Show GETTYSBURG'S APPEAL APPEALS and the human heart re responds re- re i 0 long as ns men arc are men arid s SO to the noble nuble impulses ses germinated by deeds deed of ot cherished cherished memory mem mem- valor a Gettysburg will remain 11 a or ory long after atter tile the victories of pence peace have hoc been for for- horrors her hor- hor horrors admitted gotten Peace Pence idealists may recite the of war the thc misery and suffering that battle entails entails en en- beauties of bloodless triumphs but the tails and th the poets will continue to find their ill inspiration on vic victorious c- c battlefields and the thc fires of a nations nation's patriotism patri patri- will burn bum the brightest when the roll of its martial martial martial mar mar- I called Human nature I ment is being which disproves in infallible rules and confounds the tho plans of tie the keenest has hns its limitations its ita metes and bounds be beyond which it may not go o. o A Gettysburg burg means more than the Historic spot upon which a n bloody and decisive decisivo battlo battle was fought it comprises more than the theatre of deeds of heroism hero hero- ism of brilliant generalship hip of courage under galling fire If that were all it would de descend to the level leve of the tile shambles that opponents of war see sec in it and nd which in truth it was The name spells higher and nd nobler things it stands for patriotism for self sac for death cheerfully hazarded and smilingly accepted for lor self immolation upon the sanguinary p pyre rc of warfare that a nation might exist It the sacred sf alter altar upon which the patriotism I of ofa a n notion nation tion offered its ita noblest sons son dedicating them to J service service The appeal of a n Gettysburg is is a powerful obstacle in of time the peace pence propagandists it serves their cause b by exemplifying the thc horrors of war and the which modern battle becomes become but it dissipates dissipates dissipates pates their arguments and refutes refutes' their conclusions because it stirs in the breast of time the rising generation the readiness to emulate if necessity press the deeds that history recounts It kindles in the youthful breast the tile devotion shown by those who fell upon this great rent b battlefield it proves pro that death in the tho service service service ice of ones one's country may be bc more moore useful and glorious than thou life e it inspires res a n greater rea ter love oe and admiration ra t ion of the principles for which these men readily risked their lives A Gett Gettysburg is a font of inspiration to toa ton a n country's citizenship a trumpet call to patriotism |