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Show NEEMORUL MY IS THEME OF SERK Conditions Before Civil War and Those Today Are Compared. i ' i Memory of t ho men who fought for the principlo of liberty, that the republic repub-lic might live, was honored in many Salt Lata pulpits yesterday, the Sunday preceding pre-ceding Memorial day. Eloquent tributes were paid to the valur of the soldiers of the Civil war. and a debt of gratitude grati-tude for their serviee was acknowledged. Comparison was made by various speakers of the antebellum days of trial and trouble, with the conditions existing exist-ing in America today, and the phophecy was voiced that, as the republic came out of t hat historic conflict a united and j a stronger natiou, so will the conflict in which America is now engaged, leave her with, a greater destiny, and a richer heritage of tradition and achievement. Special G. A. R. Service. The (.fraud Army of the Republic and the organizations auxiliary to it attended attend-ed special services at Central Christian church in the morning. The church wa crowded with the gray-haired men who shouldered their' muskets and marched awav to the. battlefields, and with their friends. The Rev. Chester A. Snyder paid an eloquent tribute to their valor, to their heroic endurance, and to the women who suffered the agonies of suspense sus-pense and grief at home while their loved ones laced death in the fields of . carnage. I The Rev. J. H. N. "Williams, pastor j of the First Methodist church, spoke, on the topic "The Sacrament of Remembrance. Re-membrance. '' He said that though a half century has elapsed since that .conflict, .con-flict, the nation remembers with growing grow-ing tenderness, and appreciation, the ser-j ser-j vice of these loyal men. He contrasted the Civil war with the Crimean war, the Franco-Prussian and the Russo-Turko Russo-Turko war, saying that more men died on the battlefields and in the hospitals of the Civil war than in any of those. The record of glorious courage, of brilliance bril-liance achievement of the men of both sides was not excelled by any people. Back of all the conflict and carnage was the conception of American liberty. Roosevelt Is Praised. Referring to the problems of today he declared that while the nation owes undivided un-divided and absolute fealty to President Wilson, it was his opinion that Theodore Roosevelt is the greatest American of the dav. This declaration was greeted ! with cheers from the audience, and a burst of spontaneous applause. 1 The Rev. F.lmer T. Goshen, pastor of the Fi rt Congregational church, reviewed re-viewed the memorable history of the Civil war period and declared tbat today the nation is in the most dramatic and foreboding period of its history since that time. There are many on the, outposts out-posts now, he said, asking, " Watchman, what of the night ; ' ' I Dr. Goshen then turned to the liberty lib-erty loan bond issne. describing the character char-acter of the bonds, their denominations and the ease with which they may be purchased. He said that it is every man's duty to purchase one of theec bonds, if no more, because it is the wish ! of the government that the bonds be j distributed among the masses of the I people in small lots rather than that they bo held by the masters of wealth. Speaks on Soldier. t , 'The Gcod Soldier" was the topic taken by the Rev. John Malick, pastor of the. First Unitarian church, yesterday mornine. He said in part: For many years we have cherished the belief tbat the work of the soldier cRn now be dispensed with. All that was fine within us responded to what we believed to be a new spirit In the world. We tried to minimize the martial spirit, and the pa ?es given to the soldier were much reduced. The result on our ceneration is an underestimation under-estimation of the soldier's part. Next Wednesday we keep a kind ! of holy dav sacred to a body of men who. fifty-two yea r? ago. made up the largest army in the world. This nation had built around a canker for lfin years. Fach genera tion knew that t he reckoning day would come, and each put It off. It is the soldier, and the soldier alnne. who stands today between us all and the total loss of aJl that is dearest to mankind. In the lie lit of this clear need he goes out with conscience con-science clear, with all other means first exhausted, with the burden of al on his shoulders. Memories Recalled. The Rev. P. A. Simpkin. pastor of Phillips Phil-lips Congrega tional church. spoke on "Memories and Mandates'' last night. He said In part: We are standing todav where memory mem-ory will demonstrate if 1776. if 11?, If .ISfU and If 198 were worth while. Our land Is happy In its great memories. mem-ories. We do not look upon them alone as great military achievements, or in vindictive rejoicing over a fallen toe. but as marks of democratic demo-cratic principles, the power of the fundamental human rights. For eighty years patriots of the United Srates looked upon the glory of the revolution. Then grew the slavery, question, and the civil war resulted. The achievements of the past were set in the background In the light of the new glory. New dj na mics of pat rtottsm were furnishe. The, constitution was rewritten. The fundamental rights of the individual were restated, and we fixed in abiding abid-ing shape the abiding sovereignty of the union. This coming contest will set Into the background the memories of the oivll war and that of 1!8. The memories of all our wars are essentially the same. T h e y glow with a co m mo n splendor, the splendor - of human rights. A-Il these conflicts have sanctified sanc-tified and sanctioned our ideals. We are now about to write those ideals on tiie pages of world history tha t we have written into our national history his-tory construction of the rights of t he liberty of man. The mandate is that memory tells us what we are, and what we are those who come rmust be. |