The Monitor-register., 1896-06-05

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The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
I denounce it. The nations need mora
the spirit of treaty and less of the spirit
of war.
Wan is more CHASTITY now than once
not only because of the greater destrnc-
tiveness of its weaponry, but because
now it takes down the best men. where
as C it chiefly took down the worst.
Bruce in 1717, in his institutions of
Military Law" said of the Euronean
armies of his day, eff all Infamous ner.
sons and such as have committed canital
crimes heretics. atheists and all das-
tardly feminine men were weeded ont
OF the army. it would soon be reduced
to a pretty moderate number. Flogging
mean pay made them still more ig-
noble. Officers were appointed to see
that each soldier drank his ration of a
pint OF spirits a day. There were noble
men In battle, but the moral character
OF the army then was So per cent lower
than the moral character of an army TO-
day. By so much is war now the more
detestable because it destroys the picked
men of the nations.
Honor For Courage.
Again, by this national ceremony we
mean to honor courage. Many of these
departed soldiers were volunteers. not
conscripts, and many of those who were
drafted might have provided q substi-
tute or got off on furlough or have de-
serted. The fact that they lie in their
graves is proof of their bravery. Brave
at the front, brave at the lannon's
mouth, brave on lonely picket duty.
brave in cavalry charge, brave before
the surgeon, brave in the dying message
to the home circle. We yesterday put a
garland OF the brow of courage. The
world wants more Of it.
The church Of God is in woeful need
of men who can stand under fire. The
lion of worldly derision roars and the
sheep tremble. In great reformatory
movements at the first shot how many
fall backl The great obstacle to the
church's advancement is the inanity,
the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the
mandy pambyism of professed Chris
tians. Great on a parade, towards in
battle. Afraid of getting their plumes
rufied, they carry a parasol over their
helmet. They go into battle not with
warriors gauntlet, but with kid gloves,
not clutching the sword hilt too tight
lest the glove split at the back.
In all our reformatory and Christian
work the great want is more backbone,
more mettle, more daring, more PROV
ess. We would in all our churches like
to trade off a hundred do nothings for
one do everything. "Quit yourselves
like men be strong"
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.
Sublime Self Sacrifice.
Again, we mean by this national OBJ
servance to honor self sacrifice for 9TH
ers. To all these departed men home and
kindred were as dear as u home and
kindred are to us. Do you know how
they felt? Just as you and I would feel
starting out tomorrow morning with
nine chances out of ten against our re-
turning alive, for the intelligent soldier
sees not only battle ahead, but malarial
sickness and exhaustion. Had these
men chosen they could have spent last
night in their homes and today have
been seated where you are. They chose
the camp not because they liked it bet
mr. than their own house, and followed
the drum and fife not because they
were better music than the voices of the
domestic circle. South Mountain and
Murfreesboro and the swamps of Chicka-
hominy were not Fairgrounds.
These heroes risked and lost all for
others. There is no higher sublimity
than that. To keep three-quarters for
] ourselves and give o%ne-quarter to others
] is honorable. To divide even with 9TH
ers is generous. To keep nothing for
ourselves and give all for others is mag
nanimity Christlike. Put a girdle
around your body and then measure the
girdle and see if you are so or 60 inches
round. And is that the circle of your
sympathies-the size of yourself? Or,
to measure you around the heart, would
it take a girdle large enough to encircle
the land and encircle the world? You
want to know what we dry theologians
mean when we talk of vicarious suffer-
ing. Look at the soldiers graves and
find out. Vicarious-pangs for others,
wounds for others, homesickness for 9th
ers, blood for others, sepulcher for 9th
ers.
Those who visited the national ceme-
teries at Arlington Heights and at Rich
mond and Gettysburg saw one inscrip-
ton on soldiers tombs oftener repeated
than any other-"Unknown." When,
about 81 years ago, I was called to de-
liver the Grafton at Arlington Heights,
Washington, l was not so much i'm
pressed with the minute guns that shook
the earth or with the attendance of pres
ident and cabinet and foreign ministers
and generals of the army and commo-
dores of the navy as with the pathetic
and overwhelming suggestiveness OF
that epitaph ON SO many graves at my
feet, "UnknownI' "Unknown!" 1t
seems to me that the time must come
l Wu6u UH0 RONSIuDlCnb VI OlO OhlbCh
States shall take off that epitaph. They
are no more unknownl 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 off the top
of the capitol (for I have no faith i'll the
morals of q heather goddess) and put
one great statue in all our national
cemeteries-a statue of liberty in the
form of a Christian woman with hel
hand on an open Bible and her foot on
the Rock of Ages, with the other hand
pointing down to the graves OF the IN
known, saying, ''These are my sons who
died that I might. live" Take off the
misnomer. Everybody knows them. 1t
is of comparatively little Importance
what was the name given them in bap-
tism of water. In the holier and might
Ter baptism of blood we know them, and
yesterday the nation put both arms
around them and Rugged them to her
heart, crying, "Mine foreverP'
Again, by this national ceremony we
mean the future defense Of this nation.
By every wreath of flowers on the sol
diers' graves we say, ''Those who die
for the country shall not be forgotten, "
and that will give enthusiasm to ou1
young men in case u nation should III
the future need to defend itself IN battle.
We shall never have another war be-
tween north and south. The old decayed
bone of contention, American slavery,