West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-05-17

| nave hau enough OF 0cSpOtiSui, ana nOnOr
the institutions OF FREQ America. Even the
children and grandchildren OF Anarchists
/ educated in our common schools and breath
\ ing the air of this good land will boo loyal To
the American Republic and take their place
among law abiding citizens
Neither Is conflict with other nations
probable. Would England attack usi MOI
! France ON one side and Ireland on the other
usi MOI Russia would be on its flanks i'm
/ n few days. Would Russia attack usf mol
! Three or four belligerent nations would for
bid t. No foreign nation could afford to
assail this country, for there would be too
much i'm front and too much in the rear.
But suppose foreign nations. jealous OF our
/ prosperity, should band together because OF
| real or imaginary affronti That admit is
barely possibly. During our civil war there
| were two or three nations that could hardly
keep their hands or OF us III foreign ma
| lions should combine against us we want men
/ like those OF 1912. and like those who fought
on both sides I'm 1863 We want them all up
| and down the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sum
| ter, I'm the same chorus OF thunder as Fort La
fayette and Fort Hamilton, men who will
not only know how 10 fight but how 10 die.
When such a time comes, III IL ever does come,
the generations on the stage OF action will
say: my country will care Tor my family n
they did I'm the Soldiers Asylums for orphans
in the Civil War. and my country will honor
my dust as IL honors those who preceded me
I'm patriotic sacrifice and once n year, at any
/
into the remembrance OF those for whom /
died. Here go. for God and my countryl"
If foreign foe should ever come. all sectional
animoSities would be obliterated, and side by
side would go into conflict the volunteers of
New York and Alabama, and Massachusetts,
and Louisiana, and Michigan and Georgia.
North, South, East and West, each carrying
its part in the great harmony, the bass, the
March Of the Union.
But what is the use OF a regiment i'm time
of peace. Among other things il teaches the
Importance of drill, and more of that we
want in all departments Learning that there
is no success without IL i'm regimental ranks,
men viii learn that there Is no success with
out IL in commercial ranks, in mechanical
ranks, in professional ranks, in religious
ranks. In order TO accomplish anything for
God, or the betterment of tho human
race, it must be drill, drill, drill
Some, because they cannot be successful as
reformatory or Christian workers at once.
are discouraged. It seems so easy to bar
gain, so easy to edit, so easy TO preach, so
easy TO sculpture n statue and draught
house and execute picture and medicate "a
wound that they will try IL; but, IL they find
It is only by continual toll and practice that
they can get TO be expert, or to do ANYTHING
worth the name of achievement, they sur
render. IT is through oft-repeated drill or
never mt all, that we learn, in all our Chris
tian and worldly work, 90 keep rank.
Another use OF regiment in time of peace
IS TO back up the law and help in its execu-
| ton. There is great deal of cheap wit
about citizen soldiery, but again and again in
AL our cities the life of the city has been
saved by the homo guards and then the
cheap wit has been turned into grateful adj
miratlon. 1t is a very healthful thing for
1 the roughs I'm all our cities TO understand
that behind the police and the constabulary
force there are military companies drilled
and ready, IL need be, at short notice to de-
fend the safety of our homesteads.
Another use OF n regiment in time OF
! peace is its demonstration of the use of n sure
marksman. What ought TO be done at all
ought 10 be done well. What we want in
our reformatory movements and our pulpits
| is to learn how TO take good aim There is
so much moral ammunition and strength
wasted from the fact that we are not good
marksmen. We are apt to aim too high or
| too low, and TO hit everything but the centre.
| Much of our time at doing good is a circum-
! locution and hit or miss contest, n battle
| with blank cartridges, pulling the trig
/ ger with our eyes shut.
! Another use OF n regiment in time OF peace
/ is 10 teach the necessity of obedience. A
! child that will not mind is on the way TO ruin
\ and man who never learns TO bow to au-
/ thority IS an outlaw So cheerful obedience
/ to superior authority is an absolute requisite
j 20 goot society. What so impressively illus
] trates this as n regiment, the private obedient
TO the captain, the ceptain obedent TO the
/ colonel, the colonel obedient TO the general
the general obedient to the governor the
governor obedient to the Presidentl May
| the President always be obedient to Godl
! Law whether military or civil, what
! sublime thingl There is only one thing
! in the universe to which the great God ever
\ bows and that is TO law. Although made
i by Himself, He bows TO it, BY that the uni
/ verse is drilled and the consultations are
| companies, and the galaxies are regiments,
\ and the blazing midnight heavens are the
| parade ground where the stellar armies
| march ami countermarch and so complete Is
the drill that in a thousau years they do not
\ make n mistake OF a second in time or an
/ inch in space.
Another use of a regiment in time Of peace IL
] the impression Of good citizenship; for the
\ welfare of city, State and nation you are en-.
/ listed. All that many people do for their
/ country is to growl and have to pay taxes.
I IL within you is the right spirit every hour
\ You pass in military service is q patriotic
/ Offering and will have divine reward.
Another use or regiment in time OF peace
/ is physical recuperation. Anything that
/ takes a man bent over the desk OF counting
/ house and makes him straight, and those wht
are wearing out with the drudgery Of factory
! and shop and lifts them into the exhilaration
OF Well-lighted, well-ventilated, well-gov
erned armory, is something upon which
want to pronounce and do pro
/ nouce apostolic benediction The mil
I lennium OF a Christian man is far OFF or
! near 10y in proportion as mis- digestion is good
or bad. What we want in this great battle
Tor God and the truth is n host Of giants and
p
/ their share toward producing them. While
! You get your soul right before God, get your
/ BODY right, your respiration long and full and
| de p, your backbone straight as a ramrod,
! your face rudy and bcaming and upiifted,
/ your step elastic, Your grip firm, your pulses
\ regular as a drum-beat. Men OF the Thir-
/ teenth regiment, your soul right and your
| body right, then wheel all into the service Of
] God. Tonight enlist for time and eternityi
/ Historians tell US Of the great bait es of the
I world, Salamis and ChalODs, Marathon,
/ Waterloo and Gettysburg but the greatest
l>bgttle IS yet 10 be fought, and that Is
ArnHgedd0n. Whether with bullet or
/ printers type ! cannot prophecy but when il
! Goes come We want 10 DO Of the
right mettle and on the right side
I We want not only TO be Christians,
I but rugged Christians, not afraid Of hard
! ship and only exhilarated by attack. AssO-
I ciaied together for "a little while let us re-
\ member that the time comes when we
I must answer for ell our opportu-
mites A day Of august inspection
\ md review approaches We sometimes
\ talk about earthly military reviews. such a.
I took place in Paris in the time Of Marshal
I Nev in London. iD the time Of Wellington;
AMI in our own land. But what tame things
compared with tho final review when all the
armies of the just shall pass for divine and
angelic inspection.
Hark 70 the trumpet blast and roveille Of
\ the resurrection. lhoy come mp All the
/ armies N alllands and all centuries ON which.
/ ever side they fought whether for freedom
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