The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-04

The following beautiful extract is 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 consider it an honor-sore, unutter-
able grief though it be-to these 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 Gettysburgl No prouder epi
taph need any man covet. Who, of all who
have occupied these houses, and titled these
fialds-building, planting, reaping and re-
turning to the dust whence they were taken
who of them all has earned a nobler me-
mortal? Who, of all who now dwell here,
will merit more affectionate, honored re-
membrance, than the young volunteer who,
from this community, 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
a series of successes 1t means Died to re-
store courage and hope to an army saddened
and respondent through long continued dis
aster.' 1t means Died to turn back the tor
rent of invasion and pillage, and wide spread
devastation Itmeans Died to still the panic
fear which filled all hearts in the great cities
of our land 1t means Died that mothers
might put their children in security to their
nights rest 1t meant Died that insurrec-
ton and riot, theft and robbery, conhagration
and red-handed murder, might not rage at
will-not in New York and Boston alone, but
in every city, every town, every village in the
land 1t means Died that you might as
semble in this house without fear that your
homes will be plundered and burned in your
absence-that you yourselves might not fall
by the shot or stab of the assassin
'For all that was experienced in New
York is but small sample of what, must in
probability have been experienced through
out the North, had the men who died at Get
tysburg faltered when desperately assaulted
by proud outnumbering foe.
"Died at Gettysburg! Itmeans Died that
the best Geyernmant ON. which the sun ever
shoaa might not he bound and powerless,
calling in vain for the succor which would
not come-as our Government, in all seeming,
would have been, had not God, in His mercy,
interposed for us, saving us by those who at
Gettysburg, opposed their breasts as the
bulwarks of our defence, against the enemy
who thought to tread us into the dustv
"Died, at Gettysburgl 1t means Died for
the lands salvation; died for the opening of
the prison-doors to them that are unjustly
bound died to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our
God, to the oppressed nations of the earth;
died that men might still hope and struggle
upward to life and liberty, civil and religious;
died that field for missionary enterprise
might be open in our own land, more wide
ly spread and more important than any of
which we have yet taken possession died
that Christians might not, broken-hearted,
retire from the effort for the worlds conyer-
sion; died that Gods kingdom might come,
that His will might be done, on earth as it is
in heaven.
"That is what it means-Died at Gettys-
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