St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-07-25

brave 1t the lannon's mouth, brave OF
lonely picket duty, brave in cavalry
charge. brave before the surgeon
brave in the dying message to the
home circle. We yesterday put . gar
land on the brow of courage. The
world wants more Of IT,
The Church Of God is in woeful need
Of men who can stand under Are. Ths
lion of worldly derision roars and the
sheep tremble. In great reformatory
movements 1t 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 parade, towards in
battle. Afraid Of getting their plumea
rufaed. they carry . parasol over their
helmet They 60 into battle not with
warriors gauntlet but with kid gloves,
nor clutching the sword-hilt too tight
lest the glove split ut the back.
In al our reformatory and Christian
work the great want is more back.
bone, more mettle, moro daring. moro
prowess. We would in al our churches
like to trade OF . hundred do-nothings
for one do-somcthing. 'Quit your
selves like men, be strong"
Thy saints In al this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
And seize II with their eye.
Again, we mean by this national OBJ.
servance to honor self-sacrifice for 9th.
ers. To all these departed men, home
and kindred were rs dear as our home
and kindred are to us. Do you know
how they felt? just IS you and I would
feel starting out tomorrow morning
with nine chances ont of ten against
our returning alive; for tho intelligent
soldier sees not only battle ahead, but
malariai sickness and exhaustion. Had
these men chosen, they could have
spent last night in their homes, and
to-day have been sedaeA where you
are. They chose the camp, not because
they liked it better than their own
house, and followed the fife and drum,
not because they were better music
than the voices of the domestic circle.
South Mountain and Murfreesboro,
and the swamps of Chickahominy were
not play grounds.
These heroes risked and lost all for
others There is no higher sublimity
than that. To keep threc-quarters for
ourselves and give one-quarter ia
others is honorable. To divide even
with others is generous. :;sNo keep
nothing for ourselves and give all for
others is maRnanimity C6szst-like.
Put . girdle around your body and
then measure the girdlA- and see If
you are 50 or .aQ,,siNehes round.
And is that the circle Of your
sylnpsthies-the size of yourself?
Or, to measure you around the heart,
would it take girdle large enough to
encircle the land and encircle the
world? You want to know what us
dry theologists mean when we talk of
vicarious suffering. Look 1T the sol
diers' graves and find out Vicariousl
pangs for others, wounds for others,
inconsistencies for others, blood for
others, sepulcher for others
Those who visited the national
cemeteries 1t Arlington Heights and
at Richmond and Gettysburg saw one
inscription on soldiers tombs oftener
repeated than any other-Unknown.
When, about twenty-one years ago,
was called to deliver the Grafton Ut
Arlington Heights, Washington. I
was not SO much impressed with
the minute guns that shook
the earth or with the attendance
of president and cabinet and for
eign ministers and generals Of the
army and commodores of the nav y, -
with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness Of that epitaph ON 30
many graves At my feet Unknown!
Unknown! It seems to me that the
time must come when the government
Of the United States shall take of that
cpitsph. They are no more unknown!
We have found them out 1t last. They
are the beloved sons Of the republic.
Would II not be well to take the
statue Of the heather goddess OF the
top of the capitol flor i have no faith
in the morals Of . heather goddess)
and put one great statue in al our ma
tional cemeteries-aG great statue of lib
erty in the form of . Christian woman
with her hand on IN open Bible and her
foot on the Rock Of Ages, with the other
hand pointing down to the graves Of
the unknown, saying, There are my
sons who died that I might live. /"
Take on the misnomer. Everybody
knows them. 1t il Of comparatively
little importance what was the name
given them in baptism Of water. In
the holier and mighter baptism Of
blood We know them, and yesterday
tho nation put both arms around them
and Rugged them to her heart, crying.
'.Mine forever!"
Again. by this national ceremony
We mean the future defense Of this
nation. BY every wreath Of Mowers
on the soldiers graves we say: Those
who die for the country shall not b
forgotten" and that win give enthu-
siasm to our yonng men In case our
nation should IN the future need de-
Iend itself in battle. We shall never
have another war between the north
and south. The old decayed bono of
contention. American slavery. has been
cast cat althoagh1 ese 1Ad thely de-.
PRAYED politieiansss aeAit mp 70 sell
be can't gnaw 6ou1ething on II We
.are farther and farther froAsths pos-
sibility Of sec4jooal strife.
No Feasibility o. civil war. But
about foreien invasion / ~ not 20
certain. Whon t4pcke athtDst war I
oaid nothing aeo1n1t iee11. 1o1ooeo A.
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