The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-30
THREE SPECIAL SERVICES
GRAND ARMY AND KINDRED
ORGANIZATIONS ATTENDED

Rev. f. ID. Cowgirl Spoke at First M.
e. Church, Rev. Father LAWYER
at the Cathedral and Rev. Thomas
HambIy at the Clinton Avenue NJ.
e. Church-EIOquent Tributes
Paid.
Rev. F. B. Cowgirl, pastor Of the First
Methodist church, delivered a special
memorial sermon yesterday morning to
the members of Acker post and the
Women's Relief corps. Both organiza
tions attended the services in body.
The church pulpit and platform were
festcoped with national colors blended
with bunting. Guy NANCY, the boy
soprano, sang, Il Know That My Re-
deemer Liveth,' after which Mr. Cow
gill delivered his sermon on THE Pat
riots Devotion to His Country" be-
fore large audience. He said in part:
IF l forge thee, Jerusalem, let
my right hand forget her cunning. If
l dc not remember thee, let my tongue
cleaVe to the roof of my mouth; If
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy."-Psalm cXxXvii., 90.
This is the language in which the
Jewish exile expressed his devotion to
Zion and the fatherland. 1t is the Ian
guage of patriotism, and it is universal.
1t is the loving and grateful response
of the soul to his country. 1t may be
that the sacred names and traditions
of the family are inseparably connect
ed with the great events of the nations
history. The issues of his individual
future, and the welfare of his children,
are bound up in the fortunes of his
fatherland. However inclement his ma
tive skies may be when compared with
other skies, they are beautiful to him.
However stubborn and poor the soil
may be, it is precious to him.
The capital fact in civilization is or
ganization, through which men come
into mutually helpful relations, and
through which the wastes of strife and
opposition are obviated. The more COM
plete this organization. provided there
is room left in it for individual develop
ment and freedom, the greater is the
security of those things which may be
useful to coming generations.
OF the intellectual and moral achieve
ments of mankind and the fruit of their
enormous toll in ages past, we know
and have received but little S We that
which has GENE to us through h chan
rel of the ancient states. OF the entire
legacy bequeathed to US by antiquity,
the larger part has come from Italy,
Greece and Pal slime. These were nall
countries, but their legacy TO the mod
ern world has made them greater than
vast and populouS continents lying
around them, because their intelligence
and virtue crystal,iZed into states which
embalmed their greatness in literature
and art that ages of barbariSm could
not wholly destroy.
AS we owe the BLESSINGS which diStin-
guish civil from barbaric life to the
state, it is evident that one of the most
important services which a citizen can
render to his fellow men and to God
is the protection of the state. Philoso-
ply, therefore, justifies the self-devot-
ing passion of the patriot. The patriot
may not always be a philosopher, but
he is usually intelligent enough to I'M
cerstand that he is serving the genera
tons that shall come after him. And,
If he be struggling to give permanency
to q morally and Intellectually superior
civilization against an inferior one, it
is clear that he is doing service to the
whole human race. a.
War is not an unmiXed evil, and its
moral aspects are not wholly bad. 1t
is often terrible beyond description. The
lowest passions of the race usually eX-
plot themselves in war. The evil pas
sionS pent up or dormant in times of
peace are often let loose In time or
war, and revel in plumber and blood
When masses of humanity, armed with
the weapons of destruction, are hurled
upon one another, when lettering age
and helpless Womanhood and innocent
childhood are the victims of hate and
lust, and when magnificent cities wrap
ped in flame illumi site the awful scene,
it seems as if the Prince of Evil We're
Cutting his rage against high heaven.
q Hvir~t hoy
no option but to fight They are set
for the defense of truth and right, of
the innocent and the Wronged And
II the worst passions of humanity ap-
pear in war, the sublimest virtues of
the race are also exhibited upon the
same arena. In most wars the masses
upon both sides are actuated by a
sense of duty. And even to the mis-
guided some need of praise is due for
the sublime courage and the self-sacri-
hce with which they defend what they
suppose to be the right. If we praise
the civic virtues by which great ideas
are given to the world and then en-
bodied in institutions. we must also
praise the military virtues by which
these institutions are preserved Civic
virtue and martial valor, both factors
in progress, will stand side by side in
the grateful memories and triumphant
hymns of the nations
We occupy the highest position that
civilization has ever reached in the
history of the world. This is only an
other way of saying that our political
institutions have given such liberty
and security as to produce the highest
level of individual intelligence, virtue
and happiness which has ever been ex-
hlb1ted on a large scale. In spite of
all the ignorance, suffering and wrong
that still exist in our civilization, we
are the freest and happiest people on
earth. In spite of all the wrongs and
sufferings that may be found in Amer
lean society, such are our industrial
and social conditions that here more
fully than anywhere else may be found
that liberty, fraternity and equality
winch have been for generations the
goal OF political effort. Among all the
hags, none equals the star-spangled
banner in its blessed significance. Our
history Is also splendid because it has
been made by those who have made
our institutions. The best elements of
European civilization entered into our
colonial life. Anglo-Saxon genius and
energy have won their greatest fri
umphs in this country. vast CONT
nent has been occupied and subdued.
Industrial life has been organized and
expanded mere upon scale unparal-
leled in any other time or place. Grea
has been the progress of religion and
of education. In all the walks of civil
and military life we have produced
men of whom we can never cease To
be proud. Enormous has been the cost
of these blessings which have come
down to us. How much treasure has
been given, how much blood has been
spilled. This heritage which has come
to us baptized with the tears and
blood of our fathers we must cherish
and maintain, and pass 1t on not vast