Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1863-10-16
Died at Gettysburg.

The following beautiful extract il from a
funeral sermon preached in Maine, over a
brave young volunteer who fell at Gettys-
burg
we. esteem it an honor that one brave,
Young life has, from this congregation. been
yielded up in so great, so holy cause
We esteem it an honor (sore. unutterable
grief though it beg to those parents who
have been called to give up their first born,
the object of their love and their hope TO God
and their country. TO the whole race whom
Christ came TO save.
Died at Gettysburg no prouder epitaph
need any man covet. Who Ofall who have
occupied the houses, and titled these fields
building, planting, reaping and returning
to the dust whence they We're taken-whO
OF them all has earned a nobler memorial
Who Of all who dwell here, will INERT more
atiectiOnate, honored remembrance. than
the Young volunteer who, from this com
munity, went forth to fight, and as the event
proved, die for his country?
Died at Gettysburg Do YOU know what
it means? 1t means Died to chasten the
insolence which had grown inordinate through
IA series of success" 1t means Died to res
tore courage and hope to an army saddencd
astcr" Ii means Died to turn back the
spread devastation. Ii means "Dlcl to
still the panic fear which filled all hearts IL
the great cities of our land. " Ii mean,
Died that mothers might put their children
in security to their nights rest. 1t means
Died that instruction and riot, theft and
robbery. cOnhagratiOn and red-handed muir
der might not rage at will,-not in New
York and Boston alone. but in every city,
every town, every village in the land. ~ n
means Died that You might assemble in
this house without tear that your houses will
be plundered and burned in your absence
that YOU yourselves might fall by the shot or
stab of the assassin.
For all that was experienced in New York
i but a small sample of what must. in all
probability, have been experienced through
out the North. had the men who died at
Gettysburg faltercd when desperately as
saulted by proud. outnumbcring foe.
Died at Gettysburg Ii means DIED
that the best government on which the sun
ever shone might not be bound powerless,
calling in vain for the succor which would
not come-as our government, in all seem
M. would have been, had not God, in hi,
mercy, interposed for us, saving Us by those
who. at Gettysburg. opposed their breasts
a. the hulwarks of our defence against the
enemy who thought to tread Us into the
dust"
Died at Gettysburg ltmcas Died for
the lands salvation died for the opening of
the prison-doors 20 them that are uniustlv
bound died To proclaim the acceptable year
of tbe Lord and the daV of vengeance of our
God. To the oppressed nations of the earth
died that man might still hope and struggle
upward to life and liberty, civil and rcig-
iou~ died that a field for missionary enter
prise might he opened IN our own land. more
widespread and more important than any of
which We have yet taken possession died
that Christians might not, hrokcn-hcarted,
retire from the effort for the worlds CONVEX
sion died that Gods kingdom might come,
that his viii might Dee dome. on earth as 10 is
done in heaven.
Tia, is what it ucln,-piei 20 Gdfy,-
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