Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-30
stHe, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished,


 "He the young and strong, who cherished
 Noble 1ongings for the strife,
 By the roadside fell and perished,
 Weary with the march of life. The maiden had lost her lover, the wife her husband, the mother her boy. Tell their story to your children; teach them to lay flowers ten
 
 in unknown graves. They fell, some in thicket, some in swamp. some in cane brake; others died But their faces, though turned to dust, have not all faded from the memory of living men. And on these Memorial days, as the air Is fragrant bodies have been identifed,'' may the good God wait portion of it to those unknown graves and "A An " yesi If forget q Union soldier worthy of the name. may my right hand forget it's cunningl fight; see him periling his life as g ransom for many see him, with a dauntless determination in his heart to conquer or die; march with him i'm under burning sun; sit with him at the still evening hour. probe down into his thoughts; is it wife, or is it mother, or is it son, or is it going going outi That depends. % But this is certain, he is away from home and the chances are that under the sun. But, "except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die 1t abideth alone; but chance was thst roP ~heae he fell ground. So did hundreds and thousands. And when read anew the story of those prison pens, fered more than tongue can telf-when go back and witness the giving up of fathers, brothers, l husbands, sons, lovers-all laid as a common offering upon their country's altar: when think battlefield, and the hot tears that fell thick and wee d % 1 do so little to perpetuate the memory of those
 And in closing may I not add: "Be 1t remem- bered that our strength as g nation has been i9- by itself in the astHal bood Ssh ssisish "sR Rsvisw a aaa "war 'ns in So1 so@e or sns but s'1%eR s5a abolish 1t by ignoring 1t, and ignoring by the firmly believed that he wrote then, and just as firmly believe it now.
 It was Christ who said, IThink not that am | If he said, ''In order to establish my kingdom, nA truth must destroy error' right must triumph
 Let men obey the truth; let them walk in its l sweet and tender light; let them abide by the principles of the gospel In all their dealings with kingdoms and empires will 'beat their swords
 into ploughshares and their spears M into pruning viii come.'' Selfish men, as Of old, will plot against the truth and cry, Away with it p form form of human soclety. far lower than that which ought to be-" shall attempt to disin. tegrate and build better, that there may be bilious greed will gnash on them with it's teeth, and say, "Let us break their bands assunder, and cast away their & cords G iron r1 us g. rron +ns thirty yearsS war in Germany, and the civil war
 Hsen to Right, II don't like your mission, and I'll down. and grind you to bpoWdissr and the help of God I'll defend myself And it did When Error said to Truth, "l don't like your sassn strangs aSo sou to death Truth sad i myself in the name of God, whose enid am and if blood touches blood, let the responsibility We'll, now, it was war, cruel war, that gave u: the hs Uaion % and % strengtnened it in all it's parts l and in those struggles there was so much o so much of wounded pride that the matters ii | dispute could no more have been settled by
 arbitration than the thunder could be hushed O O l the fires that are in the cloud be quenched b. l soft and persuasive words.
 l con the rocks read the story ! Of tn. revolutions grand,
 Swept OCT mountain, sea and land;
 There we trace the mighty stages | And we mark the buried ages
 1 By their monuments sublime;
 And the lesson old earth teaches, | By her grand symbolic forms, l Is, that she all beauty reaches
 Through upheavais, fires, ana storms l History points with solemn finger l To her records dim and old,
 | And. as thoughtfully we finger,
 l Still the lesson there is told;
 Through the stern and frantic strife,
 Through the nations fierce upturnings, ! Put they on 8 freSher lire; l Then they pass to highsr stages . Both of beauty and renOwn; . ] In the conflict of the ages, Greatness doth the nations crown:'' Once we could say, l 'sLo! we feel the wild upheaval Of a nations hidden fires; } l Right is battling with the evil, And the smoke to heaven aspires; l War, tumultuou and red-lighted, Sweepeth with sirocco blast, ! And our green young land is blighted, | As the tempest whtrls tn past; l Not the death throe Of the nation l l 'Tis it's painful transformation To O nobler life of power" And, blessed be God, through pain, throug l weary watchngs, through prayers tenderly sac = I through loneliness long and awful; throuR l cruel partings, through frantic cingings l mother, and wife, and sister, and lover; thrOug ! homesickness and suffering of our noble boys ] in short, through foes without and foes within l throueh those and other things incident to wal g our nation has reached that s'nobler life ( l power." And tomorrow, as we lay flowers o | the sleeping dust of those departed, may tn | brightest ana the sweetest be that of gratitud | to Almighty God that he gave us such men, wht
 with their comrades-some of whom are deat
 and some iving-helped to lake actual th l words of our martyr president: '! This nation, under Go1, shall have a ne a birth of freedom; and that "governmel t of the people, by tho people, for the peopl l shall not perish from the earth"