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TOWNS OF GOSHEN,
some blind impulse or the light applause of an hour. It is only by faith in Jesus Christ who died for the salvation of sinners, that any human being can face death calmly, collectedly and rationally. Who can tell what consolations religion may have ministered to those who expired in the long agonies of death, after the battle of Minisink, without any human aid? None other could have done. Great as their bodily pains must have been, future prospects may have imparted much alleviation. How intense would their anguish have been, had the prospects beyond the hour of death been only dark and alarming.
But, fellow citizens, though you should never be called to expose your lives in the field of battle, though you should continue to the close of life amidst scenes of peace, in the bosoms of your families, and die having your cheeks bathed with the sympathetic tears of the most affectionate, the most tender hearted relatives, and my hope and prayer is, that you may enjoy all these, yet they are poor and frigid consolations for a dying man, if he has none other. Whether, then, Heaven has destined your country to peace or war in your days, it is wise to be prepared for death, by applying in time to the atoning blood of the Son of God for redemption, and the sanctification and consolation of the Eternal Spirit, to carry you in triumphs, (may I say) more than real, through death—yes, through death, “for it is appointed unto all men once to die.” In a few years these thousands who now stand around us, shall all sink into the earth on which you stand; the clods of the valley shall cover you and not one be left alive. Whilst this day it is your duty to show by your gravity, your sobriety, your temperance and your decorum, that you remember with sympathetic emotions of sorrow the fall of the excellent citizens whose bones you now inter—remember yourselves.
You know that when you die your souls survive, and that your bodies too shall live again. These dry bones can live, they will live again, they await, and your remains soon to follow to the tomb, shall await there the call of that Creator who formed the soul and the body to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. While we look back to their death, let us also look forward to our own and to their resurrection on that day “for which all other days were made.” It is hastening; we must witness its awful solemnities, not like those of this day. It will not be ushered in by the sound of such artillery as you have to-day heard; but the trump of God, the Archangel, reaching the depths of the ocean and the solemn silence of the grave, whose tenants shall all start into life, raised by the omnipotent energies that shall descend in the voice of the trumpet. Then shall
“Eruptions, earthquakes, comets, lightnings play
Their various engines; all at once disgorge
Their blazing magazines.”
You shall not then, as to day, be called on to attend the interment of a few bones, but to wait on the funeral of the material universe—the interment of the world we inhabit—the interment of her attendant moon—the interment of yonder sun now shining gloriously in mid heaven and the interment of every star that burns by night in the blue vault of heaven. Secured in the favor of the Almighty Creator, by the Redeemer of man, may we all be prepared for waiting upon the funeral obsequies of earth and the heavens in peace and safety.
Inscriptions on the Monument in the Church Yard at Goshen.
NORTH SIDE.
Benj. Tusten, Bazaliel Tyler, Col. Samuel Jones, Capt. John Little, Capt. Benjamin Vail, Capt. John Wood, Capt. Lieut.
HAMPTONBURGH AND CHESTER.
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Ephraim Masten, Ens. Nathaniel Finch, Adj. John Duncan, Capt. Ephraim Middaugh, Ens. Gabriel Wisner, Esq. Stephen Mead,
Nathaniel Terwilliger, Joshua Lockwood, Ephraim Ferguson.
WEST SIDE.
Roger Townsend, Samuel Knapp, James Knapp, Benjamin Bennett, William Barker, Jacob Dunning, Jonathan Pierce, James Little,
Joseph Norris, Gilbert S. Vail, Joel Decker, Abram Shepherd, ___Shepherd, Nathan Wade, Simon Wait, ___Talmage.
SOUTH SIDE.
John Carpenter, David Barney, Jonathan Haskell, Abram Williams, James Morher, Isaac Ward, Baltus Nierpos, Gamaliel Bailey,
Moses Thomas, Eleazer Owens, Adam Embler, Samuel Little, Benjamin Dunning, Daniel Reed.
EAST SIDE.
Erected by the inhabitants of Orange County, July 22, 1822.
Sacred to the memory of Forty-four of their Fellow Citizens, who fell at
THE BATTLE OF MINISINK, JULY 22, 1779.
Signers of the Pledge in Orange County, 1775.
Alexander Smith, Phineas Rumsey, William Heard, Phineas Heard, Joseph Conkling, Benjamin Harlay, Jonathan Horton, George Duryea, Joshua Reeve,
John Case, John Ketchum, jr., Obadiah Helms, William Hubbard, Joseph Dixon, Daniel Tooker, Garrett Duryea, David Godfrey, Isaiah Smith, David Youngs,
Silas Pierson, William Lesly, James Miller, William Satterly, David Rumsey, James Mapes, Gideon Salmon, Phineas Salmon, John Meeker, Joseph Browne,
Joseph Drake, Samuel Haines Smith, John Brown, David Horton, Increase Wyman, Silas Horton, Solomon Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Cravens, John King,
John Barker, Ezra Keeler, Cuppe Brooks, Moses Carpenter, James Aspell, Samuel Wickham, Joshua Corey, John Corey, Zepheniah Huff, Wm. Marshall,
Silas Horton, Charles Tooker, John Pain, Daniel Pain, Joseph Case, Benjamin Macveagh, John Budd, William Horton, William Warne, Hezekiah Warne,
Christo. Springsteen, Joshua Brown, Joshua Brown, jr. Hezekiah Watkins, Zeba Owen, Daniel Reeve, James Manne, Jonathan Jayne, William Forbes,
John Bull, Richard Bull, Caleb Coleman, Coleman Curtis, David Rogers, David Jones, Jeremiah Butter.
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