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Re-Interment at the Anniversary of the Battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25th, 1893. ADDRESS BY REV. CANON HOUSTON, M. A. y^r^^\y^^ It will be in the memory of many present that on the 3rd Sept., 1891, the remains of eleven soldiers of the 89ch and 103rd regiments were discovered in enlarging the san'i pit beyond the Lane almost opposite to the place where we now stand ; and that on the 17th of October following, those re- mains wete deposited in this cemetery with impressive and imposing ceremony. On that occasion the president of the Lundy's Line Historical S9ciety, in his address, re- marked that probably that was not the last occasion on which the same solemn rites would need to be performed over the remains of those w ho fnught and fell here; and in this opinion we find he was not mistaken. On the 22nd April, when an excavation was be ing made on the property of Mrs. Lowell, a little north of the place ot the former dis- oovery,other human remains were unearthed which have been kept with revereud care by the local members of the Historical Society for re-interment on this, the 79 :h anniversary of the battle in which they fell whilst fighting in defence of their country. We learn from tokens accompanying these remains that they represent soldiern of the 1st or Royal Scots. Of this regimedt as well as the 89th, Mr. Cruikshank in hia graphic description; says that it bore the brunt of thf! battle. To it Lieut, Hemphill belonged, whose monument near at hand marks his resting place. To this regiment belonged Lieuts. Clyne and L«mont, who were taken prisoners We know not how many privates of this regiment fell, but the part which they took in the battle and these poor remains epeak and declare that they must have suffered severely. All honor to these brave men. To them and to such as they were we owe it that we be- long to the British Empire and that the Union Jack still waves ever us. We re- commit what remains of their corruptible bodies lo the earth, with religious rites ap- propriate to the burial of the dead, and the honor and respect due to those who repre- sented the spirit of patriotism, which we ought all to exemplify in ourselves and cultivate in the rising eeneration that the sons, grandfons, and great grandsons may be worthy of their sires, and all futuie generations in this land may admire and emulate those who fought and fell that the invader might be driven back, and Canada preserved to the British Empire. I shall give two reasons why we should do as we are doing to-day in re-interring these re- mains. We are christians, we believe in the one and only true God, and in the immortality ot the soul. We believe in a future state. We believe that when the lite leaves the body, and the body is put into the ground and molders to dust that is not the last o man. We believe in the resurrection of the body— that Christ in rising has risen as the first begotten from the dead, as the first fruits of His redeemed people. The resur- rection of Christ is a positive assurance to UP that we shall rise. Ilenoe all those who have believed in God and in eternal li^e for man after death, have shown respect and teverence for the body even when dead, and have decently buried it in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Abraham, the father of the faithful and the friend of (jrod, at a time when be did not own a foot of the land of Canaan, purchased the cave of Machpelah and the field ad- joininKt for the burial of his dead, when his wife Sarah died. Although Jacob was dwelling in £gypt at the time uf his death, his body was by bis dying command con- voyed for hundreds of miles that it might be laid beside that of hissiiandtatber, Abra- ham, and his father, Isaac. When Joseph was dying he gave command- ment concerning his bones, tbac when the children of Israel returned from E^ypt to Canaan, they should carry his b«||eB with them. And though the £xoduB did not take place for hundreds of yuais afterwards the command was remem- bered and obeyed. hiow much more then should Christains after the resurrection of Christ show their fttith in the general resurrection of mankind, in committing the body to the grave with all reverence and re spect and with the lively hope that bis body of humiliation will rise all glorious at the last day to more to see corruption. And because this is our faith we commit the bodies of our dear ones to the earth with the saored rites of religion. It is likely that in the hurry and confusion existing on the day succeeding the battle and the haste which the great heat ot that midsmumer's time demanded, the hundreds who lay stark upon the blood-stained field were cast into the pit prepared for them without much ceremony. Surely then it is seemly in our eyes, and pleasing in the siKht of God, that in this present time of peace and prosperity, we should on this anniversury of the battle do that calmly and reverently which was omitted then, though nearly eighty yetra have passed away. For another reason ought we on this an- niversary to do honor to these poor remains — because these are the fragments of the ^ bodies of men, who on this day 79 years ago instinct with lite came here and fought and died in behalf of their country. We would like to know to whom these bones belong. With regard to each we would, if we could receive hu answer to such questions %a these : —Had he a father? Had he a mother? Had he a sister ? Had he a brother ? When he fell here did he leave behind him a sor- rowing widow and fatherless children ? What was his name ? Does the name he bore connect him with any of the families now resident in this district, or any more remote ptrt of Canada ? Or was he reared in the mother land, and in obedionce to command crossed the sea to fight and die here and fill an unknown grave ? We cannot tell. These thintrs will never be known until the day when all secrets shall be revealed. But though we know not who these men were nor anything of their history, thin we do know that in obedience to orders they fought here during the clos- ing hours of that long, hot summer day and far into the niKht, or until death overtook them, whilst the moon looked down upon them from the sky above. That they thought not of surrender nor flight, but only resolved to conquer or die like true British soldiers. Let us then, though late, freely give them the honor that is due to them, and thus express our admiration for a patroitism which refused to change its allegiance and which made our fathers of that day proud of being the subjects of a kingdom which had lasted for so many ages, which has so many noble deeds emblazoned on its escutcheon, which has expanded into the mightiest empire which the world has ever seen and which is ever more and more influencing the destinies of mankind.