The Portland daily press., 1888-05-28

man and walk uprightly. While unqer tne
title of patriotism it is expected that we
shall love our country so that one who loves
God and man and righteousness is religious
and one who loves his country is patriotic.
Patriotism not only includes love OF coun-
try but it also involves love for man. IL Is
difficult to conceive of true patriotism unless
it should be founded upon a love for God
and also for man. Our patriotism is more or
less affected by three things: the country IN
which we live, the scenery, climate and the
people in their manners and customs, ana
the Institutions or form of government, un-
der which we live. As Americans we. love
our country because we feel that G0d mas
favored us with soil, climate and scenery, the
most uaried, grand and useful in the world
that we are in the midst Of people VINO,
are liberty loving, frugal, industrious and
humane, and are inclined to get knowledge
and grow in grace, and then our INSTITUTIONS,
our form Of government we can't avoid ad-
miring and loving. We have country In
about every respect, that Is worth living 1Or
and IL needs be to die for.
You, as members of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, laid down your lives for your
friends and for your country. 1t was all
that you could do. No greater thing can
you find to do. You are deserving OF great
credit. We should In deed and in truth
honor those Of your comrades who have
gone on before you. They presented them,
selves with you as living sacrifices unto God
and country You did not enlist and drill
and march and fight for the purpose OF plum
der and robbery; you were not In the army
merely to kill and Destroy. but ior tne lar
more noble purpose of saving life, you Were
acting in self defence. Was 1t lustinaDle
when it cannot be helped? On your part
you were seeking to save the Union. ~ Mas
not your aim or mission to destroy properly,
homes, life or even slavery but In the course
of the war much property and many homes
were destroyed and made desolate ana slav-
cry itself fell as one Of the accidents ana In
cidents of the war.
War can be prevented by the means OF
truth and Righteousness, by the practice OIL
virtue; when we become wise and pure we
shall become peaceable. There was time
when war was the rule, now it is fast Decom-
ing the exception. The prediction OF the
prophet must in time be fulfilled, that ma
tions shall learn war no more.
For the past you and your comrades took
in the late war great credit is due. You are
all deserving of the very highest respect and
honor You laid down your lives Tor your
friends. This is the n0blest thing you can
ever do, no matter how long you live there
is no one thing Of any greater merit that
you can find to do.
The memory of your comrades who have
passed on to the higher life IS TO De cner-
ished and honOred. Next wednesday as
you pass from grave to grave as you sci. up
the flag and drop the flowers remember THAI
they who died for mankind are brothers to
all men, that their names and memories are
immortal because they laid down their lives
for country and friends.
From the day You were mustered out OF
the army your warfare has not been carnal
but moral. The weapons you now can use
are mighty to the pulling down OF the strong
holds of error. May you not grow weary
in well doing.
Free Street Church.
An audience of fair proportions assembled
in Eroa Chrrah ocf oyaninU m listen
to an address by Mrs. j. r. Barney. under
the peculiar title, From Jericho to Jeru-
SALEM" The meeting was under the aus
pices of the w. c. T. u, and was presided
over by Mrs. Geo. S. Hunt. Mrs. Stevens
offered prayer, and, after singing, the speak
er of the evening was introduced.
Mrs Barney has pleasant face and
pleasanter voice, and has not the least diff
Guilty in keeping her audience intensely in
terested. She read a number of selections
from the Bible, and among them the parable
of the Good Samaritan, and this was the
basis of her lecture; in fact it was through
out finely drawn allegory of the temper
ance question.
The robbers of the parable were compared
to those engaged in the liquor traffic, but the
most OF her remarks were aimed at .tn0Se
who are Indifferent toward this great ques-
tion. either through thoughtlessness or wilful
negligence-those who passed by ON the
other side" She spoke Of the fact that al
though the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union contained 100000 of the women Of
America, there were over 100000 adher-
ents to Protestant churches, of which over
two-thirds were women. She painted many
a vivid picture of the ruined homes. and
told interesting anecdotes Of her experience
in her prison and Jail work.
1t was lecture that could not fail to be Of
benefit to those who heard it,
Pine Street Church.
Last evening Bosworth Belief Corps, and
many Of the members of both of the Grand
Army posts, attended this church at the in
vitation of Rev. Theodore Gerrish. himself
an old soldier, who delivered a stirring ad-
dress ON "Our Fallen Comrades and the
Great Debt we owe them"