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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Drroration Day 
Exercises in Manchester Passed Off 
Very Successfully — Splendid 
Day — Good Program. 
Fair skies smiled on the Grand 
Army veterans Sunday and again 
on Memorial Day, Tuesday, when 
the constantly depleted ranks of the 
GAR turned out to pay homage to 
the comrades of the Civil war who 
have passed to the great beyond. 
The Memorial services Sunday 
were- held at the Baptist church, 
with sermon by Rev. Dr. T. L. Frost, 
the pastor. The services were ap- 
propriate and the church pulpit was 
decorated in keeping with the ocea- 
sion. Rey. Dr. Frost’s sermon will 
be found in another column. The 
WRC and S. of V. attended ser- 
vices with the Post. 
On Tuesday nineteen veterans 
turned out to assist in the ceremon- 
ies. Ninety-eight graves of men 
who answered the eall of Pres. Lin- 
coln were visited at the various cere- 
monies and were appropriately dee- 
orated by the members of the post, 
assisted by Col. H. P. Woodbury 
Camp 149, S. of V. The parade 
started from Grand Army hall at 2 
o'clock, the line being in command 
of Commander Enoch Crombie of 
the Post. The Acoriana band of 
Gloucester, looking well in their 
light-colored suits, furnished a va- 
riety of good musie for the parade 
and afterwards gave a splendid con- 
cert on the Common. The _ post 
visited Summer street, Union and 
Rosedale cemeteries, at each of 
which appropriate exercises were 
held, and at the latter exercises in 
memory of the unknown dead. Fol- 
lowing this the line proceeded to 
Town wharf where services in honor 
of the sailor dead were held. These 
were in charge of the W RC assisted 
by sehool children, who strew 
flowers upon the water. 
At the Town hall in the evening 
publie exercises were held. ~The 
program included words of wel- 
come by Commander Crombie; sing- 
ing by the Schubert quartet of Bos- 
ton, which has sung so nicely on for- 
mer occasions of this kind in Man- 
chester; invocation by Rev. L. H. 
Ruge; reading of general orders by 
Adjutant Rivers; Lincoln’s address 
by Miss Semons, and the address of 
the day by Col. J. Payson Bradley 
of South Boston. Col. Bradley’s ad- 
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fe “Ny THE AFTER-GLOW OF VAN- 
ISHED DAYS 
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SY v Subject of Memorial Sermon by Dr. T. L. Frost at Manches- 
Sy ter Last Sunday 
The Memorial sermon at Manches- 
ter was preached Sunday morning 
at the First Baptist church by the 
pastor, Rev. Theodore Lyman Frost, 
D.D. The subject of the sermon 
was: ‘‘The After-glow of Vanished 
In the midst of the genealogical 
lists in the eleventh chapter of Gene- 
sis is an interesting thing noted. 
Possibly you have overlooked it in 
reading your Bibles, or perhaps you 
have never read it at all, for the genea- 
logical lists in the Bible are not very 
popular or light reading. If the ser- 
mon of the morning causes us_ to 
review with some degree of interest 
those portions of Scripture less easy 
to read with interest, it will have dove 
a good work. 
That, however, is not my puryose 
this morning. I wish to pay a tribute 
to the lives of noble men and women 
who have departed, and to especially 
pay a tribute to the lives of those 
that were laid on the altar of sacri- 
fice that the Union be preserved. 
The After-glow of vanished days 
does a number of things: 
1st Points to Heaven. 
Haran is the first young man on 
record in Seripture who died a nat- 
ural death before or in the presence 
of his parents. As Terah stood by the 
open grave he may have felt a feel- 
ing of horror. Would his family die 
out? Would all of his children die 
before him? We expect the old to die, 
but the young we expect to live to 
take their fathers’ and mothers’ 
places. 
While there was doubtless the hor- 
ror at the strange presence of death 
coming to one so young and promising, 
there was doubtless a yearning or a 
reaching out into the great unknown 
whither the boy had gone. Abram 
was there too, and it may be at this 
time, in the after glow of his brother’s 
life he first thought of God. How of- 
ten this has been the case. The after- 
glow of the departed life points our 
thoughts to the land that is fairer 
than day. 
2nd Inspires Life’s Activities. 
It has been truly said that much of 
this world’s work is done by the de- 
parted. The dead speak often with a 
louder voice than those of the living. 
We can hear their counsels, when we 
could not listen before they were 
taken from us. We ean see the wis- 
dom of the advice they were among 
us, ard we act as they would have us. 
Days,’’ and the text was found in 
Gen. 11:28. ‘‘And Haran died be- 
fore his father in the land of his 
nativity, in Ur of the'Caldees.’’ Dr. 
Frost said in part: 
l am glad we have a day set apart 
for the special remembrance of thuse 
who have given their lives for their 
country, for on that day when the old 
comrades pay their tributes to the 
soldier dead, it shows that the good 
can never die. It is worth while liv- 
ing and worth while dying if by living 
and dying self-sacrifice and the clean 
life is taught to the world. 
3rd Enlarges and Enriches Life. 
Haran’s death caused Terah and his 
family to migrate from Ur. Thev 
marched northward and westward and 
settled on the upper Euphrates at a 
place they named Haran after the dear 
one they had lost. 
Was the result of the great war we 
eall the Civil war worth the tremen- 
dous sacrifice? Did the young men 
give their lives in vain? Yes the result 
was worth the cost, and these young 
men died not in vain. Out of the con- 
flict there came forth a united nation. 
The great industrial possibilities of 
our great Southland were set free, and 
the Southern whites as well as the 
southern black liberated. Under slav- 
ery the Southern planter as well as the 
slave was in bondage. 
The dead heroes, the dead martyrs, 
the dead who die in the Lord belong 
to us still and in a very real sense are 
a part of our lives. Our organ of life 
is fuller, richer, deeper, and has a 
larger gamut. It is more capable of 
producing beautiful and stately sym- 
phonies. 
What some lives need is a great sor- 
row that the crust of superficiality and 
shallowness may be broken up. that out 
of the hidden depths there may spring 
forth the springs of life-giving water. 
Are you living not only ig the glow 
of the vanished days of the blessed 
dead, but in the present glory of the 
Living Christ? 
In the sehool of life many 
branches of knowledge are taught. 
But the only philosophy that 
amounts to anything after all, is just 
the seeret of making friends with 
our luck. —Henry van Dyke. 
dress will be found in another col- 
umn. The quartet sang the follow- 
ing numbers: Mareh, ‘‘Onward,’’ 
“Tooking This . Way,’’ '“‘Nellie 
Gray,’’ ‘‘Old Kentucky Home,”’ 
‘“‘The Vacant Chair,’ ‘‘Evening 
Song.’’ 
The exercises of the day passed 
off very successfully. 
The post has lost two members the 
past year, and but five remain who 
signed the charter. John H. Mead- 
er, aged 78, is the oldest living char- 
ter member. : 
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