Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-05-29
SUNDAY MEMORIAL
Services Held at the Rink on
Sunday and Rev. Sniders
Sermon.
Providential Influence that Has
Always Gxerted Itself Over
these United States.
MEMORIAL EXERCISES

RINK SuuOhN lOIcuOOu. -ohe very
excellent music was rendered, Miss
Minnie Case presiding at the organ,
choir being Mrs. Griffith, Miss Con-
roy and Miss lone Watson, and
Messrs. II. f. Bachelor, w. NJ. Tomp-
kins and r. Clark The sermon was
delivered by Rev. S. e. Snider and
was an appropriate one being as
follows:
Lesson, Isa XLI. !, 20: Text
b essed 10 the nation whose God is the
Lord and the people whom he hath
chosen for his own Inheritance, Ps.
XXXIIL.
The object Of this meeting is two
fold. First, 10 educate, second TO COM
memorste. Educate the young, peget
within them a greater love of country,
spirit Of true patriotism. This can
be done by looking at the history Of
the past. With its struggles and Its
Victories and 20 commemorate once a
year the noble lives that were offered
upon our country's altar; teaching tn g
young and rising generation to revere
the names and cherish the memory of
those who sacrificed their lives for
principles that were desrsr than life.
IL is necessary as an intro iuction to
our subject that we look upon our
country As Christian Republic, "borD
Of the determined viii Of man aud OF
God.n Over the distance Of q century
the chariot OF Providence has borne this
nation. The whole history OF our
country from the embarkation of the
Pilgrims 10 the conclusion of the revo.
lutionsry struggle, and from that
period until the present hour, is not to
be explained or understood by those
who do not recognize the superintend-
ence OF God 10 human history. God
had a purpose when this country was
discovered by religious navigator,
sent out by q religious queen. God
had purpose when this country was
kept unsettled for q century and n
quarter. God would not suffer it, that
tyrannical ideas OF government or re-
liglon should take root here. There
were several monarchies OF the old
world who made effort TO gain uulver.
sal control. But no crowned despot,
no hosry superstition, % ancient usur-
patton were permitted TO find con-
genial soil here. In the order of Proyi-
dence this land was to be peopled by a
people speakings q particular language
and having = well defined religious
faith. The first colonists OF New
England we're men whose peculiar
views OF Christianity drove them from
their homes aud fresides. Tn sc pill
grims embarked in the Msyflower
September 9Th, 1920, and effected a
landing on the famous Plymouth Rock
on the 22nd OF December of the same
year. For century and a half they
passed through proyidentisl ana
preliminary training, for from them
were to come our natioI's first rulers
and Legislators. Our fathers had no
dssire TO iDaugurate a new and inde.
pendeat government. provided the
evils from which they already suffered
could be redrsssed. They petitioned.
thsy eutrested, there seemed to he but
one rad icsl and efficient cure. Separ-
alton, thisis what they uudertoon aud
with Gods help accomplished in the
American Revolution.
For the first time in human history
the founders Of government were seen
holding religion a. something not tC
be interfered with by state. Liberty
of opinion, liberty Of conscience, lib
erty Of worship, liberty in all matter'
pertaining to religion, they held no
to be q privilege created or ceded by
the state, but an antecedent right in.
herent In the individual conscienc,
which the state was bound by every
principle OF houor, safety aud progress
to respect. This constituted one OF
the grandest epoohs ia human history,
and was the grsndest political senti-
ment every formulated In human Ian
guage. II was as old ~ creation, AS
universal as human rights, ~ far
reaching rs human destiny. II was
the unifying power, the und rlyiug
strength, the guiding star through all
that turbulent period that gave birth
to our national existence. IL was thu.
universal religious conviction which
made Patrick Henry's Appeal TO
arms and the God OF Hosts" battl,
CRY that shook as with the power Of NJ
cart bquake the proud throne that wa,
crushing the infant republic.
II was discrimination that W,