Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-06-10

hle. In great refornItory move ents ar
the first shot how many fall back! The greas
obstacle TO the church's a ivance;nent is the
inanty, the vacuity. the soft pretiiness. the
mandy pabyisn of professel Christians.
Great on a parade, towards in battle. Afraid
OF getting their plumes ruffied, they carry .
parnsol over their helmet. They go into
battle not with warriors gauntlet hu, with
kid gloves, not clutchng the sword hilt 70
tight less the gloves split at the back.
In all our reformatory and Christian work
the great want is more backbone, more
mettle, more daring, more proves. We
would In all our churches like to trade OF u
hundred do nothings for one do everything.
"Quit yourselves like men; be strong"
The saints In all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from aiar
And seize it with their eye.
Again, We mean by tns national observ-
ance to honor self sacrifice for others. 10
all these departed men home and kindred
were as dear our home and kindred areto us.
Do you know how they felt? Just rs you and
! would feel starting out tomorrow morn
ing with nine chances out OF ten against our
returning alive. for the intelligent soldier
sees not only battle ahea !, but malarial sick
ness and exhaustion. Had these men chosen
they could have spent last night in their
homes and to-day have been seated where
you are. They chose the camp not because
they liked 1t better than their own house.
and followed the drum AMI fife NOT because
they were better music than the voices OF the
domestic circle. South Mountain AMI Muir
freesboro and the swamps of Chickahominy
were not Fairgrounds.
These heroes riskei and lost all for others.
There Is no higher sublimity than that. To
keep three-quarterS for 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
Ii Datf
a girdle AROUND your body and then m assure
the girdie and see II you are fifty or sixty
inches round. And is that the circle OF your
sympathies?-the size of yourself? Or, to
measure you around the heart, wouli it
take girdle large enough to encircle the
land and encircle the world? You want to
know what we dry theologians mean when
we talk Of vicarious suffering. Look at tho
soldiers graves and find out. Vicarious-
pangs for others, wounds for others, home
sickness for others, blood for others,
sepulcher for Others
Those who visited the national cemeteries
at Arlington Heights and at Richmond and
Gettysburg saw one inscription on soldiers
tombs oftener repeated than any other-'Un-
known" when, ,abouttwen,y-one years ago,
was called to deliver the Grafton at Airing
ton Heights, Washington. 1 was not so much
impressed with the minute guns that shook
the earth or with the attendance of president
and cabinet and foreign ministers and gen.
erals Of the army and commodores OF the
navy as with the pathetic and overwhelming
suggestiveness of that epitaph on SO many
graves at nv feet "UnknownI" "Unknown!'
1t seems to me that the time must come when
the government of the United States shall
take of that epitaph. They are no more un-
known! We have found them out at last.
They are the beloved sons of the republic.
Ifforeign foe should come, we want men
like those Of 1912 and like those of 1862 to
meet them We want them all up and down
| the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter in the
same chorus ofthunder rs Fort Lafayette and
| Fort HamiltOn-men WHO Will not only
know how to fight, but how TO die. When
such n time comes, tfit ever does come, the
generation on the stage OF a'tion will say:
| my country will care for my family as they
did in the soldiers asylum for the orphans
| in the OWL War, and my country will honor
my dust as it honored those who preceded
me in patriotic sacrifice, and once year at
| any rate, on Decoration Day, shall be res
| urrected into the remembrance OF those Tor
whom died. Here I so for God and my
countryl HuZzar'
If foreign foe should come, the old Sec
tiOnal amin oSitieS would have no power.
| Here go our regiments into the battlefield
Fifteenth New York volunte rs, Tenth Ala
bama cavalry, Fourteenth Penns ylvania rifle
men, Tenth Massachusetts artillery. Seventh
South Carolina sharpshoopers. 1 do not
know but it may require the attack OF some
| foreign foe to make us forget our absurd sec
| tfonal wrangling. L have no faith in the
cry, "NO north. no south, no east. no west!
Let all four sections keep their peculiaritieS
| and their preferences, each doing its 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 ceremony
means the Identification of the tombs.
whether of those who fell in battle or acci-
dent, or who have expired 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 arJoriculture and foricul-
ture Of the cemeteries, the straghteninS up
| Of many a slab planted 80 or 40 years ago,
and has swung the scythe through the long
| grass and has brought the stonecutter to cali
| out the half obli Grated epitaph. This day
is the benediction of the resting place of
| father, mother, son, daughter. brother, sis
ter.
It is all that We can do for them now
Make their resting pla es attractive, not alb
surd with costly outlay, but in quiet rem en-
brance. You know how. Ii you can afford
only one flower, that will do. 1t shows
what you would do II you could. One bios
som from YOU may mean more than the
| Duke OF Wellington catafalque.. Oh. we
cannot afford to forget them. They were
so lovely to us. We miss them $, much.
| We will never get over IL. II "sSed Lord
Jesus, comfort our broken hea.S From
every bank of flowers brcathes promise of
resurrection.
In oi,ien times the Hebrews, returning
from their burial place, usei to pluck the
grass from the field three or four times, then
throw II 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,
rit hit 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 an
guish Of the last parting.
But stopi We are not inildels. 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
cannot long be separated. Instead Of cry
ing with Jacob or Joseph, 81 will go down
into the grave unto my son. mourning,
let us cry with David, 81 shall go to him."
On one Of the gates OF Greenwood is the
quaint inscription, "a nights lodging on
the way to the city of New Jerusalem.
Comfort one another with these words. May
the hand of Him who shall wipe away all tears
from all eyes wipe your cheek with its softest
Tenderness. The Christ OF Mary and Martha
and Lazarus will infold you in His arms.
The white robed angel who sat at the tomb
of Jesus will yet roll the stone from the door
of your dead in radiant resurrection. The
! Lord Himself shall descend from heaven
!, with shout and the voice of the archangel
! SO the dead March" in saul shall be
| come the "Halleluiah Chorus"
When women "puts two AMI tw'
/ together" the result is always NOR
: than four.
A person under the firm persuasio
that he can command resources virtu
! ally has them.
II you pay school tehcder com
, pliment she will not observe the gram
= matical errors.
If did not require much OF a phi
r osopher to discover that all rich widow
|. are handsome.
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