Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-30

soft prettiness, the ensmby-pambyism oil
professed Christians. Great on parade.
covards in battle. Afraid Of yrtting
their plumes rufii ID, they carry para
sol over their helmet They go into
battle not with warriors gauntlets, but
with kid gloves, not clutching the sword
hilt too tight lest the glove split at the
back. Deliver Us from q womanish
man, his hair done up with curling
tongs and his feet going with girlish
steps. nothing wanting but pantelettss.
Iu all our reformatory and Christian
work the great wanting is more back
bone, more mettle, more daring, more
proves. We would, in all our churches,
ike 10 trade of a hundred do-nothings
for one do-everything. "Quit yourselves
like men. Be strong"
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall Conquer though they die;
They see the triumph from afsr
And SEIZE II with their eye
Again, we mean by this national OBJ
seryance to honor sell. sacrifice for others.
To all these departed men home and
kindred were as dear as our home and
kindred are to us. Do you know how
they felt? Just as you and would feel
starting out tomorrow mo, o,ning with
nine chances out Of ten against our re-
turning alive, for the intelligent soldier
sees not only battle ahead, but
Mslarial Sickness and Exhaustion
Had these men chosen they could have
spent last night in their homes and to-
day have been seated where yeu are.
They chose tue camp not because they
liked il better than their own house,
and followed the drum and file not be-
cause they were better music than the
voices OF the domestic circle. South
Mountain aud Murfeesboro and the
swamps OF Chickahoming were not play
grounds. These heroes risked and lost
all for others. There is no higher sub
Unity than that. To keep three quar-
ters for ourselves and give one-quarier
10 others is honorable. To divide even
with others is generous. To keep moth
ing for ourselves and give all for others
is magnanimity, Christ-like. Put a cir
die around your body and then measure
the girdle and see # you are so or 60
inches around. And is that the circle
OF your sympathies, the size OF your
self? Or, TO measure you around the
heart would It take girdle large enough
to encircls the land and enclrcle the
world. You want to know what We
dry theologians mean when We say
vicarious suffering. Look at the sol
diers' graves to morrow and lind out.
VICarious, Pang for others, wounds
for others, home-sickness for others,
blood for others, sepulchre for others.
Those who visit the National cemeteries
tomorrow at Arlington Heights and at
Richmond and at Gettysburg will see
one inscription on soldiers tombs Of
tener repeated than any other
Unknown.
When, six or seven years ago,
| was called to deliver the Grafton at
Arlington Heights, Washington, was
not so much impressed with the min
ute guns that shook the earth or with
the attendance of the President and
Cabinet and foreign Ministers and gen.
e-als of the army and C. mmodOres OF the
navy as the patriotic and overwhelming
sugSestiveness OF that epitaph on so
many graves at my feet-unknown. un-
known. Ii seems To me that the time must
come when the government ofthe United
States shall take off that epitaph. They
are no more unknown, We have
found them out at last. They are the
beloved sons OF the republic. Would
il not be we'll TO take the statue OF the
heather goddess of the top OF the capi-
tol at Washington (for have no faith
in the morals OF a heathen goddess) and
put one great statue in all our national
cemeteries, q statute OF liberty in the
form of Christian woman with her
hand on an open Bible and her foot on
the rock of ages, with the other hand
pointing down to the graves oil the un
known, saying: "fhese are my sons
who died that might live" Take off
the misnomer Everybody knows them.
it is Of comparatively little importance
what vas the name given them in bap.
tism OF water. In the holier and
mishtier baptism OF blood We know
them, and tomorrow the nation puts
both arms around them and hugs them
10 her, cryiag;
Mime Forever"
Again by this national ceremony We
mean the future defence Of this nation.
By eyerv wreath OF flowers on
the soldiers graves We say
Those who die for the country
shall not be forgotten" and that will
give enthusiasm To our Young men in
cas-. our nation shonld in the future
need to defend itself in battle. We shall
n ,yer have another var between North
and south. The old decayed bone OF
American slavery, has been
cast out We are floating off further
and further from the
Possibility of Sectional Strife.
B. Hayes wrought four years
toward pacihcstion, and President Gar
iell has no better mau in his Cabinet
than Secretary Hunt, Of New Orleans,
Louisiana. The great sectional contests
which RACED from Canada to the Gull OF
Mexico. and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, for many wears has dwIndled
down and dwindled down until there is
20 little Of il that beer garden at Al.
Oany TO day attracts the attention of all
the nation. M possibility of civil war.
Bu, 9bout foreign invasion / am not so
certain. When spoke against war
said nothing against sel:-defence.
An inventor told me the other day at
Washington that he hal invented q
style Of weapon which could be used in
selt defense, but not in aggressive war
iare. | said: when You get the ma
lions 10 adopt that weapon you have ins
troduced the Millennium" There is no
room on this continent for any other ma
Canada, and a better
neighbor no one ever had. Ifysu don't
think so, 70 to Montreal and Toronto
and see how well they will treat you.
But ! am not so sure that some of the
Arrogant Nations of Europe
may not some day challenge US. do
not know that those forts around New
York Bay are to sleep all through the
next century. do not know that Bar
neygut light house will not vet look off
upon the hostile navy. | do not know
but that half dozen nations. epyions of
our prosperity, may want to give ma a
wrestle. II foreign fJe should come ne
want men like those of 1912 and like
those OF 1852 to meet them. When snch
atime comes, il it ever does come the
generations on the stage of action will
say, MY country will care for nv t..
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