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

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again and again, and know that we
have not half inch of ground for tho
gouty foot of foreign despotism to
stand ON. But | am not SO sure that
some of the arrogant nations of Europe
may not some day challenge us. do
not know that those forts around New
York bay are tn sleep all through the
next century, | do not know that
Barnegat light house will not vet look
off upon hostile navy. do not know
but that half dozen nations, envious
"i our prosperity, may want to give os
wrestle. During our civil war there
were two or three nations that could
hardly keep their hands off us. Ii is
very easy to pick national quarrels,
and If our nation escapes much longer
it will he the exception.
If foreign foe should come, we want
men like those of 1912 and like those OF
1867 To meet them. We want them all
up and down the coast. Pulaski and TT.
sumter in the same chorus of thunder
rs TT. Lafayette and 1T. Hamilton.
Men who will not only know how to
fight, but how to die When such a
generation on the stage of action will
say: My country will care for my
family as they did in the soldiers aSy-
lum for the orphans in the civil war,
and my country will honor my dust as
it honored those who preceded me in
patriotic sacrifice, and once Q year at
any rate, on Decoration day. l shall ba
resurrected into the remembrance of
those for whom ! died. Here | go for
God and my country, IIuzzah
If foreign foe should come. the old
sectional animosities would have no
power. Here go our regiments into
the battlefield: Fifteenth New York
volunteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry,
Fourteenth Pennsylvania riflemen,
Tenth Massachusetts artillery, Seventh
South Carolina sharpshooters. | do
not know but it may require the at
tack of some foreign foe to make us
forget our absurd sectional wrangling.
! have no faith i'll the cry, "No north,
no south, no east, no west" Let all
four sections keep their pecuIiarities
and their preferences, each doing it's
own work and not interfering with
each other, each of the four carrying
its part in the great harmony-the bass,
the alto, the tenor, the soprano-in the
grand march of union.
Once more this great national cere-
mony means the Identification ,of tho
tombs, whether of those who fell in
battle or accident, or who have ex-
pircd in their beds or in our arms or on
our laps. ! suppose You have noticed
that many of the families take this
season as the time for the adornment
of their family plots. This national
| observance has secured the arboricuI-
| ture and Horticulture of the ceme-
teries, the Strengthening up of many
/ slab planted 50 or 10 years ago, and
has swung the scythe through the long
/ grass and has brought the ,stoneeutter
/ To call out the half-obliteratcd epi-
/ taph. This day is the benediction of
| the resting place of father, mother,
son, daughter, brother, sister.
! 1t is all that we can do for them now.
Make their resting places attractive,
not absurd with costly outlay, but in
quiet remembrance. You know how.
! If you can afford only one flower. that
will do. 1t shows what you would do
if you could. One blossom from you
may mean more than the duke of Well
lington's catafalque. Oh, we can not
afford to forget them. They were
SO lovely to us. We miss them SO
much. We will never get over it.
Blessed Lord Jesus, comfort our broken
hearts. From every bank of flowers
breathes promise of resurrection.
In olden times the Hebrews, return
ing from their burial place, used to
pluck the grass from the field three or
four times, then throwing it over their
heads, suggestive of the resurrection.
We pick not the grass, but the flowers,
and instead of throwing them over our
heads we place them before our eyes,
right down over the silent heart that
once beat with warmest love toward
us, or over the still feet that ran to
service, or over the lips from which we
took the kiss at the anguish of the last
parting.
But stop. We are not infidelS. Our
bodies will soon Join the bodies of our
departed in the tomb, and our spirits
shall join their spirits in the land of
the rising sun. We can not long he
separated. Instead of crying with
Jacob for Joseph: II will go down into
the grave unto my son, Mourning" let
us cry with David: Il shall go to
him.
On one of the gates of Greenwood is
the quaint inscriptions: "a nights
lodging on the way to the city of the
New Jerusalem" Comfort one another
with these words. May the hand of
Him who shall wipe away all tears
from your eyes wipe your cheek with
its softest tenderness. The Christ of
Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus will
enfold you in his arms. The white
ROBBED angels who sat at the tomb of
Jesus will yet roll the same stone from
the door of your dead In radiant resur-
rection. The Lord himself shall de-
! .scend from Heaven with a shout and
the voice of the archangel So the Dead
Mach in Saul shall become the halle
lujah chorus.