Show PAYS TRIBUTES TO VETERANS Rev McLain W Davis Delivers Sermon in Honor of Me Memorial Memorial morial Day RECALLS BLOODY CONFLICT DECLARES THAT JOHN BROWN WAS PROPHET OF GOD GOD Rev Her W Davis pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church preached a Memorial Day sermon sennon yester yesterday day morning to the tho members of the G GA A 4 R P and Womans Relief Corps and the Spanish War Veterans He took for his hilS theme They Saved Others Not Them Themselves Themselves selves The speakers text was taken from St Matthews account of the cru cm of Christ He saved others him himself self he cannot save The speaker said In part The text embodies the taunt flung at Jesus Christ when he hung on the cross Very reverently let it be said that It tells the truth about aU all who forget them themselves selves and save nave others The soldiers of the Civil war saved others in so 50 doing they could not save themselves It is well that we have the institution we call Memorial Day Inaugurated out of respect for those who fell in the Civil war We rejoice that the da day r has passed beyond the hounds bounds of sectionalism or mere localism and has become a truly national daya holy memorial of all the sacred dust we have committed to the kindred earth No more fitting or tender rite can be imagined for this occasion than to cover over the graves of the dead with sweet symbols of the resurrection hope The day Is for us more than a memorial it is a sacred Influence to mould the fUture and these resting renting places of the dead are for us the shrines of patriotism to Which we should draw near with our hearts purged from aU all pen pas passion pension sion and prejudice that we may bear away a blessing Nation Still Mourns We are yet so near to the great struggle struggle gle that we have not ceased to mourn that such great sacrifices were necessary to preserve the Union We look at the Union and the one flag and re rejoice rejoice joice but there have not from that day dayto to this been enough men children born to comfort the hearts of the mothers who mourned that so many were the price of national union We remember that the war which be began n with men grew In volume until the enlistments reached 2 while a 8 revenue of was required to carry on the conflict We remember the he four years of war and the men who died during this period and the other thousands who were wounded or contracted dIsease and yet we have only a faint Idea of the sacrifices sacrifices necessary to save the Union The struggle during four years of civil war was so gigantic because it was a con conflict conflict between a mighty evil el and a mighty right Here In America was the b battle battlefield field fleM where the divine right of all the people to be free was to be forever es en established As the slow centuries rolled roIled round God was preparing the way for forthe forthe the triumph of the great idea which Christ was born to proclaim That idea becomes the central thought of the Dec Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Constitution But the great princIple of the equality of men was not yet free from aU all error A final purification in the fIery furnace was needed to secure the pure gold which God desired Slavery could not long exist in a land where a Dee Dec of Independence had bad been signed where So a Lexington had been fought where a 8 Warren had died John Brown a Prophet We Ve cannot forget the work of one man Gods p prophet of deliverance the fore forerunner forerunner runner of the emancipator Abraham Lin Lincoln coin coln John Brown Browny John Brown in an atmosphere when no man dared to say Liberty above his breath stood forth and dared to be a man From his he be preached a sermon from the text once beloved but then almost forgotten of men Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof John Brown was a hero Men then called him a madman Quickly does history repeat itself When V hen the fIght at Bunker Mill was Vias over War Warren rca ren lay dead upon the field Down in Boston they were sa saying ing Madman Fanatic The hour for a peoples deliverance had come The first shot at Sumter stunned all men but only for a moment Then came caine a burst of patriotism when the whole nation north and south sprang to arms anns The conflict was on between the constitution and state rights and the crash was rending when the opposing bat battle battie tie tle lines blended in smoke and flame Slowly it began to dawn on mens minds that there was something more at stake than the union of the states From marching columns by day and blazing campfires at night rose the Battle Hymn of the Republic In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in his bosom that transfigures ures you and me meAs meAs As he died to make men holy let us die dieto dieto to make men free The sentiment in favor of the abolition abolition tion of slavery In the emancipation pation proclamation and the victory then comes which bad not before been won Pictures First Days The first days of the great conflict will come b back ck to us as we cover over the graves of the soldiers We will see the partings front from loved ones as fathers sons brothers fall Into line and march away We will remember what the life of the soldiers meant We Te will see them on long marches and standing on picket duty We will see SeC them on many a field of fame and glory meeting the charge rallying to the flag storming the dark redoubt We will see se them in the swamps around Vicksburg and the trenches before Rich Richmond Richmond mond We will see them at last Jast pourIng their victorious columns through the streets of Washington on For their sacrifIces flees to save the flag fellow men and country we honor them But we would not forget the equally brave or braver hearts who stayed at home Not aU all the blood of th the war was shed on the came none will ever know how much from the bro broken broken ken bleeding hearts heerts at home We honor the wives mothers sisters who labored waited prayed and sacrificed so much for tor their country Have More Perfect Union We rejoice that we have a more per perfect feet union than we ever had before WEt We rejoice that because the blood of brave men has with the priceless stain ex cx expressed pressed from human hearts d dyed ed that bright flag until its stripes were one solid field of costly crimson the glorious ban banner bannor nor ner of the republic with not one star lost and not one stripe erased now floats in ample folds on land and sea In every cery breeze from the lakes to the Rio Grande Maines rockbound coast to the Golden Gate of California over the loyal loal states of a free and undivided union Wb VIe rejoice that we can remember the heat of the past and that the bitterness can be buried In the graves of the dead The sons of the men who wore the blue and the sons of the men who wore the gray have hae fought together as comrades in arms in Cubs Cube Porto Rico and the isles of the east Their blood has cemented the north and south closely together What to Teach ChIldren ChIldrenS r n S ers we ask you to teach your our the children of America Americ some something thing more than patrIotism teach them to love the highest good or of nIl all mon men and the nation Make your our monuments more enduring than marble and bronze the multiplied evidences that In times Umes ot of peace you were lovers loers or of that righteous righteousness ness which alone a natIon and andou virtues will Uv liv Uvin livIn you ou can never die Your in generations yet unborn May lIay the blessing ot of the Great CaptAin of our salvation be with you on your re remainIng remaining marches until you 00 pitch your tents over toward the city whose maker and builder bunder Is God Then may you and we be ready to answer Here at the roll call of the army of the Lord LordA LordA A special musical including patriotic numbers was rendered In honor honorof of the occasion |