The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
NUMBER 46.

'o. IN BTtht rfIurinItbfy move EMS mr.
the first shot how many fHl hacki The great
obstacle to the cinrch's a tvaaaement IL the
inanty, the vaculiy. the soft tretlibess, tho
mandy pabyism OF professe1 Christians.
Great on a parada, towards In battle. Afiaid
OF getting their Dlnmes RULED, they carry .
parnsol over their helmet. They go int,
battle not with warriors gauntlet, but with
kid gloves, not clutching the sword hilt 70
tight less the gloves split at the back.
In all our r~eformatory and Christf,n work
the great want is more backbone, NOR,
mettle, more daring, more proves. We
wouldfn all our churches like to trade of n
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
And seize 1t with their eve.
Again, we mean by this national observ-
anee to honor self sacrifice for others. 10
all these departed men home and kindred
were as dear as our home and kindred areto ia.
Do you know how they felt2 Just ms you and
! would feel starting out tomorrow morn
ing with nine chances out Of ter against our
returning alive, for the Intelligent soldier
sees not only battle ahead. 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
thoy iihou IL uothoT LItth tutiE OWL upuSt,
and followed the drum and fife not because
they were better music than the voices of the
domestic circle. South Mountain AMI MUIR
freesboro and the swamps of Chickahominy
were not Fairgrounds.
These heroes riske I and lost all for others.
Therefs no higher sublimity than that. To
keep three-quarter5 for ourselves and 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 magnantmity Chrlstlike. Put a
q girdie around your body and then MEASURE
inches round. And Is that the circle Of your
sympathies?-th the size of YOURSELF Or, to
measure you around the heart, woulI 1t
a k a glrdle large enough to encircle the
land and ~eneircle the world2 You want to
know what we dry theologlans mean when
we talk Of vicarlous 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, abouttweniy-one years ago,
/ was called to deliver the grafton at Arling-
ton Heights, Washington, 1 was 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 c~ommodores of the
navy as with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness Of that epitaph on so many
graves at my feet, "Unknownr' "Unknowni''
1t seems to me that the time must come when
the government OF the United States shall
take of that spitaph. They are no more un-
knowni We have found them out at last.
They are the beloved sons of the republic.
II foreign foe should come, we want men
like those Of 1912 and like those OF 1859 to
meet them. We want them all up and down
the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter In tho
same chorus ~ofthunder as Fort Lafayette and
Fort Hamilton-men who will not only
know how to fight, but how to die. When
such a time comes, III ever does come, the
generation on the stage of action will say:
my country will care for my family as they
did in the soldiers asylum for the orphans
In the Civil War, n my country will honor
my dust as 1t honored those who preceded
me in patriotic sacrifice, and once a year at
any rate, on Decoration Day, 1 shall be res
directed into the remembrance OF those for
whom I died. Here 1 so for God n my
c~ountryi HuzzaI"
If foreign foe should come, the old sec
tional animosities would have no power.
Here go our regiments into the battlefield
Fifteenth Ne " York ~volunte rs, Tenth Ala
bama cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania rifle
men, Tenth Massachusetts artillery. Seventh
South Carolina sharpshoopers. 1 do not
know but II may require the attack OF some
foreign foe to make us forget our absurd SEC
tional wrangling. l have no faith in tho
cry. s.No north. NJ south, no east, no west!'
and their preferences, each doing its own
work and not interfering with each other,
each of the four carrying its part In the great
harmony-the bass, the alto, the tenor, the
~soprano-in the grand march Of Union.
Once more, this great national ceremony
A." A.-.at A. -
whether OF those who fell In battle or aoct-
dent, or who have expired in their beds, or
In our arms, or on our laps. i suppose you
have noticed that many Of the families take
this season as the time for the adornment of
their family plots. This national observance
has secured the araorlculture and fioricul-
ture of the cemeteries, the Strengthening up
OF many a slab planted 80 or 40 years ago,
n has swung the scythe through the long
grass and has brought the stonecuttert to cali
out the half obliterated epitaph. This day
is the benediction OF the resting place Of
father, mother, son. daughter. brother, sis
ter.
It Is all that we can do for them now.
Make their resting plares attractive, not alb
surd with costly outlay, but in quiet renem-
brance. You know how. If you can afford
only INT flower, that will do. 1t shows
what you would do II you could. One BIOS
som from You may mean moro than the
Daho VI VohtihStoh NdktthiluC. ohf Wo .
cinnot afford to forget them. They were
so lovely to US. We miss th.m so much.
We will never get over It. Btssed Lord
Jesus, comfort our broken hearts. From
every bank OF flowers breathes promise Of
resurrection.
In olden times the Hebrews, returning
from their burial place, used to pluck the
grass from the field three or four times, then
throw ii over their heads, suggestive of the
resurrection. We pick not the grass, but the
flowers, and instead OF throwing them over
our heads we place them before our eyes,
rs Mt down over the silent heart thai onee
beat with warmest love toward us, or over
the still feet that ran to service, or over the
lips from which We took the kiss at the an
guish Of the last parting.
But stopi We are not infidels. Our bodies
Will soon Join the bodies of our departed in
the tomb and our spirits shall Join their
spirits In the lane OF the rising sun. We
long be separated. Instead OF cry
ing with jacob or Joseph, 81 will go down
into the grave unto my son, mourning,"
let US cry with David, II shall go to him"
On one OF the gates Of Greenwood is the
quaint inscription, "A nights lodging on
the way to the city OF New Jerusalem"
the hand OF Him who shall wipe AVA all tears
from all eyes wipe your cheek with Its softest
tenderness. The Christ OF Mary and Martha
and Lazarus will iniold you in His arms.
white robed angel who sat at the tomb
OF Jesus will yet roll the stone from the door
OF your dead In radiant resurrection. b
Lord Himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout and the voice of the arehangel.
So the "Dead March" In ''Saul" shall 10
come the sHalIeluiah Chorus"
John Hayes Hammond has been re-
leased on parole to visit his wife, who
is seriously i'll at Johannesburg.
AT a Masonic Congress of all the
in Italy, at Rome, Ernest Ma
was elected grand master.
A falling stairway caused a panic at
American circus, at Ant
werp, in which 20 people were badly
hurt.
Fritz friedman, the abscondlng
Berlin lawyer, was returned TO that
city after several months in the Bor-
deaux Jail.
Cuthbert Cooper arrested at Shelf
field. CHARGED with emhezzlinp funds of