The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-31
TRUE S0LDIERLY MANHOOD
CoNsCIENTIOUS SENSE OF DUTY 4
 QUALITY.

QUALITY.
 Every Man Should Bear His Part-Legal Honesty the Skeleton of Virtue-We should stand Above Our own Labor Ones Duties to His City and Country.
 The Rev. Newman smyth preached yesterday morning from the text:
 Now there arose new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph" He said in part:
 ''The great service which Joseph had rendered Egypt was unknown to anoth- CT king upon Paraoh's throne. It is easy to forget nation to the men who have saved it from famine or sword. Nature herself effaces from the memory of the earth the line of the fortifica- tions of armies and covers with fresh Verdure the signs of battlefieids.
 'The camp before Richmond is now covered with peach trees from the peach pits thrown upon the ground by the soldiers. Why, then, should we wish to keep in remembrance those for mer fearful days? Why should we keep sacred in the country the soldiers day? Why should we repeat still in our churches the echoes of the solemn prayers and grand thanksgiving of former days?
 Were our recollections before God a renewal of the enmities and passions of past conflicts, the soldiers who most love peace because they made it would be the last to rekindle the embers of ter ious and holy use to make of the memo ry of the pasta duty, not of comment oration only of the manhood which lies buried in the heroes graves, but also of the conservation of youth in the spir- 1t of our countrys nobler memories and and mission.
 Allow me, then, to single out and to emphasize, in view of present needs, some of the soldierly qualities of a Christian manhood. The first quality that shall name is conscious sense of duty.
 "When Oliver Cromwell came to the head of the Puritan commonwealth, he asked parliament for soldiers who made some conscience of what they did. The famous Ironsides regiment was line of men who made some conscience of what they did. To the soldier at his post no word is so supreme as the sim pie word-duty. The brave man upon whom reliance always could be placed was not he who was naturely careless of his danger, but the man who was afraid before his own commanding con- science not to do his duty. The su- preme sense of duty, for which many have dared to die, Is the first element of true manhood. It is a daily require- ment in peace or in war. Conscience in work, whether it be work in the fac tory or field in the store or in the study; whether it be In drawing a line straight or laying stone square; or in looking a question of faith fairly in the face, or in following a truth sent to us from God to its last consequence of devotion; conscience in work Is al- ways the first necessity of & man, and the lack of conscience in work any where is now the desperate peril of our civilization. We need men who carry to their daily tasks a soldierly sense of duty We need in our cities regiments of men who make some conscience of their trades and their citizenship. We need in every work and calling of life men of conscience who, in their own devotion to the right and the morally beautiful, can say, as did Sir Gallahad in his pursuit of the Holy Grail:
 ssMy good blade carves the casques of
 men,
 My tough lance thrusteth sure;
 My strength is as the strength of ten,
 Because my heart Is pure"
 No community can afford not to the birth, to raise, to educate and to honor such men, They day of judg- nent does not wait long for any civili- zation which is not founded and main fained in conscientious citizenship. A flaming moral vesuvius overhangs ev- cry moral Pompeii.
 Another characteristic of the sol- dierly manhood which we still need, is honor Yes, in a Christian pulpit, and under the banner of the prince of peace, I would utter again and again that old chivalric word, honor. For in this Bible I find honor exalted as one of the at tributes of deity The Bible through both Testaments insists upon the honor of Jehovah as the splendor of his glory. For the honor of the righteousness of God Christ was willing to die. Honor ds a most Christian word.
 "We need to stand above our own labor, as the Lords freemen, with hearts keeping time and music to the onward providences of God, and the final universal joy. He will be only a day laborer, only a mechanic, only a scholar, only another hand In our fac tory world, only another thinking ma chine in science; not man, not a large, free, Christ-like man, who does not 1thus rise in some unselfish devotion above himself; and in sympathy with man and love of God have his part and share in the sacrifices and the triumphs of all the Christian ages.
 'eThe man who dwells in a city like this, built upon the sacrifices of the fathers, the man who enjoys the privi- leges of citizenship in this country,