v
tained this Incarnate Spirit and set $
it free to return to It*. Father and
to come and go and furnish the £
"heart to heart touch ever afterward g
•cen nian and his' Maker which o
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Macon, Georgia
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
in t.it wood# of Chateau Thierry, and j
on the bank* of the Marne. But we
knew they would do that becau&e we
knew the blood that was in them. And
even their bravery needed the lead
ership that wa# furnished when, as
already referred to. Marshal Foch
borrowed the strategy of quick move
ments from Stonewall Jackson thnt
the Germans had overlooked in their
madness for mass formation.
We know that you will furnish
picture of the soldier in
to that of your grandfath-
b.other# if you should
While the ship of the South
lowed in the waves for many months,
with the help of such men she final
ly righted herself end rode trium
phantly to a full restoration of
civil right# and p» rmunent prosperity.
Patii
and pe
the prevailing trait* in that travoil,
and those are these qualities most
abundant in the breasts of the.*e
brave old men before you and their
brothers who sleep in this cemetery,
who wrought through many >
qual that their children and grand chil-
and big dri,n m >sht behold the roseate hues
find it which you see in life today.
*#ary to fight to defend your Yc
e* and loved ones in the land of arise
free and home of the brave. But icrei
ne warn you I You need never ex- for ;
: to exceed that picture in all ’ts ihen-
how poorly present- and
i ry.
img men: your problems which
in the future will be of a
t kind. But there will be plenty
ou to do, and if you will meet
with the prudence, patience
perseverance that your grand
fathers di*played when they wrestl-
the t .d w Rh the devils of reconstructions
Xo reply was really necessary,
but his acknowledgement was a
•I of simple elegance in
we knew came from his h*art,
the source of true chivalry every-
st watch one of these old Vct-
s when he meets a lady on
street cr does the smallest sei
her. And remember that prac-
make# perfect and that your
and mothers furnish splendid
subjects for the practice that will
make you ready for the splendid dis
play to your sweetheart, and then the
daily doings that will bring joy
the heart of your wife if your dis
play enables you to win that si
heart.
de here.
You have doubtless heard ho-
Arabs continue to raise the best
In ods of other countries. They tell Coming as you do from the heart
w< nat-rful tales of the performances of the South, where the best and
of a long list of sire# and dams that purest blood of the Revolutionary
hn <• gone before; and how a day old forefathers flows free * '
Con-
co*t abandoned on the de#ert because
of >.ot pursuit and thought to be lost,
followed it* mother all night and
turned up at camp next morning a
hundred miles from where it was
born. Their tales are #uch that they
know it is impossible to improve their
horses and their best efforts are to
wards preserving Allah’s best gift.
The plain unvarnished truth about
ymr grandfathers, the half of which
taint of foreign influence, you will
have to stay the hand of the Russian'
red. Living, ns you do, in a section
farthest from the extremes of wealth
and pov-rty, you will be called upon
to exercise the balancing influence
in your government councils which
will hold the money power in reason
and the labor party in peace.
Ill fares the land to hastening ilia a
prey,
And the last picture of
federate Veteran presents
coldier of the cross. The term may
be a misnomi r and might better pre
sent him as follower of the Prince of
Peace. Bu: it has its origin i
tory when he follower of any
or man took the term so frequently
used by a war stricken world, long
before the Prince of Pence came to
teach “Peace on earth, good will to
ward men."
During long years strife and war
for selfish ends men had lost their
true conception of their Creator,
their relation to Him and their re
flection of that relation in their deal
ings with each c
was to (tuide man in his
with his brothers on this
ultimately back to his God in the
infinite beyond.
Thereafter those on earth who had
caught the spirit of this Prince of
Peace were called soldiers of the
cross on which he had been crucified.
Theirt teachings which came from
Him were of a God of love who works
on the hearts of men from the in-i
side to inspire them to deeds of love
for each other in reflection of His
own great love for all mankind, His
crowning creation for the sublime
end of ultimately associating with
im through an endless eternity.
And the influence of that love has
rought to man all the ble#- ; nga
hich we in this day enjoy. It has
ermcated the hearts of men to the
extent of making them less selfish
■onsideratc of others. It
has given to many the opportunity
of living in peace and making for
themselves prosperity and happiness
instead of the stronger grinding the
weaker in slavery and poverty as told
of in history of the times before He
came to teach us. It has given men
a conception of a higher object in "
life than the gratification of their
personal lusts or their greed for gain
and power over their fellow men.
At the end of the world war the
German were not dragged at the
wheels of the allies, their land pillag-1
ed and their women ravished, as was j
usually the case at the end of almost
every war before this Prince of
Peace came to teach men better *
things. And when we entered the
world war our peerless Wilson made
a declaration startling the world to
the effect that we entered it only in
behalf of freedom and in defense of
the world from threatened^ slavery
and debauchery, and not for any gain
that might be expected to accrue to
us or our country. And we are look
ing constantly forward to the time
when the teaching of Christ will so
far perfect us in our dealings with
each other that we will not have war.
In many other ways are His teach
ings reflected now. We have Bishop
Candler as authority f or thu state
ment that the gathering of help in
'mr
JI/IOT HER
* Her Own Day
Sunday, May 12
Unforgetable service has silvered Mother’s hair—yet if
adoration and remembrance are hers on this, her day of days,
she is twice, yea thrice, repaid.
Gladden her heart with some lovely token—give her a “Gift
that Lasts."
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