The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-06-04
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was found after his death i'll our American
war there was GENERALLY a careful package
containing the Bible, few photographs
and letters from home. On the other hand,
tens of thousands lof homes waiting for
neYs, Parents saying: "Twsnty thousand
killed! | wpndeT il our boy was among
taeml Faintihgs dead away in post-cffi,os
Ind telegraph stat ipns. Both the ears. Of
Col 81 ed with tho sobs aud la}9pies of
kind ed waiting for news or dt6pfing
under the announcement Of bad news.
Speak, swamps of Chickahominy and mid.
night lagoons aul llre-rafts on the Misiis-
sippi, and gunbohts before Vicisburs,
and woods Of Antietam, and tell to all the
mountains and valleys and rivers and
lakes Of North and South the jeremads Of
1864 that have never yet been syllabledl
Besides that domestic perturbation and
home-sickness of twenty years ago put the
sweet domesticity of 1881. Where do you
come from tonight? From home. The
only campfire you now sit at Is tho one
kindled in stove or furnace or hearth, In.
stead. of half-ration of salt pork, re.
past luxuriant because partalien of by
loving family circle and in sacred con-
fidences. Ali, nowI see who those letters
were for, the letters you, the young sol.
dier, took so long ia your tentto write, aud
that you were so particular to put in the
mail without any one seeing. lest you be
teased by your comrades. God spared
you to come back, and, though the ohd'peo-
pie have gone, you have a homs i,your
own construction, and. you are here TO
night contrasting those awful absences
and filial and brotherly and loverly heart
breaks with your present residence, which
is the dearest plac,'you will ever find this
side of Heaven, the place where your chill
dren were born, and the place where you
want to die. 10 write tho figures 1854
set up four crystals-crystals of tears.
To write the figures OF 1884 stand up four
members of your household, figures Of
rosy cheeks and haxen hair, IL can get
them to stand still long enough.
Look at the long line of churches and uni.
versities and asylums and homes with
which during the last two decades this land
has been decorated. Oh, was not this
country worth fighting for? Do not the
magnificent properties of 1884 compon.
safe for the hardships of 1864. Soldiers,
praise God that He has spared you
to see this day, and as you gave your bod.
les in battle give your souls In peace to
God and your country.
Living soldiers of the North and South
take new and especial ordination at this
season Of tho year to garland the sepul.
chers of your fallen comrades. Nothing is
too good for their memories. Turn all the
private tombs and the National cemeteries
into gardens. Ye dead of Malvern Hill and
Coal Harbor, and Murfreesboro, and Man
assas Junction, and Cumberland Gap, and
field hospital, receive these floral offerings
of the living soldlery.
But they shall come ngain-all the dead
troops. We sometimes talk about earthly
military reviews, such as took place in
Paris in the time of Marshal Ney, and in
London in the time of Wellington, and in
our own land. But what tame things
compared with the final review when
all the armies OF tho eyes shall pass for Di-
vine and angelic inspection! st. John saw
the. armies Of Heaven on whits horses and
do not know why many of the old cavalry
horses of earthly battle that were wounded
and worn out in tho service may not have
resurrection. IL would only be fair that,
raised up and ennobled, they should be
resurrected for tho grand review Of the
Judgment day. It would not take any
more power to reconstruct their poor bod
les than to reconstruct ours, and / should
be very glad to SEQ them among tho white
horses Of apocalyptic vision. Hark to the
trumpet blast, the revcille Of the last judg-
menl They come up, all the armies Of all
lands and all centuries, on whichever side
they fought, whether for freedom or des-
potism, fol- the right or the wrong. They
come They comel Darius and Cyrus ald
Sennacherib and Joshua and David, lead
ing forth the armies of Scriptural times.
Hannibal and Hamilcar leading forth the
armies Of the Carthagenians. Victor
Emmanuel and Garibaldi leading on the
arfbies Of the Italians. Tsmerlane and
Gnghis Khan followed by the armies Of
Asia-s Gustavus AdolpsuS and Ptolemy
Philopater and Xerxes and Alexander
and. .Semiramis and Washington leading
battalion after battalion. Tho dead Amer
ican. armies Of 177G and 1912, and the ona
million Of Northern and Southern
dead In our civil war. They come
upi They pass on in review. The
thirty five billion men estimated
to have fallen in ba.tle--e rough, according
to one statistician, II they stool four
abreast, TO reach clear around the earth
four hundred and forty-two times. Bui
We shall have time TO sos tbom pass In re.
view before the throne ofijudgment; the
cavalrymen, the spearmen, the artillery
mon, the infantry, tho sharp.shoo!crs, the
gunners, the sapp,rs, tao miuers, the arch
ers, the skirmlshers, m,n o' all colors, OF
all epaulets, Of MI standards, Of all wcap.
onry, of all centuries. Let the earth bo
especially balanced to bear their tread.
Forward! Forward L.. the orchestra
Of the heavenly galleries play tho grant
march, joined by all tho f'erI, drummors
and military bands that ever sounded vic.
IoEy VI ueicab W nsylau VI D"oi'uVi "uI-
athon or Thermopyle, Bunker Hill or
Yorktown, Solferino or Balnklava, Sedan
or Gettysburg; from the time that Joshua
halte astronomy above Giheon and Ajal-
lon till tho last man surrendered to Garnet
Wolssley at Tel.el-Kebir. Attention. !
companies, battalions, ages, centuries and
the universe. Forward IN the grand re-
view Of the Judgment Forward
Gracious and eternal God ! On that day