. Minutes . ered him, by faith in IIimwho hath abolished death and brought life and innnortality tolight through the Gospel, and that, passing over the river, you]nay rest under the shade of the trees. Ilyiini, l)y the Choir: Let us ]:>ass over the river and restunder the shade of the trees. (Last words of Stonewall Jack- Ad1)1U;SS 1\KV. (.\KTER IlEFiM ,1()NES, D. D., OK Lol KV., (koHiMER (llA)LAIN ClilNKKAI. OF SoNS OF CoNFEDEKAJM;\i7JKHANS : ••Aly i-Vttlicr\ rr,nuv; A[y Ab-rh-r^ Si^ Ladi<- and^,./,ri-ji). fi -.\^ f Thiid: nf ;iil rl,;.r rtu\ (.<the wtulds br
. Minutes . ered him, by faith in IIimwho hath abolished death and brought life and innnortality tolight through the Gospel, and that, passing over the river, you]nay rest under the shade of the trees. Ilyiini, l)y the Choir: Let us ]:>ass over the river and restunder the shade of the trees. (Last words of Stonewall Jack- Ad1)1U;SS 1\KV. (.\KTER IlEFiM ,1()NES, D. D., OK Lol KV., (koHiMER (llA)LAIN ClilNKKAI. OF SoNS OF CoNFEDEKAJM;\i7JKHANS : ••Aly i-Vttlicr\ rr,nuv; A[y Ab-rh-r^ Si^ Ladi<- and^,./,ri-ji). fi -.\^ f Thiid: nf ;iil rl,;.r rtu\ (.<the wtulds brightest da\ of ehi\ali-\- in a utilitarian age, andthe ci-ueial (|uestion is. Will it pay . It is sweet to see thousandsol men and women leave their homes, perlorm ajduons duties,terrible jouniic^s. sulTei sometimes real pri\ations, all foi the,jo\ wliieli memory ui\e;. Senliment is not dead. We do not. 112 SeventeentJi Reunion, Richmond, May 30-June 3, 1907. \ walk entiiely by Ihe click of the intellects of the liend, but we 1 have not torgotten, thank God, to walk to the music of the heart j beats. There is something behind us and memory brings names ; that were not born to die among us. Jeffers4)n Davis and Robert Edward Lee and Thomas Johnston (Stonewall) Jackson and Jeb Stuart and Fit/hugh Lee and A. S. Johnston and Jos. Iv Jnhnston aoH J. Jl. Mo\;gan and l^edford Forrest anil Joscpli AVlicniliM* ami a countless host of others, silent for tlie moment but yet alive in all that they were and are. They arc our heritage; they are still your comrades, they ever form the stars, the fixed constellations in the horizon of the true sons of our f^outhland. j^ut did not they fight for a lost cau^e? Did they not .^:uffer and strniigle in ^^ain? I love to think that when those men went to the front it was not because they sought the bright jjuerxlon shining in the garish day of a v\H)rIds to
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