The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
MIR. REED AT DENVER.
What There Is Yet To Be Done in the
Country by Brave Men.


Country by Brave Men.
Memorial Sermon on Sunday Last
1t strikes there is yet something to do in this
country. And there is need yet for the heroism of
the soldier aud for his watch and warfare that he is
not yet mustered out. DISCOVERIES, explorers, pill
grim, Huguenot Catholic have done their work well
and are dead. This country of ours has cost good
deal. The fulfllment must be the scale of the
preparation We alive to that it is done.
In the June number of the North American Review
there is weighty article by Henry D. Lloyd, which
closes with these words; I'VE must now prove that
stay at home and stand it as well as the Chi
nese have done. Future Puritans cannot
emisrate from Southampton to Plymouth
Rock. They can only sail from righteousness
to righteousness. Our young men can no
longer go West-they must go up down. Not new
land, but virtue must be the outlet of the flu.
ture. We cannot hereafter, in the past,
freedom by going to the prairieswe must find it in
the society of the good In the presence of great
combinations in all departments of life tue moralis
and the patriot have work TO do of significance
before approached during the tinerant phases of
civilization 1t may be that the coming age of
binaton will issue in nobler and fuller liberty for
the individual than has yet been seen but that
summation is possible not in day of competitive
trade, but in one of competitive morality"
do not know that you believe much in Henry
George, believe in him some. This believe, that
the land of nation is for the people of that nation"
believe in America for Americans" Great ap
plause.l By American do not a native. I
mean man with the American idea. The Irishman,
or German, or Swede, or Englishman who landed at
Castle Garden yesterday may have that idea. The
whose father came over in the Alayfower may
not have it, He may, indeed, be at this time trying
to show that nothing IS good that not imported If
any likes any country better than this let him
live there. If he likes this country better than any let
him become citizen lGreat applause
What in formal statement, is the American idea}
Il will not have anything which any other
not have on the same terms. My liberty ends whore
irlh hoe, Inc ,1l
land in the East. 1t is pretty well drained. the
soil is leached There is effort made by oilers
and loungers in London clubs to make ireland
here in the West; to be drained and leached We do
want it. and think viii not have il. One eN-
pertinent of this kind is enough for world in space
and all time, The public domain belongs
children and our childrens children. Applause. 1t
has been bought with price and resident
citizen can long fence with harbed wire across that
rightof-way. lGreat applause.
We will try TO to it that the revolutionary war
not fought in vain and that the basis Of 1.-THE
happiness, we possess is carefully kept for the
use of those who will use it. And we will suggest
from time to time to our servants that we send to
Washington to see that the republic takes harm.
that they spend less time in discussing who shall have
the post-office in Penn Yam Greencastle, and
time the question of who shall possess the public
land the people who will lyate il or the people who
Some things in theway of prevention can be easily
done now, and peacefully. The same things can be
done twenty years from but not easily and peace
fully. However they will be done This country
Will be Sezed but 1t cannot be held except according
to justice. The Atlantic rolls wide between and
any feudal system lApplause.l And we are here to
that. the old slavery being dead all its children
shall he drowned while they are little.
1t is said that republics ungrateful They are
if they allowed to be OF those whose lot it to
die the death of battle of fever prison. those who
died there and OF those who coming home brought
their death with them of those who sleep far Off bur
led kindly BY gtEangers, and Of those sent
and flowers, What shall say! They
We're generous. They made no bargain VIZ. us
that should remember them by headstone or E-sv-
ers or word Their eyes are dim to their glory, their
stopped to our praise. They went into tae
vineyard feeling that the Lord of the universe would
do what right We honor ourselves by remeu-
bering them. There is some talk of forgetting them
Well, if any one thinks the uext time let him do
the dying himself. The graves real chill is feeling
to me- walked up Illinois street, Indianapolis, by my
side, and said to me- Tomorrow is Decoration Day
and said Yes, Wen do something and he went
on to say, Il had boy in the army. He
was killed at Shilo. and went down and found his
body and brought it home, and and his mother
buried it. Aud there is grave viii keep green if
have toPant it Applause
The children very observing They have heard
great deal about love of country they have read of
the inscription the monument of the three hundred
Dead men of Greece; go and tell Sparta that lie
high saying of our Warren 1T is pleasant and
sweet for ones country die" They are looking now
to see if there is anything honorable and honored
in this love of country of which they read
such proud stories. Suppose they see
soldiers grave srlothered and sown in the
weeds of unremembrance, made common
ground while the brazen monument of Vanderbilt
towers, VIII they not say with Talstaff: The next
prince you may kill yourself wish the children to
know and that there is difference in graves. We
not only do right but prudent thing to remember
benefit and remember it not grudgingy, but gladly
and proudly On Concord Green the statue of the
soldier of the republic stands in marble Stands at an
eternal parade rest " and the children of the village
their way to and from school look up the steady
figure and ask their fathers, and their mothers and
their teachers what it that this marble
should be white and tall! And they
have fathers and mothers in Massachusetts who can
tell them why the marble is white and so tall
Greater love hath no man than this that a Tiin lay
down his life There is borne in on the living an in.
Auenee from the heroic dead impulse that lifts us
up and bears us on. When the great Bruce was dead
the Douglass took the heart Of the dead chief and
placed it in silver casket aud wore it his breast TO
the wars in Spain. When the battle was heavy and
the issue doubtful he wond take the heart from the
casket and cast it far forward into the ranks of the
enemy saving: Pass on, brave heart into the midst
of the battle as Oft taou hast done. The Douglass
will follow thee or die
Words are weak in honor Of the dead and the brave
They are safe shroude) in the sweet sleep of duty
done. They have exalted American manhood in the
face of all the world lApplsusel They have
wrought out the salvation Of the foremost nation Of
the earth. They have gone on high. The ranks be
ing opened they nave marched through and taken
their place at the extreme right of Pltarch's bat
talon. We give them rosemary that's for re
membrance; and panses. that's for thoughts; and
thank God that He has in His goodness eontrived
language for love, and carved beauty for ashes.