The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-10-05


pest welfare. We are oDe mania az
!sraei was II people, our intaresfs nre
,.sntlcai. There are great questions nj
Ia interest, such as the securing Ia
- men lle right guar nteed to them by
s'e constitution, how to make GOOD citi.
no,,s VI the immense foreign element
toli.tig 10 our shores, how to hanisi,
au'e,e' our national vices. These are
uues.iohs which rs conserving our own
in.eiests We ought to consider, as broad
mi.:'aeu; loyal members OF a greatnation.
inns ouiigallon is further determined by
w t,,s necessity OF national prosperity to
."c luiu!ii!:g OF our mission az a nation.
asiaei nau Il great mission upon earth
"iin its success in accomplishing that
.lilssion depended upon the self sacr:ii.
cilg enoft OF the whole people. Re!ben
anu uai, as well as Judah and Ephraim,
huSt contribute to the r~evelatios of God
thloueh HIS people and ultimately
S,'oush n OF that peoplc-eyen Jesus
Nn!ist. 10 our nation. capable in extent
v terIllory and abundslc of resources
VI MAINTAINING the worlds population.
nas beer committed the completion Of
lsraels work. 70 us are tlockinp the
,la.lohs OF the Earth. 1t is vain for us to
tay 10 snut item out. We ought rather
TO sacrifice comfort and means that IN
tlem mny be formed the Image of the
e!ernsi sonl. But yet again, this obliga-
tioll'is determined by the great cost Mt
W'ilch our present prosperity has hepn
purchased. Our fathers fought that
liberty might be established. Their
sacrifices and snfferings have consecrated
our very soil to liberty and manhood.
Inc heroes of 81 left home and bust
ness and gave their efforts and their
llVes TO extend the privileges of liberty
ana more thoroughly establish the prin.
clpies upon which our national institn.
tlons were founded. The terrible defeats
or tne early period of that war. and he
dearly fought victories of the late years,
speak IN saddened tones of the great price
paid for liberty. Myriads of graves on
southern battle-fields testify what II
present prosperous condition has cost us.
houses. desolated by the demon of war.
nave been telling us all these wears of
What the mothers and fathers and wives
AVE given that we might live in undis-
tnrped enjoyment of the blessings
liberty and union bring to our doors.
we are reminded today, most forcib,y
OF thls great price paid bv our nation
and its people.
There are few, I am sure. who knew
MI. jenkins who have not thought of the
almost pathetic struggle lie has main
talned against the felldestroyer for years
as the result of services in saving the
union. Young as he was when he came
from the war it was impossible that his
hopefnlness and ambition should be
quenched by his disabilities which he
carried with him ever after. He would
90 MS duty as a mar and a citizen so
long as he could muster strength to keep
AT II. When the eastern climate threat
ened to cut short his career, he fled to
drler climate and for five years has
prolonged the contest. Many Of us have
seen for some lime that the end was
nearing and he himself felt it. vet how
valianl!!y to The very Inst he struggled to
luinl MS duties as Il citizen and servant
OF lhe people: On the last day spent in
our must, with tired brain and tremb-
mig hand he penned the general order
to the Dakota National Guard. calling
their attention to the death of General
Sheridan, and now his own name il
added to the fast lengtliening roll Of the
dead. This long and unequal contest
comes very wildly to our minds TODAY as
we recall the bent form and feeble stem.
tut resolute eye. Let it serve to increase
our .veneration for Il institutions. Let
us, In thought, multiply the sacrifice of
one man-and II home by that of
thousands and are we nOtimpressed with
ths Vastness of the price our country has
had TO pay for the establishment of her
institutions, and the freedom she offers
to all!
These are momentous days upon which
we are fallen. God is bringing the
nations near TO himself. and He is con-
~crntrat1ng the forces that are to redeem
the world and Himself right here in our
midst. BY the sacred graves on southern
hattlefields, by the shattered and weaken-
ing constitutions of the survivors by the
life which has just gone from our midst.
e sacrifice to II nations welfare, let us
say with Reuben and Cad: 1--WE will not
return with our houses, until the chill
iiren of Israel have inherited every man
his inheritenca." Men of '61, have
sometimes Thought that, when. in the
hour of battle, your ranks thinned and
you closed up the line for a fresh charge.
you felt that each one must fight the
harder since the line was shortened,
such a thought would have you take.
with you from this sacred hour. That
You and we who are younger may to-
bend Il every energy until no
of the Republic shall find harbor in
Dur midst and the mar Christ Jesus
shall take and mould individual and
national character. Then indeed can it
said that your comrades have not died
in vain; this broad land shall be ruled
by a people everyone of whom is a law
into himself, and the bond that binds
them shall be loyalty to duty, to country,
and to God.