Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-10-14

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mense. there will be nothing to do but eaf, ,
drink and be merry. No. The most power
| iul Nation, by army and navy, sounded its
protest across three thousand miles of water
| Then came Lexington, and Bunkcr Hill, an I
Monmouth, and Long Island battles. AMI
Valley Forge. and Yorktown, and starva,
tion, and widowhoo1. and orphanaee, and
the thirteen colonies went through sufferings
which the historian has attempted to put
upon paper, and the artist to put upon can.
vas, but all in vain. En2raver's knife, anG
reporters skill, and teleXraphic Wire and
daily press, which have made US acquainted
with the horrors OF modern battlefield, had
not yet begun their vigilance, and the story
OF the American Revolution has never been
told. and never will De told. 1t did not take
much ink to sign the Declaration of Inde.
pendence, but it took terrific amount Of
blood to maintain it. 1t Was an awful gate
OF opposition that the men ani women
and the women rs much as the men
| pushed back. 1t was gate OF self-sacrifice
II was gate of blood. 1t was gate OF
carbu Icle.
| We are not indebted to history for ou-
knowledge of the greatest of National
| crises. Many OF Us remember it, and fathers
and mothers now living mad better keep tell.
| ing that story to their children, so that in
stead OF their being dependent upon cold
type and obliged to say, .'On such a page Of
| such a book you can real that" will they
| rather be able to say, .'My father told mn
so!" ''My mother toll me So" Men and
women who vividly remember 1861, and
1867. AMI 1863. and 1854, be yourselves tha
historians, teiling ii, not with pen. but with
living tongue aud Voice anil gesture. That
Is tho great use of Memorial Decoration Day,
for the Gala lilies on the grave tops soon be-.
come breaihless of perfume, an in a week
turn to dust nnto tlat which liss beneath 1t.
But the story OF courage ant seif-sacrifice
and patriotism told on platforms and In
households and by the roadside aud IN
churches and In GENE cries by that annual
recital will be kept fresh In the memory OF
generations as long as our American institu-
tiOns are worthy OF preservation. Long
after you are dead your children will be able
to say, with the PsaImist: "Ws have heard
with our ears, o God, our fathers have
told US, what work Thou didst in their
days. in the times oi old" But what
time it was! Four years of home
sickness! Four years OF brotherly
ana sisterly estrangement. Four years OF
martyrdom! Four years OF massacre! Put
them in u long line, the confisgration OF
cities, and see them light up whole conti-
nent. Put them in long rows, the hospitals,
making a vast metropolis OF pain and
paroxyism! Gather them in one vast assem-
blage, the millions Of brreft from the s..
Lawrence to the Gulf. and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific beaches! Put the tears iuto
lakes, and the blood into rivers, and the
shrleks into whirlwinds, During those four
and South SAW nothing ahead but annihila-
tion. With such a National debt we
could never meet our obligations! With
such moral antipsthirs Northern and South
ern men could never come into amjty! Rep
resentatives OF Louisiana and Georgia, and
the Carolinas could never again sit side by
side with the Representatives Of Maine,
Massachusetts and New York at the Ma
tional capital. Lord John Russell had de-
clared that we were "a Misunderstanding Ma
,,lf 4 IL k,. M
tions of Europe had gathered With very re-
signed spirit at the funeral OF our American
Republic. They had tolled the bells on
Pariaments and Reicbstag5 a"d lowered
their flags at half mast. and even the lion
on the other side OF the ssa bal whined for
the dead eagle on this side. The deep grave
had been dug and beside Babylon, aud
Thebes, and Tyre, AMI other dead Nations of
the past our dead Republic was to be
buried. The epitaph was all ready: Here
delphia, 4th OF July, 1776. Killel at Bull
Run. July 81. 1861. Aged eighty-flvo years
aud seventeen days. Peace to its sstes"
But befors the o5ssques had quite closed
there was an Interruption Of the ceremon-
les. and our dead Nation roso from its
mortuary surroundings. God hat made for
1t special Resurrection Day, aud cried,
"Come forth, thou Republic OF Washing
ton, and John Adams. and Thomas Jsifrr.
son, and Patrick Henry, AMI John Hancock.
u. ..
Henry Clay. Come forth!'' And she came
forth. 10 be stronger than she had ever been.
Her mtghtiest proSperities have come since |
that time. Who would want to pu5i hack
this country to what ii was in 1869 or 1850? |
But, oh, what a high gate, what a strong |
gate she had to push back before she could |
make one step in a1vaBce! Gate of flame, |
See Norfolk Navy Yard. AMI Columbia, and |
Chambersburg, and Charleston on lire, |
Gate of bayonets! See g!itterinS rides and |
oarbines flash from the Susquehanns, aod I
the James, to the Mississippi, and the Ar I
kansas! Gate of heavy artillery. making |
the mountains OF Tennessee and Kentucky |
and Virginia tremble as though the earth |
itself were struggling in its last agony. The |
gate was 80 fiery and so red that I can think |
Of nothing more appropriate than to take |
tho suggestion of Isaiah In the text and call |
It gate Of carbunoles.
This country has been for the most part /
OF Its history passing through crises, and
aftef each crisis was better of than before |
1t entered 1t, and now We are at another /
crisis. We are told on one hand that if gold |
is kept as a standard and silver is not ele |
waited, confidence will be restored and this |
Nation will rise triumphant from all the |
financial misforunes that have been affiict- |
ing US. On the other hand we are told that |
II the free coinage OF silver Is allowed. all
the wheels OF business will revolve, tho poor
man will have a better chance, and all our /
Industries will begin to hum and roar.
During the last six Presidential election !
have been urged to enter the political arena,
but never have and never will turn the |
pulpit in which 1 preach into u political |
stump. Every minister must do as he feels
called to do, and l will not criticise him for /
doing what he considers his duty; but all |
the political hara2sues from pu.pits from !
now until the 81 of November will not in all
the United States change one vote, but will |
leave many ears stopped against anything
that such clergyman may utter the rest OF
their lives. As a general rule the laymen
Of churches understand politics better thar
the clergy. because they (the laymen) study
politics more than the clergy, and have bet. !
Ter opportunity Of being intelligent on tho sc
subjects. But good morals, honesty. loyal |
ty, Christian patriotism and the Ten Com
mandments,these We must preach. Goo
says distinctly In the Bible, 1.-The silver ant
the gold are Mine,' and He will settle tn,
controversy between those two metals. L |
ever this country needed the divine rescue il |
needs it now. Never within my memory
have SO many people literally starved tc
noticed in the newspapers how many meu |
and women here and there have been founi
dead, the post-mortem examination stating |
that the cause Of death was hunger2 Ther2 |
Is not a day that We do not hear the crash ol
some great commercial establishment, and
thrown out OF employment. Amonn |
what We considered comfortable homes
have comepnvation and close calculation an
an economy that kills. Millions o
people who say nothing about IT are al
this moment at their wits end. There ar. |
millions Of people who do not want charity /
but want work. The cry has gone up to the |
ears of the "Lord of Sabaoth, and the praye, !
will be heard and relief will come Ii we |
have nothing better to depend on than Amer.
can politics. relief will never come. Who !
ever is elected to the Presidency, the wheels |
of Government tur2iso SLOWLY. and caucus
lie the hands OF any President. Now,
though we who live in the District of Coum- |
bia cannot vote, We can pray, and my prayer /
day aud night shall be, "Oh God. hear |
the cry of the souls from under the altar! |
Thou wi.o hast brought the wheat |
and corr Of this season to such magni- |
fuda of ..-,DIv e,;vo tod 10 man and hao.t