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“A NATION’S EBENEZER.” 
Rev. Edward H. Brewster Gives an Eloquent 
Discourse at Manchester on Memorial Day. 
Union memorial services were held 
at the Baptist church in Manchester 
last Sunday morning, the members of 
Post 67, G.A.R., Camp-149, S. of V., 
and Allen Relief Corps, 119, attending 
ina body. Kev. E. H. Brewster, the 
pastor, delivered an eloquent address 
on ‘‘A Nation’s Ebenezer,” and Rev. 
Darius F. Lamson read the Scriptures 
and offered the prayer. A quartet, 
composed of John Davis Baker, Fred 
K. Swett, Mrs. J. K. Tappan and Mrs. 
E. F. Preston, sang several selections. 
Mr. Brewster took his text from 
Samuel 7:12—‘ Then Samuel took a 
stone and set it between Mizpeh and 
Shen, and called the name of it 
Ebenezer, saying, hitherto hath the 
Lord helped us.”’ He said in part : 
“The American people have estab- 
lished Memorial Day as the Nation’s 
Ebenezer. It is the institution of a 
grateful people summoning the citizens 
of our republic to a consideration of 
that struggle which, blazing across 
the pathway of the 19th century, 
marks a sublime turning point in the 
history of our affairs. 
“To the veteran soldier this day is 
a day of memories. Again he peers 
through the dense clouds convulsed 
with the tempests of war. Again he 
hears the bugle note wafted far above 
the engagement on the hot breath of 
internecine conflict. 
* Again the smiting sabre falls in 
flickering wrath, like a vengeful bolt 
from the hand of Jove. Again the 
banner of his country streaks with 
fair colors the grim brow of death and 
sets its radiant stars in the damp of 
the soldier’s grave. The tombstones 
of our heroic dead are the Ebenezers 
of the nation. They rise from the 
silence of the voiceless city wrapped 
in the robe of a green content, the 
thrush’s note quivers above them, 
and woodland moss clings to their 
granite lips. On every side, as the 
sun wheels his way to the west, their 
shadows are cast. Oh! ‘Happy peo- 
ple,’ whose hands shall press these 
mounds in performance of memorial 
offices. You will rear Ebenezers on 
each soldier’s grave as you place 
fragrant buds to sweeten their long 
rest. Corruption thinks to reign there, 
but your memorial wreath routs the 
legions of dissolution and perpetuates 
in its bloom the fairness of their 
deeds. ; 
«‘The stone which Samuel set re- 
vealed Israel’s cause to be God’s cause. 
The cause of the Union was born of 
God. War is rarely justifiable. Its 
exactions are eretal Its pathway is 
strewed with blackened bodies and 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
murdered souls. Its funeral plume 
beckons death to a grisly feast and 
nods complacently in the jaws of 
carnage. 
‘‘ The cause of the Union was man- 
ifestly the cause of God, because it 
was an atoning price. In 1620a slave 
ship glided across the sea, her low, 
dark hull, a sinister cloud on the 
glancing waves. From her port holes 
REV. EDWARD HERSEY BREWSTER, 
Who delivered Memorial Sermon at Man- 
ehester last Sunday. 
gleamed despairing faces and glaring 
eyes, revealing the depths of raging 
passions. 
“The history of slavery is well 
known; injustice, foul and unre- 
dressed, practiced upon an alien peo- 
ple; midnight skies blushing red with 
the flames that leaped from miserable 
hovels; the right of fatherhood filched 
from yearning hearts ; the love of home 
polluted from the spring of prostitu- 
tion ; the embrace of motherhood un- 
locked by the coarse deity of gain, and 
fondest hopes winging their swift 
flight about curling heads or dimpling 
cheeks laid in the dust by the cry of 
the auctioneer. 
“For all this there must be an 
atonement, and you gallant men of 
the fair Northern States poured forth 
your blood to establish a covenant of 
grace under whose ample bonds the 
negro has become an heir of the same 
national promise. You gave the black 
man a white skin and added a cubit to 
his stature. 
«The stone of the text is significant 
of the Lord’s help. God’s hand raised 
up men when many of the chief coun- 
sellors of the nation deserted the ser- 
vice of ‘Old Glory.’ God’s hand was 
visible in the smoke which poured 
from Sumter’s guns; in the awful 
shadows of the Wilderness, and in the 
sweet light which flowed over blue 
and gray at Appomatox. 
“The way of the Lord’s help is our 
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concluding thought. With what truth 
can you comrades of the Grand Army 
say, ‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped 
us.’ You laid your dear companion 
in arms to rest beneath the doleful 
branches of the sycamore, with the 
death damp upon his brow and the 
fountain of a nation’s glory oozing 
from his breast. ‘Farewell! a long 
farewell,’ ye said. Perhaps ye kissed 
him there, and gently folded his arms 
upon his breast. You stumbled back 
to the fateful field. Many were left 
behind, in the bosky swamp, on the 
bare hillside,on the misty mountain 
top, where pines murmur their litany 
and the frost leaves medals above their 
sleep. But youare here this morning. 
God has spared your lives. You have 
lived to see what God hath wrought. 
You have lived to weep today for 
those lost comrades whose memory is 
still your inspiration. 
“The Grand Army is marching 
away, the sun stoops low to kiss their 
banners in benediction, the mists from 
the banks of Jordan envelope their 
_ swaying ranks, but, ere lost to the 
vision of this generation, ere the night 
forever closes down, they rear an ever- 
lasting Ebenezer in this Memorial 
day, and lifting prophetic voices sing : 
“ Here we raise our Ebenezer, 
Hither by Thy help we’ve come, 
And we hope by Thy good pleasure 
Safely to arrive at home.” 
The order of exercises: 
Organ voluntary 
Call to. worshipedssa.. sae eae cae Psalm 85 
Doxologyeagse 1. acaeen The Lord’s Prayer 
Responsive reading 
Anthetii: qa. aetccodses “The Homeland” 
Scripture, Joshua 4..... Rev. D. F. Lamson 
MN. . ec c ees vceecisecee POM SROIOLON Wr uCr aK 
“Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty ” 
Prayer yea caesa dee ae Rev. D. F. Lamson 
Response... ...-..... “ Nearer, Still Nearer” 
Hymne. fee eee ces “ Uplift the Banner” 
SermoDignc sn “ The Nation’s Ebenezer” 
ogni Bee Ainge Sree aon ee “America” 
Benediction 
Automobile Goggles and Glasses at 
H. B. Winchester, Jeweler, Post Office 
square, Gloucester, Mass., from 25 cts. 
to $3.00. * 
Ladies’ Knickerbocker shoes at 
Bell’s * 
TO THE PUBLIC 
Sickness and death having decreased the 
money in our wampum belt, it has been de- 
cided to run a fair during the week com- 
mencing July 16, 1905, to replenish the same. 
Any person wishing to contribute articles 
of any description to said fair will please 
leave the same with Bro. W. R. Bell, or 
notify him, and the articles will be called for. 
Any assistance along this line will be greatly 
appreciated. 
Respectfully yours, 
W.R. BELL, M.A. McINNIS, 
T. A. BAKER, D.E. BUTLER, 
E. F. PRESTON, 
Soliciting Committee. 
CONOMO TRIBE, 118, MANCHESTER. 
