Show I IA A Tablet or on a Flower I IBy I By Dr James I. I Vance I beautiful custom to deck the It Is a soldiers soldiers' graves with flowers on Memorial Memorial Me Me- Me-I Me morial da day but shall wo we let It go at that tha t I Should there hero not bo be on tho the walls aUs of ot land from which every ever church in the young men went out to fight and die an enduring tablet of ot bronze bronzo or marblo marblo mar- mar blo bio to remind tho the living and hand onto onto on onto to the future the fame of ot these lads who made the name of ot America flame namo In glory lory during the world war They made the tho supreme sacrifice and belong to that company of ot ra radiant radiant ra- ra diant spirits who gather bather about the Person of ot the Great Captain Who Vho laid down His Ills life for tor us Christ leads tho the host of ot white souls Bouls whoso whose heroism did not halt at any price whose courage did not shiver down In presence of ot any peril perl and whose gallant and valiant spirits have havo hazard until gone on through e every ry the plain was Vas reached where lay the I live lIe slain who die that men may I do not mean that the mere act of at dying can of ot Itself make atonement It Is a mistake to preach so foolish i I I and ancl fatuous a creed I have talked I with many of ot them about it It and have I I yet et to find a soldier who believed that I by dying on the field of at battle heI he I I I would square his life with God There I Is only One Who can atone for tor sin sinthe sin sin- the Hero of oC Calvary Yet when could sin sin-I men ever be In better mood to accept I the Savior Who shows the trail to I such glory than In the hour when they themselves s are making the supreme I I sacrifice Doubtless many who had not found I Him before sought Him then and were I It t shriven en of their sins and crossed the I t phanton river rh-er to ge see sec their Leader face faco I to face tace and be satisfied I We need a memorial of at these great souls that will speak to us not only when the tho flowers bloom In the springtime springtime spring spring- time but In the hours when our own spirits meet for worship We Ve I need a a. tablet In the church that will Willi preach from tram Sunday to Sunday to us usand us' us usand and to the generations who follow us I stirring to noble deeds and keeping I heroism alive We Wo hope and pray the tho world may never again be he cursed by war We Wo trust that young men at nt the tho door of ot their lifework may not soon lIoon again asal be asked to lay down tool and pen pon and take tako up gun un to march away to war But Dut should It be they must be bo ready And should It never be there are I moral battles baUles to be fought with Is Issues Issues Is- Is sues as tremendous and calling for heroism as great These ThuG tablets our soldier dead on the church wa will twill furnish us n against such an ho hor hoJ |