, 1869-05-31


brings this noble quality hume to our hearts: can
watch them leave their homes, while mothers. and
sisets and wives, gather about them. not to hin-
DER, thank God. but TO heip-Spaztsu women.
with Christian hearts, battling Win the,r tea5a
onis sss1nF their pt1ycrs free course, and their
sight. We can think Of them IN their cacans h:ac-
ng MP their hearts to the strange ufe with thar
distant look IN thcir eyes that have seen 40 manv
swept ove, the distance nom the tent to the
homestead, and Is looking IN and watching The
1ne ne teat must 60 On la s steady round whether
Then, as the day ia1kens, VIC can watch them rn
ioEtn to battle, 10 that awful work which seems
lie ena atelun 'inss snons4 10 q
der make their hrcasra d hplwark for their mofh-
GRAND, 10 die Il they must, to he manned U fhev
Il 1t Is TO die, 70 depart as have seen SO Gaanv
Eo-as when God kissed hts servapf on
tae ae, !. mountain }aI and he slept No complaint
always comes with the well uone-the assurance
that al Is well hither and youder: that lNc Is
~ m.ays NEE sood iot Is no feaz for the soul thai
hope. 1t has been m. lot to 4ueel hy the death
I'D Or many Christians; never xnelt bs one On
as i did on the poor cot Of some roldlers Who
could not tel nc much about their fatlh but cou!
| tel nc a! Wanted 10 know about their duty
Deaf sen!ef, beautiful souls, speaking Of the wis
and children With thc.r last breath, and OF their
nope tnaf the country for which they died would
to GoI 70 mater Tie aRa a. fhe
1
u that VAS not best the5 we're not going tn
lament So far they wcfc sure Of tbetr footing.
and they did not fear fot tile ncxt stem to die fnr
the great mother WAS enough that they felt was
In their poor measure As when Christ died for the
I race. Heroes. no octter OF brighter hcro,sm wHs
ever seen on this p.anet than that which shone
forsh from these men, 70 whose dust We bring this
beauty wherever they lie. said Just now taat
hetptsm Was the lowest Of these grand qualities
b Which these 1isen souls, that look down upon
Us to-day, ate to be forever distinguished II tn,y
be fhat for that reason It is the quality on Ttich
the others must rcst and but for which they could
have no real existence. The hero under}ies the
patriot AMI the savior. Patriotism sud sacrifice
rest on the quakin1 sand. when herutsm, the ur-
conquerab1e quality, does not hold them mn
"FlIyt win the battle, then LOOK utter me crted
Colonel Silas Miller; 1t was the instinct at
| the hero. Hcrotsn, Ca1ltle has sail, Is that
| divine relation which In all times relates great
man to other men II uuiics Us to-day to ever hero
On the land anl In the Eea who fell for his cpun-
uy. Rut for the dead We should have d } country.
| The heroes Of tho country, alive ami dead, are 1T
! the foundation OF America nationality.
=, Secondly. bu, I satd that above
espeak sttl Of tho soldier when say this
because It Is the lessen Of his LIE am touching;
and he Is greater IS patriot than hero because
he rose above nil minor things and gave himself
Matnoas ,EessEsation for the repnhlte. mean
20 o1Gnee when Say there Is q sectional patriot
m, !ust u tae1e sectional Christianity aay
niueM ~ MoTe fFeely because have to confess thai
oe1oos % \ seetson tn tas rp7h'ict md