| Show ARE ONE IN brotherhood christian work rejoices that the disappearance of sectionalism seems at hand yes two memorial days and both are ours those of the blue and the gray here we stand nearly half a century removed from the closing days of the great conflicts of our civil war a war between americans at the north and americans at the south americans all can those now alv ing ever forget them or will future generations ever cease to read of those times from the pages of history 9 two memorial days one for the north one tor the south and again all americans no other nation has concern in these memorial times but our own it was a war between broth ers the war has passed the brother hood remains or it there still are those whose hearts are fermenting rooms for sectional hatred we pity that man or woman surely there Is a time to pat aside it not forget a time to regard the best of the pres ent not the worst of the past a time to cultivate amenities and loves not antagonisms and base passions yes there are two memorial days may the sun shane clear in the heavens on the days that commemorate the valor and the losses of both the north and the south nor let either section fall in thought at least to pay its due tribute by awarding equal sincerity and valor to the other these days as la eventually the case with all me days have measurably lost their early characteristic that which clusters around the affect lonal nature and recalls the father or the son who fell in that great struggle it Is not in man always to mourn and now that which was born of the affections becomes monumental and historic and it Is well that it Is so in recent years graves of the northern dead have been decorated by the brethren of the south and the blue have loved to lay their floral tributes upon the graves of the gray so may it con dinue to be as in future years our two memorial days come around with each recurring spring pass a few i tardy years and monuments to a lee or a johnston or a gordon shall find a resting place at the north as well as at the south and so the oneness of the people and the of old antagonisms shall fand expression in bronze or in marble as it already dwells in the hearts of those who are both broadly patriotic and strong festina diem christian work |
