The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-21
FEATURES OF DIR. PHILLIPS AID.
 DRESS

FEATURES OF DIR. PHILLIPS AD-
 DRESS
 This is not only a beautiful, but an ancient custom which you are observ- ing. Tn the early chapters of Hebrew history it is recorded when the peo- pie entered the promised land through the dry bed of the arrested Jordan, the priests commanded that twelve stones should be taken from the place of crossing and heaped upon the shore as memorial. In after years when men asked about the mound they were to be told At this point Jehova divided the waters to make way for His peo- ple.' So the story of that day was to be preserved in Hebrew history. Me morial buildings, monuments, statues, days set apart for special comnemora- tion of great events and great men are common among civilized peoples They are all significant and appropriate; there might properly be more of them.
 This is your memorial day; you have come together here to think of the worthy men who have finished their course, to remind yourselves of their characters and lives, and to reconse- crate yourselves, in presence of your dead, to solemn and faithful loyalty to your code. And you have a code worth being loyal to, it is progressive, exalted, practical and profoundly just You start out with a clear recognition of the rights of others and of your ob- ligation to others; you place your selves right with the spirit of the age and offer your best help in the solv- ing of its great industrial problems. Tt is refreshing to find earnest men banding themselves together with a definite recognition of their obligations to others, and a clear, consistent dec laration of the principle of arbitration as the basis of their union. I congrat- ulate you upon your free swing into | line with the best thinking and the l loftiest ideals of the time. You emerge 1 from the barbarism of strikes and boy colts; you admit the rights of employ CTS and the public; you declare for ar 1 bitration as a wise and intelligent and sufficient principle. Such a compact l is Christly and brotherly; it is conceiv- | ed in love and baptized in the spirit of seIf-sacrifice. You need not be told that your principles will be unpopular in some quarters, but be of good cheer, l selfishness and unrighteousness are 1 doomed: the strenuousness of the bat | tie is for us, but our children will eat the fruits of victory and bless us who fought good fight You are keeping step with the vanguard: you are inter- preting the creed of the better Ameri- can, and the better America will watch your experiment with sympathy and l interest. Nothing is going to be finally in this world except in harmony with | the principles of Jesus Christ. You l can afford to be pioneers in this con-
 fict; you will have plenty of com pany by and by; we are moving on and up; the night is far spent and the day
 is at hand.
 "Oh, sometimes gleams upon our sight
 Through present wrong; the eterna right;
 And step by step since time began,
 We see the steady gain of man.
 Through the harsh noises of our day,
 A low, sweet prelude finds it's way; | Through clouds of doubt and creeds o1
 fear,
 A light is breaking calm and clear'
 And when that light finally breaks it will reveal the blessed doctrine ot
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