The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30
Federals and Confederates Vet
Grams in Attendance.
BY REV. SHERMAN HALL
An Exceptionally Able Address by he
Pastor of the Christian Church.
A Special Musical Ser
vic by the hoi

members of the Grand Army OF the
Republic i'm uniform. and a number OF
old Confederates though there was no
organized attendance. each veteran go
ing to the church by himself. There
was a large audience present and spe-
cial music by an augmente~ choir was
furnished. Two large American flags
were draped above the pulpit as "A
mark of the OCCASION. Rev. Sherman
Hin preached the o sermon.
which was. in substance, as follows:
Greater love hath no man than this.
tina a man lay down his life for his
friends."-Jesus.
That is a noble and beautiful
faculty of our natures that enables
us to unite our thoughts with the dis
tant In time or place. We can thus
relieve the scenes of other days and
sympathize with the friends of other
times. Through this priced faculty we
are children in our ather's dwelling.
youths in the crucible of preparation
n men on the stern battlefield of
life.
Through memory's sacred hanne
we retrace the footprints of history
in the sands Of time and stand in the
~ Va nv S,th allt 1hE WI
time and age. We stand with Jesus
while he thee principles of
human freedom. and with Peter, Paul,
Polycarp, Luther and Campbell while
they heroically defended their sacred
trust. We stand with Charles Martel
or the field of Tours. with the brave
Britons at ~Runnymede and the Greeks
at Thermopylae. We heal the cannon
aiding at Bunker Hill and the death
signs of noble Warren. We listen to
the unrivaled e%loquence of Adams.
Jefferson and Henry. We hear, with
inexplicable rapture. the surrender of
Yorktown. AS the infant nation bud
ded into shape we watched with anx-
ious eye her every forward step. There
have been times when the future
seemed lark and full of treacherous
shoals Designing and treacherous
men have cunningly and tellingly
planned against Columbia's holy cause.
We have. like all good and noble peo-
pie, suffered from our Judases. Among
the dangers we ave passed that
would have wrecked a less determined
n courageous people none have been
more formidable than the one out of
which evolved Memorial day.
As the memories of those days are
vividly recalled We are now enlisting,
now hiding an affectionate farewell.
Fastening to the scene of action,
now pressing through smoke and shot
n shell to the heights of victory CT
weltering in the arnag OF defeat.
But the panorama hastens and the
conflict has ended and men have re-
turned to the pursuits of domestic
peace.
And we, to-day. stand like the Ro-
man gods, with our faces turned
both ways, looking into the past with
a truly Christlike heart. for we are
forgiven and forgiving. strewing its
path with living flowers. binding up
it's wounds with a brothers love and
tenderly winding about the scenes the
shroud OF mercy, and into the future
with a clear and hopeful vision plant
ing the seeds Of coming flowers. forg-
ing the bands of a closer and surer
domestic peace and demonstrating, IL
we have not. hat "a nation of the peo-
pie, by the people. and for the people,
will never perish from the earth"
Let US. with the hand of mercy,
wind motherlike about the past the
robe of forgiveness and with the hand
of hope wreathe fatherlike into the fu-
ture a garland of hope. that other foot
sore N weary seamen seeing may
take hope again. We perpetuate the
memory of Calvary. of Tours. of Their
mopylae. of Runnymede. of Bunker
Hill and of Gettysburg because we love
the principle that provoked them. And
while the race IL alive to principles
like these We can with much assurance
plan for. and hope for broader and for
better things, for a nations strength
n the races hope lies in the nature
of it's love and not of its accoutrements
of war. Who doubts the outcome of
our kith and kin in the present war;?
And is 1t not a well grounded hope?
Manila stands as the marvel of all
time an1 nnxN~nx ma. The 49,, - ~
hour. Are we proud of Manila? And
do we love Dewey? Let him return TO
his native shore and his reception will
eclipse the return of Caesar from
eau. But to US Manila nor Dewey are
not what they are to nations trained in
the arts of wsr-mere fortunate anom-
allies. They are To us a confirmation of
our long cherished doctrine. that men
welded to the principles OF truth are
invincible. Lov has been admitted by
Omnipotence as the most powerful mo-
tive by which men can be moved. II
has moved alike the mind of God and
man. Thus genuine love coupled with
a mighty truth will remain as the par
mount motives to human achieve
ments. Our text says: Greater love
hath no man than this that a man lay
down his life for his friends That
men are ever to attain unto a love.
such as Christ's. by which they will
lay down their lives for their enemies
IL not TO be anticipated. There is.
therefore, no greater test OF love thar
for one TO take his life in his hands and
march in defense of a cherished prin-
cIple or friend. Whoever impugns the
motives of those who nave or who may
enlist in the present war have placed
themselves beyond he pale of human
reason and divine statement. IL ones
willingness to die for his cherished
faith will not persuade another of his
motives then he cannot be convinced.
IL is this nature of love we comment
crate to-day. While many sealed their
vows with their own life blood n
found a stoneless and nameless grave
in the Southland, you have no less
surely demonstrated your devotion to
the cause you espoused. for you C
shot and shell. endured the smoke
and carnage of nameless battle fields.
underwent the toilsome march. sub
dued the heavenly desire for peace and
home. bore heroically the horrors of