Wichita eagle., 1888-05-29
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
THE GARFIELD HALL LARGELY
ATTENDED AND QUITE
INTERESTING.
Rev. Robert Guthrie Master of Cere-
monies, and Address by the Rev.
". ]. Tull---Synopsis
of Address.

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hall on Sunday morning were attended
largely not only by members of the past
but by the public generally. The hall
was beautifully and tastefully decorated
with the choicest of flowers and flags. The
services were conducted by the Rev Robert
E. Guthrie and address delivered by the
Rev. w. j. Tull, a synopsis OF which is as
follows:
The great teacher once said. 1--WE should
hear of wars and rumors OF wars" In the
midst of such thrilling scenes as transpire
so often in our country, scenes of anarchy
! riot and blood shed scenes of destruction
by storm and flood and flame, it is well
that one day in each year be set apart as a
day on which we may assemble in public.
to talk of our heroic sons who fell in battle
to save the country, for otherwise we are
apt to think of them less often, and so ap-
| preciate them less.
Now as to whether it is necessary that
war should come, can not say, but how
soever much we may hate to see such
agencies reSorted to, it has been and is to-
day the most potent agency known in his
tory in adjusting questions of a national
magnitude. And as to our standing army
and navy. If these dark waves of ignor-
ance and discomfort that roll in upon US
from other shores, and rise up from
our own midst, need an army,
| school teacher and normal professor
| to keep them in check, our army and navy
are as surely needed to resist these waves
of danger that rise out rivalry among ma
tions, and that come from lust of power.
| 1t therefore seems as reasonable to oppose
our army of teachers and public school
buildings and all other implements of
learning and advancement. as to oppose
| he American Soldiery.
And in the popular estimates of soldiery
with whom most of you were identified,
the leaders of your armies get more recog
milton than those of you who did the
marching and did it for Sl3 a month We
would not in the least lose sight of those
gallant men who performed and managed
the great campaigns and led their armies
to such glorious victories, but their names
have long been the by word of our house
holds, while the days and nights of suffer-
ing on the tented field, in the hospital of
pain, in the prison of famine and known
only to the God of battles and to you who
passed through these ordeals. Many of
your comrades bit the dust and so never
could add their stories to the annals of
war.
have now in mind many poor widows
who looked and waited and longed for
those who fell into that strange sleep and
| never walked up any more. II
Now, as this is all over what are the re-
suits that have come to us? a struggle of
such magnitude, involving as it did such
IF nd no
some tremendous results. 1t had the same
influence on us as nation as exercise has
on man. Cannon Farron has said that
"a nation is but the aggregate of its sons
and money" therefore what would infiu-
ence a son would influence an aggregate of
sons.
First, then it quickened the pulse and
stimulated the activity of the American
people. AS the wars of the ancients slim
ulated the nations to grow their grand
statesmen, philosophers, orators, sculptors,
and as the thirty years war; filled Eu-
rope with an army of thinkers and heroes
and as the war with Great Britain for in
dependence gave us our Franklin, Patrick
Henry, Washington, Adams and Webster,
aroused the diplomacy of the ma
tions, extended the commerce
of the world and opened the gates of the
great northwest for the homes and fields
of 80, 200, 600 of people, the great civil war
did more, because it was one of greater
magnitude. 1t came us when the genius
of American thought was full of new ideas,
but was comparatively dormant. because
no crisis had disturbed its long sleep.
The bombardment of Fort Sumpter was
heard round the world; the heaps of bleed
ing slain on the fields of Bull Run, Don
nelson and Shiloh aroused the world to
the clash of contending arms. Men who
before were ordinary, commonplace men,
were transformed into men of iron and
steel Thinkers thought with deeper
earneStness. and orators spoke with
tongues of fire, the air was filled with the
music of fife and drum and everywhere
could be heard the stately steppings and
the enthusiastic huzzahs of recruiting
armies.
All this wild discord and confusion
aroused the whole nation, and as soon as
the smoke had blown away the inventive
genius had been taught to risk on a hazard
and so Cyrus w Field. after ten years of
unsuccessful endeavor, gave US the Atlantic
cable less than a year after the war closed
Mr.. Benjamin stood up in Castle Garden
and saw our flag kissing the waters in
Golden Gate. Contrary to all expectation
he built the Union Pacific Railroad touch
ing the sea on both sides OF the hemisphere
In 1876 the American people assembled
in Philadelphia, bringing their products
of brain and heart-everything from a
cambria needle TO Corliss engine It is
needless to mention ell these things that
were the direct outgrowth Of the war
We are still bound by the spell. No one
can tell what another ten years may bring
forth. Long may we continue as we have
already been fifty styled. 1.-The beautiful
pioneer in the vanguard Of the progress of
the world But let us always keep our
hearts firmly fixed upon. and our faith in
the God of battles and of nations
ST. JOHNS OK TRINITY.
4 splendid congregation filed St. Johns
church on SUNDAY morning. The decora-
tons were very fine and appropriate to the
the day. The candles on the super-alter
were arranged TO teach the doctrine. of the
Trinity symbolically. Dean Adams preach
en- powerful sermon. drawing the lines OF
distinction between Tritarrism Neutern-
anism and Trinirananism. He took the
ground that the modern discovery of dof-
fermentation Is only a redIscovery OF the
doctrine of the Trinity. His illustration
drawn from the cotton wood seeds which
flow about in the chance was especially
fine The seed contains the trunk. the
limbs, the leaves and the flowers OF the
tree So the idea OF sod contains the ideas
oiFather the sea and the Holy Ghost His
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