The Newtown bee., 1894-06-01
NUMBER 9.

are true in the everyday life of this
 world "Whosoever will save his life.
 snaii lose It; and whosoeyer will lose ms iife Tor my sake, shall find it.m The
 man who has not the courage of his con-
 Vlcslons to live up to the light of duty
 ana privilege, which is best for him and TOT ms fellowmen is already lost to that
 klngdom of truth and holy love which is
 the noblest life of the soul. What the
 world needs most of all, IS men of faith: | men or convictions; men who are strong
 in action for truth and the right; men
 Who i've up to their principles without | shuffiing or excuse; men who will he
 men whatever may be the results; men
 who will speak truth and do their duty
 in love to God and love to man. The
 world has always needed such men, it
 needs them now, perhaps quite as much
 as ever. The ideal which am trying to
 set before you is that of the Patriot
 soldier. War is most dreadful thing.
 It is the sum of all terrors, and the cii-
 max Of all evils. The soldier by pro-
 1ession is no longer the worlds hero.
 The man who fights for pay is despised
 or all true men. War for the sake of re-
 Venge, or for conquest, or for the honor
 ana fame of kings no more can inspire
 the admiration of the people; but when war
 | COMES TO A PEACEFUL NATION
 as the scourge of God; because of the
 sins of the people; to redress the wrongs
 of the oppressed, to maintain the govern
 ment, or to yindicate the divine righteous | ness and majesty of the law; then it is
 that the citizen who loves God and his country becomes the true soldier of Christ and the true hero the world de- Hghts to honor and to bless. When war comes as the last resort, because men
 Will not do right, and will not give heed | 70 reason; then the patriot soldier be- comes the true man of God and God HlInself becomes man of war to save the nations from that reign of iniQuity, which is worse in the sight of Heaven than the horrors of the battlefield and the desolatiOn of the afflicted There are worse things than war, terrible as it may be and far reaching in its dire re- suits, and those things are the natural and inevitable causes which make the | battlefield moral necessity. When the
 natural social virtues fall into decay: and men sell themselves for gain, and | the government is the prey of the wicked: and the rich and the poor are alike law l less, and crime goes unpunished, then l the Almighty One in His infinite wis dom begins to school the patriot soldier for the irrepressible conflict. The op- POi SOh-bJ ln6 SGOUSLlOR of the weak and the downfall of the
 wicked, brings out the wisdom of the statesman and the courage of the true warrior. Never was there a country
 which had such reason to be grateful and generous to the citizen soldier as | this country. Never were braver and better men stood in battle. Woe be the day to the people of this land when they shall forget with what exceeding sacri- flee of blood and treasure the liberties and advantages we now enjoy, were es- | abolished and maintained. May the day
 be far of when the citizens of this fair | land shall forget to honor the patriot soldier, and neglect the lessons of our | brief but most significant history. "In | times of peace prepare for war; Is the old saying. Would it not be wiser and better to adopt new saying "In times | of peace prevent war; Is it not time
 that free and enlightened men should | learn wisdom except at the point of the | bayonet. Can we not judge fairly of the future by the logic of the past? If ig- | norance and cupidity and greed of power have been the chief causes of | the decay and ruin of mighty empires in
 the ages gone, shall not the same causes | lead to the same results again?
 SHALL WE NOT LEARN
 | before it is too late that law and duty l and love of country are the most pre- cious things of our inheritance, without which there can be no security. nor prosperity, nor happiness? If the law | less can go unpunished and there is no redress for wrongs, who is safe from the hatred and greed of the unrighteous: lf one man or one set of men can disre- gard one law with impunity, why may | not another man or set of men openly violate any other law of the land and | defy all authority? If there is no re- spect for law then there is no longer any sense of duty and there is no govern ment. And when government ceases | there IS no longer any society, every | man does what seemeth good in his own eyes and might is right and thus we come to anarchy and confusion. Then society must begin over again, for men | cannot live in relations with each other | without law and duty and government.
 The noblest ideal of life is that of self government by obedience to law. But I if we do not govern ourselves then we l must be governed. The law of life is divine, and there is nothing more inn portant than our duty. AS Seeley says: l Life itself is of less concern than duty, for life is failure where duty fails.'' The greatest danger that threatens our | iand, it seems to me, is the spirit of law | lessness. Evidently there are many peo- pie in this country, to-day, who do not
 regard the sacredness of law, nor the
 natural claims of personal duty, nor the
 common necessity of government. The
 love of home and country ought to make
 every man conscious of his duty to him. | self and to others to maintain at every
 cost and for every consideration of good | the rule of law and order and the un-
 perverted power of good government.
 It is not merely a matter of our own per
 sonal ease and convenience whether or
 not the law is enforced, it is question
 of the
 SAFETY AND WELFARE
 of the whole country and of every one
 of the people in particular. Every vio- lation of the law which goes unpunished tends to weaken the power of the civil
 authority upon which every mans safety
 and prosperity depends. Government we must have, without 1t there can be no society and happiness. We in this
 land, make the government what it is, and if we do not govern ourselves, then are we not governed. Every outrage against the law is therefore an outrage against every citizen whose duty and life even are pledged to the support of
 the government and the maintenance of
 the dignity and majesty of the law. It
 is our duty then not only to be law-abid- ing, but to insist that others shall be
 law-abidiDg also, for the sake of the
 greatest good of all.
 Miss Edith Peck entertained her
 schoolmate, Miss Kittie French of Step-
 ney. over Sunday.
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