The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-08-17
COMMUNICATED.

HAVING returned few weeks ago from
the Worlds exhibition at Chicago and
having had an opportunity to admire the
genius of men who have been enabled by
concentrated action to show our present
generation the advanced state to which
our nation as well as other nations have
arrived. one almost forgets that we are
merely human beings, subject to all the
uncertainties of human institutions and
the shortsightedness and defects OF the
character of men. But in spite of all
such happy illusions, life will always
present itself in one form or another in
its true spirit and prove to our mind the
fallay OF such extravagancies. Looking
however unbiased upon all the shor.-
comings and imperfectlons of our race,
one point is gained at least and that is
that nobody is allowed to disregard or
trample upon the rights OF others for the
purpose OF beneftlng himself or the
cause be has chosen to uphold. In all
positions of life wherever we may be
placed, We have no right to overlook that
we all belong to one family, that our
rights can only be upheld by doing JUS
tice to others and that despotism and
arrogance must give way to moderation
and the acknowledgement OF equal rights.
Convinced of the correctness of these
views, it requires considerable patience
to endure the insult that was lately offer.
ed G. a. II. Post at the burial of one of
orr comrades. This Post was refused
the entrance into the church, where the
| funeral services of our comrade was held,
Unless we parted with the insignia of our
| organization, which consisted IL the flag
of our country and the memorial badge
worn on such occasions.
Can anybody imagine that this hap
| pened in our nearest neighborhood in the
year OF our lord 1893. And still this is
! the case. The demand was made by a
minister of the Lutheran church who we
| should Judge was nourlshed yet at his
mothers breast at the time these men
| went to the front to save his home and
| his future prosperity as well as their own.
Ii this man had lived consciously during
those years of doubt and misery, believe
his views would ron in another direction
and he himself be at least wiser if not
a better man. Men who lived through
| those years of 1S61-1S65, have learned
to estimate the value of the flag OF our
country and nobody would have dared
to utter an insulting word against the
| power and the principle it represents.
Refused entrance into the church-has
| anybody ever thought such an action
possible? | always was Of the. opinion,
! that there was at least one spot upon this
earth OF ours where every human being
was joyfully received and 1 always con-
sidered it the truth, that the church, the
benefactor CT mankind embraced in it's
charity the human race and that the des-
pot with the crown upon his head was as
welcome as tho man in the beggar gar
| ment and the man with the order of hon
or upon his breast not even more rrefer-
red than the man or the knave with the
mark Of shame upon his brow, that chris
tlanlty treats every one alike and that
there would be more rejoicing in heaven
over one man that repented than over 80
saints. That under these circumstances
the veterans attending, with the excep-
ton of one or two had to occupy the
streets and alleys for more than an hour
was the consequence of the dictature of
the lllustrious divine and all that upheld
ns during this time of suspense was the
expectation that we would be allowed to
accompany our comrade to his final rest
ing place IN company with the selected
divine, who had spent SO much of his
enlargement of the family and friends of
the deceased.
Having arrived at the grave, even be-
fore we could gather our thoughts and
appreciate the honor ID which we had
participated the last few words of ''fare
well" were uttered with such monkey
like rapidity that the divine had disap-
peared even before the comrades found
time to throw the last memorial twig into
the grave OF the worthy and departed
brother. That the comrades submitted
to this treatment must be attributed to
the respect they wished to acknowledge
to the family of the deceased.
If Won ask who tbi,
who has so unnecessarily caused such an
offense to part of the respected COM
munlty-I could not name him, but he is
the minister of the Lutheran church of
Two Rivers. l am convinced that the
church itself does not approve of such
action and that it is only the incompa-
tlble zeal of too ambitious character.
inclined to despotlsm, who caused this
disturbance.
The very arrangement for two buriaIs
at exactly the same time, proves a disre-
spect toward those men who have engag-
ed his services as pastor of their congre-
CATION and though it might be very con-
Venlent to him, allowing myself to use i
Vulgar expression, to kill two BIRDS with
one stone, 1t certainly is the cause of a
great deal OF fatigue and over exertion
on the part of those who wish to expresy
their sympathy for the family of the de-
ceased. q
The above article has been publish
ed somewhat under protest, after de-
lay and against the Judgment of the
editor. Its publication is in no sense
an approval of its sentiments. A
church has perfect right to adhere |
to its regulations and those who |
do not choose to observe them are |
under no compulsion to attend
Neither the g. A. r. Or any other or
ganization has any right to demand
that a church polity undergo change
at its behest or to suit its con |
venlence. If the members Of the Post
did not choose to comply with the