Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-06-04

II MUST be the young lady who died OF n
broken heart. She has found her lost
lover who had lain in the grave OF an un-
known soldier II must be she is going up
to headquarters TO tell Jesus, the tIreat
Captain presideg over the destiny OF ma
tlons, how thankful she feels u him for
taking care OF her loved and lost one. For
he had told her how, when he was dying
on the battle field and was 80 dishgured hy
shell and nhot that no one knew him, all
angel had CONF TO take him TO this beau-
tiful home not made with hands. Aud
further to say how sorry she was that
while on earth ale FD lightly esteemed
such cnnqueror who had abolished death
brought lie and Immortality TO light. IL
not that stately looking young man over
there the rolorbearer who was shot nj
Gettysburg, and when hp WINS dying, aai,l
10 his comrades as they were about to
carry him from the field. let mo die right
here under the old Arg7 OIL we are
glad ii it il, for heaven IL none loo good
place for him. And that little fellow by
hiS side must be the drummer boy who
was so much inspired by tho sound Of
victory while playing his drum that lie dld
not see the deadly sharp shooter that laid
him low,
But do not ace JEFF. Davis. Do you
He may be there, but he wan guilty OF
treason, death and woe What dread
ful record
Oh | Heaven il dearer and sweeter TO ns
since the war. For all the great and good
are there.
But while dwelling on the beauties OF the
war and are picturing In our minds the
destiny of the good and brave, we would
not forget the call4 of our country. There
remaius much TO be done. Our schools
and colleges and seminaries and univers-
tiles are not too many and need fuller
endowment. And / submit the question
whether we do not need at least one high
school more. a school above all others,
"A Bible Jnivefsity," 1t ia n sad reflec=
tion upon the common sense Of the church
to suppose that God has 30 written his
word that his children cannot understand
what he means-that the Catholic and
Protestant world, protesting TO be taught by
the one allwise, metciful Being, should 80
differ, that the Jesuite should condemn
the Protestant as a hereto unworthy OF
christian burial and damn him to the
flames purgatory. It is proposition that
can be demonstrated it is problem that
can be solved II men will nse their COM
mon sense, whether God designed to build
| niS ClluICH uH tllC IloCk, SHTlst 5cHust VI
upon the Apostle Peter. whose name sig-
nities rock, whether our salvation de-
pends on the Judge of all the earth, or
upon the bulls oil the Pope; whether the
United States shall be free people under
its glorious constitution and call no man
master, or be a slave to the dictates of a
man who would feign have us believe
that he Ia in the Apostolic succession and
clothed in the yeslments of ST. Peter,
Such an institution is needed by the Prot
estant as well as the Catholic church. Let
us learn to abide by the true and simple
laws OF Biblical Interpretation and we
shall have one God, and father, and one
baptism, and we shall have a glorious and
perpetual. Union-"a church without
bishop" and "a State without a king
Let us live worthy of the dead whose
deeds we come TO commemorate, and
worthy of the living for whom these brave
men sacrificed their precious lives.