Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-12


kid gloves, not clutching the sword hilt TOO
tight less the gloves split at the back.
In all our reformatory and Christian work
the great want is moro backbone, more
mettle, more daring, more proves. we
would In all our churches like to trade off
hundred do nothings for one do everything.
"Quit yourselves like men; be strong"
The saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
Aud seize 1t with their eye.
Again. we mean by this national observ-
auce to honor self sacrifice for others. 70
all these departed men home and kindred
werjrSi SxzxsES:Tx home and kindred areto ia;
Do yoa know how they felt2 Just as you ana
/ would feel starting ont tomorrow morn
ing with nine chances out OF ten against our
returning alive. for the intelligent soldier
sees not only battle aheaJ, but malarial SICK
ness and exhaustion. Had these men chosen
they could have spent last night in their
homes and to-day have been seated where
YOU are. They chose the camp not because
they liked it better than their own house,
and followed the drum and fife not because
they we're better music than the voices OF the
domestic circle. South Mountain and MUIR
freesbero and the swamps of Chickahominy
were not Fairgrounds.
These heroes riske and lost all for Others.
There is no higher sublimity than that. 70
keep tbree-quarter5 for ourselves ana give
one quarter to others is honorable TO
divide even with others is generous. TO
keep nothing for ourselves and give all for
others is magnanimty Ohrlstltke. Put
a grille around your body and then measure
the girdle and see If you are fifty or sixty
Inches found: And is that the circle OF your
sympathies? the size Of YOURSELF Or, to
measure you around the heart, would 1t
take girdle large enough to encircle the
land and encircle the world? You want to
know what we dry theologlans mean when
we talk of vicarious suffering. Look at the
soldiers graves and find out. Vicarious-
pangs for others, wounds for others, home
sickness for others, blood for others,
sepulcher for others.
Those who visited the national cemeteries
at Arlington Heights and at Richmond and
Gettysburg saw one inscription on soldiers
tombs oftener repeated than any other-"Un-
known" When, about twenty-One years ago,
was called to deliver the Grafton at Arlings
ton Heights, Washington, Twas not so much
Impressed with the minute guns that shook
| the earth or with the attendance OF president
| and cabinet and foreign ministers and gen.
erals of the army and commodores OF the
| navy as with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness OF that epltapn on 50 many
graves at nv feet "UnknoWnl' "Unkn0Wn!
| It seems to me that the time must come when
the government of the United States shall
take off that epitapb. They are no more I'M
| knowni we have found them out at last.
! They are the beloved sons of the republic.
Would it not be well to take the statue OF
the heather goddess OF the top Of the capt.
tol flor l have no faith In the morals OF
heather goddess) aud put one great statue
| in all our National cemeteries-a statue OF
! liberty In the form Of Christian woman
with her hand on an open Blbleand her 1901
ON the Rock of Ages, with the other hand
nointing down 10 the graves of the unknown,
| saving, hThese are my sons who d1ed tnat
might live" Take off the misnomer. Every
body knows them. 1t Is of comparatively
little importance what was the name given
Them in baptism of water. In the holier and
mightier baptism of blood we know them,
and yesterday the Nation put both arms
around them and Rugged them to her heart,
crying, mine fOreverl"
Again, by this national ceremony we mean
the future defense OF this nation. by every
wreath of flowers on the soldiers graves we
saw, "Those who die for the country shall
not be forgotten" and that will give enthu-
siasm to our Young men in case our nation
should In the future need to defend itself IN
battle. we shall never have another war be-
tween north and south. We are floating of
farther and farther from the possibility oil
#iional strife,
No possibility of civil war. But about for.
eign invasion am not SO certain. when l
smoke against war, said nothing against
self defense. An inventor told me that he
had invented style of weapon which could
be- used in self defense, but not In aggressive
warfare. l said. "When you get the nations
to adopt that weapon, you have introduced
tho millennium" have no right to go on my
nejghbor's premises and ASSAULT him, but /
some rufIian break into my house Tor the as
sassination Of my family, and can borrow
gun and load ii in time and aim 1t stralgh
enough, will shoot him.
There is no room on this continent IOI
any other nation except Canada, and bet
ter neighbor no one ever had. Ii you don
think so 20 to Montreal and Toronto an(
see how we'll they will treat you. Othel
than that there Is absolutely no room 1ol
nnv other nation. l have been across thu
continent again and again, and know tina
we have not a half inch OF ground 1or I'M
gouty foot of foreign despotlsm to stand on
But am not so sure that some OF the arf0g
ant nations of Europe may not some ia.
challenge US. l do not know that thos'
forts around New York bay are to sleep al
through the cext century l do not know
that Barnegat lighthouse will not yet lool
off upon a hostile navy. do not know bu
that half dozen nations. envious OF GU
prosperity, may want TO give US wrestle
During our civil war there were two or thre
, nations that could hardly keep their hands
off u.s. 1t is very easy to pick national quar-
t rels. and if our nation escapes much Longer
| 1t will be the exception.
4 Ifforegn foe should come, we want mel
G like those of 1912 and like those OF 1862 K
E meet them. We want them all up and dow
!, The const Pulaski and Fort Sumter in tn
q same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette an
0 Fort Hamilton-men who will not onl
e know how to fight, but how to die. VINE
d such time comes, lift ever does come, IN
q generation Oh the stage OF action Will say
y ''My country will care for my family as the
u did in the soldiers asylum for the orphan
b in the Civil War, and my country will homo
e nv dust as it honored those who precede
o me in patriotic sacrifice, and once year q
e ,nv rate, on Decoration Day, shall be res
d directed into the remembrance Of those 10
u whom died. Here go for God and m
q country! Huzzal"
u If foreign foe should come, the old sec
-s tional animosities would have no powe
u Here go our regiments into the battlefield
Fifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth All
10 Dama cavalry, Fourteenth PENNSYLVANIA rim
Il men. Tentd Massachusetts, artillery. Sevent
@ South Carolina sharpshoopers. do nC
7. know but it may require the attack OF SON
n foreign foe to make us forget our absurd Sc
e ;ional wranglng. l have no faith in IN
Il ,ry. mo north, no south, no east, no west
IS Let all four sections keep their peculiaritl'
J. and their preferences, each doing ITS oW
3 work and not interfering with each otne
a each of the four carrying its part IN the gre