Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-06-01

selves like men" and from this hour in the
battle twixt right and wrong you will
stand fearless, even as the soldier fear
lessly faced the lannon's mouth 80 years
| ago, when not souls, but country's good
| demanded strength and courage. This de-
| termination Is most vital IL we would ever
see the kingdom Of Heaven established
on earth.
And on your shoulders, o, We soldiers,
rests mighty responsibility. The young
are looking to you, to see how well you
are quitting yourselves like men, how well
you are using your influence In making q
better government of the people and for
the people. Are you now sustaining the
government you helped to save by pure
living9 are you making your city better
because you live in it, by being q law abid-
ing citzen2 is your home happier because
you have always used your strength on
the side of right and justice? These are
pertinent questions, aud their answers lie
between your own soul and your God.
But 1t is an immutable law. that for every
privilege granted you, a reckoning will
come, for every good you have received,
you must return an equivalent, or have the
good turn to ashes in your hands.
We gather here for memorial service,
to hold 10 loving remembrance for time
those who laid down their lives in hospital
or on the field Of battle. We know full
well anything done or said here cannot
add to, or tske from, their welfare. This
service Is to help and inspire those who
are still here. to teach the young lessons
OF faithfulness and patriotism. The older
ones sadly gaze on memory's walls and
live again those dark days that drew from
them their very hearts blood. To the
younger generation, to those who have en-
tered the arena OF life since the war, this
service makes that struggle more of a
reality by bringing before them the men
who left home and comfort for danger and
privations. They honor those who have al
ready Joined the ''choir invisible" But the
honor and reverence in which this younger
generation will hold you that survive de-
r-nd upon how well you are quitting
yourselves like men, whether you are
doing noble work in Gods vineyard in
some way, II only by doing the little
things Of life" upon honor, and keeping
your hearts pure by letting no unclean
thing enter your thoughts or your life
II you would be honored you must be
men. not living upon past glory, but men
pushing on forgetting the things of the
past only as they help you To press for
ward toward higher and still, higher man
hood.
And as we 60 from here tonight let Us
all carry with Us this great truth, that as
In all sges they who to benefit mankind
have given themselves a willing sacrifice,
have died the true death, so they live the
true life who are least mindful OF self
The inward spirit, which cannot die. bears
with II into the life beyond only that
which 1t really IS. Fame nor wealth. nor
unjust praise, not even the prayers of
friends csu change the Inscription which
conduct writes upon the heart To-day
every man Is soldier in the army Of Truth
and Justice The soldiers Of the Rebellion
ny the sacrifices they made showe,! men
how TO die. To-day it is the more difficult
duty Of every man to so live that his life
may teach men how to live. how to face
the moral battles of life "bresst fore
most, thus helping 10
speed the moments on
hen Tong shall cease, and Liberty and Love
And Truth and Right throughout the earth be
known
A In their home above"