The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-10-31
Died at Gettysburg.

ne following Oeautllui tAtTdCt Is lIOW
funeral sermon preached in Maine, over a
brave young volunteer who fell at Gettys-
burg:
1--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 al honor (sors, unutterable
grief though it bel to those parents who
have been call I'd to give up their frs; horn.
the objec: of their love and th,ir hope to
Goa and their country, TO the whole race
whom Christ came to save.
Died at Gettysburg! no prolder epitaph
need any man covet. Who of all who have
occupied the houses, and TILED these fields
building. planting, reaping and returning to
the dust whence they were taken-who OF
them all has earned nobler memorial p
u ho OF all who dwell here. will merit more
atfec,ionate, honored remembrance, than the
young volunteer who, from this community,
went forth to fight, and as the event proved.
die fer his county?
Died at Gettysburg! Do you know what
il means? II means "Died to chasten the
insolence which nad grown inordina,e through
series of success" 1t means Died 20 re-
store coura.,e and hope to an army saadened
and respondent through long-continued dis
aster" 1t means Died 10 turn back the
torrent of iurasior and pillage, and vide
spread devastation 1t means "Died 10
still the panic fear which filled all hearts in
the great cities of our land" 1t means
L" Died that mothers might put their children
in security to their nights rest Ii means
:" Died that i1surrec:;on and riot, thief: and
robbery, couhagEation and red-handed mur-
der might not rage at will hot in New
York aid Boston alone, but in every city,
every town, every village in the land" Ii
means Died that YOU might assemble in
this house without fear that your houses will
be pIundeced and burned i'll your absence
that you yourselves might 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 all
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 1t 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
Ing, would have been. had not God. in his
mercy, interposed for Us, saving US by those
vho. at Gettysburg. oppcsef, their breasts as
the bulwagks Of our defence, against the en-
envy who thought to tread Us into the dust"
Died at Gettysburgi 1t means Died for
the lands salvation died for the opening of
the prison-doorS to them that are unlustiy
bound died to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord, and the day Of vengeance Of
our God, to oppressed nations of the earth !;
died that man might still hope and struggle
upward to life and liberty, civil and religious ;
died that field for missionary enterprise
night be opened il cur own land. more wide
>rsraI AID more important than any of
which we have yet taken possession; died
that Christians might not, troken-hearted,
retire from chc Effort fyr he worlds CONVEX
sion: died that God's kirgdl n might come,
thai his will might be done, on earth as it is
done in heaven.
{ Tda'i- ~ha; It means--died at Gettysbury!'