The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-05-30

mean eternal peace. There can never
again be a civil war In the land now
lighted by the stars and bound together
with the stripes of Americas banner.
Two metals cannot be mingled together
until subjected to a heat that will melt
them. There are metals too hard for
the use TO which we would put them.
There are others too soft; but we fuse
them together, and the amalgam resists
the attrition Of time, performs with
faultless truth the work we would have
it do, and carries its worthy qualities to
lands and men of whom we never
dreamed.
In that fierce rushing utogether Of
armies in our late war there was the
furnace neat of passion which consumed
the very aus of hatred. No power on
earth but Americans could have in
vaded the seeding states. No people
on earth but Americans could so long
have resisted the attacks of victorious
armies. But the day when white
winged peace swept past the flaming
torch of war, extinguishing its lurid
blaze, that day was solicited into one a
people who had never before been
united. 1t was little enough that the
nation set apart n day for the com
memoration Of an event which made US
what cycles Of peace could never have
accomplished. 1t is fitting that once n
year to the end of time we pause and
pay the tribute Of regard to the men
who made their nation noble. 1t is fit
ting we teach our children, whose
blessed ears have never been disturbed
by the reverberations of angryRrtillery,
that to the end of time a perfect peace
shall dwell in all our borders.
1t is fitting they should know with an
increasing knowledge with each added
year that this imperial land can fear no
foe; that there is no power on the earth
whose arm can stay the wrath of justly
reused Columbia; that there is no pow
er whose armed hosts can ever tread the
soil baptised at dawn by Atlantic's bill
lows and at evening by the silver surf
that whispers of Pacific isles.
But there is a lesson still greater.
The triumph Of arms was the proof of
their uselessness. A million men can
not make right a wrong. ALI the armies
of the east cannot create a virtue. But
the mind of man is now open TO reason
In the shifting shadowo of the flag which
commentaries the day, in the memory
of the men whose sacrifice made this
service possible, let this truth sink into
our hearts-that God is with us in the
right. The victories reserved for our
nation now are the victories of peace.
The noblest deeds of all the earth are
not the deeds of blood. The purest,
strongest, truest souls are those of men
whose hands were ever gentle; of wom-
en-, whose hearts were never stung
with hate.
Memorial day does not remind Of a
severed nation cemented, but a single
people cast into the crucible of atiiction
and fused-an invincible one. This
better metal shall be the standard of
excellence for all about us. The ma
lions Of the earth shall mark US as their
model. The wisdom of all lands shall
learn of us,
And thereby comes the blessed bur
den. If we be kings our deeds must
needs be kingly. If we, sanctifed by a
heroism so magnificent as that which
filed these graves with heroes-if we be
privileged to point the way to better
things, then ''let the words of our
mouths and the meditationso of our hearts
be acceptable in Thy sight, o, Lord, our
, strength ando Redeemeri"
LEROY A-RMaTR0Na.