The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

parted soldiers were volunteers. not con-
scripts, ana many of those who were
drafted might have provided "A substitute
o. sot on on furi0ugh or have deserted.
The fact that they lie en- their graves IS
PROOF or their bravery. Brave at the front.
Df@kr at lne cennous mouth, brave On
lonely picket luly. brave in cavalry
chat- brave before the surgeon. brave
lu the dying message to the home circle
We yesterday put "a garland on the brow
ot courage The world wants more Of It,
Ile church OF God IS iu WOeful need
non OF Wolldly 4erlsion roars and the
sheep trem1ie. in great reformat5ry
NOV ments q the first shot how many
faH back The great obstacle 70 the
church's advancement is the inaniry the
Vacuity, the soft prett.ness. the mandy
pambyism OF prOfessed Christians. Great
on a parade, towards iu battle AFRAID
OF getting their piumes rufiied, they car
ry "a parasOl over their helmet. They go
MIC battle not with warriors gauntlet,
Dlt Win Kid gloves, not clutchlnB the
sWord-hlt too tight lest the glove split
at the back.
In al our reformatory and Christian
work the great want is more backbone,
more mettle. more daring. more Prov
ress. We would, in all our churches.
like TO trade off a hundred dO-1oth.ngs
for one do-every thing. 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 10 with their eye
aar
servanCe to honor self-sacrince Tor otn-
crs. To all these departed men home and
kindred were as dear as our nome ana
kindred are to us. Do you know now
they felt2 Just as you and ! would feel
starting out tomorrow morning with nine
chances out of ten against our returning
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 lhelr
homes. and to-day have been seated where
cause they liked IL better than their own
house, and followed the drum ana me,
not because they were better music than
the voices Of the domestic circle. SCUM
Mountain and MurfreesbOro and the
swamps of Chickahominy were not play
These heroes risked and lost all for
others. There is no higher sublimlty
than that. To keep threc-quarters Tor
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 magnanmity
Christ-like. Put a girdle around your
body and then measure the girdle and
see If you are nifty or sixty inches round.
And is that the circle OF your sympathles
the size of yourself? Or, to measure
you around the heart, would IL take
girdle large enough TO enclrcle the lana
and encrCle the world? You want 70 know
what we dry theOlOgians mean Wnen We
talk of vicarious suffering. Look at the
soldiers graves and md out Nlcarlous!
pangs for others. wounds for others.
sepulchre for others.
Those who visited the national cemc>
teries at Arlington Heights ana at ltich-
mond and Gettysburg saw one inScrlp ton
on soldiers tombs oftener repeated than
any Other-UnknOWn. When, about TWEEN
ty-one years ago. / was called to deliver
the Grafton at Arlington Heights, Wd5a-
ington, l was not 50 much impressed win
the minute guns that shook the earth or
with the attendance OF president ana cabl-
net and foreign ministers and generals OF
ha
with the pathetic and overwhelming Sug-
gestiveness of that epitaph on so many
graves at my feet. Unknown! Unknown
1t seems to me that the time must come
when the gov eminent Of the United states
shall take off that epitaph. They are no
more unknown We have found them out
at last. They are the beloved sons OF the
Would it not be well to take the statue
of the heather goddess OF the top of the
capitol (for l have no faith in the morals
of a heather gOddess) and put one great
statue in all our national cemeterleS--a
statue of liberty in the form of Chris tan
woman with her hand on an open Bible
and her foot on the Rock of Ages, with
the other hand pointing down 70 the
graves of the unknown, saying, These
are my sons who died that ] might live"
Take off the misnomer Everybody knows
them. 1t Is of comparatively little impor-
lance what was the name given them in
baptism of water In the boiler and nigh
tier baptism of blood we know them, and
yesterday the nation put both arms around
them and Rugged them to her heart, cry
ing. Mine foreVer!
Again. by this national ceremony we
mean the future defence Of this nation.
BY every wreath of flowers on the sol
diers' graves we say; Those who die
Tor the country shall not be forgotten"
and that Will give enthusiasm to our
young men in case our nation should in
the future need to defend itself in bat
tie. We shall never have another war be-
tween north and south. The old decayed
bone of contention, American slavery, has
uf = a a
depraved politician takes it up to see if
he can't knaw something off II. We are
floating off farther ana farther from the
possibility of sectional strife.
No possibility of civil war. But about
foreign invasion | am not so certain.
When l spoke against war / said moth
ing against self-defense. An inventor
told me that he had invented a style of
weapon which could be used in self-defense
but not in aggressive warfare. ! said:
when you get the nations TO adopt that
weapon you have introduced the millen-
MUM l have no right to go on my
neighbor's premises and assault him. but
if some ruff1an break into my house for
the assassination of my family, and
can borrow a gun and load il in time
and aim II straight enough, l will shoot
There is no room on this continent for
any other nation-eXcept Canada, and a
better neighbor no one ever had If you
don't think so, go to Montreal and To-
rontO, and see how well they will treat
you. Other than that there is absolute
~ no room lOI any Olnef nation. nave
been across the continent again and
again, and know that we have not a
half inch of ground for the equity foot
of foreign despotism to stand on. But
am not so sure that some Of the arrogant
nations of Europe may not some day chal-
lenge us. l do not know that those forts
around New York bay are to sleep all
through the next century ! do not know
! that Barnegat lighthouse will not yet look
/ OFF upon a hostile navy. l do not know
/ but that half dozen nations, envious
/ of our prosperity, may want to give us
| a wrestle. During our civil war there
/ were two or three nations that could hard
/ ly keep their hands off US. 1t is very easy
/ to pick national quarrels, and if our ma
tion escapes much longer it will be the
! exception.
| If foreign foe should come we want
/ men like those of 1872 and like those of
| 1862 to meet them. We want them ali up
! and down the coast, Pulaski and Fort
| Sumter in the same chorus of thunder as
Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton Men
! who will not only know how to fight but
/ how to die When such a time comes if
| 1t ever does come, the genera ton on the
! stage of action win say: My country
| will care for my family as they aid in
/ the soldiers asylum for the orphans in
/ the civil war and my C0uutr.v will I,o,or