Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-04


Brave at the front, brave at the can
mons mouth, brave ON lonely picket
duty, brave in cavalry charge, brave
before the surgeon, brave in the dying
message to the home circle. We yes
terday put a garland ON the brow of
courage. The world wants more of IL.
The church of God is in woeful need
of men who can stand under lire. The
lion of worldly deriSion roars and the
sheep tremblc. In great reformatory
movements at the first shot how many
fall back! The great obstacle to the
church's advancement is the inanity
the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the
namby-pambyism of professed Chris
tians. Great on Il parade. towards in
battle. Afraid of getting their plumes
ruiiicd, they carry 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 rcformatory and Christian
work the great want is more backbone.
more mettle, more daring. more
prowess. would in all our churches
like to trade off a hundred do-nothings
for one do-evcrything. Quit your
selves like men-bc strong"
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afa-.
And seize 1t with their eye.
Again, we mean by this national OBJ
servation to honor self-sacrifice for 9th
ers. To all these departed men home
and kindred We're as dear as our home
and kindred are to us. Doyou know how
they felt? just as you or | would feel
starting out tomorrow morning with
nine chances ont of ten against our re,
turning alive, for the intelligent sol.
der sees not only battle ahead, hut ma.
larial sickness and exhaustion. Had
these men chosen they could have spent
the 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 be
cause they were better music than tn,
voices of tho domestic circle. South
Mountain and Murfreesboro and the
swamps of the Chickahominy were not
Fairgrounds.
These heroes risked and lost all fol-
others. There Is no higher sublimity
than that. To keep three-quarters for
ourselves and give one-quarter to 9th,
ers is generous. To divide even with
others is generous, To keep nothing
for ourselves and give all for others is
magnanimity Christ-lille. Put girdlC
around your body and then measure
the girdle and see if you are 50 or G.
inches round. And is that the circle OF
your sympathies-the size of YOURSELF
Or, to measure you around your heart
would it take a girdle large enough tt
encircle the land and cncircle the
| world? You want to know what we
dry theologians mean when we talk OF
vicarious suffering. Look at the sol
diers' graves and find out. Vicarious
Pangs for others, wounds for others
inconsistencies for others, blood for 9th,
ers, sepulcher for others.
Those who visited the national GENE
teries at Arlington Heights and al
Richmond and Gettysburg saw one in
scriptiOn on soldiers tombs oftener re
peated than any other-Unknown,
When, about 81 years ago, ! was Gale
to deliver the Grafton at Arlington
Heights, Washington, was not sc
much impressed with the minute guns
that shook the earth, or with the at
tendance of president and cabinet and
| foreign ministers and generals of tn,
army and commodores of the navy, as
with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness of that epitaph on SC
many graves at my feet. Unknownl I'm.
llnownl 1t seems to me that the time
must come when the government oil
the United States shall take off = thai
epitaph. They are no more unknown
We have found them out at last
They are the beloved sons of the re
public.
Would it not be well to take the
statue of the heather goddess off the
top of the capital flor | have no faith
III the morals of heather goddessl
and put one great statue in all our ma
tional Cemeteries statue of liberty
in the form of a Christian woman with
her hand on an open Bible and her foot
on the Rock of Ages, with the other
iand pointing down to the graves o.
the unknown, saying, These are my
sons who died that might live" Take
off the misnomer. Everybody known:
them. 1t is of comparatively little i'm
portance what was the name giveI
them in baptism of water. In the
holier and mightier baptism of blood
we know them, and yesterday the ma
ton put both arms around them anC
Rugged them to her heart, crying
milne forever"
Again, by this national ceremony W,
mean the future defense of this nation
by every wreath of flowers on the sol
diers' graves we say: Those who di,
for the country shall not be forgotten.
and that will give enthusiasm to oul
young men in case our nation should il
the future need to defend itself in bat
/ tie. We shall never have another wal
between north and south, The old de
cayed bone of contention, American
slavery, has been cast out, although
here and there a depraved politician
takes it up to see if he can't gnav
something off it. We are floating of
farther and farther from the possibil
ity of sectional strife.
No possibility of civil war. But
about foreign invasion am not SO GER
tain. When | spoke against war | SAID
nothing against self-defense. An in
ventor told me that he had invented q
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 millennium" | have NJ
right to go on my neighbours premises
and assault him, but If some ruffiar
break into my house for the assassina
tion of my family and l can borrow &
gun and load it in time and aim Il
straight enough, l will shoot him.
There is no room on this continent
for any other nation, except Canada
and better neighbor no one ever had
II you don't think SO, go to Montrea
and Toronto and see how well they